One week escape to Belize with a stay at Lamanai Outpost Lodge in Orange Walk District in the north of Belize, then move on to the town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Western Belize, staying at Cahal Pech Village Resort. The itinerary includes guided tour of Maya archaeological sites of Xunantunich and […]
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Ettica, whose son is a doctor in Knoxville, picked us up at our hotel the following morning. She and her husband, Isaac, also a doctor, were born in Colombia but their grandparents emigrated from Central Europe early in the 20th, contributing to the multicultural mix that makes Bogota so vibrant. They had once lived in
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If a city is lucky, it has a famous restaurant that is a major destination not only for the locals but for those visiting the city as well. In Bogota, this restaurant is Andres Carne des Res, the same restaurant the young man suggested in the immigration line. In 1984, to help pay for their
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We arranged through the hotel , The Charleston, for a half day city tour and when the guide came to pick us up early in the morning, we complained that the day was beginning damp and cold, not realizing at the time how precious a little cold could be. Our immediate destination was La Candelaria,
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Donald and I arrived at the end of Bogota’s rainy season and even though each day the skies were as to be expected, grey and over cast, we were lucky that when it rained, it chose to do so at night. Due to the altitude, the daytime temperatures were in the low 60’s and at
MOHAMMAD THE GUIDE The often mentioned Mohammed was our guide for the twelve days we toured in northern Egypt. He is a very religious man with the stain on his forehead, the result of banging his head either on a stone, if the story can be believed, but certainly on the ground during his time
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Columbia is the oldest democracy in Latin America. Unlike many other Latin American countries, the Colombians have respect for their Constitution and the democratic process and in the 20th have only endured one military coup lasting just four years. Nevertheless, politics in Columbia is a blood sport and people die violent deaths for their political
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Every year tens of thousands of pilgrims visit one of the 2,000-odd temples along the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi and bathe in the river. One of the seven sacred Hindu pilgrim sites in India, Varanasi is also one of the world’s oldest cities, where Lord Shiva is said to have made his home
In January 1992, Donald and I met on a tour to Vietnam and Cambodia and since then we have united our passion for travel and with our passports continually stuffed with additional pages, we have been traveling together ever since. Beginning in 2001, Donald and I have been spending January and February in Cambodia where
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On the Costa Verde, Green Coast of Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil, about four hours south of Rio itself, is found Paraty. Costa Verde coast was one of the first areas of the long Atlantic seashore of Brazil visited and inhabited by the Portuguese. Set in a scenic bay and guarded by a fortress
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