Please note: My page has moved to http://www.travelaroundwithkris.com - so follow me there as there will only be reposts on this site randomly throughout the month. New articles are being posted at the new site - with ino on Germany, Portugal and Spain added most recently. The Tropicana Club - Havana, Cuba This venerable institution …
Please note: My page has moved to http://www.travelaroundwithkris.com - so follow me there as there will only be reposts on this site randomly throughout the month. New articles are being posted at the new site - with ino on Germany, Portugal and Spain added most recently.There is one Baha'i temple on each continent. They are …
First, the most important thing you need to know about flights from Panama City to the US is that THEY WILL TAKE YOUR EMPTY WATER BOTTLE AT A SECOND SECURITY CHECK AT THE GATE, AND HOLD YOU IN A SMALL AREA WITH NO WATER, NO BATHROOM AND FAR TOO FEW SEATS UNTIL YOUR PLANE LEAVES. …
In the Bahamas, you can spend a little while with a sea lion. I went and met Murray at the sea lion encounter at Blue Lagoon. (They also have dolphin and stingray encounters available). You can get in the water (they provide wet suits) and interact with a sea lion who shows off his/her skills …
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Cruise port: Barbados - Harrison's Cave I like caves. I've ziplined in a cave. I've tubed through a cave. And just walked/rode through many caves, including ones with fossils, artifacts, cave paintings, and even an organ. The magnificent creations formed by stalagmites and stalactites and all the other mineral formations are truly endless. If you …
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Caves: Underground in the Dominican Republic When you are in the Dominican Republic a fun thing to do is go to the Cuevas de las Maravillas (Cave of Wonders). This attraction is near La Romana, a popular resort area. There is a very steep staircase to get into the caves. The caves are traditional stalagmite …
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Panama is very colorful. From the molas (above) to the houses below, everything is a riot of color. Whether bright colors or pastel hues, the love of color is evident throughout the country. Even some trash cans get in on the fun. And some buses.
A couple years ago I was lucky enough to get to go to Cuba (legally from the US). While traditional retail stores are hard to come by (like clothing, groceries, electronics), there are many stores geared towards tourists. The main things tourists buy there are: Cuban cigars (make sure to follow the restriction on import, …
So the first thing you need to know about Curaçao is how to pronounce it, which I put in the title so you start doing it the right way from the beginning and don't have to relearn it like I did. 🙂 On the desert (but not deserted) island of Curaçao, you can use U.S. dollars …
Continue reading Curaçao – Cure-a-sow (like the female pig, not planting crops) – UNESCO site
Puerto Rico has a few bays that have bio-luminescent dinoflagellates in them (they often just refer to these as "biobays" for obvious reasons. There is one near Lagas, called La Parguera on the SW side of the island. The one in Mosquito Bay is supposedly much better but I didn't have time to go there. …
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Aruba - Cruise port Once off the dock, we started looking for a likely taxi ride to take us to the things we planned to see. Our primary interests were the diorite boulders and the butterfly farm. We quickly found a driver who would take the three of us to those two attractions and a …
Continue reading Oranjestad, Aruba – Netherlands Antilles – sightseeing and the Butterfly Farm
The Dominican Republic is on the island of Hispaniola which is shared with the nation of Haiti. The DR is the second largest Caribbean nation by area (the largest is Cuba). The island was "discovered" by Christopher Columbus in 1492, although the native Taíno people had been there since the 7th century. Historically the island …
Again a pronunciation: Grenade-ah I was pronouncing it incorrectly because I used to live in a building called the Grenada Center, pronounced Gren-ah-dah. We saw three main attractions on Grenada. A spice demonstration (the local equivalent of a jade tour in China, the argan oil shop in Morocco, carpet tours in Turkey, etc.), Grand Etang …
Cuba - Museum of the Revolution Havana's Museum of the Revolution is housed in the former Presidential Palace which hosted foreign dignitaries and has a hall similar to mini-Versailles hall of mirrors. It's final resident was Batista, after which it was found to be a capitalistic eyesore after the Cuban Revolution and converted to …
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