Posts in Tag: adventures abroad
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Sossusvlei – Namibia’s Wondrous Sand Dunes
Having just returned from a 12-day trip through Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad, I can say without hesitancy that the visit to some of the world’s largest sand dunes at Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert was one of the highlights of the trip. For someone who left a Canadian winter with temperatures dipping below […]
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Day of the Dead – Mexico’s Unique Celebration
Alison and I recently returned from the inaugural Central Mexico Tour with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad. Our reasons for signing up for this trip were numerous, as I wrote in this post. It was to be led by Victor Romagnoli, simply one of the best and most knowledgable travel guides on the planet. The […]
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Quinta Real – An Oasis in Oaxaca
I rarely write entire posts on one hotel, but once in a while one comes along that is so exceptional that it warrants a post on its own; such is the Quinta Real in Oaxaca. Our group stayed there for four nights on a recent trip to Central Mexico with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad, […]
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Tortuguero – Turtles vs. Jaguars
In a previous post on the Monteverde cloud forest, I described Costa Rica as a country which seasoned travellers should have no difficulty navigating on their own, with a couple of exceptions. The first was Monte Verde, simply because of the very difficult road conditions and the second is the island of Tortuguero on the northern […]
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Xochimilco – Enjoying it Without the Crowds
Xochimilco has been on my bucket since long before anyone had a bucket list. I first read about this wondrous, watery, flower strewn oasis on the south side of Mexico City in one my early readers that featured chapters on interesting places around the world. I’m not even going to guess how long ago that […]
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Central Mexico – Go With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from the inaugural Adventures Abroad tour of Central Mexico with veteran tour guide Victor Romagnoli, featuring the Day of the Dead festivities. All I can say is that it was eye-opening in every sense of the word and although I’ve travelled enough to know that one’s impressions of a […]
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Monteverde – Costa Rica’s Amazing Cloud Forest
In 2018 year Alison and I visited Colombia and Panama on a tour with our favourite travel company Adventures Abroad. You can read about that amazing trip in any one of the 20 + posts on this website. Although the tour was continuing on to Costa Rica our original plan was to call it a […]
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Bocas del Toro – Panama’s Caribbean Paradise
This is my final post on a recent trip to Panama with Canadian travel specialists, Adventures Abroad and this post’s destination, Bocas del Toro is a 100% contrast from the Chiriqui Highlands where we spent the last two days. Whereas the Chiriqui Highlands were cool and wet, Bocas del Toro promises to be hot and sunny […]
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Embera Indigenous Village, Panama
My visit to Panama continues with a completely different experience from the half crossing of the Panama Canal which was an example of hyper modernity with the largest ships in the world moving massive amounts of products from one continent to another. In this post I go in the opposite direction. The interaction between the […]