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Category: South America Travel

Where to Stay in South America’s Traveller Hotspots – Articles for Culture Trip
January 16, 2021 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Where to Stay in South America’s Traveller Hotspots – Articles for Culture Trip

My latest series of articles for Culture Trip, just out, focuses on legendary South American traveller hangouts from Cartagena, Colombia […]

Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph
December 3, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph

Hiking across the causeway to Lindisfarne in Northumberland on the St Cuthbert’s Way can seem, from certain angles when the […]

Latest Books Out
December 2, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Latest Books Out

2019 is nearly out and as the year speeds towards conclusion, I realise that several new titles I  have contributed […]

Uttermost Ends of the Earth? My Work for Hiking/Trail Running Site GetSweatGo on Some of My All-time Favourite Treks
September 30, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Uttermost Ends of the Earth? My Work for Hiking/Trail Running Site GetSweatGo on Some of My All-time Favourite Treks

The classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Hiking Eastern Europe’s most mountainous terrain, the High Tatras in Slovakia. […]

Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim
January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim

Over the last year or so I’ve been doing a lot of work with leading adventure travel operators Kimkim to […]

Is This Peru’s Next Inca Trail? – Article for Adventure.com
January 7, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Is This Peru’s Next Inca Trail? – Article for Adventure.com

Happy 2019. When people ask me what my 2018 highlight was travel-wise, the hike to Choquequirao, billed as Peru’s Next […]

South America: Interlude
August 20, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

South America: Interlude

I don’t expect anyone who drops in occasionally to this site to make sense of the daily plans and monthly […]

Peru for Foodies: Travels Through Peru’s Distinctive Culinary Regions – Article for Lonely Planet
March 3, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Peru for Foodies: Travels Through Peru’s Distinctive Culinary Regions – Article for Lonely Planet

I suppose it is not for nothing that I have the protagonist of Roebuck, 16th century South American gentleman adventurer […]

The Top Wellness Spots in Latin America – Article for Lonely Planet
March 1, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

The Top Wellness Spots in Latin America – Article for Lonely Planet

It should come as no surprise that Central and South America have woken up to the booming multi-billion dollar industry […]

Pablo Neruda’s Chile – Article for Lonely Planet
September 25, 2017 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

Pablo Neruda’s Chile – Article for Lonely Planet

Land of poets – país de poetas. Having produced two Nobel Prize-winning poets has given Chile such a moniker, and […]

Around the Ecuadorian Andes in Seven Action-Packed Days – Article for KimKim
August 24, 2017 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Around the Ecuadorian Andes in Seven Action-Packed Days – Article for KimKim

Whilst the Ecuadorian Highlands cannot quite compete with Peru for length, breadth and variety, it can offer some insights to […]

Obsessing Over Peruvian Rivers – Article for KimKim
June 16, 2017 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Obsessing Over Peruvian Rivers – Article for KimKim

Ah, boat trips. They fill me with an excitement no other means of transport can – particularly river trips, because […]

Skip the Crowds: My Tips on Tour Group Dodging in the Andes and Amazon for Wanderlust
May 4, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Skip the Crowds: My Tips on Tour Group Dodging in the Andes and Amazon for Wanderlust

It’s not all of us (let’s face it, it’s not that many of us) that really want to be inundated […]

Peru and the Potato – Feature for Morning Calm, Korean Air’s In-Flight Magazine
April 1, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Andes Travel

Peru and the Potato – Feature for Morning Calm, Korean Air’s In-Flight Magazine

Out today – and no April fool: my first published work in Korean. The reason? I have a six-page feature […]

On Old Ships, Sugar Mill Enslavement and Man-Eating Tribes: How my Debut Novel Became a Reality – Article for British Guild of Travel Writers
December 5, 2015 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

On Old Ships, Sugar Mill Enslavement and Man-Eating Tribes: How my Debut Novel Became a Reality – Article for British Guild of Travel Writers

It does look, from the homepage particularly, like I’m getting egocentric (two pictures of the first six with my image, […]

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