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My most recent articles for the Guardian can be found here:

www.guardian.co.uk/profile/vickybaker

Leap of faith

It's easy to do Peru by booking a trek on the Inca Trail. But a website that allows travellers to recommend local guides led Vicky Baker to her own Machu Picchu

Prison break

Most people would pay to escape prison but at San Pedro in Bolivia, the subject of a forthcoming Hollywood film, inmates charge visitors

to get in

Hats off to Panama

Panama City used to be somewhere people travelled through, not to. But the transformation of a run-down neighbourhood into one of the hippest barrios in Latin America is changing that

Chez Jim

Want to meet people in Paris? Then drop in on the 'godfather of social networking'. Everyone's welcome at his weekly open-house supperclub

The rise of the cocaine tourist

Colombia is emerging from its troubled past to become one of the hottest destinations in South America. But for a growing minority, its most famous product is becoming the main draw, says Vicky Baker

The presidential suites

Patagonia's latest luxury hotel is right in the new president of Argentina's back yard. Not that she minds — she designed it

Guardian Unlimited

Jamaica's little-known paradise

With no taxes, no police and hardly any crime, the semi-independent town of Accompong in western Jamaica is an idyll for the traveller looking to get off the beaten track

Guardian Unlimited

Steak out in Buenos Aires

How to survive as a vegetarian in the world's meat-eating capital

Guardian Unlimited

Hip-hopping around Harlem

Guardian Unlimited

Hôtel de la Cité, Carcassonne

Hotel review for Guardian Unlimited

Ancient wander

Trekking in Jordan for TNT magazine

Hotfoot it to Dubai for the coolest sand... courtesy of Versace

The Observer

A virtual roadtrip anyone could join

Guardian travel blog

Guide to Southeast Asia

TNT online guide

Couch surfing your way around the world

TNT magazine

Play your cards right on a poker break in Leeds

Matchbox magazine

Japan from £1

TNT - four-part feature

Dubai on a budget

TNT magazine

More senstivity please, says Tuvalu

Overseas magazine

Brighton rocks

Overseas magazine

Birmingham - shortbreak capital of Britain?

Overseas magazine

VICKY BAKER

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