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Seven safety tips – your hotel room – interview with Cosmo
Hotel safety is a major concern for women on the road, whether traveling for business or leisure, alone or with family or friends. Cosmopolitan called on Marybeth for advice on how its readers could avoid similar trouble. Here’s what she had to say. 1. Ask to be assigned a room above the ground floor,…
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New york times features marybeth “pioneer in women travel”
For advice, ideas, tips on women travel, the New York Times recommends Marybeth. Marybeth is a journalist, editor, author based in San Francisco. She has traveled to over 100 countries on 7 continents and writes for National Geographic. Outside Magazine featured Marybeth on the cover with her travel stories and advice and The New York Times…
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Meeting the locals at an Indian village in panama
In the far northwestern corner of Panama, tucked up next to the border with Costa Rica, the relatively undiscovered Bocas del Toro islands not only have both beautiful beaches and captivating marine animals, but this archipelago also contains intact indigenous Indian culture. In some locations, respectful visitors can be welcomed in an Ngobe Indian village.…
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Meeting the locals at an Indian village in panama
In the far northwestern corner of Panama, tucked up next to the border with Costa Rica, the relatively undiscovered Bocas del Toro islands not only have both beautiful beaches and captivating marine animals, but this archipelago also contains intact indigenous Indian culture. In some locations, respectful visitors can be welcomed in an Ngobe Indian village.…
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Finding latin america’s sea turtles
I had heard Panama had great bird-watching, eco-lodges and indigenous cultures, but until recently, I had never heard of the country’s Bocas del Toro islands – or that this archipelago excelled in bird-watching, eco-lodges and indigenous peoples’ culture. With nine main islands, several large bays and a national marine park, this area in the northwestern…
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Wanderlust and culture shock in latin america or anywhere
I was in Ecuador when it happened to me. Many seasoned travelers had warned me about it, but I, with my buoyant wanderlust, had always haughtily considered myself above the adverse effects of foreign travel. No, I was certain. It couldn’t happen to me. But it did. And I still remember the look in my…