During our 14-day Kaleidoscope of Costa Rica trip with Gate 1 Travel, we stayed in six hotels. Starting Out However, as previously mentioned, we stayed at the Park Inn by Radisson San Jose three times during the trip: once when we first arrived, again after two days exploring Tortuguero, and again to wrap up…
Yes, we’re still here. Retirement is keeping us surprisingly busy. Another trip, a couple of hurricanes (no damage, thankfully), and a family visit have kept us really busy. For some reason, blogging about Costa Rica has been a bit challenging. Don’t get us wrong; Costa Rica is beautiful and has spectacular wildlife, so much so…
San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital, has a population of about 1.5 million and is spread out along a fertile valley. This was the beginning, middle, and end of our Gate 1 Travel, 14-day Kaleidoscope of Costa Rica tour. We flew in and started our tour there, traveling to Tortuguero and then back to San Jose….
Most people know from our blogs that we’re not ones to sit still for too long. So, once again, we were off on a new adventure. This time, our travels brought us to the beautiful country of Costa Rica. A Little Bit of Costa Rican Geography and History Costa Rica is a country in…
Well, we are finally wrapping up our blog series for our Gate 1 Travel 10-Day Classic Peru trip. It’s taken us a while, but we’ve had several other trips, and life as expats in Mexico always keeps us busy. We decided to close out this trip with a good, bad, and ugly blog post. It…
After visiting the Gate 1 Foundation–sponsored school, we continued through the Andean Highlands to Raqchi on our way to Puno and the Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca, South America’s largest freshwater lake. Raqchi Raqchi is home to Wiracocha, a 15th-century temple known for its stonework. It is the largest Inca temple ever discovered….
After leaving Cusco, we had a very, very long seven-hour drive across the Peruvian highlands. As always, there were a few stops along the way. And while we could have easily grouped everything into one blog post, one-stop deserved so much special attention! Gate 1 Foundation Aside from fabulous, well-organized, and value-packed trips, we…
After an exciting but exhausting day exploring Machu Picchu, our group left the PeruRail train in Ollayantambo and boarded our bus again. We made our way out of the Sacred Valley and back to Cusco. Palacio Del Inka Hotel The beautiful Palacio del Inka, part of the Marriott Luxury Collection, would be our home…
Machu Picchu has been on our bucket list for quite some time now, and we finally made it on this trip last November. Initially, Machu Picchu was scheduled as part of the same 10-Day Classic Peru trip with Gate 1 Travel for the fall of 2020 – OBVIOUSLY, that never happened. So, we…
The Sacred Valley was our destination after our Gate 1 Travel group spent the afternoon in Chinchero. We were headed to our hotel near Urubamba for the next two nights. The Sacred Valley got its name from the Incas because of the sacred river that ran through it. The valley is only about a kilometer…