Ollantaytambo is a small town with a long name and an even longer list of hidden treasures awaiting the visitor who wishes to take a break on the crowded route to Machu ...

With his second book “Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens-A Couchsurfer’s Memoir of Venezuela” Jamie Maslin creates a dual Venezuelan history and politic lesson from which you can glean points in couchsurfing technique ...

“We came for 2 days and ended up extending to 5,” (Jill and Naomi) and “We’re already booked to go to Chile otherwise we’d love to spend more time here.” (Dan and ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jeff Jung from Career Break Secrets about a trip to Northwest Argentina that left an impression on this intrepid traveler. Jeff, an expat, who lives in Colombia, ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jodi Ettenberg of legalnomads.com about her trip to Chile. Jodi left the corporate world as a lawyer and started her trip around the world with a visit ...

April’s photo contest had the theme “Shadows”. This picture “Desert Shadows” is from Jason Castellani of twobackpackers.com Jason says: Taken on 2-28-2010 in the desert at San Pedro de Atacama, Chile during ...

Today’s photo “Cross Shadow” was taken by David Schulwitz and was submitted in the Amateur Traveler March Photo contest. David  says: I took this picture while on a University of Hawaii study ...

At the miner’s market, one can buy bottles of soda, thick cigarettes, tubes of crackers, 200-proof alcohol and dynamite, all from the same vendor. When tourists are led up to these stands, ...

Originally uploaded by jb_brooke I enjoyed the podcast about Uruguay. Having lived there for 14 months and vacationed their several times, she did a wonderful job on the review of the country.  ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Lisa who has lived as student in Uruguay on two different occasions about that small South American country. Lisa talks about the capital city of Montevideo where ...