Kerala Backwaters Houseboat trip – day 1 relax, sunset and paddy fields

When I first heard of Kerala state when we started planning our trip to India, everyone kept talking about the Kerala Backwaters. Honestly, I had no idea what it was all about until I checked it very briefly on Kerala Tourism website. Ok, so you mean like a river or a canal, right? I thought. But Kerala [...]

Caribbean Medicine with Veronica Gordon Crooks – Hidden Garden workshops

If you ever find yourself on Central America, please take time to visit my second favorite country. Costa Rica is a must see and the more time you spend there, the better. The best way to travel around Costa Rica is by bus.One of the nicest places in Costa Rica is no doubt Puerto Viejo. [...]

Important Costa Rican medicinal plants – Hidden Garden workshops

Back in May 2014 during my last weeks of stay in Costa Rica, my second favorite country in the world, I revisited Puerto Viejo area once again. I got there again on a Caribe Shuttle bus from Bocas del Toro islands like I did the first time. In Puerto Viejo, I had a chance to [...]

Isla Contoy – bird and beach eco-paradise Contoy Island Mexico

Isla Contoy – Contoy Island Mexico is situated just 30 miles North from Isla Mujeres (Women’s Island.)During my first 2 visits to Mexico I did not even hear of Isla Contoy until I started planning my third and fourth visit – 4 weeks in Yucatan peninsula. I spent a lot of time just between Cancun [...]

Swimming with whale sharks Cancun Mexico

Swimming with whale sharks was always high on my bucket list. But for some reason I never planned my trips well enough. Each time I was in Mexico, the whale sharks were somewhere far down around the Southern hemisphere, and when I was in Argentina, they were North. The same thing with the Philippines. I [...]

Cenotes in Mexico – fun adventure in extraordinary Xenotes park

Have you ever heard of cenotes in Mexico?I hope so! Back in history, cenotes, or the sinkholes in English, were a source of life for the Maya inhabitants of the Yucatan peninsula. The word comes from dzonot which in Maya means cave with water.During thousands of years when the Yucatan Peninsula soil worked as a sponge, the rainwater [...]
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