Hitchhiking in Nicaragua, you don’t find excitement; it finds you.
byNicaragua: On The Road I wake up, as always, before dawn to the bright sounds of my barrio. This is the soundtrack to my…
Magazine articles
Yoga Journal: The Guru Next Door
byBY JOSHUA BERMAN | AUG 28, 2007 The Ganges is shrouded in early-morning monsoon mist, spreading out like an ocean from my guesthouse balcony. I…
Men’s Fitness: 20 Epic Adventures to Tackle in Your 20s
byFit Travel: 20 Epic Adventures to Tackle in Your 20s Who said you have to be 65 and retired to see the world? The…
Budget Travel: Belize travel tips from a pro
byFew travel writers know Belize like Joshua Berman, who’s most recently written for us about its specialty chocolate tours. Berman’s just out with an updated edition of…
Budget Travel: On the Chocolate Trail in Belize
byMayan kings once traded cacao seeds as currency and drank them in a spicy, sacred beverage. Now, Mayan farmers are cashing in, thanks to…
National Geographic Traveler: Tabasco in the Age of Maya
byIt may be the end of one calendar era, but the people are still hungry. Tabasco has served as a crossroads for cultures and…
Perceptive Travel: Ballad of a Traveling Buddha
byAfter years of faithful companionship, Joshua Berman’s backpack fetish decides to move on. Traveling Buddha has been with me more than ten years –…
Brown Alumni Monthly: On this Bus
byIt was a good bus day. As the old, dirty, yellow school bus sped north toward the Nicaraguan hills, it was not too crowded,…
Men’s Journal: Granada, Nicaragua, The New World’s Old City
byThe best way to see the oldest inhabited city in the Americas is at dawn, on foot, with a camera in hand. Granada, Nicaragua…
Forests to Burn
byTRAVEL STORIES: Joshua Berman spent a glorious summer exploring some of America’s most beautiful wilderness areas — with a drip torch in hand FRENCH GULCH, CA…