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The Amazing Amaru Bioparque
If you enjoy hiking and love animals, Cuenca, Ecuador, has the perfect place for you. It’s the Amaru Bioparque. You can spend hours there, working your way up and down the side of a mountain as you visit hundreds of species of animals. Steve and I were delighted with Amaru Bioparque when we visited Cuenca in 2019. We spent a…
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12 Things You’ll Love Doing In Cuenca, Ecuador
In June 2019, we were planning our next stop after Quito, Ecuador, when a new name came up. Cuenca. We had never heard of it. We decided to give it a try because some of the places we have enjoyed the most are the ones we had never heard of. We are glad we did. After spending four weeks in…
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10 More Things to Love About Buenos Aires
In the fall of 2019, we spent eight weeks in Buenos Aires. The original plan was to spend four weeks but we liked it so much we decided to stay longer. The positive side of not planning too far in advance. In a previous article titled “10 Things to Love About Buenos Aires” I talked about 10 things that we…
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10 Things To Love About Buenos Aires
It was love at first sight. Within a day or two of arriving in Buenos Aires, we knew we wanted to stay longer than the four weeks we had planned. We ended up staying for eight weeks and we still didn’t want to leave. These are many reasons we fell in love with this amazing city and we think you…
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10 Things to Love About Medellin, Colombia
Are you looking for a city that will leave you impressed and inspired? Look no further than Medellin, Colombia. Yes, that Medellin. The city named the most dangerous in the world in 1988 by Time Magazine. The city that spawned Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. The city that remained dangerous even after the death of Escobar in 1993 due…
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Visiting Cordoba, Argentina’s Second Largest City
October 2019 found us in Cordoba, Argentina’s second-largest city. We had just spent two months in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital and most populous city. It was our favorite Latin American city so far. We wondered how Cordoba would compare. Cordoba didn’t steal our hearts the way Buenos Aires did. Even so, we had some good experiences and an awesome side…
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Stranded on the Road in Peru
As we left the breathtaking oasis of Huacachina, Peru to head to Arequipa, we had no idea that we would be stranded on the road for 16 hours. Are We There Yet? Our tour bus was making good time through southern Peru on our sixteen and a half hour overnight trip from Huacachina to Arequipa. The bus stopped at 5:30…
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Is a Land-Based Galapagos Trip Right For You?
Have you dreamed of visiting the Galápagos Islands? I certainly did. It was right at the top of my bucket list. Then in the spring of 2019, Steve and I spent four weeks as land-based visitors to these famed islands. This was one of our most anticipated and expensive trips to date. We had some memorable adventures, but overall, our…
