Travel Reflections

Amid the hustle and bustle of India, we discovered what might be the most peaceful place on earth: the backwaters of Kerala in Southern India. Join us on our cruise!

El Caminito and La Boca are popular tourist spots famous for Tango and colorful buildings in Buenos Aires -Was it a great afternoon out or a tourist trap in a bad neighborhood? Find out what both of us thought and whether we recommend it to you in our new series She Said, She Said.

Two shiny new Ford transporter vans stop along the side of a white cement road and nearly 30 passengers pile out and reformulate into the small groups everyone came with. Dani and I stand off to the side and observe with some shock the other tourists in the group. A group of Brazilians (both female and male) in tank-tops, short-shorts and movie-star sunglasses and several girls in short-ish skirts. Before you start thinking Dani and I to be very prude (standing there in our long pants, closed toe shoes and jackets), we should explain that our tour was taking place in traditional Mayan villages outside of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. The agency had mentioned that we should wear appropriate clothes out of respect to the villagers – advice apparently very few of us chose to heed.

How bizarre was it to bargain for the price of a tuk tuk ride, when the driver was about to take us out to visit the Killing Fields, the genocide museum which explicitly tells the story of the reign of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge from 1975-1979. The entire day we choked back tears and learned about Cambodia’s history.

The all-new ‘What I Wonder When I Wander’ series takes a closer look at the things I think about as we travel around the world. This week looks at Indian TV and just why it was my saving grace…

They say you either love India or you hate it. In Hampi I finally found everything I was looking for in India – find out what…

When the opportunity to partake in an Ayahuasca ceremony in the Colombian Amazon presented itself, I decided to try it and to face my inner demons. Did it change my life?

During this eight-month leg of our trip through Central America, we crossed paths with countless travelers coming up north as we headed down south, and listened to their tips and advice for places we had yet to visit. The only place that nobody could tell us much about was Honduras. It seems many people wonder whether it is safe or not to go there – here is our take.

Montezuma is easily one of Costa Rica’s most beautiful beaches, but my love affair effectively ended after spending three days there in February 2011. The Damn the Man attitude has been cast aside by the hippies who grew up, got jobs, and put Montezuma on the tourist map.

This year has been a total beach for the two of us. Having spent over five months on the coast around the world, we share our top five beaches of the year in this post.