Yerba Mate 101
My brilliant entrepreneur husband recently started his own e-commerce store selling yerba mate. I had never heard of mate before I met him, but I quickly learned about this important …
South America
Travel Regrets: How to Do Peru Only Using Five Vacation Days
I find that as a 20-something traveler with limited paid time off I try to make the most of every vacation. That comes with maximizing vacation days and minimizing travel …
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Things to Do in Cartagena, Colombia – A Weekend Guide
Cartagena has been growing steadily as a popular destination within Colombia, a country that has been struggling to overcome its bad reputation for some time. Cartagena proper is a rough, …
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Rio de Janeiro on a Shoestring
Imagine sun tanned beach-goers sipping on cool coconuts, striking rock formations, and dazzling spectacles of music and dance… All of these things exist in one incredible city – Rio de …
How to Explore Carnaval in Brazil
One beautiful, sunny afternoon in Rio, I was listening to my professor drone on and on about something I didn’t understand and looking out the window when a brilliant idea …
Inside Santiago’s Fiestas Pátrias
Classes were wrapping up on a Friday morning in mid-September, and my Brazilian Portuguese teacher casually mentioned we wouldn’t be having class the following Thursday or Friday. Before I could …
Journeying Through Brazil By Bus
When I began planning my solo adventure around Northeast Brazil, everyone I knew expressed their concerns of me, a non-Brazilian, petite female, traveling alone in one of the most dangerous …
Language Learning On A Time Crunch
It’s easy to see that the best way to explore a place is if you know the language and communicate with people there. However, language learning can be a tricky …
Mythbusting Brazil
What do you think of when you hear Brazil? Sparkling, sandy beaches and giant rock formations might come to mind, or an image of the giant Christ statue towering over …
Interview with Céline Cousteau on Conservation and Sustainability with Contiki
I had the amazing opportunity and honor to travel with and interview Céline Cousteau in the Galapagos. She is the daughter of the French explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, and the granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau and …
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The Weird and Wacky World of Blue-Footed Boobies
Blue-footed booby jokes never gets old and the Galápagos locals are taking in the English interpretation to the shops. T-shirts are sold throughout the islands that say “I Love Boobies” with a picture …
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Things I Didn’t Know About Galapagos
One of the main reasons why I travel is to learn about the world we live in. I could easily travel around the world for travels sake and not learn …