Villarrica, Paraguay - Not a Traditional Paraguayan Destination On paper, Villarrica, Paraguay doesn’t have much to offer tourism-wise. A city of about 50,000, it sits about a half an ...
My Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca touched down in Nouakchott, Mauritania just after midnight. I was tired from my day and a half of travel from Algiers to Casablanca, ...
Oscar Niemeyer was the reason I chose to visit Algeria in the first place. After spending time among the seminal modernist architect’s works in Brasília the year prior, I was ...
Brasília is heaven for the modernism-obsessed. Beton brut as far as the eye can see, without any sort of colonial influence obstructing the view. I traveled to Brasília on a ...
Algeria and Mauritania are two of the most obscure nations on the planet, and among the least visited. No guidebooks in English exist for either country (other than a super ...
Santa María de Fe, Paraguay, sits smack in the middle of the Misiones district, famous for Jesuit reductions dating to the 16th-18th centuries. When the Spanish and Portuguese came to ...
I wasn't sure what Brasília, the ultra-mod (by 1950s standards, anyway) capital of Brazil, would have in store to fulfill my insatiable thirst for kitsch. Brasília isn’t necessarily known as a ...
San Bernadino didn’t figure into my original plans for Paraguay. Neither had a road trip, quite honestly. But after I changed my plans from traveling overland from Brasilia to ...
Walking along 25 de Mayo street in Asunción at 7am was Paraguay’s ace in the hole. The city was still largely asleep, save for the excited buzz and chatter among ...
Despite a lack of information online, there is a vast number of hotels to choose from in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea. Before getting into the details about our ...