IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD!

I am so lucky! Traveling from country to country and city to city is the stuff that dreams are made of.....and I live it every day!

this year, I have visited Germany,  Colombia, Myanmar (Burma), Canada, Kenya, Dubai, Montana, Las Vegas, Guatemala, Patagonia (Chile and Argentina) and Peru!

I travel to see new hotels and  new adventures that are created every day by creative folks in the travel industry.  Those Zip Lines that are so popular were an idea created by someone in the adventure travel industry to give people something to do besides go to the beach.  Zip Lines today are everywhere in the world.  In Costa Rica, there is even one that has 12 platforms from tree to tree to tree.....!  

I have just come from a meeting of Latin American travel suppliers held in Guatemala City!  Not only are new hotels popping up everywhere, but so are new activities like a bike tours through the vineyards of Chile after which you sit down to a fabulous meal of farm to table freshness created by an amazing chef and served with wines that are to die for!

New also are fabulous self-drive adventures through the spectacular Torres del Paine National Park in Chile created in combination JEEP!  How about another where you can drive across the Andes from Argentina to Chile staying in one fabulous hotel after another. Both can be done on your own, or with the assistance of a driver/escort!  What about staying in a cozy lodge at the end of the world in Puerto Williams, Chile, where they have a 3 hole golf course or you can "heli" fly-fish meaining you can fly to places seldom seen by humanity in a helicopter. You disembark to catch amazing fish which you can bring back to the lodge where the chef will serve it for dinner.   From here you can also take a one day flight to Antartica to see  that fabulous continent at the bottom of the world!

These creative friends in travel have allowed me to swim with the Pink Dolphins in the Amazon, ride camels across the desert of Egypt at the base of the Pyramids, attend a polo match with the King of Jordan, enjoy a candlelight dinner at the base of some Mayan ruins in Belize.  I have helped roof a building with Tibetan workers at 16,000 ft., watched burial services in knats along the river in Kathmandu, Nepal. I have also played golf in Scotland,enjoyed tapas in Barcelona, truffle hunted in France, did a hut to hut cross country ski trek in Norway, meditated in a cermony to "Pachamama" with a friend who is a Shaman in Peru, ridden horses in almost all of the 90+ countries I have visited in the world, shared meals with monkeys and hiked with a friend's elephants in Botswana, flown around Everest with close friends from Nepal and overnighted  in homes of travel friends from Bhutan to Ecuador, to Norway.

I am totally blessed with friends from all over the world.  I can call any of them at any time and they too are welcome in my home. All are in the travel industry as I am.  I love what I do and am so glad that I can share my adventures with you my readers!

Pam Walker is a Virtuoso Travel Advisor and can be reached at pam@walkeradventures.com/ www.walkeradventures.com