Expanding Our Senses – An Xenses Park Review
We expand our senses as we review Mexico’s newest Mayan Riviera ecopark, Xenses just south of Playa del Carmen.
Walk With Us Through The Small Turkish Town Of Pamukkale
What is there to do in Pamukkale town once you’ve exhausted the cotton castle hot spring terraces and are done visiting the Hierapolis?
We found great food, tasty dondurma (Turkish ice cream), some cool places to relax, and a fun afternoon at Pamukkale Natural Park.
Unique World Heritage Site You’ve Never Heard Of: Dinosaur Provincial Park
I imagine this is what the moon looks like; a landscape bleached and barren, rocks twisted and torn by an alien wind. The four of us stand motionless in the hot sun, sweat running down our backs, trying to make sense of the bizarre vista in front of us.
We’re in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, nestled firmly in the grasslands of Canada’s lonely prairies.
Cretaceous shale and sandstone are exposed in eerie, lunar formations wherever a rare stream slashes a deep cut into the parched soil. Each turn of our walk reveals more …
Welcome to… Costa Rica.
Our story starts on a quiet flight heading to Central America. Imagine that it’s New Year’s Eve, only a few minutes before 2011. After 2 months of lounging around the beach on the Caribbean Sea side of Mexico it suddenly dawns on us that we were about to land in a different world. Out either side of the airplane we could see fireworks going off at regular intervals all across the valley of San Jose.
As we jump off the plane and into the SUV of our driver and hotel owner Jose we were quickly whisked through lively neighborhoods filled with young Ticos preparing for the New Year. As we checked in at a quarter to midnight we found ourselves glad to be out of Mexico. Nothing against Playa but the place was starting to get a little too busy for us and we needed something new to sink our teeth into.
It wasn’t until we were unpacking our things in our room that the gong struck midnight and the city exploded in fireworks…