Highly Recommended
Here are the places, products, or services we have found to be exceptional. This is all personal opinion and experience and we are not paid or sponsored by anyone here (although it might be nice), but tell them we sent you.
Places
Backyard Bar Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica
Crater’s Edge Laguna de Apoyo, Nicaragua
Hostel Chimenea Banos, Ecuador
La Choza del Manglar Osa peninsula, Costa Rica
Vera’s Place Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Products
Pac-Safe *Disclosure: Although not normal practice, PacSafe did send me a new bag after mine was damaged in a near robbery. Thanks PacSafe!
Services
Blue Dream Hotel and Kiteboarding School, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
CarpeDM Adventures Quito, Ecuador
Montezuma Yoga, Montezuma, Costa Rica
The Yoga Farm Pavones, Costa Rica
Mr.Xe , tailor, Hoi An, Vietnam (no website) 71 Nguyen Thai Hoc St
Yoga Elements Studio , Bangkok, Thailand
Things To Try…..(in order of countries visited)
Nicaragua Flor de Cana Rum
Costa Rica Locally Grown Coffee
Panama Coconut Water
Ecuador Magic Bean coffee/chai tea (nothing else stood out to us)
Peru Cuy/Guinea Pig (we didn’t try it, but you should and then tell us about it!)
Chile olives in the northern part
Argentina steak and wine dinner
Honorable mention: medialunas (like croissants but smaller and sweeter)
Brazil Acai (purple berry full of antioxidants)
Australia Tim Tams (cookies with many many varieties to blow your diet on)
Japan EVERYTHING
Honorable mention: 7-11 rice cakes and inari sushi, green tea ice cream
Vietnam Winter Melon Tea (cold beverage in a soda can), White Rose (steamed dumpling with shrimp)
Cambodia Amok (national dish)
Thailand mango and sticky rice, anything on the street
Malaysia Roti
Singapore anything in Little India eaten with your hands
Hong Kong Dim Sum
Indonesia Gado Gado (salad with peanut sauce)
Japan Ahh, Japan Part 2, eat everything all over again
India Chai/Tea
Jordan Hummus, Shwarmas
Egypt Kushary (local dish of lentils, rice, onions, tomato sauce, and pasta. sounds like leftovers!)
Dubai More Shwarmas (how can you get enough of this stuff?!)
Spain Tapas
France Pan de Chocolate, cheese, wine, okay everything is good!
England Bangers and mash, add some mushy peas
Sweden Meatballs at IKEA!
