In South America, Luxury = Exclusivity
When you travel to South America, you’re generally not going for the same reasons you would go to Europe or the Caribbean. Often the highlights are nature, adventure, landscapes, and unique...
View ArticleThe Atacama Desert Adventure Playground
We’ve got a story going up soon on my Travesia trip with explora that ended up in the Atacama Desert of Chile. If you haven’t been to San Pedro de Atacama, it’s hard to believe how crazy popular this...
View ArticleOverland Glamping from Uyuni to Atacama
There’s a lot of exotic mystery packed into the title of this post, but it refers to a luxury adventure tour story we just posted on an Explora Travesia tour from Bolivia to Chile. It goes across the...
View ArticleTouring Colombia: Villages to Medellin
We’ve been spending a good bit of time in fast-growing Colombia recently and for good reasons. The country’s tourism numbers are increasing rapidly as people update their expectations and new hotels...
View Article10 Most Popular Luxury Tour Stories and Hotel Reviews
A couple times a year I like to highlight which pages of Luxury Latin America travelers are clicking on the most. It changes a lot from one quarter to the next depending on where our readers are headed...
View ArticleA Culinary Tour of Gastronomy Hotspot Lima
Ask any well-traveled foodie who has spent a lot of time in Latin America and one city usually comes out on top for cuisine: Lima, Peru. Sure, Argentina has great beef and Chile has an array of...
View ArticleA Video Tour of an Explora Travesia
Earlier this year we posted a feature story on a “rustic luxury” overland tour from southern Bolivia to the Atacama Desert. This Explora Travesia is a really special trip, with hardly any other humans...
View ArticleTouring Cuenca and the Countryside of Southern Ecuador
Late last year I finally made it to a city I’ve had on my list for a while: Cuenca, Ecuador. This #3 city in the country by population is best known as a retirement hotspot for gringos, but that’s just...
View ArticleLuxury Yucatan Travel and Unique Experiences in Mexico
What separates a luxury travel tour from one that’s just average? It’s not about the equipment or the van or the hotel you return to at night. As Catherwood Travels knows, it’s more about attentive...
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Touring San Miguel de Allende and Beyond With Coyote Canyon Adventures
The typical visitor to San Miguel de Allende checks out the few sights, does some shopping, strolls the pretty streets, and eats well. On this trip I wanted to do more, so I hooked up with Coyote...
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Does Your Latin American Tour Include Interesting Hotels?
[caption id="attachment_3904" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Casa Palopo - Guatemala[/caption] Because I write about tours and hotels a lot, friends or relatives will occasionally send a brochure or...
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Oaxaca City’s Cuisine, Crafts, and Zapotec History
Our latest travel tour feature from Mexico focuses on the fascinating city of Oaxaca. It takes all the elements of a historic colonial city, with its grand churches and plazas, but that's just the...
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Going Deeper Into the Mountains of Peru
Sure, you could fly into Lima, change planes, fly to Cusco, then do the whole Sacred Valley in a blur of trains, taxis, and buses in five days or less. But is that really the way to treat one of the...
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Flying Straight to the Wonders of Antarctica From Chile
Many nature lovers who have a longing to see the stark beauty and wildlife of Antarctica are put off by the idea of taking so long to get there on a ship. Especially since that ship is crossing...
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Meet 5 Fascinating Antarctic Penguins
Long before they captured the hearts of audiences in movies like March of the Penguins and Happy Feet, penguins turned Antarctica's remote, pristine landscapes into teeming wildlife domains. They...
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The Spellbinding South of Costa Rica
Costa Rica vacations take a rather predictable path for first-time visitors. Those who return tend to dig deeper, to explore wider, to get more off the standard circuit. Our latest tour story leaves...
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The Mexican Wine Trail in Baja
Our latest travel tour feature is on an area of Mexico that you would think would be ripe for a flood of foreign visitors: the Mexican wine region around Ensenada. Mexican wine has never really caught...
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A Different Side of Costa Rica Luxury: An Interview With Cristina Jones
With more than fifteen years of experience within the luxury hospitality industry, Cristina Jones, a 2016 Travvy Award winner for most innovative executive, is the CEO and founder of CJONES&CO, a...
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Touring Multiple Countries in South America is Getting Easier
It's natural when you visit South America for the first time to say, "I want to do it all!" With bucket list in hand, you start looking at what you can knock off during your 10-day vacation....
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Sometimes it Pays to Let an Expert Arrange the Trip
Those of us who have spent most of our post-internet time booking our own flights and hotels online tend to be kind of smug about it. "Why pay some agency to plan my trip when I've got access to the...
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