Category: Travel

A New Name?

Those who have known me a while know I reclaimed my name, Shantel, a few years back. Yet at retreat the ladies who I hadn’t met had trouble relating me with my name they told me. And I’ve noticed recently I’ve been Shannii again as much as Shantel. During my magical visit to Avebury we

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The Bear or the Man?

If you haven’t seen – there has been a social experiment going around online asking if you would rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man, showing women saying they would feel safer with the bear than a man. There was a time where I would have chosen the bear too.

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The Time For Me is Now

This post coming to you from a little jungle town in Peru. This trip has had me in all the feels and I have been trying to figure out why? Its not the first time I’ve gone away solo so that’s not it. Its not even the first time I’ve been to this country so

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My experience at Mai Niti Retreat Centre Peru

Day 1 As we stepped off the plane onto the tarmac and walked to the entry doors of Pucallpa Airport the heat hit us instantly. There was no security. Just a couple of guards standing there telling us to go through the doors. We walked out the doors to be bombarded with taxi offers. I

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Lady of Leisure

I used to be referred to as a lady of leisure all the time. I used to laugh it off, but it would often be accompanied by feelings of guilt. Should I be enjoying living my life the way I am? Should I be happy that I get to do whatever I want, whenever I

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The Surrender Experiment

Next time you want to say No, consider saying Yes. Because you just never know where it may lead you. Surrender has this beautiful way of giving you what you deeply need underneath what you think you want. Reading The Surrender Experiment by Michael A Singer has me thinking about the times in my life

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Africa – My Greatest Teacher

I randomly booked a volunteer trip to Tanzania, which is one of Africa’s destinations that has a large number of activities for tourists Such as Mt Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park, Norongoro Crater and the beautiful beaches of Zanzibar and has generally remained untouched by the rivalries and political upheavals that other neighbors have. I had

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Volunteering abroad

Do what makes you happy. Everyone always says this right? But what does it actually mean? For me the day I bit the bullet and signed up for a Habitats for Humanity build was a stepping stone in my life. I’ve always wanted to volunteer but wasn’t sure when or where or even how. When

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Where the crabs and the turtles bite

For our 24th December Port Vila Stop I had been recommended a tour guide by the name of McKenzie who runs his tours via the Unique Tours and Transfers Facebook . So I booked us all in for his tour at a cost of $85 per adult and $50 per child where he would take

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