Tag Archives: international experience
Iguaçu Falls
After our late arrival in Foz do Iguaçu last night, we indulge by sleeping in until 8am. After a quick breakfast at the hotel buffet, we are in the van at 8:30 with our local guide, Vera. Vera is from … Continue reading
Curitiba
We started our day in luxury bus fitted for 60 people and headed to Curitiba Botanical Garden with our guide Fabio. He told us a lot of interesting stories about the history of Curitiba. The name of this city is from … Continue reading
Rio and Sitio Roberto Burle Marx
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows 9am sharp and we are out the door with our guide Gerardo. Our destination today is the Sitio Roberto Burle Marx, but first Gerardo is taking us on a whirlwind tour of the city of … Continue reading
Rio Botanical Garden
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows Welcomed by the ‘tropical water’, we landed in state capitol Rio de Jeneiro, the third stop of our entire journey. After breakfast at the hotel, the first year fellows headed to the Rio de Janeiro … Continue reading
Cibodas Botanical Garden and Taman Bunga Nusantara
(written by Wonsoon Park, photographs by Abby Johnson) How nice it has been for us to finally meet the people who we have been longing to meet while preparing for this trip. Eka was the one of those people that … Continue reading
Mt. Gede-Pangrango National Park
(written by Tom Brightman, photographs by Martin Smit and Tom Brightman) Today was a study in contrasts—between the stark reminders of the burgeoning Indonesian population (now 14 million strong in the Jakarta area), the steep slope deforestation for tea plantations, … Continue reading
Arrival in Bali
(written by Sara Levin, photographs by Martin Smit) We made it to Bali on Friday evening accompanied by Wendy and Tom who joined us for the second leg of our trip. Bali is fresh and fragrant with bright flowers found … Continue reading
Pulau Ubin
(written by Nate Tschaenn, photographs by Abby Johnson) On our last full day in Singapore, we took a trip away from the many tall buildings of mainland Singapore to a smaller, largely uninhabited island on the northeast side of Singapore … Continue reading
Gardens by the Bay & HortPark
January 11, 2012 – Gardens by the Bay & HortPark, Singapore (written by Quill Teal-Sullivan, photographs by Wonsoon Park and Sara Levin) The past two days have been full to the brim with visits to many of Singapore’s beautiful parks … Continue reading
Singapore Botanic Gardens and CUGE
January 9, 2012 – Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore (written by Wonsoon Park, photographs by Martin Smit and Wonsoon Park ) Even though Singapore can be very hot and humid the weather was cool enough for us to forget about our … Continue reading
