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!
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When hearing “Argentina“, many people think of the tango, or wine, or good beef. But for me personally, nothing symbolizes Argentina more than yerba mate. Yerba Mate is a tea made of, you guessed it, yerba mate. It can be consumed hot or cold. It is made from the leaves of the yerba mate tree, [...]
Christmas is over, the New Year’s confetti has been swept up, and the January doldrums threaten to take over. Don’t despair – the biggest party of the year beckons. Yes, soon it will be Carnival time, and as the Al Johnson song says, “it’s Carnival time and everybody’s havin’ fun!” Carnival is the world’s biggest [...]
You announce you are going to Latin America by yourself, and your mother promptly faints. After you revive her, she begins issuing dire warnings of all the terrible things that will happen to a woman traveling along in South America. Take a deep breath. The world has changed. Solo women travelers are no longer bizarre [...]
Yes, it can be done. You can take your imperious 2-year-old and your emotional 3-year-old to Latin America, and all of you can have a good time. It will take some compromise and some patience, but the rewards are well worth the effort. As any parent of a toddler or preschooler knows, small children don’t [...]
