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Eager to tap into the tourist industry? Why not build your own ancient fertility temple?

You’d climb up rocks like this in Mexico, too, if you believed it would grant you eternal life. Why, the…

Sometimes travelling can be too much, like showing up somewhere in high season with no reservations or cash.

One of the greatest joys in the life of a backpacker is to walk along a ridge line.

*This piece was written in 2007. Has Colombia changed much in the last few years?

Troubador on a train.

Prostitutes and Viagra vendors everywhere, Lloyd is the only guy under the age of 50 there…

Chimamanda Adichie speaks of the misleading myths that frame the identity of powerless peoples.

Traveling the world in search of ceremonies, meaning and ultimate truth, do we only expose our own impoverished cultures?