Tag: travel guide
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Sri Lanka Spice Garden: What to See in Peradeniya
Sri Lanka’s spices are easy to recognize in a finished curry. It is much harder to imagine how they look before they reach the kitchen. Cinnamon begins as tree bark. Black, white, green, and red peppercorns can all come from the same climbing vine. Nutmeg and mace grow inside a single fruit, while cardamom is…
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Paracas, Ballestas Islands, and Huacachina: The Perfect 2-Day Peru Itinerary
Peru is often imagined as a country of mountains. Machu Picchu, Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Lake Titicaca dominate most itineraries. Yet before the Andes rise, another Peru stretches along the Pacific coast: dry, windswept, and almost entirely without vegetation. South of Lima, desert cliffs meet the ocean at Paracas. Thousands of seabirds cover the…
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Mexico City Museums: Anthropology Museum & Chapultepec Castle
Mexico City’s two essential museums sit within the same vast park, yet they tell two very different halves of the country’s story. The National Museum of Anthropology takes you into the worlds that existed before the Spanish conquest: Teotihuacan, the Mexica, the Maya, the Olmec, and dozens of other cultures that shaped ancient Mexico. Chapultepec…
