Travel makes you smarter.
The house that slavery built We woke up at 4:30 am, nice and early and left our private little apartment through the restaurant, locking the door on the way out and tossing the keys back inside through the window. We stopped in the main square and found Jesús asleep in his churro tent. We decided [...]
Dryness and the Wheel We took a little tour south of the town today with the general goal of finding a deserted ghost town kinda place we read about. We located it on Google Earth and created a route to it from our hotel which we uploaded to our GPS. So finding the place was [...]
Little sweetie at the Mérida carnival Mérida will be hosting a week-long series of colorful and happy parades and fiestas beginning last night with the Quema del mal humor (The burning of bad humor) to get everyone off to a happy start. The Mérida carnival is advertised in the local tourist magazines as one one [...]
Tourists=food in Monkey Forest We rented a motorbike and headed southeast almost 200 Km on a loop around Muang Champhone through Monkey Forest, and across the Champhone river. Zosia took pictures of some young monks and children at the Wat Jan Tak Sa Po which is a temple complex for the orange-robed monks with a [...]
On Wednesday we rented a Honda XR250 enduro motorcycle and Thursday we left for a ride toward the Erg Chebbi sand dunes near the little desert town of Merzouga . We spent the night in Taddert and Friday arrived in Boumaine to a warm reception by a lovely family who welcomed us into their home. [...]
