La Ruta del Yalú – Farm – Guatemala – Photo Essay
Trout Fishing, milk farm and a great day trip with kids from Antigua, Guatemala. You can catch your own fish, then have the tiny little restaurant cook it up for you. You can let your kids see how cows are milked or simply let them run around in the fresh open air enjoying life! That’s what you’ll gt at La Ruta del Yalu. This is a perfect family adventure travel day!
Traditional Hacienda on a Milk Farm
Water Powered Wheel For Energy
Chapel at the Dairy Farm
Milk Storage and Cow Pump Area
Entrance and Payment for the Farm and Adventures
Trout Fishing
If You Can’t Fish it Catch it with your Hands
Preparing the Catch of the Day
Cooking the Catch of the Day
Milking the Cows – Mechanically
Feeding the Cows
Gathering Up the Herd
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4 Fun Latin America Hotels for Family Vacations
Traveling with kids is one of the most incredible experiences you can offer your family. You learn so much, pay attention to things that you would normally ignore and have lots of quality time together. I learned that after traveling, A LOT, with my boys. The only problem is that when you are planning a family vacations you have to make sure the hotels are kid friendly. So here are some that might be great for your family:
Cancún Yucatán, Mexico
This is a Mexican style resort located right in between a lagoon and the Caribbean Sea. This is heaven for those travelers that love watersports. These guys take kids that are at from 4 years old and up. You can also choose between classic rooms, deluxe rooms and suites.
Ixtapa Pacific – Mexico
This Mexican beach front hacienda won the Trip Advisor’s travelers choice award in 2011 and offers 15 family suites. They receive kids that are 4 months old and up. They also offer a day care for kids of all ages as well as Basketball, Beach volleyball, Soccer, Volleyball courts.
Trancoso – Brazil
This hotel is located in Latin America’s largest country, Brazil. This is another beachfront resort with a golf court, table tennis, an adult’s swimming pool and a kid’s pool. To be able to visit this hotel and enjoy their day care your kids should be older than two years.
Itaparica – Brazil
This is a beautiful resort located on an island located one hour away from main land. It is right in the middle of the jungle which is also surrounded by a white sanded beach. Here they can teach you and your family how to fly in a trapeze, sail, golf and play tennis. Kids older than 4 years are welcome.
Phones, Cameras and So Much More – A Review for the HTC Rhyme Smartphone
Fancy phones and even fancier cameras and I rarely make good teams. I’m completely clueless when it comes to anything app-y like and am probably one of the only people left in the world that has a cell phone from (literally) 2008! I know, I’m not proud of it – but it’s more out of fear than anything else.
That is until I was given the HTC Rhyme Smartphone by Verizon during my fun trip on the Fantasy Disney Cruise Line with the Traveling Moms blog retreat!
To learn to use this adorable phone, we played a scavenger hunt. First we were given instruction on how to use the camera part of it, and I’ll tell you, I was floored. Right before the retreat I bought a new Nikon DSLR (which I’m nowhere near understanding how to use to it’s full capacity).
The HTC Rhyme has everything my DSLR camera offers, minus the zoom and lenses (obviously). But I was able to play around with the ISO – one of the only things that I think I’ve mastered with my DSLR, and was having a blast playing inside the ship and going out into the sun.
Looking out from inside the ship
Pure Sunshine
However the options were endless to take amazing pictures – I have to say, I am in love with this tiny camera. I can’t even imagine what it does for the phone part and everything else!
Costa Rica’s Top B&B – Casa Bella Rita Review
It’s no secret – I absolutely love and adore staying at B&B’s. Maybe it’s their coziness, maybe it’s the social aspect, maybe cause they are more unique than staying in big hotels, maybe because they are always located in fun locations (where you least expect to find one) or maybe it’s just because!
Whatever the reason staying at Casa Bella Rita, while in San Jose, Costa Rica, was definitely a GREAT choice!
Why I fell in love with Casa Bella Rita B&B:
It’s tiny – I love small hotels. I hate to feel like I’m just a number and at Rita and Steve’s place, with 6 rooms, it’s impossible to get lost in the crowd.
The view – I have read lots about this hotel and seen pictures, but none mention or pronounce the view as they should. It’s SPECTACULAR! The house sits in a quite neighborhood but overlooks a gorgeous canyon.
Socializing – I’m not much of a social butterfly. But after many email exchanges with Rita and Steve, I simply felt like they were my buddies before arriving there. And that’s exactly how it was. Plus, the people that stay with them are so fun, that we even had a dinner party one night and it was great.
Breakfast – It’s my favorite meal of the day, and hanging out in the kitchen area watching it being made for me was just as much fun as eating it.
Home made breakfast
The B&B is perfect for families with spacious rooms and a pool and plenty of animals for the kids to befriend and keep occupied. Plus, for the price you can’t go wrong – $150- $200 per night!
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Ziplining through the Rain Forest In Arenal, Costa Rica
If you don’t do a canopy tour in Costa Rica, you truly haven’t experienced the adventure part of this country.
The best zipline tour, not only in Arenal and La Fortuna, but Costa Rica is Skytrek and tram and now skywalk as well.
If you’re not up to the flying through the sky part, you can simply enjoy a more relaxed version via the skytram. Either way, you have to go on this rainforest gondola to get to the top where the views are so breathtaking that you simply can’t stop muttering – ‘wow, this isn’t real!’
It is though, and I was so lucky to have had the opportunity to take it all in – well almost, the volcano wasn’t showing her face that morning. But gratefully I got amazing views the night before.
At the top of the look out you get a sweeping view of over 90% of Arenal Lake.
Just recently, they added hanging bridges. So you not only get to fly but you can also walk through the canopy of the rainforest.
After you’ve done the tour (adventure or not) you can head back down and check out the butterfly gardens.
I did this with a tour guide and learned so much. She pointed out stuff that I would never ever have seen. Like these butterfly eggs. I bet you couldn’t spot them either.
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