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Encountering Easter Island: Day 5

Encountering Easter Island: Day 5

EASTER ISLAND, Chile–Today was all about topknots, tattoos and sooty terns. I’d woke this morning thinking I’d be heading out by bike for an a.m. circumambulation of ancient sites from my digs here at explora‘s luxury lodge, Posada de Mike Rapu. But rainy skies deterred me from those plans and I opted instead to join [...]

November 20, 2012No CommentRead More

Explora debuts new Chile photo tours

Explora debuts new Chile photo tours

PRESS RELEASE FROM EXPLORA: explora Launches New Photographic Expeditions in Atacama and Patagonia   Enhance your talent for outdoor photography and appreciation of the beauty of the great outdoors with new guided adventures sponsored by Nikon Inc. Santiago, Chile (Nov. 15, 2012) – The mountainous majesty of Patagonia and eerie expanses of the world’s driest desert [...]

November 15, 2012No CommentRead More

Encountering Easter Island: Day 4

Encountering Easter Island: Day 4

EASTER ISLAND, Chile–Took things down a notch today, my fourth here at explora‘s luxury lodge, Posada de Mike Rapu on the beautiful south coast of Easter Island. Following a light, leisurely breakfast of fresh fruits and cottage cheese, whole wheat toast and an egg-white omelet, connected with my Rapa Nui-born and -bred guide for the [...]

November 15, 2012Comments OffRead More

Encountering Easter Island: Day 3

Encountering Easter Island: Day 3

EASTER ISLAND, Chile–Sun was shining as I woke on third day here at explora‘s luxury lodge, Posada de Mike Rapu on Easter Island. But, I soon learned, there was a surprise in store for us mainland interlopers on Rapa Nui today: We were to be treated to a partial solar eclipse at 5:45 in the [...]

November 14, 2012No CommentRead More

Encountering Easter Island: Day 2

Encountering Easter Island: Day 2

EASTER ISLAND, Chile–Rainy day on Rapa Nui. Woke at 8 a.m., momentarily disoriented. Where was I? Hmm. Oh yeah, Easter Island. Easter Island?! Sleepy astonishment quickly gave way to excitement as I rubbed the sand out of my eyes. First exploration of my second day with the team here at explora‘s luxury lodge, Posada de Mike [...]

November 13, 2012No CommentRead More

Encountering Easter Island: Day 1

Encountering Easter Island: Day 1

EASTER ISLAND, Chile–Greetings from Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua, Easter Island, etc. (take your pick of names and idioms). treKKen’s finally arrived on this mysterious and minute (64-square-mile) volcanic triangle rising from the middle of the Pacific…a dream that’s been a long time in coming finally fulfilled. Flew in from New York, via Lima, Peru, [...]

November 11, 2012No CommentRead More

Guest post: In Belize, disarming farming

Guest post: In Belize, disarming farming

PUNTA GORDA, Belize — There is no greater currency than enthusiasm, or at least that’s what a fortune cookie told me on my first night in New York City.  I’ve kept that little slip of paper with me for all these years and think of it often when trying to convince someone of my own [...]

July 11, 2012No CommentRead More

Chile’s LAN, Brazil’s TAM complete merger

Chile’s LAN, Brazil’s TAM complete merger

LAN and TAM complete merger to launch LATAM Airlines (via AFP) Chile’s LAN Airlines said Friday it has completed its takeover of Brazilian airline TAM, creating Latin America’s biggest airline, LATAM Airlines Group. The deal, which began in May, concluded after 99.9 percent of TAM shareholders exchanged their shares of the company for those of [...]

July 4, 2012No CommentRead More

Hidden Rio: Artsy Santa Teresa beckons

Hidden Rio: Artsy Santa Teresa beckons

RIO DE JANEIRO — When people refer to Rio de Janeiro as Cidade Maravilhosa, or the “Marvelous City,” they usually have in mind the bikinis, bossa nova and beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana — not to mention churrascaria barbecue and caipirinha cocktails — but there’s a lot more to this amazing Brazilian city that just food, [...]

June 27, 2012No CommentRead More

Video/slideshow: Antigua, Guatemala

Video/slideshow: Antigua, Guatemala

ANTIGUA, Guatemala — Nestled in a valley beneath three volcanoes, the postcard-perfect, colonial-era city of Antigua de Guatemala is this Central American country’s tourism trump card. Charming cobblestone streets wind between pastel-colored Spanish structures housing restaurants, gift shops, galleries and nightspots. Ancient churches, convents, monasteries and administrative buildings raised by the conquistadors — some in [...]

June 26, 2012No CommentRead More

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Gettin’ some gemutlichkeit: Day 2

Recently, treKKen’ headed overseas to southwestern Germany for a 10-day, culinary- and culture-themed trek from Mainz to Lake Constance, with stops in Freiburg, Stuttgart, Hohenzollern Castle and other towns, cities, vineyards and sightseeing spots well-known, and less so, across the Black Forest, the Schwabische Alb (Swabian Alps) and the states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wurttemberg. [...]

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