Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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Machu Picchu – Here at Last
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Kingdoms of the Andes tour we arrived by train at the underrated town of Aguas Calientes, the gateway to Machu Picchu. In this post, after a lifetime of expectation, I will finally get to visit this most famous of all Incan archaeological sites and one of the […]
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Aguas Calientes – Gateway to Machu Picchu
In the last post from my February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour with Adventures Abroad we left the Incan capital city of Cusco and entered the Sacred Valley making our way to the amazing town of Ollantaytambo. The excitement was growing among our group as we came nearer and nearer to what for most […]
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Ollantaytambo & the Sacred Valley
In the last two posts from the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour by Adventures Abroad we explored the Incan capital of Cusco and then the surrounding area including the amazing site of Saqsaywaman. In this post we’ll begin our journey to the Sacred Valley of the Incas which will eventually lead us to […]
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Cusco – Capital of the Inca Empire
This is my sixth post from the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour with Adventures Abroad. For the first week of the tour we have been exploring the capital city of Lima and the coastal area below it including flying over the fabled Nazca Lines. In this post we’ll leave the lowlands behind and […]
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Australia with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just completed another journey of a lifetime with Adventures Abroad. This time it was the vast continent of Australia and in this post I’ll explain why I thought this itinerary was about the best way to get an introduction to The Land Down Under. Realistically, just as you could not expect […]
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Ballestas Islands – Peru’s Offshore Birding Paradise
In the last post we got the Adventures Abroad Kingdoms of the Andes tour off to a great start with a fly over of the mysterious Nazca Lines. In this post we’ll stay in the Paracas area, but take a boat rather than a plane to explore the birding haven of the Ballestas Islands where […]
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Nazca Lines – See Them to Believe Them
In my last post I gave my many reasons for visiting Peru and Bolivia with Adventures Abroad and one near the very top was a flyover of the mysterious Nazca Lines. In this post I’ll give the details of that flyover and why, for me, it was not the anticlimax that others, including some close […]
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Marrakech – Magical, Mysterious and Maddening
This is my 18th and final post from the October 2025 Quintessential Tour of Morocco by Adventures Abroad. It will feature Morocco’s most popular tourist destination, Marrakech which at over 10 million overnight stays in 2024 accounts for fully 40% of all overnight stays in Morocco. As I have noted in previous posts, Morocco is […]
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Essaouira – My Favourite Moroccan City
In the last post from the October 2025 Quintessential Tour of Morocco by Adventures Abroad we returned to the Atlantic coast at Agadir and stopped at the surfing mecca of Taghazout before ending the day at Essaouira. In this post we’ll explore Essaouira, the only city I can think of that has all five vowels […]