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🌴Costa Rica Pura Vida: My Caribbean Adventure from CS in San José to volunteering in Puerto Viejo
During several months backpacking across Latin America, my journey continued from Panama to Costa Rica 🌎 Backpacking 1.5 Months in Panama: Forest Hikes, Paradise Islands & Lifelong Friendships — but not as I had planned. I was supposed to cross through Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean side, but due to roadblocks and protests in Panama,…
ICELAND: 10 DAYS ROAD TRIP ITINERARY AROUND THE LAND OF ICE AND FIRE
INTRODUCTION Incredibly cold, desolate, and expensive, Iceland can be a challenge if you don’t enjoy harsh climates and high prices. Yet despite these obstacles, it is one of the most breathtaking destinations on Earth. In the north-western part of Europe, it lies, next to Greenland and the Arctic Circle. In my travel experience, this country…
🌎 Backpacking 1.5 Months in Panama: Forest Hikes, Paradise Islands & Lifelong Friendships
My journey as a full-time traveler began exactly two years ago, on September 25, 2023, when I started exploring the world through a combination of volunteering and backpacking. It began in Brazil Volontariato in una Ong in Brasile: la mia esperienza, where I volunteered for two months, followed by a month of backpacking in Costa Rica…
Backpacking Paraguay: 10 Days from AsunciĂłn to Missions and Riversides
Paraguay might not be the first country you think of when planning a South American adventure. In fact, before coming here, I had never met anyone who had visited this country, nor anyone from Paraguay itself. I had never even really heard anything about this country until I started researching. Paraguay was not even in…
My 9 months of backpacking in Asia
I look up on Wikipedia the definition of a word I’ve been hearing more and more often to describe me: Wanderlust: “the desire to go elsewhere, to go beyond one’s own world, to search for something else: a desire for exoticism, discovery, and travel.” Yes, this word definitely resonates with me. Traveling has always been…
Il mio mese a Zanzibar
Un mese a Zanzibar,Il mio mese a Zanzibar. Il primo febbraio 2025 sono partita da Roma Fiumicino con una valigia piena di vestiti estivi, creme solari, pacchi di mandorle e crecker e romanzi dalle pagine ingiallite, con il cuore ricolmo di speranza e trepidazione e un visto da volontaria per lavorare per l’associazione Amici di…
I miei 9 mesi di backpacking in Asia
Cerco su Wikipedia la definizione di un termine che mi sento attribuire sempre piĂą spesso, Wanderlust: “il desiderio di andare altrove, di andare oltre il proprio mondo, di cercare qualcos’altro: un desiderio di esotismo, scoperta e viaggio”. Sì, questa parola la sento decisamente mia. Viaggiare è infatti da sempre la mia parola preferita, quella che…
Backpacking through Asia: the story of Elena Martinez Salgado.
By Elisa Cornacchia. I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. George Bailey I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it. Alexander Sattler Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by…
Interview with a Buddhist monk
The 5th of March, year 2024. Moon’s Rock Monastery, rural area of Solewewa, Anuradhapura district, North-West part of Sri Lanka. Interview with a Buddhist monk, Bhanthe Kirinde Chandaratana. By Elisa Cornacchia. Premise Some months ago, I was deeply suffering, in pain for what I now know is a worldly attachment: a person that I loved…
My workaway experience in the tropical jungle of Costa Rica
Have you ever heard someone talking about Workaway? And about a small country in the world named Costa Rica? Well, that’s what this article is about: My wild workaway experience in the lush and extraordinary Costa Rica. So, first of all. Workaway is a website where anyone can subscribe as “workawayer” or as “host”, where…
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