by Larry Taylor; Fullerton, CA. Photos by Gail Taylor.
In my opinion, El Nido (head office, Makati City, Luzon; phone +63 2 894 5644, www.elnidoresorts.com) is absolutely the world’s best tropical island getaway.
My April 2010 trip to Costa Rica had been, to this point, mediocre, at best.
by Harriet Hughes, Alexandria, VA
In February 2010 I toured Senegal and Mauritania with Spiekermann Travel (Eastpointe, MI; 800/645-2323). The food was good and the weather great, and our small group had a wonderful time exploring these two off-the-beaten-path countries.
by James Hansen, Weeki Wachee, FL
“The Flying Sauna” was what we dubbed the 16-seat puddle jumper that flew us from Belize City to Placencia. My mother, brother and three-year-old nephew, Daniel, and I were on the last leg of the flight that began our 8-day vacation in Belize, April 21-30, 2010.
We’d flown from San Francisco to Houston to Belize City. Now, en route to Placencia, everyone was sweating inside the hot, humid interior of the plane, but we enjoyed gorgeous views of the blue waters of the Caribbean and the lush, green, tropical landscape of Belize.
For those not in the US military, it has been virtually impossible to visit Wake Island, “the Alamo of the Pacific.” After several failed attempts, I had almost given up.
by Julie Skurdenis
by Mary Beltran, ITN
by Thomas Johanneck, McLean, VA
Although South Americans and Europeans of Latin origin have known and traveled Uruguay for quite some time, in planning my trip I found useful Internet information in English to be elusive, and finding a US-based company with Uruguay-only offerings proved impossible.
I spent 26 days in Turkey in May ’09 traveling solo and on the cheap. Excluding airfare, my total expenses were $951. I wrote about my visits to Bodrum (Oct. ’09, pg. 14) and Selçuk (Jan. ’10, pg. 30) and now cover Marmaris.