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The Best Meal In San Miguel de Allende
I have lived in San Miguel de Allende for four months now and have spent most of my time eating my way through town. I thought I had tried it all until the morning I went to El Pato for the local dish of mixiotes. If you don’t know what mixiotes are, they are packets of spiced lamb or chicken steamed overnight in a broth in the ground in the leaves of the maguey plant or banana trees. They are out of this world. I had never had mixiotes before going to El Pato, and now I declare this restaurant to serve the best meal in San Miguel de Allende.…
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How To Travel The World With Mindfulness
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle How many times have you come back from vacation only to feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? So many tourists rush around trying to see all the sites at their destination that they completely miss what the place they have traveled to is really about. One museum or temple starts to look like all the others, and they even start to forget where they are. I used to be this type of tourist, but I have learned from experience that it is much more enjoyable when I travel the world with mindfulness. I started to realize that…
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Other Travel Articles Written By Valen Dawson
I have written for many other travel websites, and many of you would like to follow my experiences in those articles, too. Here is a roundup of the other places where you can read about my travel experiences on other great travel websites: 1. Beyond Bali: The Morning Of The World on Eye and Pen: An article about where to discover the real Bali and the spirituality that it evokes. 2. 7 Travel Scams That You Should Know on Eye and Pen: 7 tricky travel scams that you should be aware of. 3. Celebrating Life in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on Vagablogging.net My observations in San Miguel…
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The Raja Ampat Islands: Conscious Diving in Raja Ampat
The Raja Ampat islands are by far one of the most breathtaking diving spots that I’ve ever seen. However, what I found even more impressive was that these islands are the world’s most environmentally conscious place to dive. Raja Ampat consists of four major islands in the Indonesian part of Papua, although there are actually 1,500 islands which make up the Raja Ampat islands if you count the uninhabited ones! In the crystal-clear water, I was surrounded by untouched coral gardens in brilliant colors, giant clams, turtles, sharks, and huge manta rays. There are 537 species of coral and about 700 species of animals found in the waters of the Raja Ampat islands.…
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What The Animals in Yala Park, Sri Lanka Taught Me
Sometimes I think that there are no better teachers in life than animals. If we spend the time to really watch them, we can learn so much. I had the opportunity to do just that in Yala Park in Sri Lanka, and this is what I learned. 1. Determination I watched an elephant struggle with a tree branch for 15 minutes just to get to the leaves on the top of a tree. There were plenty of other trees around with leaves that would have been easier to reach, but the elephant refused to move on until it had gotten all the leaves off of this one. It made me…
