Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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El Tatio Geysers – Highest in the World
In the last post from this epic trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad we ventured into the driest place on Earth outside of Antarctica, the Atacama desert and found a landscape that was almost surreal in its transcendent beauty. Day two in Atacama will feature a visit to the El Tatio geyser field which is […]
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Atacama Desert – Chile’s Arid Wonderland
In my introductory post on the Adventures Abroad Chile trip, I emphasized what I called the big three – Torres del Paine, the Atacama Desert and Easter Island as being the quintessence of this amazing country. Well Torres del Paine certainly lived up to its star billing and in this and the next post we’ll […]
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San Rafael Glacier & Aiken Park
This is my eighth post from the March, 2024 trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad led by champion empanada eater and all round great guy, Chris Tripodi. In the last post we cruised the waters of Lago Todos dos Santos and enjoyed the lovely German architecture of Puerto Varas in the Patagonian Lake District. After […]
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Patagonia Lake District – Volcanos, Waterfalls & Pudus
This is my seventh post from the March 2024 trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad. In the last post we visited the first of what I deemed to be the big three on this trip, Torres del Paine National Park and it far exceeded even my very high expectations for these famed mountains. From there […]
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Angkor Wat – Cambodia’s Gift to the World
Alas, this is my final post from the life-changing 2023 trip to Southeast Asia which started in Bangkok and will now end in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Adventures Abroad has delivered everything Alison and I could want on this odyssey through three completely different countries Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The good news is that they have […]
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Torres del Paine – There is Nothing Like It
In my introductory post on the Adventures Abroad trip to Chile in the spring of 2024 I highlighted the big three as I called them – Torres del Paine, Atacama and Easter Island. After flying to Punta Arenas and driving the End of the World Highway we arrived at the first of them, Torres del […]
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Siem Reap – Gateway to Angkor
In the last post from the 2023 Adventures Abroad tour of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia I had the unpleasant, but necessary task of documenting our visit to the Killing Fields. Those events occurred within my lifetime and demonstrated, as does the current situation in Ukraine, that you can never take peaceful co-existence and human sanity […]
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Punta Arenas and The End of the World Highway
This is my fifth post from the fall 2024 tour of Chile with Adventures Abroad. Since I’m writing this in June, 2024 that seems like a rather absurd statement since fall is over three months away – so what am I, a psychic? Not at all. One of the things about travelling on the other […]
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Cyprus with Adventures Abroad
Cyprus is not a destination that is on the radar of most North American tourists, yet it’s wildly popular with Europeans, especially Brits and Germans. While they are primarily attracted by the beaches, great weather and the fantastic Cypriot cuisine there is much more to do in Cyprus than just laze in the sun on […]