After our mini-vacation in Puerto Rico, we flew to Saint Thomas. I have never been to such a small airplane before, and I have never done island hopping either. Saint Thomas is an island of the US Virgin Islands. The capital is Charlotte Amalie, with 52,000 inhabitants (similar to Hoogeveen where we live in the Netherlands), …
Atlas Mountain Our second day trip took us to Aït-Ben-Haddou through the Atlas Mountains. It was a three hours epic journey, we went through the highest mountain pass in Morocco and the views were just phenomenal. On the way, we stopped several times to take pictures and surprisingly we met berber vendors selling minerals and …
In four days, Marrakech can be conveniently explored, so in our last two days, we decided to book excursions outside of the town. Our hosts in the riad helped us to book two organized tours, one to Essaouira and one to the Atlas Mountains. I will be honest; when we decided to travel to Essaouira, …
The last days we had windy weather which brought seagrass to the shore and the water became very turbid. There were various water sport activities you could practice in the hotel, namely sailing, kite surfing, scuba diving, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, water skiing, and snorkeling. It was a good selection, and we made a …
Our next excursion took us to Los Haitises. We booked a boat tour through Viator but we had to find the way there ourselves. The first part of the road was beautifully hilly lined with palm trees. We went through small villages where the locals still used horsepower for traveling or guarding the cows. Have you …
Public beach, Playa Bayahibe As I mentioned before on the beach at the hotel there were a lot of seagrasses offshore during our visit. Luckily the hotels are very fast at cleaning this off so it is not that disturbing, but we were curious about other beaches as well. So we decided to go to …