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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! [...]

How to Travel the Perhentian Islands

By on December 2, 2011 ]

Jade Johnston of OurOyster.com, shares her tips on travelling to the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia in this travel guest post for 2Backpackers.com. Despite over five years of travel, and over thirty countries visited in that time, the Perhentian Islands marked two of my travel firsts. My first time travelling solo properly, and my first proper [...]

Beaches in Florida

Travel Photo of the Day: Key Biscayne FL Beaches

By on September 9, 2011 ]

Key Biscayne Fl is one of the most beautiful islands located just off the coast of downtown Miami.  If the Miami beaches are too crowded or too full of tourists, drive over the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne and visit one of the many beaches or parks for a day of sun, grilling and swimming [...]

Panama Islands

Photo of the Day: Gamez Islands in Panama’s Pacific Coast

By on June 18, 2011 ]

The Gulf of Chiriquí is a part of Panama that encompasses Coiba National Park and Golfo de Chiriquí National Park.  There are dozens of islands in this Gulf.  We visited Gamez Island for a day in our own personal paradise of snorkeling, climbing and swimming.

Channel Islands Guernsey

Neolithic Presence in Jersey, Channel Islands

By on October 26, 2010 ]

Jersey (Channel Islands) is a small island off the coast of Normandy in the English Channel.  It has been inhabited since prehistoric times.  Nowadays, one can see traces of those first dwellers almost anywhere.  One of the things I loved doing the most during my time there was to put on my walking boots, grab [...]

Photo of the Day: Religious Cross Atop Isla del Sol

Photo of the Day: Religious Cross Atop Isla del Sol

By on September 7, 2010 ]

Situated on the Bolivian side of the lake with regular boat links to the Bolivian town of Copacabana, Isla del Sol (“Island of the sun”) is one of the lake’s largest islands.  Geographically, the terrain is harsh; it is a rocky, hilly island.  There are no motor vehicles or paved roads on the island.  The [...]

Photo of the Day: Isla Del Sol, Lake Titicaca

Photo of the Day: Isla Del Sol, Lake Titicaca

By on August 21, 2010 ]

Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) is an island in the southern part of Lake Titicaca.  It is part of the modern Plurinational State of Bolivia.  Geographically, the terrain is harsh; it is a rocky, hilly island.  There are no motor vehicles or paved roads on the island.  The main economic activity of the [...]

San Blas Islands

Photo of the Day: Kuna Tribe Huts on San Blas Island

By on August 17, 2010 ]

During our sailing trip from Panama to Colombia, we spent 2 days exploring the San Blas islands in Panama’s Caribbean. The indigenous Kuna tribe inhabits the islands. Amazingly, they build huts such as these on the tiniest of islands. They navigate between each island in dugout canoes.