The Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao, Philippines, preserve a lifestyle over 2000 years old. Here, millennia ago, the local people carved terraces into the Philippine Cordilleras mountains, effectively creating paddies to grow rice in land that was otherwise too steep for farming. The terraces not only created flatland garden beds, they also held back and…
Rhine is a massive, 1033km long river, that begins at South Germany, passes via Switzerland, then goes along the French-German border and goes back into Germany and then heads into Netherlands and finally into the North Sea!. A portion of the river, 67km from 526km to 593km, from Rudeshiem/Bingen to Koblenz is protected as UNESCO…
A special place in our hearts has to be the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. We spent a little over three months exploring this region alone and fell in love with the people, cuisine, the natural wonders, ancient Mayan ruins, and each unique and gorgeous city we had the pleasure and opportunity to visit. While the…