Rio is farther than it looks
A week in Rio is settled by geography long before anyone chooses a single thing to do.
Aleksejs Mamikins··Rio de Janeiro
DreamJourney
Journal
How a trip is put together
Altitude, timing, distance, and the order of days. Written by the people who build the routes.
Why Cancún should not be planned as one kind of trip
Cancún is not difficult because there is too little to do. It is difficult because its best experiences ask for completely different kinds of days.
Aleksejs Mamikins··Cancún
Why altitude changes the shape of a Cusco trip
Cusco sits at almost 3,400 meters and the places around it climb higher. That changes the order a trip should be built in, not only the packing list.
Aleksejs Mamikins··Cusco