Candace Dempsey

Stories & Photos

Seattle Washington,USA

Italian-American journalist/adventure travel writer/author of Murder In Italy (Penguin), the true story of Amanda Knox. Specializes in India, the Nordic, Italy, Africa, Latin America. Media outlets: New York Times, Slate, Perceptive Travel, Chicago Tribune, BBC Travel, Luxury Latin America. Appearances on CNN, BBC NEWS, MSBNC. Adventure tales in Travelers' Tales Women in the Wild, Gifts of the Wild, Travelers' Tales Turkey. Blog: Ways to Escape

Candace Dempsey

Stories & Photos

Seattle Washington,USA

Belltown: Seattle's most exciting neighborhood
How Kurt Cobain, mystery writer J.A. Jance and I found happiness in Belltown, Seattle's hip waterfront neighborhood.
Alaska Airlines Magazine.
Ecuador: Why Galapagos Islands are better by boat
I jousted with a carnivorous South American sea bird in the Galapagos Islands, a scene straight out of Alfred Hitchcock's famous horror film, "The Birds."
Luxury Latin America
Mexico: Inside Betsey Johnson's Pacifc Coast villa
Live out your Zihuatanejo "Shawshank Redemption" fantasies in designer Betsey Johnson's seaside villa, now an AirBNB.
Alaska Airlines Magazine
Nicaragua: Tasting world's best rum at Flor de Caña
I seldom sample spirits at 11:00 a.m., but travel writing is not for the faint of heart. Offered a chance to taste Flor de Caña, Nicaragua’s premium rum, my colleagues and I were up for the challenge. To find out how this Central American favorite is made, we left the beautiful colonial city of León and drove about 45 minutes north to the distillery.
Luxury Latin America
Spain: Why Madrid is Europe's most exciting place to eat
From tapas bars and trendy new rooftop restaurants to celebrity hideaways, here's where to go.
Alaska Airlines Magazine
India: Northern adventures on the famed road to Shimla
On a sumptuous tour of the best of northern India, a land of palaces, polo ponies, and pampering recalls the glory days of the British hill stations. I’ve arrived in Gurdaspur to scrub cows with the Sikhs. I want to get this right. Like many wanderers, I’m infamous for cultural mishaps. We began our one-week dash through northern India in bustling Amritsar, an ancient Punjabi border city that is Mecca to the Sikhs.
Perceptive Travel
India: From Delhi to the Taj Mahal
I’m addicted to “Indian Summers,” “The Jewel in the Crown” and other dramas set in the twilight of the British Raj—a ruling system that controlled the Indian subcontinent. Britain created this red sandstone mansion, many times larger than the White House, to display wealth and power.
Alaska Airlines Magazine
Machu Picchu: Exploring Peru's sacred treasures
We stand, cloud high, on one of the loftiest perches in Macchu Picchu, the most famous ruin in Peru's Sacred Valley of the Incas, where each site is more splendid than the last.
Alaska Airlines Magazine
Costa Rica: New flavors from San Jose to Pacific Coast
In Costa Rica I met a man who'd been an amuse–bouche for a crocodile—and I wasn't surprised. This scrumptious Central American country is an eat or be eaten world, from the Pacific surfing beaches to the black–sand Caribbean coast and mint–green cloud forests.
Luxury Latin America
Oregon: Climbing the deadliest volcano in the continental US
Mount St Helens is the most lethal of the Cascade’s volcanoes; the US Geological Survey (USGS) calls it “the most likely of the contiguous US volcanoes to erupt”. Scientists worry about the peak’s explosive power, its high activity and its proximity to the cities of Seattle and Portland. The mountain is also famous for its unpredictability.
BBC Travel
Uganda: Gorilla trekking on a primate tour
The brawny mountain gorilla we call "Silverback"--a prominent male with gray streaks in his thick brown fur--treats our camera-toting entourage with varying degrees of tolerance.
Alaska Airlines Magazine
Seattle: My lost child rescues himself
When my son, Jacob, was 5 years old, I dropped him off at a Seattle day care center, not knowing it was closed for Good Friday. He knocked and knocked on the front door. Nobody answered. This disaster predated the cellphone. blond, blue-eyed, impish — had nothing but my business card. He had asked for it several days before.
New York Times

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Candace Dempsey is an Italian-American journalist/adventure travel writer and author of Murder In Italy, the true story of Amanda Knox (Penguin). She is particularly interested in India, the Nordic countries, Italy, Africa, and Latin America. She is active on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Based in Seattle, she loves to ski, trek, hike, kayak, snorkel, rappel, scramble, bike and explore the outdoors anywhere at any time. She's knowledgeable about food and wine.

Media outlets: Perceptive Travel, BBC Travel, Luxury Latin America , The New York Times, Slate. She has appeared on CNN, BBC NEWS, MSBNC. Her adventure tales appear in Travelers' Tales Women in the Wild, Gifts of the Wild, Travelers' Tales Turkey.