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Category Archives: Travel Advice
Camino de Santiago – Packing Your Day Pack
Packing for your day of hiking on the Camino de Santiago is easy! You don’t have to pack much, so keep it light and share common items with your companions. Left to right: Rain jacket (if needed) Rain cover for … Continue reading
Posted in Camino de Santiago, Europe, Packing, Trekking
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NEW VIDEO: Everest Base Camp Trek
Follow along with Landon from AWR as he completes the Everest Base Camp Trek and, more importantly, discovers the beauty and culture of Nepal. The 17-day Everest Base Camp trek itinerary includes 13 days of trekking and 4 days in … Continue reading
Posted in Luxury, Nepal, Sustainable Tourism, Travel Advice, Trekking, Trip Journals
Tagged Asia, Everest, everest base camp trek, Nepal, Solo Travel, Trekking, trip journal
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GUEST REVIEW: Lima, Lares Trek and the Amazon
This group of four just returned from a custom 15-day Peru adventure. They began in the culinary capital of South America and capital city of Peru, Lima. From there, they made their way up to the colonial and historic streets … Continue reading
Sustainable Travel — Reducing Plastic on Your Trip
The use of disposable plastic items while traveling is hard on the environment, hard on the communities left with the garbage, it’s expensive, and it can often be unhealthy. No traveler wants to leave a trail of plastic behind them, … Continue reading
Travel Insurance and High Altitudes
For those of our travelers who are planning adventures to high altitude destinations such as Kilimanjaro, The Inca Trail, Everest Base Camp, etc., making sure that your travel insurance will cover you while at or above 15,000 ft is important. … Continue reading
Posted in Aconcagua, Argentina, Chile, Inca Trail, Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu, Nepal, Peru, South America, Travel Advice, Trekking
Tagged Adventure Travel, High Altitude, Insurance, travel insurance, Trip Insurance, Trip prep
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Airport Lounges Make Travel Special
Airport Lounges are a great way to make traveling more enjoyable. Here are some that AWR staff has visited recently. Priority Pass San Francisco – United Red Carpet Club Light snacks – breakfast items then lunch Bar with free house … Continue reading
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Best Travel Apps #3 – Communications
We have rounded up our favorite apps in our Best Travel Apps series. Here is Part III – Communications, which includes: Learn a Language Translation Communications Please visit the other installments of our Best Travel Apps series: Top 7 Travel … Continue reading
Posted in Travel Advice, Travel Technology
Tagged bravolol, duo lingo, google translate, istone, itranslate, memrise, sayhi translate, translate, travel app, travel apps, viber, whats app, world nomads
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Best Peru Family Adventures
Come explore Peru with your family on one of our uniquely crafted tours, designed with your kids in mind! Our family-designed tours are based on our own experiences traveling with our own kids to Peru and around the world. We … Continue reading
Posted in Family Travel, Machu Picchu, Peru, Travel Advice, Trekking
Tagged Amazon, Family Adventure, family travel, Lares, machu picchu, Multigenerational travel, Peru, Ziplining
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Travel Advice: How to Pack for The Atacama & Patagonia In One Trip
Chile is an overwhelmingly gorgeous landscape of contrasts: mountains and sea, urban and rural, and, most famously, the Atacama Desert and Patagonia. When planning an epic adventure that encompasses these famous juxtaposing sceneries it is important to know how … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Chile, Packing, Travel Advice, Trekking
Tagged Argentina, Atacama, Chile, Clothes, packing, Patagonia, Salta, Torres del Paine, Travel Smarts, Trekking
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Travel Advice: NOT Doing the Inca Trail and STILL Hiking at Machu Picchu
Many travelers to Machu Picchu love hiking but perhaps do not have the time, money or permit to do the Inca Trail while visiting Machu Picchu. Hiking lovers, fear not! Here are four hikes that you can do right from … Continue reading
Posted in Machu Picchu, Peru, Travel Advice, Trekking
Tagged Huayna Picchu, Inca Bridge, Intipunku, machu picchu, Machu Picchu Mountain, Peru, Sun Gate, Travel Advice
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