It is slightly unbelievable that I am sitting writing this last blog post a day before I am off to the airport to head home. These past three months have been filled with extremes. Extreme frustration and joy, chaos and understanding. I can’t believe how grateful I am to have this experience in the magical and complex country of India. Thank you Mom and Dad for allowing your baby girl… Read More
In honor of our last days together, I (Madeleine) wanted to share some of Inti´s most quotable moments. You probably will not get most of them, but when we read them outloud at our group meetings, we cannot stop laughing. We have made so many amazing memories together. ¨I am a firm believer in creaming your own bagel.¨-Connor ¨One thing I learned is don´t give map to Yael.¨-Ann ¨I am… Read More
The trek to Machu Picchu began at 5:30 in the morning when we were picked up in busses to go to the start of our trek. We soon learned that not only would we NOT be carrying our large backpacks, something we had all panicked about the first time we carried them on our backs in the LA airport, but a portable kitchen, tents and food for the week would… Read More
As we sat down and stuffed our faces our first night back in Cusco none of us could believe we had already finished our five day Machhu Picchu trek.
Day one:
We were picked up at our hostel at five thirty am by our guides Rolando and Gerson (who soon became known as Rolo and Juicy G) and drove to our trail head. We hiked about three hours in the… Read More
Hello friends and family!
As many of you know, for the past few days we have been in Zanzibar! We spent the first few days at a beach side hotel in Paje beach on the south east part of the island. Our time there was amazing and very relaxing. We spent most of the days there lounging on the beach, swimming in the beautiful turquoise water, and eating delicious food.… Read More
Hey everyone! Maddie here at West Bay Bed and Breakfast in Roatan, Honduras. Its been a long, sleepy, eventful week! We were all a little sad to leave our new home in Leon, where we had many many wonderful meals. A lot of us fell in love with that little city. Leaving day was fun, taking a taxi from the hostel at six thirty am to go to the bus… Read More
As many of you may have realized, us gappers will be returning to your homes in about one week. While we are all extremely excited to see each and every one of your beautiful faces, we are also a bit unsure of how we are going to deal with the counter-culture shock. After nearly three months of cold showers, outdoor “bathrooms” and gallo pinto, the North American lifestyle will simply… Read More
Carpe Diem Quetzal would like to extend its deepest apologies for being terribly remiss in the posting of blogs recently. Computers have been rare and electricity to power them even more rare. Now with a return to modernity and a hostel with free computer usage we can all catch up like the good friends we are.
So lets start where the last blog left off. We left the island of… Read More
We’ve just arrived at the Bohemia Resort in Cairns, after a 22 hour train ride up the coast of Queensland. It was a long journey, but there were movies and blankets so it was all good, and still not as long as our Fiji ferry ride!
Our peaceful week at Chenrezig Buddhist Institute brought us mindfulness, new revelations, new friends and amazing food. We all got a lot out of… Read More
We all survived the second and last week at Bona Fide Farm! Some of us were a little worn out in the beginning of the week, but a couple surprises from Mitch, AKA Earth Mother, made an awesome week. To start the week, Kaitlin, Zach, Byron, Graham, and I went to Santa Cruz beach. A storm approached as we arrived, but that did not stop any of us from swimming… Read More
Hello my lovelies!
Hannah here writing from the immaculately beautiful Zanzibar! The group has just finished with our student directed travels and what a lovely whirlwind it was. The idea behind the student directed travels is that it is all up to us, the students, to find a spectacular place to explore another part of Tanzania. After days of research, phone calls and late night group meetings we finally found… Read More
“I’m a long time traveling here below, I’m a long time traveling away from home.”
I love starting pieces of writing with song lyrics, especially when they apply so very well. And this particular song came into my head during a very particular time in our travels: ten more days, and we head back to the home that we´ve been traveling away from for almost three months now. Not only… Read More
If people do not already know I left 2 days ago for reasons do to my health. I just wanted to post one blog because I never got the chance to post in Bonafide.
Two and a half months ago I signed up for a gap year program that was headed to Central America. I had no clue who I was going to meet, what my experience would be, and… Read More
Hello again friends and family! With only a week standing between us reciting monologues about our epic voyages to all you, I give you one of our last updates. It seems like a lifetime ago we were sadly leaving Calcutta. Heading to Phool Ashram we all had our reservations about this week long semi silent retreat with 5:30 am wake up calls for morning chanting and meditation, neti potting and… Read More
My fellow Americans,
Hi!!! This is Kate Maher from the Nkula East Africa group (obviously). I am channeling you all from a computer at our guest house in ZANZIBAR. So without further a do, as your blogger, let me relate to you the events of two weeks ago.
Our journey left off when we traveled from Mufindi to Njombe town, a town I love exclusively for its dairy products. They… Read More
Happy Turkey Day from the Carpe Diem Hongi Group. We have had an amazing experience here in Cairns. The fun started at the airport in Alice Springs and continued all the way through our time here. We were given a taste of Australian paradise the past two days. We took a boat Thursday morning and headed to Fitzroy Island. We arrived and everyone automically was on “relax take it easy… Read More
“I can’t, I have to finish my homework,” is a phrase I never thought I would hear while on this trip. But, this past week we all fell into the old routine of doing homework late at night, in hopes of becoming scuba certified. We started class at Cairns Dive Center (CDC) on Tuesday of this week. We packed our lunches for the 8 hour day ahead of us… Read More
And so Kifaru’s free travel began…with an 8 hour bus ride, (as many things do in Tanzania). With our own budget and affairs to handle the week ahead seem pretty daunting, yet we prevailed as usual. When we arrived to our self picked hostel we arrived to find a homely place filled with couches and all the finest things East Africa had to offer. With our first day in Moshi… Read More
