Travel Tips, Tales, Deals and Steals February Newsletter
February 2013
Travel Tips, Tales, Deals and Steals February Newsletter
Travel Tips, Tales, Deals and Steals February Newsletter
Greetings,
This month’s Travel Tips, Tales, Deals and Steals February Newsletter brings you travel tips for safe women’s solo travel and volunteering in Africa.
Also, exciting travel tales include Quebec City in Canada, San Juan in Puerto Rico, Hoi An in Vietnam, New Zealand’s south island, Turkey’s Goreme Valley and La Paz in Mexico.
Where will your 2013 adventures take you? Do you need inspiration, suggestions or recommendations? Make sure to take a look in the archives to get your travel juices flowing, or email Viv and Jill with your questions.
Take a peek at the travel deals, news and contests listed below. (You just might find yourself travelling sooner than later with all the terrific destinations being featured.)
We recommend you grab your favorite beverage and settle in for some armchair travelling…
WAVEJOURNEY RECOMMENDED – DISCOVERING HISTORY-RICH QUEBEC CITY
WJ Tested by Viv and Jill
WJ Tested: Discovering History-Rich Quebec City
Seeking an interesting, diverse and cultural experience for your spring time travels? Look no further than Quebec City in Canada’s province of Quebec.
It’s a great big world out there, but we had no idea that old world charm was so accessible to North Americans until we paid a visit to Quebec City. Surprised by our ignorance, but delighted in this discovery, we were thoroughly awed by this history-rich capital of the Province of Quebec.
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TRAVEL TALES: DISCOVER VIETNAM – EXPLORING UNESCO CITY HOI AN
By WAVEJourney Vietnam and Cambodia Expert Editor, Jean Wethmar
Discover Vietnam – Exploring UNESCO City Hoi An
The flight from Nha Trang to Danang takes just over an hour; most domestic flights in Vietnam do. You’re just up in the air and it’s time to land again. It is one of those airports where you walk to the plane by yourself and everybody poses for their picture to be taken.
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TRAVEL TIPS: FEMALE SOLO TRAVEL SAFETY
Women Can and Should Travel the World, and Tips on How to Stay Safe!
By Viv Chapleo – WAVEJourney Editor/Co-Founder
Travel Tips: Female Solo Travel Safety
Life is full of risks, some worth taking, others necessary, and then there are the downright stupid ones that we may or may not live through (got plenty of those tales). Not travelling or trying something due to fear is a completely different story. But female solo travel safety is absolutely possible!
As an avid traveller for over 30 years (wow, where did the time go?) my trips have either been solo or with another female that enjoys the adventure of traipsing around the world just as much as I do. So I think that I’ve learned a bit of information on how to travel safely, be it at home or abroad.
Due to the recent brouhaha in the media regarding solo female travel (following the murder of the American woman in Turkey and the insulting comments from many suggesting that women should not leave home without their man, I thought it was time to make my own comments regarding safe ways to travel.
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TRAVEL TALES: ROAD TRIPPING NEW ZEALAND’S SOUTH ISLAND – CHRISTCHURCH TO QUEENSTOWN
By Nicole Trilivas
Road Tripping in New Zealand
Dress warmly. Start in Christchurch and drive south to Queenstown in a crappy car that has trouble getting into second gear.
Stop at the ethereal blue Lake Tekapo, and Aoraki Mount Cook — New Zealand’s highest mountain. Take frequent breaks in front of undulating meadows specked in yellowed sheep to smoke cigarettes in the low light. Remind yourself this is Lord of the Rings territory: Look for hobbits among the vast, green sweeping mountains and jagged crags.
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TRAVEL TIPS: VOLUNTEERING WITH ACACIA AFRICA
By Erin Michelson
Volunteering with Acacia Africa
As I’ve traveled the world during these last two years, I’ve come to appreciate the wonders of our physical world – stunning landscapes, encounters with exotic animals and brilliant architecture. But what I’ve come to value the most is the opportunity to engage with indigenous cultures and local communities. One of the easiest ways to learn about unfamiliar cultures and make new friends is by volunteering with local nonprofit organizations in foreign countries.
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TRAVEL TALES: PUERTO RICO – SAN JUAN MARRIOTT RESORT & STELLARIS CASINO
By Jeannette & Dan Dudek
San Juan Marriott Resort
Our Caribbean cruise departed from San Juan in Puerto Rico, so we decided to fly in a day early to explore and enjoy this historic city. After staying in the San Juan Marriott Resort we wished we would have arrived several days before our cruise!
There are at least three reasons to seriously consider arriving in San Juan a few days before departing on a cruise: first, it virtually ensures your luggage will arrive in time for your ship’s departure; second, it gives you more vacation for the dollar as there is no additional air fare to visit the city; third, it gives you the opportunity to experience the Marriott Resort and its attached Stellaris Casino.
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TRAVEL TALES: EXPLORE TURKEY’S GOREME VALLEY
By Vicky Gibson
Exploring Turkey
So, after forty-three years, I have crossed “see underground cave city” off of my proverbial “bucket list”. I finally made it back to Turkey!
It was 1969 and I was hitch-hiking around Europe carrying a back-breaking, hip-hugging, German army surplus backpack and eating from the right side of the menu. My budget was $2.00 a day and that did not allow for extras.
This time, I want to do the things, see the places that I couldn’t afford to back then. Things that I saw and passed from the foul smelling bed of a farm truck as we travelled for free, through the Turkish countryside. I missed so much! I read my Arthur Frommer’s “Europe on $5.00 a Day”, but what I came away with was that I needed to come back one day, and do it right… official Turkish guide and all.
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TRAVEL TALES: 10 REASONS TO VISIT LA PAZ, MEXICO
By Patti Morrow
Swim with Sea Lions ©La Paz Tourism
On the shores of the Mexico’s southern Baja peninsula is La Paz, an authentic and colorful Mexican city whose name translates “the Peace.” Boasting 340 days of sunshine a year, beaches as beautiful as the Caribbean and a dessert climate that keeps the days warm and dry and the nights cool, you are spoiled for choice of things to do in La Paz.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: INSIGHT VACATIONS REVIEW – SPAIN, PORTUGAL & MOROCCO
Insight Vacations Review – Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco
WJ Tested: Insight Vacations Review – Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco 16-Night Motorcoach Trip in 2011
Europe is our favorite continent for experiencing an immensely diversified super-serving of culture within a geographic area that allows for easy travel connections. At every turn history sparks our curiosity, while food from each region delights our tastebuds. Wine, beer and liquors have their own uniqueness rooted in the different regions which requires diligent sampling. And people-watching expands our horizons giving us a glimpse into what makes each town, city and country special. So when WAVEJourney was invited to join the 16-night Insight Vacations Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco motorcoach tour at the end of April we readily agreed to climb aboard.
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