Ethan and Michelle's Around the World Travel Blog

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Well, after 5 months of traveling, documented with 112 blog posts through 16 countries and 39 cities visited by traveling on 38 planes incl...

No one place that we saw can win a title of Best Destination, but each has its own special appeal (or lack of appeal as the case may be). ...

     Our last tour stop is the big island of Hawaii, the newest island in the Hawaiian island chain.   The island has been resurfaced by ...

That is what Dr. Seuss naively forgot to mention in his children´s masterpiece.  No matter how carefully you plan your vacation and what to ...

My parents once bought be a model San Francisco trolley car that had a knob at the bottom that, when turned, played the song "I Lost ...

  While in the Galapagos, we had the chance to see Ecuadorian culture up close when we went ashore to the small 7,000 person town of San Cri...

   Scientifically, the Galapagos is a haven for biologists.  Evolution is literally everywhere. Yes, there are the finches whose beak sizes ...

  Ever since I wrote a report and made a diarama out of a shoebox in 1st grade about the amazing Galapagos Tortoise, I have wanted to meet o...

   That´s not true, actually.  The Galapagos are not really going any place any time soon (except perhaps by growing bigger as their volc...

This was the best hot sauce in the world!  A tree tomato is like a normal tomato except fruitier.  Look for them in pulp form in your neares...

   Even mailing postcards from around the world provides new travel experiences.  For example, many countries did not have postcards, or if ...

  The bit of Amazon that we visited is in one of the largest protected rainforest zones in the world.  The Amazon is of course deserving of ...

  A true highlight of our trip was our brief forray into the famed Amazon jungle.  Just a 50 minute flight from Cusco (just 20 years ago it ...

  Who discovered the Inca holy site (actually a town of 500 people with a very important temple inside connected by stone-pave Inca trails t...

   This blog post is for any out there who might be considering going on the Inca trail to hike to Machu Picchu.  I have normally refrained ...

  The Inca civilization was enormous, powerful, extremely forward thinking, and extremely short lived.  But, the indigenous people identify ...

  Should you go to Bolivia?  Yes, and no.  It is a wonderful place to not feel like a tourist.  If you want adventure without the neurotic s...

  When people think of Bolivia, I believe that they often think of drugs and unstable governments.  I have already discussed the drugs.  How...