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How to Get to the Pink Sea and Mud Volcano Near Cartagena

If wriggling around in a 10X10 mud pit with 30 other people and having tons of people in you photos sounds fun to you, please check out the typical tours of Volcun Totumo and the Pink Sea (Salinas de Galerazamba).  If you’re sick of tours and Tripadvisor being the only suggestion on how to get there, read on. Especially if you want to have places like this all to...

My Holiday Love Poem to JetBlue

Getting a good airline is a huge hit or miss, But right now it’s JetBlue that I could metaphorically kiss. My red-eye was cancelled and most people were mad, But since I didn’t want to leave Peru yet, I was far from sad. Sure, it was Christmas, in just five short days, But after how long it took me to get there, I wasn’t ready to part ways. So...

Tips for Going to The Galapagos Islands

by Alyssa Ramos Flying over the beginning flecks of islands amongst the clear blue ocean, darkened and lightened with depth, I was reminded of images I’ve seen in my undergrad ecology class textbooks. Darwin’s famed Galapagos Islands, whose contribution to evolutionary advances seemed almost mythical when studied in college, was now about to be a real...