Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been helping out with some farming in addition to teaching at the local primary school. I use “helping out” very loosely, though, because I’m really slow and ineffective compared to the people here. I think they derive a fair amount of amusement from city folks Continue Reading
Hello from the village of Cuellaje, in the remote Intag region of Ecuador! I’ve been living in the surrounding communities of San Antonio (15 km away) and Rosario (10 km away) for the past two weeks, where there is neither mobile phone signal nor internet. Hence, I’ve been completely uncontactable Continue Reading
The Fiesta del Yamor (an indigenous harvest festival) is an annual festival held in Otavalo over the first two weeks of September. It draws tourists from all over Ecuador, and if you schedule your visit to Otavalo to coincide with it, you won’t regret it. The Pregón This year (2016), Continue Reading
[Updated 2017] Living in Singapore, you get ready access to a huge variety of cuisines. However, one cuisine that we don’t get much exposure to is South American cuisine. While there are some similarities with Indian food, Ecuadorean food is definitely very new to me and deserves its own post! Continue Reading
Ever wondered how long it takes to fly from Singapore to South America? It took me about 36 hours, with stopovers in London and Miami. Thank goodness for in-flight entertainment! On Miami – if the airport is anything to go by, it seems that almost everyone in Miami can speak Continue Reading
As some of you may know, I’m currently taking a career break and am in South America to travel, improve my Spanish and do a little volunteering. The plan is to spend the bulk of my time in Ecuador but explore a little of Peru and Colombia as well. Why Continue Reading
I’ve attended my fair share of weddings, but I’d never been to a Thai wedding before. Imagine my delight at being invited to the wedding of my friend Kheng, who’s from Bangkok! It’s really intriguing how weddings reflect the culture of the couple getting married. It was fascinating to observe Continue Reading
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Bangkok, having worked there briefly before (in fact, I dedicated a whole post to it in the wake of the terrorist attacks last year). However, I don’t visit it as often as I’d like. Thankfully, in May, I had the perfect Continue Reading
International visitors to Fiji will fly into Nadi International Airport, but it’s essentially a fairly small and dusty town. We hadn’t planned to spend much time there at all, but ended up spending about 3 days there as Uprising Resort (where we were staying in Pacific Harbour) was fully booked Continue Reading
When I told a friend that I was visiting Fiji, she responded, “You sure visit a lot of exotic places!” Given that what we consider “exotic” is largely determined by where we live (Bali, for example, is a long weekend trip for us in Singapore), that’s certainly been the case Continue Reading