christopher p. baker
    Lowell Thomas Award 2008 ‘Travel Journalist of the Year’
Author of award-winning guidebooks, travel books, and guides about California, Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, the Caribbean
Christopher P. Baker is one of the world’s leading travel writers & photographers.
 He is considered the world's foremost authority on travel and tourism to Cuba and Costa Rica.
He has authored more than 20 books for Frommers, Lonely Planet, Moon, National Geographic, Time-Life, etc.
 His award-winning writing & photography have appeared in publications from National Geographic to Newsweek.
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cuba travel expert

Cuba expert Christopher P Baker is available for speaking engagements, media interviews, story assignments & as a tour escort.

Author of six books about Cuba, Baker has visited Cuba more than 40 times and has met Fidel Castro. He has been privileged to address the National Press Club, National Geographic Society (televised “Live from National Geographic”), and World Affairs Council. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, Fox TV, NBC, NPR, & dozens of other radio & TV outlets, and serves as a travel consultant and tour escort for such prestigious organizations as National Geographic.

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Disclaimer: The views of Fox News  are not those of Christopher P Baker. This interview was filmed in 2002 and information herein may have changed.





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costa rica travel expert

Costa Rica expert Christopher P Baker is available for speaking engagements, media interviews, story assignments & tours.

Baker has visited Costa Rica every year since 1989 and has authored five guidebooks about Costa Rica, plus the ‘Costa Rica Pura Vida’ travel app. He has given dozens of talks nationwide, acts as a tour escort for National Geographic Expeditions and Smithsonian Journeys, and has been interviewed about Costa Rica on more than a score of leading radio and TV shows.

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MOTORCYCLING THROUGH CASTRO’S CUBA






Travel Book of the Year
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards


“This is a wonderful adventure book… a meditation on philosophy, politics, and the possibilities of physical love. It has the depth of a novel and the feeling of a great love story.”


Also winner of the
North American
Travel Journalism
Awards
Grand Prize








In 1996, Christopher P. Baker shipped his BMW R100GS motorcycle to Cuba and rode 7,000 miles during a three-month journey. His literary travel book about motorcycling in Cuba was published by the National Geographic Adventure Press and is a two-time national book award winner.





Rave reviews...

“Mi Moto Fidel is a satisfying and complete portrait of Cuba It’s all here: money, sex, politics, geography, history, cigars, marlin, and, of course, Fidel. Serious travel writing is often intricate and complex. Bikers, it seems, do it better.”
Tim Cahill Pass the Butterworms and Road Fever


“Baker’s kiss-and-tell account of his romps across Fidel’s island offers a bittersweet glimpse of life inside the last Marxist utopia.”
Jon Lee Anderson Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life


“Chris Baker’s chaotic pilgrimage—by turns sharp-eyed, lustful, poetic, feverish and joyful—brings a tropical nation of 10 million to vivid, pulsating life. The motorcycle proves itself, once again, a brilliant, ice-breaking instrument of true travel.”
Ted Simon Jupiter’s Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

 



















































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