Tim Leffel

IN HOW MANY PLACES can you see wild monkeys and tropical birds on a walk from your room to the dining area? On how many hikes can you spot a sloth and a blue morpho butterfly before your first sip of water? In the wildlife-packed Osa Peninsula region of Costa Rica, the animals in a square kilometer can outnumber the tourists visiting the entire region.
Costa Rica has a well-deserved reputation as the greenest country in the Americas. Around 28 percent of the small country’s land has been desi...

Want to get on Mexican time during your vacation? Do it the local way by spending lazy afternoons or evenings in one of the outdoor places that are hubs for socialising. The central Mexican colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato sit at around 2,000 metres above sea level, with a pleasant, sunny climate and warm days all year – meaning the parks and outdoor cafés are nearly always bustling. [Photo: Tim Leffel]

“I’ve never seen a place quite like this before” is the most common response from visitors when they see Viceroy Los Cabos, which opened in 2018. Even if they’re not sure they like it, they admire the artistry, especially at night.
Most beach resorts follow a similar playbook when it comes to design and architecture. If they’re not a boring blocky high-rise, they’re a U or a 3-sided rectangle, or maybe a stretched-out version of one of those. The pools and bars are in the middle leading to th...

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I tried an unfiltered cask ale from The Beerocracy, a cream ale with corn and honey from Grist Iron Brewing Company, and Slo’ Mo’ IPA from Empire Brewing my first night in the Finger Lakes and knew this was going to be a good trip.
For a few days after I drank my way across the state, trying a few flavorful beers paired with cupcakes at Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse, then had a Congress beer based on an early 1900s recipe at a Marriott of all places, in Syracuse. In the great terroir around the ...

MEXICO CITY HAS SELDOM SEEN the travel press limelight like its North American counterparts of Toronto and Washington, D.C., but the rest of the continent finally seems to be waking up to its wealth of reasons to visit. Despite claiming the largest number of museums in the world and housing great cultural institutions, it took Mexico City a long time to get the respect it deserves — partly because it’s had to overcome so many obstacles … the latest, a major earthquake that hit in 2017.
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In a time when seemingly every American destination is claiming to be one of the hottest craft beer cities, we do need to thank our lucky stars that we have come this far. There are now more breweries in the small state of New Hampshire than there were in the whole country in 1983.
Back then the six largest brewers controlled a depressing 92% of the market. Those brewers weren’t exactly putting out medal-winning beers either. The big three then and now that are part of international conglomer...

IN THE DAYTIME, ALENTEJO’S visitors tour a verdant countryside dotted with vineyards, cork trees and churches that look like they jumped out of a fairy tale. At night, many travelers sleep in a castle, in one of the Pousadas de Portugal where the rates don’t require a royal income. With most visitors to Portugal heading to Lisbon, the Algarve or the Duoro wine region, the Alentejo towns remain uncrowded and serene.

Imagine an influential adventure travel blogger or major magazine freelancer has just landed on your company’s website. She is working on a story and the deadline is today. Is what you’re showing her going to lead to exposure for your company and more business? Or will she move on to your competitor instead?

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When the windows rattled and I felt the floor moving underneath me, my Spanish teacher in Antigua didn’t even look up from what she was reading. “Didn’t you feel that?” I asked in English.

“Ah yes, but we’re used to it,” she replied in Spanish. Or at least I think that’s what she said: these were my first lessons many years ago. A tremor that had me ready to run for the exits or dive under a desk was just another shake of the ground in Antigua, Guatemala. A few hundred years ago a tremor that...

It doesn’t have dozens of breweries or some beer heritage story, but North Alabama does have one thing going for it that’s unique: rocket scientists.

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