Ecuador remains one of our favorite countries in South America for both luxury and budget travel.

Just arriving by air can be your first taste of adventure:

Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO) is one of my least favorite airports in the world....out dated (built in the 1950s), situated on a plateau, surrounded by some of the tallest peaks in the Andes, and completely besieged by industrial and residential structures, it has never been a fun place to land, at least during ...

Updated 08-22-2012 at 02:09 PM by omegaet

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As a small contribution to sending commercial donation to the Chilean wine industry, I decided to purchase a bottle of Casa Lapostolle CuveeAlexandre 2007 Merlot and share it with my neighbor.



He has had infinitely more experience tasting fine wines than have I, and he takes great pleasure in flaunting it.



Why would I share wine with him (knowing he is going to be extremely critical and take great efforts informing me how much more he knows ...

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Last week we were visiting friends in Warren, Vermont and stopped by at the Pitcher Inn, which Luxury Link currently has on its auction offering list. The Pitcher Inn is a member of Relais & Chateaux, the Inn's philosophy emphasizes the 5 Cs: calm, cuisine, character, charm and courtesy and I must say, they have succeeded on all five accounts.
The Pitcher Inn is a quiet kind of a place. The little village of Warren is a quiet, peaceful, old-fashioned kind of a place – quintessentially ...

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Almost two years since visiting southern Chile and Argentina and this time we’re focusing on different geographic areas for certain.

The longest stay (seven nights) would be at The Cliffs Preserve….a more or less “long shot,” since there is very little information available, at least over the Internet. Just a few "professional" reviews and they were probably free.

We paid our own way….so we’re not indebted to anyone.

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While doing on-line research for our recent trip to Peru, we started reading about the adventure opportunities with Natura Vive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg9G9...eature=related

After visiting their web site, the challenges seemed too intriguing to ignore. Having previously spent time in the Sacred Valley, we really wanted to attempt to climb their via ferrata and descend on their recently completed zip lines.

Over a period of several ...

Updated 10-22-2010 at 10:09 AM by omegaet (spelling)

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