A guide to Rocky Mountain
GETTING THERE Get to Denver first; it's 65 miles away from the park. Then, from the airport, drive north on Interstate Highway 25, turning left (west) on U.S. Highway 36...
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Does it take a long time to reach Machu Picchu? From afar, the place does sound remote and isolated. But Peru requires no visas for U.S. citizens--cutting down on the...
On the route of the Incas
In the Quechua language, Cuzco means "navel of the world," and for the 12th Century Incas who thought of it as a sacred city, Cuzco certainly was that. Numerous remains...
At one with the Incas: Machu Picchu
Get up early in Machu Picchu, they said. Stay overnight in the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge and awaken in the dark. Come the dawn, a strange feeling might pass through...
If you go: A guide to Machu Picchu
THE HOTELS A short stroll from Machu Picchu's entrance gate, the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge is a pricey-but-worth-it place to stay for those who want to enjoy the early morning...
A GOOD YEAR IN TRAVEL
On Jan. 1, Y2K, I was still two continents short. For all the traveling we do around here, I had never in my life set foot in South America or...
A guide to the Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park
GETTING THERE The park lies about 250 miles southwest of Denver, the western hub of choice for many airlines. To get to Black Canyon rapidly from the Mile High City,...
A river and its world: Amazon
When is a river not a river? The easy answer might be: When it's a lake, a stream, a channel, a creek, a storm cloud or the morning dew. Wrong....
Amazon Q&A
Q. Is the Amazon the world's longest river? A. It could be, if you were to trace it all the way back to streamlets in Ecuador. But officially it's 4,000...
The harmony and the hunger: Serengeti
At first, guide Douglas Lema tried to tell his passengers the facts about each bird and mammal as he passed them in the white Toyota van, just as he had...