WildPlay Parks has Adventure

July 27, 2007

Recently, my husband and I spent a day at WildPlay Element Parks. Just south of Nanaimo, the park offers four outdoor adventure activities: TreeGO, Bungy Jump, King Swing and the Canyon Zip. We started out on TreeGO, an aerial adventure course suspended between platforms built around trees. In a harness equipped with a pulley and two lanyards attached to carabineers,... Read more »

Gorillas In the Mist - The Tour of a Lifetime

July 24, 2007

“One of the most endangered animals in the world” This incredible tour takes you into the forested habitat of the mountain Gorilla, where you get to view them with their young, foraging for food. Mountain gorillas are one of the most endangered animals in the world. Scientists estimate that there are about 700 individuals, living in 2 populations... Read more »

One Thousand and One Nights…

July 12, 2007

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. - Mary Austin Rocking with each step of the camel, the silent desert surrounding us was ethereal in the moonlight. We could make out an orange glow climbing the sky, chasing away the darkness and blotting out the stars. We watched, breathless, as the morning sun climbed higher and... Read more »

Water, Water, everywhere…

July 11, 2007

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water…has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest stream is an exact replica of a great river. -Roderick Haig-Brown Walking the leisurely 400 foot hike down to the Lower Elk River... Read more »

Nosferatu, Succubus…. Vampire

July 9, 2007

Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. -Dracula, from Bram Stokers novel, ‘Dracula’Have you ever read Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula? Lost yourself in the compelling, soul-stealing life of Vlad the Impaler, the Prince of Wallachia? Wondered what life would have been like living with the night, hunted constantly for existing,... Read more »

Tallinn - Old World Meets New

July 9, 2007

To maximize my remaining time a trip to yet another county was in order. Tallinn was the destination of choice, with 2 hours sleep and 2 friends, Sandy and Luca. We headed for Estonia on the ScandiJet super cat boat. This was the future of boat travel. Like a floating lounge and restaurant it offered a beautiful trip. We arrived in a surprising environment.... Read more »

In Vino Veritas

July 7, 2007

“Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” - Benjamin Franklin Getting off the stifling bus among many other stiff and agitated classmates, I remember taking a deep breath and sighing from the smells that are still ingrained in my memory after all of these years. Lavender, dust, the faint sourness of wine, and the fresh... Read more »

Welcome to Rezgo’s Amazing Tours

July 6, 2007

As part of our ongoing mission to consolidate all the amazing and interesting tourism related products in the World into Rezgo, we decided it would be fun to showcase some of the products that are either in Rezgo, or that we would love to see in Rezgo (hint hint). In either case, our plan is to find two to three tours a week that we think are really interesting,... Read more »