I awoke at 4:15 a.m. I don’t want to deal with electronics at that hour. It’s a deal I’ve made with myself. Although the habitual thought loomed, I observed it, and let it slip away. Psychological win! Mostly, the only thing mindful was
Tag: nature
![The view from above the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phu in Champasak, southern Laos.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/View-From-Atop-Resized.jpg)
The ruins and grounds of Vat Phu, in Champasak, Laos, are a uniquely aesthetic and ancient Khmer Hindu site. Like many vintage earth spaces, strolling around and absorbing the open-air energy and its ancestral remnants, provides for great pondering. How different was life
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The early morning Journey to Fuentes Georgina started from the Hotel Lar Antiqua beside the Parque Central. After a cool 20-minute power walk I was at La Rotonda and soon thereafter on a refurbished school bus bound for Zunil and its geothermal pools.
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Unplanned until the evening before, I found myself wandering the grounds of the ancient Mayan site of Zaculeu, in Huehuetenango. Because Guatemala’s second biggest city of Quetzaltenango hosts a huge celebration for the country’s Independence Day, I was forced out of the Lar
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Lake Atitlán is a magically wondrous body of water that Mayans have surrounded for millennia. The following anecdotes are based on the subjective and spontaneous choices I made while spending two plus weeks around naturally and culturally stunning Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. When someone
![End of the World the Last Foreign Vagabond Earth Drifter at the End of the World or Fin del Mundo Waterfall in Mocoa, Colombia](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Resized-Moi-End-of-the-World-Waterfall.jpg)
I had made it all the way from Medellín to Mocoa, which led me to the Fin-del-Mundo (End-of-the-World) waterfall in the Colombian Amazon. Near there, smack, dab in the jungle, I stayed at the Posada Fin del Mundo, where I felt like the
![Flora in Andean, Vilcabamba, Ecuador](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Vilcabamba-Cacti-in-the-Yard-Resized.jpg)
There were multiple episodes. It was as if time stood still. It’s reckless and crazy to do on your own, –without a shaman– or any companions. But, back in the day, a man from a town would go out into nature to experiment,