Group Tours Manager Sarah Beard has designed a one-of-a-kind tour to the hauntingly beautiful Aisén region of Chile. Here she describes what the area means to her and why if she had to recommend just one of our tours it would have to be this one.

I first headed down the Carretera Austral some ten years ago, hitch-hiking my way from the northern section of the road to the very end at Villa O'Higgins. I thought the journey would take ten days or so... how wrong I was! With so little traffic (forget about public transport, the lack of which explains why I was hitching in the first place), there were several junctions where I spent more hours – and indeed nights  than I care to remember. A month after setting off I finally reached the southernmost point of the this great highway, and I’d loved every minute of it... 

Rosemary Morlin has visited Peru with Journey Latin America an astonishing seven times, drawn back time and again by the country's most untrodden regions and the people who live there. Already planning her eighth trip to Peru, Rosemary looks back at an amazing experience in the remote Peruvian highlands where she chose to undertake a 4-day trek that would lead her to some extraordinary encounters and to villages practically unchanged by the centuries.

This year I had elected to do a four-day trek in the environs of Paucartambo which I faced with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. I was no stranger to camping – I had happy memories of childhood camping holidays in Europe and was looking forward to sleeping under canvas again after many years – but as the person who was never picked for the team at school, I wondered if I was fast enough or fit enough...

When Journey Latin America's recently married Head of Product Diana Henderson and her husband headed off on honeymoon to Peru, there was one particularly unusual item on the itinerary – a second wedding! This time the ceremony would include the age-old rites and customs of the Incas, in keeping with their destination of Machu Picchu. Over to the newlyweds for both sides of the story...

THE INCA GROOM: LARRY
"Deep in a canyon, the sound of water rushing by outside our five star hotel. Meandering back to our room after a ten course meal, recently married and planning to spend the remainder of the evening, well, together. We enter the room, and in the pool of golden light illuminating the bed lie... costumes?...

As Chocolate Week (yes, really!) draws to a close, Adam Calladine shares an apt treat for lovers of beaches, birds and chocolate – his latest hotel find on the laid-back Caribbean archipelago of Bocas del Toro.

La Loma Jungle Lodge and Chocolate Farm is rather unique: nestled on Isla Bastimentos in the Bocas Del Toro archipelago in northern Panama, La Loma is a working chocolate farm set in 23 hectares of jungle.

The lodge makes the most of its natural surroundings: rock pools form natural Jacuzzis, there is an on-site butterfly farm...

Journalist, author and environmentalist Stanley Johnson reports on a worrying development in the Peruvian Amazon. Stanley’s memoir, "Stanley I Presume", is published by Fourth Estate. His new book, with Robert Vagg, "Survival: Saving Endangered Migratory Species", is published by Stacey International.

When Hylton Murray-Phillipson, the green financier, writes to me, I sit up and take notice. Five years ago he invited me to stay with his friend Tashka for a long weekend. I was delighted to accept, though the logistics of the trip were complicated. Tashka is the paramount chief of the Yawanawa tribe...