A dog licked ice cream off a baby’s face. An older man and a young woman were jamming on guitar and banjo, and a few kids danced around them on the sidewalk. The aroma of sizzling veggies on the grill mingled with the sweet smell of baking crepes. A sample of homemade kombucha tea played […]
Community-based Travel
Yak Butter and Fermented Barley: Eating & Drinking Like a Ladakhi
One thing I love about the homestay experience is that you eat and drink just as the locals do. During my homestay in the remote village of Lingshed, in the northern Ladakh region of India, I enjoyed the simple but creative diet the locals have put together from extremely limited resources. My host father, Tsering, […]
Into the Amazon with Peru’s Rainforest Expeditions
As a kid I used to dream of living in a tree house. Once I even got to spend the night in my friend Jonna’s tree house – in a windstorm, no less – and I stayed awake for most of the night, contently swaying with the tree and watching the stars. The lodges I […]