Bon Bon Bonaire

Written by Hooter


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Bonaire is an island poised for greatness. When you arrive, you are going to stay in or around Kralendijk (pronounced Kral-in-dike),repparttar island hub. From your west-central coast base, you can walk, drive, or cab within minutes into town and visitrepparttar 133719 duty free shops. There are three malls all within a short walk of each other: Harborside, Les Galleries, and Lourdes. You will find an amazing variety of quality Caribbean, European, South, Central, and even North American goods. I was especially interested inrepparttar 133720 Blue Delft collectibles from Holland. Delft is glazed earthenware, specific torepparttar 133721 city of Delft, in Holland, and typically blue and white. The overall selections are endless andrepparttar 133722 quality is highly rated.. Plan a full day inrepparttar 133723 shopping district.

The island of Bonaire has been luring world travelers to its sun-baked shores for years. There is a variety of accommodation price ranges to choose from, including beautiful coastal bed and breakfasts, to apartment and condominium retreats. Vacationers can also reserve quality, traditional inns, hotels and beach resorts. The collective rooms available on Bonaire is currently a little over 1,000 and growing. You can easily find a place that's rustic, romantic, luxurious, and full of local flavor and style.

During my stay, I found myself lodging atrepparttar 133724 Divi Flamingo Beach Resort, an easy five minute walk from town. The Divi is a wonderful hotel, a brand known throughoutrepparttar 133725 Caribbean. Clean, modestly furnished and priced rooms allow you to listen torepparttar 133726 waves lappingrepparttar 133727 breakwall pastrepparttar 133728 patio slider. Of course, you could lie in bed and enjoyrepparttar 133729 quiet, or you could slip into your shorts and sandals and stroll over torepparttar 133730 cooked-to-order morning buffet, lasting until around 10:00 a.m.

The Divi recently renovatedrepparttar 133731 outdoor lap swimming pool,repparttar 133732 casino,repparttar 133733 salon's spa, andrepparttar 133734 delightful open air entertainment lounges and restaurants. There's nothing better than sitting in a sun chair, sipping a premium brew imported fromrepparttar 133735 Netherlands.

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Hiking Leihi in the Hawaiian Islands

Written by Mike Heiney


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The tour turns out to be great. Steve, er, Mitch knows his stuff. Evenrepparttar ride uprepparttar 133718 mountain torepparttar 133719 rainforest/state park is fun and informative. The park could be "National" park, but is designated "State" park so thatrepparttar 133720 natives can harvest fruit, nuts, bamboo and be free to practice whatever kind of weird rituals they desire without interference fromrepparttar 133721 U.S. Government. As we leaverepparttar 133722 bus and begin our three hour tour, we pass little tokens and offerings thatrepparttar 133723 natives have placed aroundrepparttar 133724 trailhead to appease, bribe or pay off whatever spirits or Gods that may be lurking about, and they're lurking, you can feel 'em.

As sure as there are rainbows, there are spirits in this jungle.

The rain forest is alive with ancestors, lush tropical growth, muddy trails, feral pigs and, well, rain. Mitch points out Ti plants who's leaves, when wrapped around money, bring good fortune and, well, more money. We sample fruits right fromrepparttar 133725 trees, suck on Brazilian pepper seeds, and hearrepparttar 133726 calls ofrepparttar 133727 tookie tookie birds echo throughrepparttar 133728 rain soaked trees. Mitch pontificates that not much on these islands is natural. Europeans imported diseases that wiped out 80% ofrepparttar 133729 population, with 80% ofrepparttar 133730 bird species decimated by imported rats and mongoose.

Diamond Head Crater.

Side note: As Don Henley and Glenn Frey so eloquently state in their song, "The Last Resort," "You call someplace paradise, Kiss it goodbye." Karmically,repparttar 133731 "Jesus Saves" sign mentioned in that famous Eagles song is onrepparttar 133732 neighboring island of Maui, in Lahaina, nearrepparttar 133733 world's second largest Bhudda statue outside of Japan.

Mitch sure knows his stuff. I don't know, I think these guys make a lot of this stuff up. I know I do when entertaining visitors in Las Vegas. Countless numbers of friends, relatives and their children think thatrepparttar 133734 "Battle Of The Little Big Horn" was fought just outside of Pahrump (the center ofrepparttar 133735 universe byrepparttar 133736 way), or that a water treatment facility at Lake Mead was used to load "Victory Ships" duringrepparttar 133737 war, and electro-magnetic rays generated byrepparttar 133738 hydro-electric equipment atrepparttar 133739 Hoover Dam create mutant catfishrepparttar 133740 size of jumbo jets. But that's just my warped perception and not meant to cast aspersions on Steve, er, Mitch. Just because we didn't SEE any feral pigs, dosen't mean they're not there. In fact, one member of our group, and there's always one member ofrepparttar 133741 group who does this, made some pig noises and we ALL thought we heard a pig reply. Mitch assured us that while birds might reply to such a call, pigs would certainly not. Mitch's assurances aside, I strongly feelrepparttar 133742 field of pig calling on Oahu is in need of a large research grant; if you have funds you'd like to direct toward this endevour, please contact me C/O Jetsetters Magazine and we'll set up a base camp onrepparttar 133743 patio at Dukes.

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