2010 March travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Superbly located on magnificent Sanibel Island, Tortuga Beach Club provides immediate access to white-sand beaches via walkways bordered by lush tropical landscaping. Tortuga Beach Club has always been a treasured vacation rental for travelers who seek nature’s beauty. The resort  is composed of seven main buildings that surround the pool / activity area, there are several walk ways over the dunes that lead to a very wide expansive beach.
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If you want to see a valley so magnificent that it gets you thinking about what the Garden of Eden might have looked like, travel to Cuba. Richly, fertile, with endless tobacco, sugarcane, and coffee plantations, the western province of Pinar del Rio is a blessed with a lush greenness, beautiful rivers, and natural springs. The pretty village of Vinales is nestled into the breathtaking Sierra de los Organos mountains, and the Vinales Valley is UNESCO-protected. Photo by: rikun1401
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Salt Cay calls itself ”the island that time forgot”, because since the salt trade dried up, it has stood still. All around it, Caribbean islands have soaked up the tourist traffic and grown luxury hotels; 2-mile-long (3.2-km) Salt Cay, however, has planted its feet in the past. There you can rent a villa that has no key – because you don’t need one. Roosters wake you in the morning, there are few cars, cell phones have no receptions.

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Owned by world-famous illusionist David Copperfield, who purchased it at a coast of $50 million, Musha Cay, Bahamas is 150 acre of pampered seclusion, regarded by the chosen few who have stayed here as one of the world’s most sought-after hideaways. Photo by: trixieskips
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There are countless eco-lodges in Costa Rica. Few, however, live up to the environmental credentials as well as La Cusinga on the country’s Pacific Coast. All of the lodge’s cabins and furniture have been made using wood grown on-site in a sustainable plantation, electricity is provided by hydro and solar power, and food served there is harvested locally or caught fresh from the ocean. The place offers a supreme level of comfort and cooking, allowing you to relax in a glorious natural setting without feeling too guilty about the environmental impact of your actions. Photo by: velotech
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Hotel Atlantis has the largest and most luxurious conference center in Heraklion, Greece. The Hotel situated close to the archaeological museum and Commanding a spectacular view of the harbour.
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From the frontier town of San Carlos, a two hour panga ride on the coffee-colored waters of Nicaragua‘s Rio San Juan will bring you to the riverbank huts of Sabalos Lodge. Partially hidden by the dense greenery of Los Guatuzos Wildlife Refuge, the seven cabins offer wilderness accommodation at its most adventurous. Yaro Choiseul-Praslin owns the lodge, a silver-haired Sandinista who led the agricultural reforms of the 1980s. His tales of revolution regale the multinational visitors who venture into the jungle. Wooden walkways lead to an open-sided dining room and to the huts scattered among the jungle foliage.
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The sudden screech of a rogue howler monkey may wake you in the middle of the night or you may be startled by a crocodile swimming past the window of you room, but this is all part of the appeal of staying at one of the world’s top eco-archaeology escapes. Chimino is an island set in a huge lagoon deep in the Guatemalan jungle. Guests stay in one of the five modern rustic houses built form local mahogany trees that had already fallen. Their roofs are draped with shaggy palm thatch. These houses stand hundred of feet from one another, overlooking the lagoon. 
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Grandma Martha is one of the most revered Bulgarian rites, which has been preserved from ancient times to the present day. This is a centuries-long Bulgarian tradition symbolizing the end of the winter and the coming spring. On the 1st March, everyone gives his or her relatives and friends a martenitsa – twisted red and whire threads – and makes a wish for health and happiness with the words: ” Many happy returns of Grandma Martha”.
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Located in the confluence of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, Isla Contoy is the most important nesting place for seabirds in all of the Mexican Caribbean. The little island, just 5 miles long, is a protected nature reserve and a well-known spot for an eco-adventure. Photo by: Judy Knesel
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