Tarija Country Club – Canopy. A must do (and a bargain) in Bolivia- Our friends at the Zeballos Plaza Hotel have recommended we go to the Tarija Country Club. Some of my luxury travel experts have also told me to give it a try during this family travel of ours. We were going to stay, […]
Day 3 is here in the Pantanal Wetlands and we should be departing at around 7:00 a.m. Therefore, I wake up by 5:00 a.m., take a hot shower and start packing. I’m Singing As birds start singing, I shoot out with my camera to capture their beauty. However, I find myself singing instead, and in fact, I […]
Today I woke – as the sun shone through the wooden shutters of our room in the Pantanal – the world’s largest wetlands, here in Brazil. Good Morning! It’s Day 2 I had a lovely hot shower in our spacious ensuite. Since my son was still asleep, I had to rush out before he woke […]
Day 1 Yesterday, I did not even know The Pantanal Wetlands of Brazil existed. I was hunting online for hostels and found out that we would be stopping at the edge of the world’s largest tropical wetlands – located very close to the border of Brazil and Bolivia. Wetlands of Brazil So I had sent […]
The hospital in Uyuni is clean and somehow very basic. There are no covered corridors and where my son lies is a basic outdoor room. My son has expected salt poisoning from licking the salt on Uyuni Salt Flats. The Hospital in Uyuni – The Room There is also no light-reducing curtains here it the room […]
Today I share with you a serious warning if you are visiting the salt flats of Bolivia, and that is to ‘DO NOT Lick the Salt‘. I sit on a pillow on the wooden floorboards, in a dark and basic bedroom, and here I type. Today has been a VERY long day. When Illness Hits And You […]
Our dream has been to stay in some of the most unique accommodations in the world and one of those we hope for is a house made of salt bricks at Posada Dona Lupe. Bus Comfort This bus is freezing cold as the side window has slowly worked open. My attempts to shove a plastic bag […]
After our early night, we are ready to leave the Amazon jungle and this is Day 5. It has been a long few days. Birdwatching in the Amazon jungle We join the others at the bird watching tower after breakfast. This birdwatching tower is not a place to leave children unattended as it has a very […]
We are awoken in the night by the loudest thunder I have ever heard in my life as lightning brightly lights our room in the Amazon Jungle. There are gaps in the roof and so I can see the flashes of lightning illuminating into our dwelling place clearly and this is not how I want to […]
Again in the night here in our Cuyabeno Guacamayo Eco-Lodge, something has tried stealing our food. I had zipped it into a secure bag, but it was still ‘attacked’. My guess is a mouse, but we also had a frog visitor in the night, but then, someone suggests it is the bats? I hear it (or […]
Guacamayo Ecolodge Cuyabeno -Amazon Jungle Ecuador- Day 2 I am woken up in the middle of our Ecolodge on our first night in the Amazon Jungle. There is a noise coming from our snack bag and something is moving about in there. I have no idea what it is attacking our bag – so I drag […]
Guacamayo Ecolodge Cuyabeno -Amazon Jungle Ecuador- Day 1 Guacamayo means Macaw and is the largest parrot in existence. they are found in the Amazon jungles and we are off to try and spy one ourselves. My son picked a jungle tour for his 8th birthday present. So we asked around and found this one to […]
