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Ella’s Epic Waterfalls, Train Rides & Jungle Mountains

Ella is most well known for Nine Arches Bridge, a viaduct bridge built without any steel and set against a lush green landscape surrounded by rolling hills, cloud forests and tea plantations. The town also boasts epic waterfalls, exhilarating train rides and sacred Buddhist temples.

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Mogote Hills of Viñales Valley

Viñales a small town west of Havana with green rolling hills planted with fruit, vegetables, coffee and tobacco. It’s known for steep limestone hills called mogotes which dot the landscape and gardens full of palms and orchids.

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Chasing Waterfalls in Cienfuegos

Located on Bahía de Cienfuegos, a bay on Cuba’s southern coast, Cienfuegos is a peaceful town oozing charm. Known for colorful colonial-era buildings, the town is a chief seaport for sugarcane, coffee and tobacco.

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Machu Picchu: A Dream Come True

At almost 8,000 feet above sea level, Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel high in the Andes Mountains in Peru. Set above the Urubamba River valley, the site was built in the 15th century and later abandoned. Even today, it carries an air of mystery with its exact purpose still debated.

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Chasing Sheep in the Gap of Dunloe

Known as the “Best Kept Town” in Ireland, Killarney is small and charming. It’s home to some of the most undisturbed landscape in the country, including the Ring of Kerry, a 111 mile circular route in southwestern Ireland.

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Sacred Valley & Peru's Andean Highlands

Sacred Valley is a region in Peru's Andean highlands known for fertile farmland and Spanish colonial villages, stretching from Pisac to Ollantaytambo. Together, with Machu Picchu and the nearby city of Cusco, they formed the heart of the Inca Empire in the late 1500's.

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Northern Ireland’s Natural Wonders

Almost 100 feet above the rocky coastline, UK's delicate Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge links mainland to the tiny island of Carrickarede. It’s thought to be used by salmon fisherman for over 350 years. Giant's Causeway is an incredible display of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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Near-Death Experience on Rainbow Mountain

A two hour drive from Cusco, Vinicunca, also called Mountain of Seven Colors, is a mountain in the Andes of Peru with an altitude of 16,522 feet above sea level and extremely harsh conditions. The seven colors come from mineral composition but are only visible during Augusts’s dry season.

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Salento's Valley of Palms

An Andean town west of Bogotá, Salento is known for its coffee estates and sweeping scenery. To the East is Cocora Valley, where the world’s tallest palms dot the landscape. Rare parrots, poisonous mushrooms and iridescent hummingbirds can be spotted along many of the hiking trails.

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Hiking Peru's Epic Colca Canyon

Colca Canyon is a river canyon in southern Peru famed as one of the deepest in the world. It’s a trekking and rafting destination with canyons, valleys and remote traditional villages with terraced agriculture predating the Incas. And the giant Andean condor can often be spotted from viewpoints like Cruz del Condor.

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Medellín: The City of Eternal Spring

One of my favorite city’s of all time, Medellín does nothing but surprise you at every turn. The food is delicious, the people are friendly, the landscape is stunning and that’s just the beginning. Join a local tour to see all the best spots and experience authentic Colombian life.

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