Adventure

When I ended the previous article, I was approaching  Aguas Calientes, the capital of the Machupicchu district, at the end of the journey aboard the Belmond Hiram Bingham train, coming from Cuzco. Let me start by saying that this  is just a sample of the Belmond luxury train routes that can be experienced in Peru. The Belmond Andean Exlplorer offers, for example, another fantastic itinerary that in a long journey crosses the main beauties of the country such as Lake Titicaca, the Canyon of the Coyca up to the white city of Arequipa.

How many of you, after a year spent running around, sometimes got stuck in traffic, to solve problems of any kind at work or at home, would like to find a haven where you can get rid of any anxiety? If this haven had the characteristics of a luxury Ecolodge, set in an exotic rainforest, embraced by a long white sandy beach, would you mind this situation?

30 years have passed since the release of the film ‘Gorillas in the Mist’, which features the adventurous life of the naturalist Dian Fossey, in Rwanda, dedicated to the study of mountain gorillas, and their defense against poaching attacks. For  her commitment to the safeguard of gorillas she was killed, but the Karisoke Research Center, which she founded, still continues her mission.

If we think about Burma, the previous name of Myanmar, we certainly have in mind its Buddhist culture and its countless temples, monasteries and pagodas. The Irrwaddy River, the largest one in the state, which crosses the country for all its length, offers, instead, the possibility to discover Burma under an alternative viewpoint.