Expedition cruiser Roderick Eime had no idea what he was doing when he set out for Papua New Guinea aboard Oceanic Princess. That’s why he went! It starts as a low rumble, a distant reverberation that could have been a …
Category: South and Central America
The Heart of the Mayan World by Ron Kapon
I was looking for a place to visit for five days that would allow me to write several stories. It was early summer so sun and warmth were not important and I did not want to travel through many time …
Puebla, Mexico: Celebration, Commotion, Cockfight by Kate Meyers
Sitting in the airport in Puebla, Mexico, staring out the window at the flat, hot, empty asphalt parking lot, I can’t help but think to myself, So this is how they do it in Mexico. This airport is more disorganized …
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Around South America:Wondrous Sights-Cultural Delights by Larry and Gail Taylor
The ocean was calm all around the ship-as if we were on a lake. We hadn’t really known what to expect, but certainly not this. After all, we were sailing around the tip of South America-around Cape Horn-through what can …
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Manuel Antonio, Pacific Beaches of Costa Rica by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Manuel Antonio is known as the most beautiful National Park on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica. En route there by car service we had the thrill of crossing a large concrete bridge where we got out to see …
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Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest
The modern tourism bus picked us up early from our Arenal Country Inn for our boat ride across Lake Arenal, the prettiest and most efficient way to get to Monteverde Cloud Forest from Arenal, unless you want to ride horses …
Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Arenal is the most famous active volcano in Costa Rica and is a big attraction for tourists. The town of La Fortuna caters to all kinds of tourists, with accommodations ranging from $6 a night in well-located, clean hostels, to …
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Seventieth Birthday Trip To South America PART 3 by Ron Kapon
At least I got to sleep until 6AM (rather than the 3 & 5AM wakeup calls for my other flights,) before my two hour TACA flight from Lima to Quito Ecuador. I would finally get to meet Paulo Irigoyen, the …
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AMORES PROJECT: LISBON 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Virtual architect, urban planner, composer and photographer, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimento is a Portuguese artist living in Switzerland. He has been selected to create a floating island city of the future in the Tagus River near Lisbon to extend …
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Submarine Touring by Nancy S. Tardy
Are you planning a Caribbean, Mexican or Hawaiian vacation? Consider signing up for the only chance that 99% of us will ever have to ride in a submarine. Currently operating at 11 major vacation sites (Aruba, Barbados, Curacao, Grand Cayman, …
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