Special thanks goes to our Young Pioneer Tours guide Pier-André Doyon for the blogpost title. 240km east of the coast of Somalia and 380km south of the Arabian Peninsula lies a 132 km x 49.7km island called Socotra: a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to...
Above cover photo credit: Mikhael Chai — thanks for that unplanned shot of me standing on the top of Nauru! I’ve already had my fair share of New Year’s Eve celebrations in far flung corners of the globe: 2010 in Cairo, Egypt 2011 in Tijuana,...
Jehangir's Tomb...and my jeans...just got served Today was the day we needed to see all the major sites of Lahore other than the Badshahi Mosque. Beginning with a relatively early morning at 11am, we set off for the massive city-sized Lahore Fort: The first...
Tegucigalpa just got served. “…Tegucigalpa is dangerous and the crime is palpable . . . Comayaguela, which is very rough and tumble and not a place to linger day or night. San Isidro Market is a particular hot spot for petty theft. . . . Take taxis at...
To be honest, it wasn’t that bad. Not once did we ever feel unsafe driving through San Pedro Sula on our way to Copan Ruins. In fact, it looked like any other city in Central America. Our group landed in 3 separate runs: Angela arrived at noon on Friday,...
We set off on a late morning on a search for Santo Domingo’s Chinatown. By Calle El Conde Calle El Conde in the morning Grabbed a breakfast at the 200 year old diner joint, Cafeteria la Colonial, and then walked north up Duarte Avenue (with Parque Duarte...
First things first, the internet in Cap-Haitien barely exists. Not that I’m complaining, but it’ll be hard to shoot an update out with pictures until I get into Santo Domingo probably tomorrow. So far we took a 7 hour bus ride from Port-au-Prince to...
