Every second Friday, Kortney, BMTM’s travel fashion correspondent, shares another tip with us for fashionable and practical items to bring with you when you travel! When I focus on packing light, I zero in bringing the bare essentials, including in the perfect travel shoes. I just want to be comfortable yet fashionable and with some trial […]
The Best of Camping in the San Pedro de Atacama Desert, Chile
The San Pedro de Atacama desert in Northern Chile is famous for a few good reasons: It’s the driest desert in the world, has some of the best viewing for stars in the night sky, and it’s full of otherworldly-looking canyons, lakes, and landmarks. Though there are tours to all of the major sites, they lack […]
What It’s Like to Stargaze Under the Clearest Sky on Earth
When the sun sets in the Atacama Desert, one of nature’s most impressive shows begins. The arid, yellow, salty sand changes from shades of white to gold, and the wispy clouds swirl in divine motion, turning from orange, to pink, and finally purple. The cold comes in quickly – it’s a desert that rests at 13,000 feet […]
Filipino Food: All the Best Noms from Breakfast to Dinner
This is a guest post by Jenn Brown. It was shimmering like a mirage before me. A pigtailed redhead smirked down from her neon perch, her eyes saying ‘You know you want this.’ After three years in Australia and six months of traveling through Asia, I was standing before… a Wendy’s. This was not what […]
The Best Hiking in El Chaltén, Argentina
Of all of the towns that I stayed in during my time in Patagonia, El Chaltén in Argentina has to be my favorite (and Puyuhuapi is a close second). It’s beautiful, the food is good, and it’s got a chilled out hippie vibe. And I just love me some chilled out vibes. Though growing, as […]