jungle travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

According to the international boom in ecological and adventure tourism, lodgings have sprung up all over the Brazilian Amazon region in the past four or five years.Travelers with a sense of the exotic and a tolerance for the unpredictable can now book a stay in the jungle. One night at the Tiwa Amazonas Ecoresort costs 595 reals, $298, at 2 reals at the dollar.
Continue reading Brazilian Amazon

By reputation the second of Mexico’s beach resorts, Puerto Vallarta is smaller, quieter and younger than Acapulco. It lies in the middle of the 22-kilometers wide Bahia de Banderas (the Bay of Flags), the seventh largest bay in the world, fringed by endless sandy beaches and backed by the jungly slopes of the Sierra Madre. Once but a tiny fishing village, Puerto Vallarta is now a world class resort that has retained all of the quaint charms of the original village yet embodies all of the characteristics you’ve come to expect in a modern resort.
Continue reading Puerto Vallarta - the home of Tequila and Mariachi