Our ship docked in Punta Arenas. We were scheduled to visit the cloud forest and unfortunately the tour company placed us on a wrong tour. We ended up on a bird watching tour on Tarcoles river. We embarked on a small boat from a floating dock. You can also watch these amazing creatures from land…
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Macaws in Costa Rica
Macaws were once nearly extinct in Costa Rica. Their lifespan in the wild is from 40 to 50 years, but in captivity Scarlet Macaws can live between 75 and 90 years. Scarlet Macaws feed on seeds, fruits, leaves, flowers and bark of dozens of tree and plant species that grow in Costa Rica’s coastal forests. The…
Faberge Museum St Petersburg, Russia
Since 2013 the lavish 18th century Shuvalov Palace, St. Petersburg has been the home of Museum Fabergé and holds the world’s largest collection of Fabergé eggs. The most famous room, the Blue Room, holds the Imperial Easter Eggs, which represents the second largest collection of Imperial eggs in the world. Those in the collection were commissioned by the…
A visit to Grindelwald, Switzerland
As far as postcard perfect it doesn’t get better than Grindelwald. Grindelwald, a village in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps, is a popular gateway for the Jungfrau Region. This village is under the infamous North Face of Eiger, a wall of rock. The Eiger 13,015 ft mountain of the Bernese Alps and overlooks the villages of Grindelwald…