One Sunday evening at the kitchen table we were juggling ideas for the winter vacation. After making notes of various options and itineraries, we ended up booking a MSC Armonia cruise to Havana from Miami. The culturally rich island with a strange, colorful and also somewhat sad history was included with a tempting 2 days … More Cruise To Havana from Miami: What to expect at arrival
Cruising the Tortuguero National Park’s network of canals and lagoons is a fantastic way of observing and better understanding the structure of the rainforest vegetation. Tropical rainforests are the most productive and complex ecosystems on Earth, the greatest biodiversity of plants in the world can be found in Costa Rica. “We have two seasons. The dry … More Rainforest Canal Cruising in Costa Rica
Visiting Embera Indians of Panama and learning about their traditions was a special experience. … More Visiting Embera Indians of Panama
The islands of Gatun Lake, the large artificial lake of Panama Canal, are not islands at all, but mountain tops. We had never heard of this surreal reality before, Panama Canal was built over mountains. They say that below surface the spirits of the villages that were drowned during the process, still keep calling for … More Partial Transit of Panama Canal
Cartagena, also referred as the Magical City, is truly enchanting. … More Cartagena, The Magic City
As we sat playing some video poker at the Bugsy’s Bar, our favourite hangout at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, one late afternoon in November, we overheard something unreal and disturbing. Two young men, who sat at the bar drinking beer, started talking about the hurricane season and how hard it hit some of … More Puerto Rico in Our Minds
Not scared of closed, moving, under water spaces? One educative way to learn about the Grand Cayman coral reefs and the under water life of the Grand Cayman’s Under Water Marine Park is taking a tour in a submarine. Atlantis XI is especially designed for a visual experience. The group is taken to and from … More Grand Cayman Below Surface
One of the US Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, surprised us with it’s lizard residents. We knew that we might see them, but on our way to the Coral World Ocean Park we spotted iguanas in trees and as we entered the Park, they were everywhere. We want to share this post to make you more … More St. Thomas and Iguanas
St. Kitts & Nevis islands used to be part of UK, but are now independent. The islanders call themselves Kittisians. If that is not sweet enough (sounds like sweet kittens to us), board the train called the Sugar Train. That is exactly what we did as we were told that would be one of the … More St. Kitts by Train & Catamaran
Jamaica’s national fruit ackee is pretty to watch, but if eaten raw, super poisonous. The hypoglycin of the fruit can be leathal, and even when ripe (the ripe fruit opens itself indicating it’s edible), the only edible part is the yellow part. Don’t eat the poisonous seeds, avoid munching the peel as well. As we … More On Island Time in Jamaica
