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Finding happiness in a small Costa Rican town

Karen Asp

Costa Rica

Karen Asp gets off the well-worn tourist routes in Costa Rica and discovers a charming town in a country known as the happiest in Latin America and where people live longer thanks to their healthy lif...
Towns make Mexico magical

Athena Lucero

Mexico

Writer Athena Lucero looks at the tiny towns that make Mexico a magical place to visit and explore - towns where locals welcome tourists with open arms and make them feel at home.
Medellín is a state-of-the-art city

Marc Atchison

Colombia

On a visit to Medellín, Marc Atchison discovers this beauty is truly at art capital of Colombia.

Brazil's Santos is a Heavenly Place to Visit

Marc Atchison

Brazil

SANTOS, BRAZIL - For a coffee town, Santos really proves to be a tourist’s cup of tea. Not as well known as some of Brazil’s other major cities, this sleepy town offers vacationers beaches that riva...
L.A.-like Monterrey is the ‘star’ of Mexico

Athena Lucero

Mexico

MONTERREY — With the seventh largest public plaza in the world, a meandering river walk, world-class museums, an outrageous culinary scene, Mexico’s best universities and medical schools, the hip su...
Medellín Hotel Offers a View to the Future

Marc Atchison

Colombia

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA - Agnes Garcia takes a long sip of her vintage French wine before responding to a question so many others have asked: “Why did you open a hotel in a country and city, both of which...

Archive by author: Marc AtchisonReturn

Marc Atchison is a veteran journalist and a seasoned traveller with more than 20 years of travel writing experience. As the former Travel Editor of the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper, and now Editor-in-Chief and Senior Writer for TraveLife magazine (Canada) and travelife.ca, Marc has been to over 100 countries in the world. Japan is one of his favorite destinations and he's been there on numerous occasions.

Never Time to View All Mexico City Offers

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MEXICO CITY - When you only have a few hours to visit the world’s largest city, you don’t stop in any one spot for very long. That was the dilemma I faced the day I met up with Juan, the man who had been assigned to show me Mexico’s ancient capital.

Mexican Spa on a Mission for Wellness

Marc Atchison |

CUERNAVACA, MEXICO - Group sex and group spas have one thing in common – you never know who to thank. Who was that woman whipping me with those limp, wet branches that surprisingly, made me feel so good?

Cuernavaca is Mexico's Garden of Eden

Marc Atchison |

CUERNAVACA, MEXICO - We had just stepped into the Jardin Borda, where the air was perfumed by rare flowers, when Maria turned and whispered: “This is a sinful place.”