We woke up early the following morning for a sunrise game drive of Masai Mara before we had to leave for Lake Elementaita. Some people...

We had a very early wake up this morning for our highly anticipated Hot Air Balloon ride over Masai Mara. This was something not included...

Jambo from Masai Mara! After lunch at our camp, we boarded our safari vehicles to head out to our first game drive! Since our camp was...

Jambo! We had our kickoff meeting with our Contiki guide at 6:00 PM where I met my travel group for the next 2 weeks – an unusual, but...

Hello from Nairobi, or should I say Jambo? I landed in Nairobi right on time, to the minute, and we disembarked the plane to proceed to...

Hello from somewhere over Europe! It has been quite a while since I’ve updated my blog because, you know, COVID, but I am finally wheels...

We arrived into Auckland just before 11:00 PM and headed straight to our hotel, ordered a bit of room service & got to bed as soon as...

Over the last few days, we have traversed the South Island of New Zealand in what was more of a journey to view all the beauty this...

We arrived into Ayers Rock Airport shortly after 9:00 AM from Cairns. The first thing we noticed was there was a time zone shift of 30...

The past few days have been legendary. We arrived into Cairns airport from Sydney just after 9:00 AM, dropped our bags at our hotel in...

Hello from Australia! I flew down with my brother and father a few days ago for a whirlwind family trip through Australia and New Zealand...

By the time we arrived back in Paris from Normandy, pretty much all the restaurants were closed so we wound up grabbing dinner at...

The time was finally here – I have wanted to visit the beaches of Normandy since I learned about D-Day in middle school, but I was never...

We arrived into Paris in the afternoon & went right to our hostel, which was located within a block of the train station we arrived into....

We arrived into Amsterdam shortly after 11:00 PM as we took a train from the airport to the city center. We immediately went to our...

Our 3 days in and around Munich were packed full of things to do. We arrived in Munich at about 12:45 PM and immediately boarded a train...

Hello from Germany! My friend from university, Eric, and I are in Europe for a little under 2 weeks since we wanted to check Oktoberfest...

I knew that I wanted to visit the Nazca Lines during my time in Peru, but that was not included as part of Contiki’s itinerary for Peru...

The following morning we slept in and left for the airport at around 11:00 AM. We flew into Puerto Maldonado where we arrived at around...

About half of our group decided to visit Rainbow Mountain during our day in Cusco, but I decided to take it easy and go white water...