4 articles tagged with andean mountains
The morning mist clings to the emerald slopes as I sip my tinto (Colombian black coffee) at a small roadside stand in La Calera, just outside Bogotá. The capital sprawls below, a concrete jungle nestled in a valley surrounded by...
The predawn air bit at my cheeks as I stood at the base of Tunari Mountain, its silhouette a dark sentinel against the indigo Bolivian sky. At 5,035 meters (16,519 feet), this sleeping giant has watched over Cochabamba for millennia,...
When my manufacturing company sent me to Lima for a supplier conference last fall, I immediately recognized the opportunity to extend my stay and finally check off a bucket-list item that had been calling to me for years: Peru's famed...
After decades of traversing disease outbreak zones and remote wilderness areas across six continents, I've developed something of a sixth sense for finding those perfect outdoor escapes that offer both adventure and accessibility. Bolivia's Tunari Mountains, looming majestically over Cochabamba...