Patagonia is a place of soaring beauty and soul-healing expansiveness. Nothing can prepare you for the reality of experiencing it in person. The only thing you can do in such a sacred place is surrender. And so I did....
After four decades as a travel writer and editor, Don George finally visits Chile for the first time — and discovers the wonders of Chilean wine country....
I have been roaming the wide world for more than four decades, first as a student and then as a travel writer, and each trip has underscored the validity and power of a simple truth...
It’s cherry blossom time in Japan, that singular season when the blossoms burst into pink-petaled splendor...
The rock garden at Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto is one of my favorite places in Japan and one of the most sacred places on the planet for me. In its sere simplicity, its stark purity, it’s a place that slows me down, quiets me, leads...
The adventure travel world lost one of its most generous and gentlemanly members last month with the passing of George Wendt, the founder and president of O.A.R.S. and a beloved adventure travel icon. O.A.R.S. recently shared this sad news with the statement below: It is with profound...
Editor's note: Pico Iyer is an eloquent and profound essayist and travel writer, beloved for his wonder-filled books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. Here he offers his reflections on a subject central to the heart of...
Award-winning Chilean-American author Isabel Allende will be the guest host on Bushtracks’ "Peru to Patagonia by Private Jet" expedition March 4-20, 2017, according to David Tett, the adventure travel company's founder and president. The 17-day expedition connects the Amazonian rainforest, the Atacama Desert, Argentina’s wine country,...
I have seen the future, and it looks like a bridge. In fact, it is a bridge, the very structure I am admiring right now: the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, in the Old Town of Mostar, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which spans the Neretva River and...
England is full of idyllic areas for hiking and biking, including the Lake District and the Cotswolds. I’ve just returned from one of the most rewarding of these regions, the Salisbury Plain, located in the verdant southwest, about three hours by car from London. ...