When I decided to visit Sri Lanka for a month, I wasn't really sure what to expect. I had heard it was a combination of India and Thailand -- two countries I happen to adore, so I was excited. But planning a month-long trip to a country you haven't yet visited is difficult. What do [...]
I knew that my Machu Picchu adventure would be pretty touristy – each year more and more tourists come and new regulations prohibit entrance without a guide, so I was hoping to do something a little more local when exploring Lake Titicaca. I found an agency, All Ways Travel, that would take you to various [...]
Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to see some incredible places and the animals that inhabit them. I’ve trekked through the Borneo jungle to spot orangutans and visited elephant sanctuaries in Thailand. I’ve seen giant sea turtles and whale sharks in Indonesia snorkeling and stumbled upon some pretty nasty snakes, spiders and [...]
Once again, the media had succeeded in making me mildly nervous before traveling to Colombia. I was told not to take taxis, not to dress provocatively (um, do I normally dress provocatively? Sheesh) and to watch my back at every turn. I read travel blogs talking about how men catcalled and whistled, even grabbed foreign [...]
In all honesty, Taipei has never been a destination that was remotely on my radar. But when a friend moved there and I was planning a trip to Asia, I figured, why not tack on a few days in Taipei and check it out. I started my trip off in Hong Kong and then headed [...]
My recent trip to Senegal blew me away. I wasn't sure what to expect as it was my first 'real' adventure deep into the African continent. I'd been to Morocco a few times, but that's a whole different vibe. Arriving at 3 am at the Dakar airport was rather daunting. After a long layover in [...]
2016 was an epic travel year, mainly because I was able to take my second trip to Cuba (plus trips to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, Portugal, Morocco, the UK, Senegal and more, but those I'll leave for another blog post). This visit allowed me to stray further out from the city to enjoy spots [...]
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Penang, Malaysia was a big surprise for me, as it’s so incredibly different than all the other spots in Malaysia I experienced. We spent a few days in the capital, Georgetown, which as you might be able to concur by the name was colonized by the British. The town is full of two-story British colonial [...]
Ever since I was a young girl I’ve wanted to visit the Bornean rainforests. I was fascinated by an exhibit at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo called Tropic World, which consisted of three rainforest habitats where different types of monkeys live. One was Malaysia, and there were gibbons and orangutans swinging from ropes and trees. They had [...]
