I can’t believe it’s been almost six months since my third trip to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and I haven’t put a blog post up. I’ve written about the trip, but not for this blog. Anyway, my excuse is my time’s been spent on awesome social media projects. I love social media as much as...
A highlight of a visit to Peru’s Machu Picchu is hiking up Huayna Picchu (Young Mountain), the mountain in the shape of a crouching puma that is in the background of every photograph of Machu Picchu (Old Mountain). Those who take the Inca Trail usually miss the hike, as the trail takes them to...
I just re-uploaded three videos I took of Samba dancing in Bahia, Brazil, the birth place of Samba. Brazil’s national social dance, Samba in Bahia is usually in the form of Samba de Roda (circle dance), with everyone forming the circle taking turn dancing inside the circle after one another, either solo, in pairs,...
Vibrant and laid-back, Bahia in the northeast part of Brazil has been called the land of magic and land of the drums. Samba music was born here. Samba dancing, together with Capoeira, is a way of life. Many of Brazil’s most popular musicians, such as Gilberto Gil, Carlinho Brown, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia and...
If you have plans in the future to visit Bali, one of my favorite escapes, please don’t go there just to eat, pray, and love blindly. Bali is paradise to its visitors, but it is still part of a third world country. Perhaps take a moment to research the many foundations set up in...
Here’s a quickly edited video of a ferry cruise I took on my first day of my Turkey trip, through the Bosphorus, starting from Eminönü in Istanbul and ending at Anadolu Kavağı, which is the last ferry stop on the Asian side of the strait, just before the Black Sea. The ride passes through...
“A journey of the spirit only starts with somewhere wondrous. It continues wherever we are, through the doors that wonder has opened.” ~ Pico Iyer Bookmark on Delicious Share with Stumblers Tumblr it
