We’ve been doing our Eat Pray Love Bali tour for almost 3 years now, and over time, we’ve changed it up a bit, based on feedback and our own experiences. Here’s what we’re doing on our September (and probably future) tours! Our Welcome Dinner in “Italy” has moved to Ubud! Though we had some [...]
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We offer life-changing travel to exotic locales all over the world. So we know the reasons people take spiritual trips — well, a lot of them, anyway. Here are the top 7 reasons, even needs, that we’ve seen make people take spiritual tours:
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There are two kinds of perspective switches when you experience spiritual travel, especially when you take a spiritual tour:
1) The 60,000 foot view kicks in
2) Your view once you return home can be radically altered.
Let’s look at each of these in more detail…
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Sometimes, something comes along that profoundly affects you enough to need to talk about it… a lot. I read a book that I think, in addition to being highly entertaining, also had a profound spiritual impact on me, and on my own spiritual tour as I careen through this thing we call life. So I thought I would share it with you. Forgiving Ararat is, without a doubt, the most original book I have ever read.
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About every quarter, we pack an overnight bag, leave the dogs with a housesitter, and drive the two-and-a-half hours from LA to San Diego to visit my favorite cousin, Randy, and his long-time girlfriend, Lisa. Wonderful people, warm, hospitable and friendly, Lisa is a Catholic who attends mass, well, religiously, and Randy is a bit of an atheist. In fact, he seems to have embraced food as his religion, and Greg and I inevitably come home with a “meat hangover” by Sunday evening.
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Ramadan, the most important Muslim holiday, is celebrated for the whole month, and it changes almost everything about Cairo. Ramadan is a time to get closer to God, making self-sacrifices to be awake and aware of your choices, so people fast all day every day during the month of Ramadan.
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After you’ve been in Egypt for a little while, even a week, you start to realize that a basic understanding of Arabic must start with the following conversation: “Saba al khir?” (There are three ways to say Good Morning in Arabic, and this is the most common one. It means “Morning the Good.”) “Saba al [...]
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After lunch, I wanted to smoke a hookah. Mohamed, our other guide, laughed. “You mean a shisha, my sister. What kind of flavor do you want?” Shisha (called a hookah in places like Turkey), is tobacco is soaked in molasses. Often, the molasses is flavored, I guess so it’s a little like dessert when you smoke it after dinner. It turns [...]
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This is the next installment of my book, tentatively titled, “Travels through Egypt.” After visiting the Temple of Sakkhara, we always go to the same restaurant, one of everyone’s favorites on the trip… In the afternoon, after Sakkhara, we stopped a desert oasis for lunch. On our way down the steps to the open air [...]
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Following is an excerpt from my travel memoir, “Travels Through Egypt,” which I am currently working on. Comments are welcome… Our first day in Egypt, we all got on a bus and went to Lake Moeris, a sacred site to Rosicrucians. The group, all Rosicrucians except for me and one other spouse, were having a [...]
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