WhereNext Travel Journal
Original reporting, destination guides, operational insights, and stories from our local teams living and working across Latin America.
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DO | Signature Experiences
Original or curated by WhereNext Travel, each DO experience opens a door to people, places, and ideas guests would be unlikely to find on their own.
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ORIGIN | Human Stories
Honoring the people who make the travel we design possible. Chefs, guides, artists, entrepreneurs, and travelers.
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BACK OF HOUSE | Operational Intelligence
Examine the challenges, systems, trade-offs, and judgment behind designing, operating, and continually improving the travel experience in Latin America.
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STAY | Our Favorite Properties
Accommodations our team knows firsthand and recommends for the distinctive way they deepen a guest’s experience of a place and strengthen the broader itinerary.
Casa Barichara. At the Top of the Most Beautiful Street I Know in Colombia | Barichara: STAY
At this seven-room house in the heart of Barichara, the owner’s presence, shared living spaces, and one of the best locations in town make it feel more like a private home than a conventional boutique hotel.
WhereNext Originals | How Serendipity Becomes a Travel Experience: BACK OF HOUSE
WhereNext Originals often begin with a wrong turn, a roadside conversation, or a whispered introduction. The real work begins afterward, when curiosity must become a tested, dependable travel experience.
Alfanía Coffee Farm | Barichara, Colombia: DO
A morning with the family and farm team behind a small working finca, following coffee through the stage of the growing, harvesting, or processing cycle unfolding that day.
Tobacco Road | Colombia: DO
A first tasting in Bogotá leads to the rolling tables of Barichara and, when the season allows, into the Santander fields where the cigar begins.
Dirt Under Fingernails | Huatata, Peru: DO
A private farm tasting with Manuel Choqque that moves from his remarkable super potatoes to Oxalis, a fermented oca drink that tastes enough like wine to confuse the room.
Fancy Ant Tasting | Barichara, Colombia: DO
Margarita Higuera takes Santander’s hormigas culonas beyond the roadside snack, bringing guests into the kitchen to cook, taste, and understand why generations here have eaten them.
The Artist Preserving Her Family’s 300-Year Story in Peru’s Sacred Valley: ORIGIN
Inside a family hacienda in Peru’s Sacred Valley, where fourth-generation artist Lucia Lambarri is preserving a world of pre-Inca art, white giant corn, mountain ecology, and Andean hospitality.
Solving the WhatsApp Problem in LATAM
For many international travel companies, the first challenge in Latin America isn't finding great suppliers. It's learning how business actually gets done.
Informal Labor in Latin American Tourism
When rebuilding staffing at a boutique hotel in rural Colombia, Gregg Bleakney uncovered a tourism reality rarely discussed publicly: much of Latin America’s tourism labor infrastructure still operates informally behind the scenes.
Stay Where It Happens
Why location matters more than five-star polish when designing luxury travel experiences in Latin America.
The Next Weaver | Chinchero, Peru: DO
In Chinchero, a group of Quechua women is working to ensure that centuries of textile knowledge remain part of the future, not only the past.
How WhereNext Travel Helped Bring the 60 Minutes Story to Life in Colombia
Nearly 10 million people watched Anderson Cooper’s 60 Minutes story on birdwatching in Colombia. Experience nature experiences with WhereNext Travel and The Birders Show, the same team, guides, and community partners who helped bring this story to life for 60 Minutes.
Hotel B. Art, Barranco, and a Hotel That Could Only Exist Here | Lima, Peru: STAY
At this independent boutique hotel in Barranco, art-filled rooms, an intimate scale, and a walkable neighborhood make Lima feel more personal.
Sacred Valley Super Potatoes by Manuel Choqque | Peru: ORIGIN
In a world that celebrates“going,” sometimes the boldest move is to “remain” and build something that makes the world come to you.
Peru: Building Travel Experiences Like a Documentary Film Crew
Nearly twenty years after first riding into Peru by bicycle, Gregg Bleakney returned to produce experiences inspired by the same people, culture, and mountains that changed his life during that first journey.
Sir Francis Drake's Luxury Boutique Hotel | Casa de Alba Cartagena, Colombia | STAY
Casa de Alba is for guests who value location and historical properties. It’s one of our favorite spots in Old Town Cartagena, just off Plaza de Bolivar.
The Men Behind Colombia's Finest Cigar: ORIGIN
In Colombia’s overlooked tobacco fields, Francis Gillis and Juan Camilo Rodriguez are redefining what a cigar experience can be.
We Travel to Feel Something: ORIGIN
Every destination has a story. Every story begins with people. We asked the people who make the travel we design possible: chefs, guides, artists, entrepreneurs, and travelers. What kind of travel do they want?
Colombia, Take One: Building the Country’s First Luxury Travel Content Library
In October, WhereNext Travel launched Colombia’s first luxury content library produced and owned in-house to align with the premium experiences we deliver.
Rescuing Ocean Garbage in Colombia: ORIGIN
Nicolás Kraliczek’s journey from beachside pizza maker to founder of María del Puerto is anything but ordinary. In this ORIGIN story, we explore how a former attorney-turned-diver is redefining nautical tourism in Cartagena: one salvaged boat, one mangrove, and one bottle of sea-cured rum at a time.