Whether the locals are dressing up or partying down, visiting during a major festival or event can really enhance your travel experience. While there are thousands of fetes around the world to catch each year, I’ve made the following picks for the occasions I’d personally like to teleport to each month in 2012. (For a […]
Mexico
Selvatica: The Swiss Family Robinson’s Mexican Outpost
The Swiss Family Robinson Lives HERE. Or at least they vacation here. That’s what I’m thinking as I look up and see a web of hanging bridges and walkways strewn between tiny treehouses in the canopy above me. Splaying out from the central hub, a huge round Great Palapa, were the silver spaghetti strands of […]
Local Flavor: Molcajete Magic in Mexico
This pot-of-gooey-goodness is known as molcajete. During the recent Blogger Meet-Up I attended in Mexico, I had this amazing dish served to me at Secrets Silversands‘ El Patio restaurant. At first I thought molcajete was the name for the thick, creamy Oaxacan cheese inside. Actually, the molcajete is the vessel itself. A molcajete is basically […]