The first real group celebration we had in India was Olivia’s 19th birthday, which took place on the train to Delhi. We were living high in the AC Class for that train ride, compared to the non-AC we normally take. We surprised Olivia with an Indian favorite of chocolate balls made by a nice man named Papu from Varanasi, and shared the extra with the Indian residence in our compartment.We… Read More
Hola amigos y familiaWe are writing from the San Marcos on the beautiful Lake Atitlan. After saying our goodbyes to Xela and all of our new acquaintances we headed off for our 3 day 28 mile trek to Lake Atitlan. On Saturday we all met at 6am with bags packed as light as we could and only what we needed for the trek. We headed off for our first day,… Read More
We have emerged from the jungle and now we have arrived in Perú!
Our week in the Amazon was muy interesante. We stayed in a lodge on a ridge above a village on the Puyo-Pongo river, and our project for the week was to build the stairs to get to the lodge! The path was steep and slippery and in need of a lot of maitenance. We perfected our machete… Read More
Right outside Chiang mai on an Eco-farm we met Matt. Matt was a retired wall street stock brocker whom found buddhism, moved to Thailand, and was here to teach us about meditation and yoga. We had a rigorous meditation schedule starting at 7am with meditation a break/morning yoga and breakfest, meditation and buddhism lectures, then a lunch break, back to meditation until dinner and then a night yoga session. After… Read More
Habari,
After an 8 hour, bumpy, dirty, and significantly awkward bus ride from Benako, we have finally reached Tanzania’s second largest city – Mwanza! It is absolutely gorgeous; we are surrounded by beautiful views of Lake Victoria and are preparing/stocking up for the next 3 weeks of exciting activities! We leave for our Safari in just a few days; everyone is EXTREMELY excited! Stay tuned for updates on all the… Read More
Ian and I (Kathryn) are traipsing around the beautiful city of Mwanza, and enjoying every boiling-hot second of it! We are practicing our Kiswahili with the locals, purchasing congas (sp?), mailing post-cards (expect one in the mail family!) and being led around by yet another Moses. Our hunt for lunch is about to draw us back into the heat!
-Ian and Kathryn… Read More
Walking around the city today has proved easier then my initial attempt in Kampala. Love the city of Mwanza and love Tanzania from what I’ve seen of it. Can’t wait for the Safari and the Masai visit.
Sincerely,Kaan (With Lizzie next to me)… Read More
Dearest beloved readers,
We are breaking a few social rules and asked a few favors of the locals for our endeavor. For instance we are using a residents only computer in a very cosmo hotel, and asked the kind receptionist if we could use her celly.
Otherwise we love it here, it’s a little hot but it’s absolutely beautiful. Huge rocks and a lake-side own enraptured us all at the… Read More
Today we were spit in teams of two(Guy and Gal) to explore Mwanza,Tanzania.Devon and I are at an internet cafe which is extremely slow,but no worries(acuta matata)we’ve having lots of fun exploring.
P.S We’re Half way done with our trip!crazy huh! Anyway Toodles
Simply Dan… Read More
A haiku written in detication to my current situation:
my back is sweatythis internet is too slowdrip… drip… down my back.
paz & amordev
(p.s. lovin’ Tanzania, epitome of all that’s beautiful in East Africa)… Read More
Friends, family, countrymen, lend me your ears. We write to you during our last precious week in the lovely city of Xela, more formerly known as Quetzaltenango. Since its been a little over two weeks since our last update, fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a semi lengthy account of our ongoings thus far. Arriving in Xela on a Monday, our first days of class were on a Tuesday. The… Read More
hello home! que tal? we have some bad news… ecuador lost the world cup qualifying game…we were in quito that weekend and the streets were crazy. we even tryed a little dancing in one of the clubs that night… an interesting experience that some of us enjoyed more than others. then we packed up and headed into the cloud forest of Alto Choco for the week. we were planing on… Read More
Woooh!
It’s been quite an amazing disasters couple of days. As it being our first time planning free travel we’ve learned many valuable lessons. The most important being:
1-It’s not as easy as it sounds
2-Because of number 1 the earlier you plan the better.
3-Little to nothing (more of the latter) works out as planned despite how hard you’ve worked, so roll, roll, and keep on rolling with the… Read More
So after we spent a wonderful week working with Youth Encourage Services it was time to say our goodbyes. Jacob(volunteer) luckily volunteered to drive us to our next destination Lake Nkaruba which is only45 minutes away from Fort Portal.When we arrived the first thing everyone notice were the beautiful black and white colobus monkeys and the less attractive vervet monkeys.In the days to follow we practiced yoga daily with our… Read More
Hello from Rwanda! We are currently living the luxurious albeit expensive life in Kigali, but you’ll have to wait for a future blog post to hear more about that. I am here to catch you all up on what we’ve been doing on the first half of our free travel (the beginning of this past week). After our rejuvenating retreat at Lake Nkuruba, we did a 180-degree turn away from… Read More
We made our way to Huay Xai, a border town on the Thailand/Laos border, so that we could enjoy the Gibbon Experience. Getting to Huay Xai was quite the adventure as it required taking a 14 hour bus ride. We all boarded the bus at 7pm and prepared ourselves for our travel into the night. The bus wasn’t very crowded which was quite nice as it allowed us to spread… Read More
We descended from the hills of Lao into our home base of Luang Prabang, a UNESCO World Heritage City, looking ahead to three days of relax and exploration before traveling onwards towards the Thai border. We had a good meal and rest in preparation for the next morning when we made our way to a set of brilliant clear blue waterfalls. Tessa and Amanda chose to pump their way to… Read More
We arrived in the Hindu Holy city of Varanasi after a short train ride from Bodhgaya the night of the 12th, welcomed by dry air, refreshing bright lights, and freedom from constant threat of mosquito attack. The city is, in my personal opinion, lovely – it sits comfortably on the river Ganga and is filled with more half dressed holy men than I ever thought possible. The river is really… Read More
This cloudy friday morning finds us once again happily settled in the mountain town of Otavalo. We´ve spent the week attending spanish school, practicing spanish with our new found ecuadorian families members, hiking liberally around the area, and imitating bird calls in an attempt to tease flight out of Andean Condors. We eagrly await reuniting with our group mates, now lost amongst the forest of clouds. This weekend there is… Read More
