Episode 265 - Machu Picchu is on many people's bucket lists, but as Alvaro Silva tells us, some equally incredible Peruvian sites often go undiscovered by travelers. Today we explore the Hidden Treasures of Peru, including:

Qhapaq Nan - The famed Incan Trail

The Sarcophagi of Carajia

Cumbemayo and it's aqueducts

The lost city of Caral

and the famed Q'eswachaka Rope Bridge

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Episode 264 - Scott and Tarantino have written an engaging new travel book, Looking for Legends, which discusses the early travel pioneers, often booking passage on cargo ships because there was not any travel infrastructure. They include the first person to climb the Matterhorn, the first person to cross Greenland and a writer whose early travelogues became school textbooks.

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Episode 263 - National Geographic writer Andrew Nelson has written a compelling travel book that highlights incredible destinations that equal the splendor of better known sites but don't garner the same attention. Here Not There not only focuses on these "Destination Dupes", I suspect they will add to your bucket list.

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