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Travel Photo of the Day: Costa Rica Cloud Forest Millipede

By on January 24, 2012 ]

Can you help us identify what kind of millipede this is? We found it while walking through the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica. We do our best to label our travel photos correctly.

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Samara Beach Costa Rica – Travel Video Ep. 21

By on January 17, 2012 ]

Watch More Adventure Travel Videos Enjoy the best off-the-beaten-path beach in Costa Rica through an HD adventure travel video from 2 Backpackers, Jason and Aracely Castellani, while visiting Sámara, Costa Rica.  In travel video episode #21, we film the flat, calm, white sand Samara Beach and it’s small island of Isla Chora. Enjoy the show! [...]

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Granada Nicaragua Las Isletas – Travel Video Ep. 20

By on January 9, 2012 ]

Watch More Adventure Travel Videos Enjoy a boat tour of millionaire homes on Lake Nicaragua through an HD adventure travel video from 2 Backpackers, Jason and Aracely Castellani, while visiting Granada, Nicaragua.  In travel video episode #20, we tour Las Isletas and Monkey Island on Lake Nicaragua. Enjoy the show! Nicaragua Travel – Granada Granada’s [...]

Advertising Latin Style – Travel Video Clip 6

By on January 5, 2012 ]

Watch More Adventure Travel Videos After traveling throughout Central America and South America, we have experienced our share of unique cultural norms in Latin America, one of which includes putting home speakers on your car and advertising loudly through the streets. This wasn’t an occasional site, it was a frequent site, often advertising for events, [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day – Foggy Morning Mountains in Chiapas, Mexico

By on January 4, 2012 ]

Jonathan is a regular travel photo contributor for 2Backpackers.com. For more information or to sign up for his newsletter visit LifePart2.com. In late December I had the privilege to spend the night with a charming indigenous family in the tiny village of Nichnamtic; high in the mountains of Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. This family [...]

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Travel Tips – Land Border Crossing Checklist

By on December 14, 2011 ]

With ten land border crossings under our belt, it’s time to share travel tips about our experience with land border crossings.  Our first land border crossing was from Guatemalato El Salvador and it involved a boat ride, two bus rides and a walk across a long bridge separating the borders.  We admittedly were nervous.  It [...]

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Zip-Lining & Surfing in San Juan del Sur Nicaragua – Travel Video Ep. 17

By on December 12, 2011 ]

Watch More Adventure Travel Videos Surf lesson tips and a zip-lining canopy tour through an HD adventure travel video from 2 Backpackers, Jason and Aracely Castellani, while visiting San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.  In travel video episode #17, take our video camera high above the forest canopy to share some incredible views and fast flying [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day – Tzotzil Chamulan Worship Service in Mexico

By on November 10, 2011 ]

Jonathan is a regular contributor for 2Backpackers.com. For more information or to sign up for his newsletter visit LifePart2.com. Recently the Indigenous Tzotzil people in the villages surrounding San Cristobal de las Casis, Chiapas, Mexico expelled the Catholic priests from their churches and now practice a religion that is a mixture of pagan ritual and [...]