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The Truth About Turtles

Archive Central America- QUETZAL
Hey everybody. Maya here, broadcasting live from the beautiful beachside town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, our chosen free-travel destination. Our week on la Playa Camronal was harder than most of us expected, with killer bugs and long, often fruitless nights of turtle work. A fair ammount of our time during the day was spent relaxing, and the rest performing various seemingly meaningless tasks– we picked up garbage on the… Read More
Archive India- SHIVA
Here we are in McLeod Ganj, tucked high up in the hills, surrounded by even higher peaks-the mystical Himalayan Mountains. After our week at Deer Park Institute, we were able to enter this week in McLeod with clear and focused minds. We are all excited to finally have reached this destination, so different from any place we have previously been to because of the strong Tibetan influence, or rather, a… Read More

Groovy Grape & CVA

Archive South Pacific- WALKABOUT
    Hey all! We had a great time on the Groovy Grape with our new enthusiastic companion, Steve, (BRILLIANT!). We started off our journey through the Outback by driving over to Uluru a.k.a. “Ayer’s Rock”, the biggest attraction in the Outback. We spent two days here and on the second night we got to experience a once in a life time opportunity of a thunderstorm over Uluru. The next day we… Read More

Gratitude is my mood…

Archive India- SHIVA
Gratitude is my mood… If anything I’ve learned from travel it is that we are all family in some waysucked down by gravity to walk this landAnd on Thanksgiving 2010 with you, my brothers and sistersgratitude is my mood when you glow as you write and wrestle and wrestle and write with your journey, Amanda,you alight inspirationand gratitude is my mood when you dance and dance then sit for hours… Read More

Did pancreas just explode on my leg

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
Hello! Happy Thanksgiving! We are still in Arusha, but no longer with the Maasai anymore. We have been staying with Black Panther, Pete O’Neil for the past 3 days. For everybody who doesn’t know who Pete O’Neil is, he started the Black Panther Kansas City chapter. After being exiled from the United States, he and his wife Charlotte moved to Tanzania and started the United African Alliance Community Center. We… Read More

Everybody Loves Photos! (More cowbell!!!)

Archive South America- INTI
FairPlay Spanish School in Cusco, Peru Payaya TIME! In the Jungle at Robin´s Farm!!! Jungle Walk around Camino Verde protected forest. Your friendly neighborhood white caiman. Salt Lick by ¨The Gator¨ Hiking out of the jungle was mighty hard work! Pina break! Riding around in Puerto Maldonado… Lake Sandoval Ma and Pa Kettle The ¨80 meter¨Black Caiman!! Lobos del Rio!!! Playing Dress up at llanchon, Lago Titicaca… Read More

Maine Boys Check-In

Archive South America- INTI
Hello folks, We are currently in Puerto Maldonado awaiting our departure flight back to Cuzco in the morning. We have spent the last ten (mas o menos) days in the heart (mas o menos) of the Amazon. We were in a small community called Baltimore, off the Tambopata River, helping reforest with a righteous broski named Robin (who has a ton of land, knowledge, and rusties [ask your child if… Read More

Carpe Diem Presents Whitney and Will’s Wonderful Words of Wisdom

Archive Central America- MAYA
Hi, Whitney and Will here. We’re Wonderfully happy, and We made it to Costa Rica! But lets reWind the clock back to Granada.Granada Was an aWesome, but very touristy, city. We Went ziplining Which Was Wicked fun. Whoever Wanted could go upside down, and superman style Which Was Wonderful! We also recieved free coffee Which We doWned because it Was Wonderfully delicious. We also Went to Masaya, an artisans market Where… Read More
Archive India- SHIVA
Hey! The Deer Park Institute. A place built up in our minds as the home to five days of bone-chilling buddhist-style silence. Five days with few, if any interactions with the other carpe diem group members we have grown to love and hold dear. Five days of mindful nothingness. Upon arriving at the institute, all these intimidating perceptions were thrown out the window. The atmosphere was far less strict than… Read More

Pu Khao de Laos!

Archive Southeast Asia- SABAI
Laos has baguettes. That is the first thing that, on behalf of everyone, must be said about our visit to the second country in our exciting itinerary: LAOS. After a 6 hour van ride, an overnight stay at the border, a river crossing, another 6 hour van ride, and a much lighter bag of dramamine, we finally arrived in Luang Nam Tha, a town that looks like what would happen… Read More

Home of the Golden Temple

Archive India- SHIVA
Hi Everyone, Tiana here, ready to give you all the 411 on our time in Amritsar; which wasn’t much… and note that most of our time spent in Amritsar was mostly free wandering on our own, but I will do my best to include everyone. Lets’ see… We were there for a total of 3 days and were lucky enough to find a decent hotel right around the corner from… Read More

Walk to “Lake Manyara”

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
Hello again! Yesterday was an intense one. We set out at 8:15 am for a walking safari to Lake Manyara. We can see the lake from our boma, and a bunch of us were excited to finally walk out to it. We were led out by one of the leaders of our boma, “Emseea” (I’m not sure how to spell it…) He showed us different plants and natural medicines, including… Read More

Maasai =D

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
We’ve finally begun our 10 days with a Maasai tribe in Esilalei, Tanzania! I’m sorry it’s been awhile since the last blog, but things have been pretty rustic lately. After leaving Kigali, we landed in Arusha, Tanzania full of excitement. Especially me and Becca, who were jumping out of our plane seats when we saw the familiar airport. We stayed one night at an incredible hotel, complete with a swimming… Read More
Archive Central America- MAYA
The clock is ticking and grupo maya is not wasting anytime. This radical group of motivated young adults have just made yet another transition. It is no secret that many of us left our hearts in san juan del sur either in the waves, the welcoming community, or parque maderas (a center for art, ecology, sustainability and natural medicine) itself. Its mary and hannah reporting here from our shnazy hostel… Read More

Sydney

Archive South Pacific- WALKABOUT
G’day Mates!     Unfortunately after spending a wonderful time at the Maori, it came to say goodbyes.  With tears and laughter, we departed Otoko Pa by taking a four hour bus ride to Wellington.  Once we arrived to Wellington, we as a group decided that we were going to save money and stay the night at the train station to catch an extremely early flight the following morning.  But little did we… Read More

Blooooooooooooooooooooooooog

Archive South Pacific- HONGI
From the farm, our group travelled to Te Anau for the beginning of our free travel. For our first activity, we hiked a portion of the Kepler Track that led to one of the highest peaks bordering Lake Te Anau. It took all day but the view from the top was completely worth the strenuous walk. The first portion of the hike ended at a hut near the summmit where… Read More
Archive India- SHIVA
Dear avid readers, Hello. I am currently faced with the task of blogging about our week at the Ashram in under 15 minutes so I can get to the Pakistani boarder in time for the show. And even I was stricken by the sheer weirdness of that last sentence. The week took on completely different meanings for each one of us as we all trekked through mountains and walked across… Read More
Archive Central America- QUETZAL
Greetings yet again from the city of Leon as we wind up week two in this beautiful ciudad de Nicaragaua. Youve already heard from Becca–alright from the open door to my right i just witnessed my first Nicaraguan ¨ding dong ditch¨. I hope everyone else can find this as ammusing as I am, proof that where ever you are life is more similiar then different (atleast in my opinion), and… Read More

Remembering Rishikesh….. Ahhhhhh yaaaaa….

Archive India- SHIVA
Hello!!!!! It’s been a while! Your blogger today will be me, Trevor Jermasek. This is my first blog on our trip. Actually, I think this could be my first time ever posting a blog. Period. So please please, bear with me, I’m trying. And I know that Amanda already put a little somethin somethin down about are travels up in those holy hills, and i cant say that I’ll do… Read More