A massive magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocked the Japan coast this morning (Friday, March 11th), triggering tsunami warnings for twenty countries, including the coasts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. While it appears that the tsunami will have minimal effect on Central America, Ecuador and [...]
Anyone who travels regularly to Latin America has heard the questions. Right after “But isn’t it awfully dangerous?” usually comes “Don’t people get sick down there a lot?” The answers are no and no – most of Latin American is quite safe, and people who take sensible precautions usually stay perfectly healthy. The key is [...]
Couldn’t make it to Brazil for Carnaval this year? You can still be virtually there – check out the live feed on YouTube from Salvador da Bahia. http://www.youtube.com/carnaval Get inspired, start saving up, and next year you can be there too!
After weeks of heavy rains, Bolivia is beset by floods and mudslides. The poorer regions of the capitol city, La Paz, are particularly hard-hit, with hundreds of homes swept away by mudslides. It appears that relatively few lives have been lost, although there has been at least one unverified report to the contrary. Threatened areas [...]
Alissa recounts her recent trip to Tahiti, making us all very jealous… Although my passion for travel was sparked with several trips to Central and South America, I had yet to travel beyond the continents of North and South America. It had been 3 years since my last big trip (Costa Rica), so my husband [...]
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