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Reading Time: 4 minutes “Thank you for loving Thailand,” a smiling Thai woman told a group of international journalists and bloggers before we boarded Bangkok’s immaculate Sky Train to the first ever TBEXAsia. Each of us were on our third to eighth trip to Thailand, and all here to tell our stories. Let’s be honest. Thailand is the new EuroTrip, and it’s because we love massages and food. A country that effortlessly covers all of our senses, we can each indulge as a glam-packer or luxury traveler. Define your dime, but you’ll get what you want out of Thailand. Sure, you’ll find temples in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, play with elephants on day trips from Bangkok, meet monks in ancient Ayutthaya, and maybe even dare to take on beach bucket boozing   (pronounced “Full Moon Party”). In Thailand, you’ll hop into a TukTuk taxi, venture into a night market bazaar, scuba dive around the islands, and maybe pop bottles Las Vegas style in Bangkok   — but these are all activities we can ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes As you’re walking into the Londa Beach Hotel, you immediately notice the wall-sized windows that lead you toward the ocean. You’re inside, but your first sight is the sea. If you’re in town on business, a sense of relief will set in. Otherwise, you may be visiting for the infamous restaurants, bars, and lounges often compared to a more refined Ibiza. Or you’re here as the luxe local seeking a drink or Mediterranean feast at the trendy Caprice. It’s time to mix and mingle with ocean views, and you wouldn’t want to start your night anywhere else. The pristine boutique hotel is “a lady by day, but knows how to dress up at night.” Located on the coastline, it is the ONLY hotel in Limassol directly on the water. A few minutes drive from nightclubs like Breeze and Dolce, it’s also fifteen minutes away from historical spots such as Aphrodite Rock and Paphos. Beach is there, history is everywhere, and the decadent meals are more affordable than you’re trying to...

Wanting for a thing else to do while on your trek to Machu Picchu? Try spending some time in Ollantaytambo. Found about 2/3 of the way to Machu Picchu from Cusco, Ollantaytambo is the Sacred Valley’s other hotspot for parking your llama and checking out Incan ruins. The NYT has the lowdown on methods to investigate the village and its surrounds via foot, horseback, or even mountain bike, as properly as wherever to party the night away, or at least until two a.m.

I know this is the 2nd helicopter video I’ve featured this month, but how neat does this hiking trip on Fox Glacier on the south island of New Zealand search? My only information would be to stay away from reading through “Into Thin Air” up to a 12 months in advance of doing any kind of hiking journey that demands a lot more talent than the average ten-yr-old.

Kilimanjaro may well not be the challenge that is Everest or K2 (or reading Finnegan’s Wake), but I’ve go through Into Thin Air, and I assure you, if I’m going to hike any continent’s highest mountain peak, I’m going to choose the 1 the place I can put on shorts and a t-shirt all through most of the trek. But, as observed in this write-up (a best Friday read through: extended-kind, escapist, has nothing at all to do with function) about one particular guy’s adventure up the mountain, Kilimanjaro is no walk in the park (it’s estimated that only forty% of the 22,000 climbers who attempt the climb yearly make it to the summit). As the writer recounts on the morning of the final ascent: “We progressed up the switchbacks for a good four hours, stopping only briefly simply because of the cold. No 1 took any photos. I felt my heart laboring, and attempted to repress irrational fears of it exploding in my chest.” I can relate, I from t...

Nicely if you’re wanting to know what this weather phenomenan appears, then click here. It’s not all poor, it’s even now pretty warm and from what I’ve heard, it gets virtually oppressively sizzling here so this may be a blessing in disguise. I’ll be heading out to the seaside in Tayrona this morning to try my hand at a small snorkeling. The closest I’ve come to snorkeling in my existence was seeking for my goggles at the bottom of the pool at my health club, so this must be pretty a stage up. Some amazing points I noticed from the roof of my hostel this morning all around seven:thirty as the city was waking up: a very little woman strolling to the corner of the street and calling for the tinto guy — the man that walks all-around the streets with about six thermoses of coffee that he dispenses suitable there on the street for you for about 500 pesos. Right right after her I saw an older woman stage out from her kitchen to purchase some bananas...