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Dining experiences on the Peruvian Altiplano

Gourmet guinea pigs and helter-skelter squirrels

DATE: Sep 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Window to Heaven, Cabin From Hell in the Peruvian Altiplano

Emilio Mendez Friend A small window, I call it mine, is positioned exactly to observe the rear slope of Wakra Pukará. This is a magnificent yet rarely visited mountain and archaeol...

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Citizens of more than 70 countries can now visit China without a visa

WASHINGTON (AP) – Foreign tourists are trickling back to China after the country loosened its visa policy to unprecedented levels. Citizens from 74 countries can now enter China for up to 30...

DATE: Jul 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Making the climb to Arequipa, The White City

We blow into the outskirts of Arequipa on the bus from Cuzco at 5 a.m. It has been a 12-hour odyssey. My German friends and I are gobsmacked. Innumerable soaring peaks topped by snow and gla...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tourists are trickling into Afghanistan and the Taliban government is eager to welcome them

KABUL, Afghanistan – By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and tour groups gradually venturing into a coun...

DATE: Jul 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

The world’s most-visited museum shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

PARIS – The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic – but on June 16, it was brought to a halt by it...

DATE: Jun 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

At the foot of the volcano

Activity is easy to find around Valles Caldera in New Mexico

DATE: Jun 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Spaniards turn water guns on visitors in Barcelona and Mallorca to protest mass tourism

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Protesters used water guns against unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona and on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Sunday as demonstrators marched to demand a rethink of ...

DATE: Jun 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Headed to the White City to meet Juanita the Ice Maiden

I feel her call in the blood. The breathiness of it is a soaring melody whispered across cloud-piercing peaks that line the Valley of the Volcanoes in southern Peru. Now it floats on a therm...

DATE: Jun 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Kashmir tourism bears the brunt after tourist massacre and India-Pakistan military strikes

SRINAGAR, India – There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir. Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty. Resorts in the snow-clad mountains hav...

DATE: May 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

A Day on El Lago de Sandoval

Tambopata National Reserve, Madre de Dios Region, Peru

DATE: May 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

Venice expands day-tripper tax in bid to combat overtourism

VENICE, Italy – Venice is charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year starting Friday, a measure aimed at combating the kind of overtourism that put the...

DATE: Apr 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel