A pioneering example of eco-tourism at its best attracts the attention of Meghan Ward during her visit to Dominica: and even Hurricane Dean has done little to sweep it away.
Tyrel Nelson finds Ecuador's capital has some unexpected surprises he'd missed on his first visit: not least a vertigo-inducing climb up its Basilica's tower.
Downriver from Iquitos, Aaron Smith hires a Vietnam vet to give him advice on drugs, including those squeezed from a small toxic frog, stretched on a rack. For a vegetarian, this was a brave - if not foolhardy - adventure.
Airplanes, taxis and a stomach-churning ferry make Mari Suyama's journey to Bequia something of a trauma. Once she's settled down to Caribbean speed, however, it's quite another story.
Doug Klostermann strays off the Gringo Trail to discover another Cusco, where he helps pioneering Peruvians improve the lot of the poor and learns quite a lot about life.
It's a bit strange that America, as the world's most dynamic economy, should be littered with ghost towns, but few are stranger than the mining camp built in the wake of the Opium Wars. Daniel Metraux reports.
