Mya Guarnieri

Businesses line a street in the Old City of Montevideo, near the Port Market, in Uruguay in Jan. 2025. You can't go far in Montevideo without smelling smoke from the city's many steakhouses, or parrillas, grilling meat over wood fires. (Tali Kimelman/The New York Times)

Montevideo, Uruguay: 50,000 steps in a city where the sidewalk never ends

April 2, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The nearly 14-mile waterside promenade La Rambla serves as an outdoor living room for locals and as an antidote to visitors' winter blues.

A Peru Hop bus travels through the desert of the Paracas National Reserve, a protected area near Ica, Peru, Aug. 23, 2024. The roughly decade-old Peru Hop service lets travelers choose a bus route and then decide how much time they want to spend at each stop along the way. (Angela Ponce/The New York Times)

To really see Peru, hop on (and off) the bus instead of flying between cities

October 23, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Most travelers fly between cities like Lima, Cuzco and Arequipa, but if you want to explore beaches, deserts and mountains at your own pace, try a hop-on, hop-off bus.

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