Read to find out what happened on our adventure to Kakum National Park (Cape Coast, Ghana).
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GEV's Guide to Costa Rica and 18 Things To Know Before You Go
Recently, I've gotten a lot of questions about Costa Rica. It's become an increasingly more popular destination for travelers. I'll start off with a summary of my itinerary from when I traveled there in 2011.
So this begs the question....what do I do, if anything? Do I forego this super cheap flight and buy another one on an airline that doesn't go anywhere near Turkey (especially since this layover in Istanbul adds hours of unnecessary travel time and considering the turmoil in its neighboring country, Syria)? Or do I do nothing and keep my original plans?
Not only were the bathrooms filthy, there was only one toilet. The other stall had a squat hole (if you've read my posts from China you know how I feel about a squat hole) and there were only like 5 sheets of toilet paper left to divide among the three of us.
Pappuji approaches the group and he and other the men have themselves a little chat. They both motion for us to pile into Pappuji's little car. We're hesitant. We don't trust anyone at this point. But we make the decision that, should the need arise and they were in fact plotting on us, we wouldn't mind attacking Pappuji and end up on the New Delhi nightly news.
It all begin when 4 friends had the crazy idea to add a day trip to the Taj Mahal during their emirati vacation.
I'm not going to mislead you. Traveling to India was a challenge. Traveling to any new place can be a challenge I think....but there are certain factors that can make one destination worse than the others.
How Not to Miss your Interational Flight
For $300 or so, we would fly JFK to AUH....that's an incredible deal. Being the genius that I am, I schemed the rest of my travel plans, and in an effort to save money, decided to fly standby to LGA and take the short 20 mins taxi ride to JFK. I did something similar for China....and I was shackled on the way back home so I knew, I KNEW, there would be some obstacles, but nothing insurmountable....so I thought.
If You Want Delays, Fly Fiji Airways
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan look.
I will NEVER fly Fiji Airways again. EVER.
If it wasn't for the incredibly nice people, I think I might have been on the news.
When You Only Have 24 hours in Auckland, NZ...Here's What I Did!
As a result of one of the longest delays ever (about 6 hours), stuck in a really small airport that one had 2 small restaurant (one of which was actually just a coffee shop)...my time in Auckland was cut from 2 days, down to one. Not cool, Fiji Airways...not cool.
Travel is not some exclusive, elitist club whose membership is based on how many stamps you've got in your passport and it shouldn't be made into such a thing. It's not about how many countries you've been to. It's not about how many monuments you've taken pictures with. It's not about how many followers you have on Instagram.
As part of the pre-travel research (and I always do this), I tried to determine if it would be better to pre-book some activities. Pre-booking is good when you're short on time, when there's a possibility that excursions will be sold out and/or if you want to have some structure to your trip. I've also found that trip structure is key when traveling in groups larger than two and people who have differing opinions on timeliness, etc.