Photo: Too much salt?

bolivian salt flats

Too much table salt is bad for your health, but what about this kind of salt?  The salt flats of Bolivia are one of the world’s most significant salt deposits.  As you can see from these mounds of salt, that’s not an amount to sneeze at. The locals harvest the salt from the flats, package [...]

A Guide to Rail Tours in Canada

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A train journey across Canada offers breathtaking scenery and appears on many people’s bucket lists. It’s an excellent way to see the country, whether you choose to travel from coast to coast or whether you just take in one region. Travelling overland across Canada’s vast landscape you will come across emerald green forests, crystal clear [...]

Photo: End of the World

Death Road, Bolivia

We couldn’t end Bike to Work Week without a photo from perhaps our favorite biking experience- the death road in Bolivia.  If you’ve never heard of it, the death road is a somewhat infamous stretch of road stretching from La Paz, Bolivia to the amazonian lowlands.  It’s a narrow road with sharp turns and a steep [...]

Best Wine Tours of 2011

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The best thing about a wine tour is that you get to taste some of the finest “grape juice” in the world, straight from where it is made. You could be a novice in wine tasting or an oenophile, a wine tour can be stimulating and instructive besides being a joyous journey.  Here are some [...]