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south america

8 posts
  • South America
  • travel
  • 16 views
  • 13 minute read

Belize: It’s like a giant saltwater aquarium that isn’t all full of fish poop.

  • Peter Crosby
  • 01/02/2016
People don’t come to Belize for white sandy beaches. They come for what most islands don’t have: an epic, ocean-taming barrier reef.
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  • South America
  • travel
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  • 9 minute read

The Galápagos Islands: We take a vacation from Natural Selection.

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/12/2012
Want to see how much better the world would be if humans never existed? This is the closest you’ll get.
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  • South America
  • travel
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  • 7 minute read

Quito Ecuador: The world’s second-highest capital city (and not because they legalized drugs).

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/11/2012
Though Quito was merely the second capital of the Inca Empire, it was, and still is, first in “cities surrounded on all sides by active volcanoes.”
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  • South America
  • travel
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  • 10 minute read

Machu Picchu Peru: We find the “Lost City of The Incas” right where they left it.

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/09/2012
Occupied for only a century, this site was a spectacular human achievement and waste of time.
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Urubamba Valley, Peru
  • South America
  • travel
  • 16 views
  • 4 minute read

Urubamba Valley, Peru: aka “Yucay Valley,” aka “Sacred Valley,” aka “Holy Crap! Valley.”

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/07/2012
We had to get there from Cusco by traversing Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
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  • South America
  • travel
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  • 6 minute read

Cusco Peru: Not everyone who lives in the Andes Mountains crashed their airplane.

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/05/2012
Incas thought the Andes was a great place to build a capital city. Of course, they were hopped up on coca leaves most of the time.
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Lima, Peru
  • South America
  • travel
  • 13 views
  • 4 minute read

Hot and dry like LA, Lima Peru even has its clean, breathable air.

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/04/2012
Lima is an amazing, chaotic city with a rich and tragic heritage that I’d highly recommend visiting.
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  • South America
  • travel
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  • 1 minute read

South America: We visited our fellow Americans below the equator.

  • Peter Crosby
  • 06/03/2012
South America is full of amazing places like Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Galápagos, and other places we didn’t visit.
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  • Asia
  • travel
  • 10 minute read
  • 31 views

Turkey’s Cappadocia region would be the perfect place to trip on ’shrooms.

  • 05/06/2023
  • Asia
  • travel
  • 13 minute read
  • 109 views

The megacity of Istanbul borders on Europe, Asia, and the inexplicable.

  • 05/03/2023
  • Asia
  • travel
  • 11 minute read
  • 81 views

It’s hard to believe Petra still exists, considering that the place is basically water-soluble.

  • 11/13/2022
  • Asia
  • travel
  • 6 minute read
  • 79 views

Jordan’s Wadi Rum is like visiting Mars without being the billionaire CEO of a rocket company.

  • 11/12/2022
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The CrosbyReport™ was created by former Advertising Creative Director turned internationally unknown tourist, Peter Crosby. Typically written while day-drinking in Tampa, Florida, the site chronicles Peter’s travels to more interesting cities and towns around the world. All writing and photos are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, unless otherwise noted. The theme was created by Code Supply Co.