Posts in Tag: adventures abroad
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Chobe Savanna Lodge – Your Own Private Eden
This is the first of two posts on a recent stay at Chobe Savanna Lodge in Namibia as part of an Adventures Abroad Namibia & Botswana tour that started in Windhoek, Namibia and will end in the small city of Maun, Botswana. This first post will describe how we ended up staying in Namibia at […]
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Teotihuacan – Mexico’s Great Pre-Columbian City
In preparing for this post I reviewed about a dozen other websites to determine what was considered either the best or the most important tourist attraction in Mexico. The consensus came down quite strongly in favour of Teotihuacan among those sites that were mostly focused on history and culture and not on the hedonism of […]
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Victoria Falls With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just completed a 12 day tour of Namibia with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. Here’s a post giving you all the reasons why this is a must-do trip if you like to get off the beaten track and experience a country that is only now coming into its own as a […]
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Cholula – The World’s Largest Pyramid (Really!)
This morning on our continuing tour of Central Mexico with Adventures Abroad guide extraordinaire Victor Romagnoli we visited the amazing murals of Cacaxtla. This afternoon we are moving on to the nearby city of San Pedro Cholula where we will visit another astounding pre-Columbian sight, the Great Pyramid of Cholula which is the largest in the […]
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Water Holes of Etosha – Part 2
This is my second post on the famous water holes of Etosha National Park in northern Namibia. This is the final leg of a journey that has taken us from Windhoek to the Namib Desert to the Skeleton Coast to Damaraland and now Etosha. We are spending three nights here during which we will participate […]
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Etosha – Namibia’s Wonderful Wildlife Water Holes
This the seventh post on a recent trip to the fabulous country of Namibia with Canadian travel experts Adventures Abroad. In the course of just over a week our small group has discovered that Namibia is a huge country with a great variety of landscapes. We have baked in the 40° C (104°F) temperatures of […]
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Cacaxtla – Mexico’s Amazing Ancient Murals
Many visitors to Mexico make it a point to see some of the great murals of the 20th century by artists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco that depict important scenes from Mexico’s history in ways that are understandable to every Mexican, whether literate or not. I know I did in Mexico City by […]
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Damaraland Desert Elephant Safari
The journey continues for our intrepid group of Adventures Abroad explorers as we brave the 40°C (104°F) temperatures of the Namib Desert and Damaraland areas of Namibia in search of the flora and fauna that can survive in these conditions. We have just come from visiting the fabulous rock carvings at the UNESCO World Heritage Site […]
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Twyfelfontein – Nambia’s First World Heritage Site
This is my fifth post from a recent trip to Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and will feature the prehistoric rock carvings at Twyfelfontein in the Damaraland region of that country. But first we need to get there from the Skeleton Coast where we have spent the last two days in the very unAfricanlike […]