Most Votes Cast, across More Countries and Categories, in Program's Eight-Year History - with Many New 'Faces' Taking Top Honors NEW YORK, NY October 22, 2010 - SpaFinder, Inc., the global spa and wellness resource, today unveiled the winners of its 2010 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring spa-goers' favorite spas across the globe on six continents and in 35 countries/regions, along with their top ten picks in 31 unique categories. The 2010 … [Read more...]
65 Countries Enter Race for 2010 Foreign Language Film Oscar
Beverly Hills, CA - Sixty-five countries, including first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards'. The 2010 submissions are: Albania, 'East, West, East,' Gjergj Xhuvani, director; Algeria, 'Hors la Loi' ('Outside the Law'), Rachid Bouchareb, director; Argentina, 'Carancho,' Pablo Trapero, director; Austria, 'La … [Read more...]
Moon Nicaragua
Moon Nicaragua by Joshua Berman and Randall Wood This in depth guide book is an excellent resource for travelers to Nicaragua, central America's largest and least populated country. Travel in Nicaragua is generally for Independent travelers - and getting off the tourist beaten path is extremely easy (we know, we've been here before)! Nicaragua is certainly not neighboring Costa Rica in terms of tourist development - but there is just as much … [Read more...]
Addicted
Hello, my name is Nicole, and I am an addict. Hello Nicole. The realization of my addiction came at the point where most addictions come, in a dark, dingy hotel room, alone, surrounded by pink pills. The only difference was that I did not have a needle up my arm and I was not in the center of downtown LA. I was in Puerto Rico, and was in my right, conscious state of mine (which I don't know if that makes it better or worse.) As I laid … [Read more...]
Free Golf & Family Fun
Free Golf & Family Fun - Marriott Golf's International Family golf Festival Returns to 30 Destinations Worldwide Golfing Families Are Invited To Marriott Properties For A FUN Day Of FREE Golf Activities & Instruction ORLANDO, Fla. - April 19, 2010 Marriott Golf, one of the world's premier golf operators, is once again reaching out to families all over the world and promoting 'togetherness in golf.' Today, Marriott Golf announced its … [Read more...]
Volunteer abroad with Basecamp International Centers & Make a difference
Basecamp International Centers believe international volunteering promotes cross-cultural learning that helps create global awareness, understanding between cultures and provides the platform for positive change. Our volunteers have taught in schools, provided disaster relief support for the International Red Cross, conducted essential research to improve the management strategies of threatened environments, built homes for impoverished … [Read more...]
The G.A.P Top 5: Places of Independence
1. Yukon, Canada There's nothing you know like your own backyard, and even if it's 7000 km away from home it's still more familiar than Mexico, which is closer. Canada's Yukon, east of Alaska and north of British Columbia, has attracted independent types since frontier days. I like trekking in the mountains, which there are lots of (the last ice age missed this part of the continent) and the long light in the summertime. I don't recommend … [Read more...]
The G.A.P Top 5: Travel Memories
This was enormously difficult for me. First of all, choosing a top five is never easy. Ranking was totally out of the question! And then condensing days and days of vivid and rich experiences into a little summarized blurb was near impossible. I could go on and on but here are 5 of my fondest travel experiences. Montezuma, Costa Rica Body-surfed for breakfast after having watched the spectacular sunrise through my tattered tent door then … [Read more...]
Museo de Oro, Costa Rica – December 2004
Museo de Oro Costa Rica - The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum is located underground in downtown San Jose Costa Rica. If you only visit one museum in Costa Rica this is the museum to visit. Thousands of pre-Columbian hand made gold artifacts totaling over 20,000 troy ounces fill the tastefully designed & lighted viewing rooms. This collection started in the 1950's when the Central Bank of Costa Rica started collecting artifacts and other antiquities. … [Read more...]
Visit Costa Rica! – December 2001
Visit Costa Rica - Costa Rica has many natural attractions. Beautiful beaches, mountain ranges, smoking volcanoes, tropical rain & cloud forests & much more await you in this small but very unique Central American Country. Flights originate and leve from San Jose - but don't spend to much time here - the natural world of the country awaits. From the cloud forests of Monteverde containing the often shy but resplendently colored Quetzal to the … [Read more...]
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