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"The Amazon at Night Is Dolby Sound"—What It’s Like to Visit Peru as a Blind Traveler

Welcome to Unpacked: Five Questions. In honor of our latest issue of ⁠Afar magazine⁠, which focuses on epic trips—the kind of adventures that change your world—we're hearing from the writers and photographers who chronicled and captured those trips.

In the final episode of the series, host and Afar executive editor Katherine LaGrave speaks with Ryan Knighton, a memoirist, screenwriter, surfer, and Afar contributing writer, about his first trip to Peru with Intrepid Travel.

Blind since his late teens, Ryan reflects on orchestral nights in the Amazon, the terrifying thrill of canopy rope…

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