Especially for such a tiny country, Panama has quite a bit to offer even beyond the canal and the historic and and also excitingly modern capital Panama City. One particularly cool...
08/09/2015
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Latin America
by Pamela Acosta Ruiz
Even in a hemisphere full of spots with unique appeal to visitors, Xochimilco in Mexico’s Federal District (about an hour from downtown Mexico City’s main square,...
18/06/2015
The Dominican Republic's best-known beach resorts area, perched out on the country's eastern tip where the Caribbean and the Atlantic meet, has especially in the past couple of decades grown into the...
20/05/2015
Up in the Andes mountains, named for the New Castile city that was the hometown of the Spanish viceroy at the time of its founding in 1557 is so lovely and historic that it's been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999
30/04/2015
Way down South America way, one of the hemisphere’s most chichi beach resorts sits astride the Atlantic coast of one of South America’s lower-profile countries, Uruguay. On a narrow...
16/04/2015
In a country where resort zones such as Punta Cana and Puerto Plata have become household names to holidaymakers in the Americas, Europe, and beyond, the new frontier in exotic, sunsplashed...
23/03/2015
Quick, what's Ecuador's biggest city? If you said capital Quito, that's altogether a logical guess, but sorry, no cigar. The answer lies not up in the Andes more than 400 kilometres...
11/03/2015
Even if you've been not just to Buenos Aires but also the pampas, Mendoza, Córdoba, Patagonia, and Iguazú Falls, that still leaves much more wonderful stuff to explore in Argentina....
28/01/2015
We've all heard of amber, of course. Besides being (IMHO) a lovely female name, it has been prized by human beings as bling since prehistory. What many may not...
04/12/2014
The last time I visited Buenos Aires, one of the most memorable days of the trip, was spent, ironically enough, in Uruguay. A comfy, Buquebus high-speed ferry ride away...
20/11/2014
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