Arequipa and the colca canyon, peru

This week’s dream: a city of culture in the high Andes

Whether visiting a new conservation project or lightening your footprint, these amazing trips catch the eye and give something back

Walk Patagonia’s premier national parks in Chile and Argentina, including Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy areas, with expert advice from Cicerone’s Rudolf Abraham .

Fifty years on from the creation of Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park – home to 2.5% of the world’s biodiversity – it still feels like a wild outpost, thanks to a strict policy limiting the number of visitors

Uganda’s chimps and mountain gorillas might be thriving, but a visit to the parks in the south-west are a reminder of how fragile conservation can be, and why local communities need to be involved for it to work

There’s no better way to discover the treasures of ancient Egypt than on a voyage through time on the Nile, says James Cunningham