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Mario Vargas Llosa a Peruvian writer. Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and holder of the title

Mitad del Mundo- the equator in Ecuador

Just a thirty-minute drive north from Quito, Ecuador. There is a famous developed monument straddling the position of the Earth’s

Milodón is the Spanish word for an unusual extinct animal by today’s standards- the giant sloth. Giant sloths were once

It was more than nine months after living in Chile when we learned about La Semana de la Chilenidad. At

The White Rock by Hugh Thomson came highly recommended by a colleague of ours, and the exploration theme of Inca

Caipirinha is the national cocktail of Brasil. It is to Brasil what the margarita is to Mexico and the Pisco

This salty greasy artery plugging careening adventure begins in Lima Peru, the country that is the home of these carbohydrate

The Tatio geyser field is generally considered the third largest in the world, and the largest field of geysers in

Life and Death in the Andes is MacQuarrie’s fifth cultural-travel expose, following his well-regarded “Last Days of the Incas.” I