Sheesha & Shakshuka
How to haggle like a pro in Cairo’s Khan al-Khalili bazaar:
· Act completely disinterested in the thing you...
Not just Nile
Apparently, there’s a traditional Bedouin recipe where a camel is stuffed with a whole lamb, the lamb is stuffed with 20 chickens and the chickens are stuffed with eggs...
Little House on the Cerrado
Live out your Motorcycle Diaries fantasies (minus the hot actor and the motorcycle). Whether you’ve read the book or seen the movie (we don’t judge) there...
I'll Take the High Road
Sexy Woman and Dead Woman's Pass. You can climb all over one and the other will haunt your dreams. Peruvian icons don’t mess around.
(Was Inca Highway)
Some of my Best Friends are Peruvian
Nobody’s quite sure how the bowler hat came to be so popular among Quechua and Aymara women. It’s too small for their heads, it doesn’t protect from the sun...
Peru Completo
Pisco is the local version of grape brandy. Shake it up with lemon juice, sugar, egg white and you've got your new favourite drink - a Pisco sour.
(Was Peru...
Footsteps of Hillary
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first ones to summit Everest in 1953. Even though you won't be climbing the great mountain you'll still feel the rush...
Tales of Rock & Massala Chai
Hard bits: Trekking the Annapurna circuit and getting down from an elephant gracefully. Fun bit: white-water rafting in thermally heated water. Best bit: practicing your...
Ain't no Mountain High Enough
To punish himself for falling asleep while meditating, Buddha cut off his eyelids. These eyelids then grew into the tea plant, because drinking tea will keep you from falling...
North India Mixtape
You'll come for the Taj and the Ganges but you'll leave raving about Tordi Garh and Nimaj Bagh.
(Was North India Highlights)
