We traveled to the Galapagos Islands from Quito. Here, the two of us had a memorable time, along with 7 friends - 9 in all!! We had the time of our lives!! Seeing this incredibly beautiful part of the world on a Galapagos Cruise was a dream come true!! We flew into San Cristobal Island. From there, we were taken directly to our cruise ship which would be our home for the next 5 days. On San Cristobal we had our first encounters with the Galapagos sea lion and crab!! We first settled do ...
Having lived in Bermuda for quite some time, we feel very qualified to talk about What to See in Bermuda!! What to See in Our Bermuda We consider Bermuda our second home, having lived and worked there for nearly 19 years!! It was in 1998 that we finally left Bermuda to return to our native Sri Lanka. Leaving Bermuda has been one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made, given how much we loved living there!!We have been back to Bermuda o ...
We usually travel overseas at least five times during any particular year. At least one of those trips would a long one and generally far away from our native Sri Lanka. On these occasions we base ourselves in a central location and do our travels from there. One such location we recently used is Long Island, New York. During this trip we visited; Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Bermuda and Manhattan New York. This time we stayed with very close friends where we had a really great time. Anothe ...
Manhattan, which is an island, is one of the 5 boroughs of New York City (NYC). It is the mecca of American business and luxury. Manhattan is home to some of the finest hotels in the world and features some of the best restaurants one could ever hope to eat at. There is so much to see and do in this great city. We have visited this wonderful place more than 200 times!!! I wish I could have written about all my visits here - there are so many great stories to relate. Oh well, as the saying goes, ...
Our trip to Ecuador which included visiting two of its regions will undoubtedly remain as one of our most memorable vacations. We visited the capital city of Quito located in the Highlands and the Galapagos Islands which is covered in a separate blog. Getting to Quito We set out on this journey from New York along with 7 others, 9 in all!! Out of the nine, four including ourselves were from our native Sri Lanka and the others were from the USA. Given the size of our group we used the services o ...