By: Nico Picciuto Insulated from the rapid plunders of modernization by vast jungles and mountain ranges, it is still possible to encounter intact shamanic cultures. For these people, plants which bring about visionary trances are the focal point of spiritual life and tradition. They believe plants are sentient beings, cosmic envoys with integral lessons for…
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Tips for Traveling Abroad With Your Dog
Traveling abroad can be a great adventure for both you and your pet. After all, there’s nothing like a good trip abroad to help you bond with man’s best friend. However, if you decide to bring your pup along for the journey, you will need to take a few extra steps and precautions to ensure…
Rockaway Rising
By: Madeline Weinfield There is something so nostalgic about summer that I can never quite put my finger on. Perhaps it’s a feeling leftover from a girlhood obsessed with the glamorous 1920’s Atlantic City “Diving Girls” riding horses off sixty foot platforms into pools of water with enthusiastic crowds cheering them on. Every summer I…
Turkish Baths: A Survival Guide
By : Alison Spencer Turkey calls to travelers for any number of reasons. There are those who go for the food, eager to sample stuffed grape leaves, kebabs, and, of course, baklava. Some venture to explore and photograph the fascinating architecture, from the Blue Mosque to the hillside dwellings in Cappadocia. Still others visit to…
A Royal Weekend at the Crane Estate
By: Madeline Weinfield There are few places you can go in 2018 that feel so totally removed, so transformative, that you wonder if you’re wandering through an alternative universe. Such is the feeling that came to mind when I spent a late May weekend wandering the immense grounds of the Crane Estate at Castle Hill,…
Three Ways to Be a Conscious Entrepreneur
By : Âri de Fauconberg Have you always dreamed of becoming a conscious, change-making entrepreneur but haven’t known where to begin? New entrepreneurs within the conscious business space can sometimes get lost in wanting to do the most good in as many areas as possible. Knowing what niche of conscious entrepreneurship is most closely aligned…
Wildlife Spotting in Chile
By: Helen Cordery Think of wildlife safaris and you probably conjure up images of binocular-wielding tourists marvelling at long necked oddities from their jeeps. I was like you—I certainly never imagined the cool slopes and granite boulders at the south of the Americas to be a wildlife haven. However, wildlife spotting in the Americas is…
Cultural Confusion From London to Beijing
By : Talek Nantes Ah… cultural confusion! If you’ve traveled at all, at one time or another you have fallen prey to the little, and sometimes big, misunderstandings that come with immersing yourself in an unfamiliar culture. Sometimes these misunderstandings can be embarrassing like that time in Japan when I graciously, and mistakenly, accepted a…
Ponso No Tao: The Island of the People
By : Laurence Coulton The boat lurched sideways as a wall of water crashed into the hull, huge swells surging upward creating momentary craters of water that threatened to engulf the ferry at any moment. Mortality felt ever more tangible as a dark and angry piece of the Pacific colluded with the storm clouds above…
