If you ever plan on getting into a hot air balloon someday, here’s a suggestion for you: do it in Cappadocia, Turkey. Hot air balloon flights are incredibly popular in Cappadocia — several dozen balloons go up each day, even in the winter, so people can see the incredible landscape from the air. I booked [...]
Petra by Night is a lovely introduction to Petra — you visit the famed Treasury while it’s illuminated by candlelight as soft music plays and they serve tea. Under normal circumstances, it looks like this: Image: Debraj It didn’t exactly happen that way for me. The weather had been good all week, but it began [...]
I was very much looking forward to the Wadi Rum leg of my trip to Jordan — because I would be camping in the desert! As a girl who has camped her entire life, first went camping at twelve days old (!), and took her first steps in a tent (seriously), I knew camping with [...]
Getting naked in public is not the kind of thing I set out to do on a regular basis, but in Istanbul, I knew I had to experience a traditional hammam, or Turkish bath! These communal bathing facilities are an institution in Turkey. A traditional hammam includes a bath, a heavy-duty body scrub, and a [...]
Climbing Mount Snowdon is one of the top adventures Wales has to offer! At 1,085 meters, Mount Snowdon is the tallest mountain in Wales (and taller than anything in England as well — only Scotland has higher peaks!), and climbing it is a rite of passage for adrenaline junkies in the UK. Mount Snowdon is [...]
The next activity on our Action Adventure tour through the Tirol region of Austria? Whitewater rafting with Wiggi Rafting! I had never been whitewater rafting in my life, though I had always been intrigued. We would be rafting on Level III rapids (most people are allowed to raft levels I-V, with V being the most [...]
You can add “climbing the Alps” to the ever-growing list of things I never thought I’d do — but ended up doing anyway! One great thing about TBU was that post-conference blog trips were included in the price of attending the conference. There were lots of trips to choose from, and I ended up on — naturally! [...]
You know how much I live for adventures! My six months in Asia were filled with them, and I don’t regret any of them. I’ll be telling these stories forever. But some of the adventures were a lot better than others. Here are my top 10 adventures in Southeast Asia: Fighting Muay Thai in Koh [...]
Songkran in Bangkok is incredible — one of the absolute most fun events on the planet. For three days in April, people celebrate the new year by throwing water on each other, which quickly turns into a giant water fight in the streets. It’s EVERYWHERE in Bangkok, and NOBODY is safe. It could be a [...]
I survived a shipwreck. Saying that feels unreal – like it happened in a dream, or a really bad Lifetime movie. Seriously, did this actually happen to me?! But it did happen, and I survived. This is my story. The Beginning I was invited to join Perama Tours’ Hunting Komodo by Camera tour as a [...]
