Photos from trek and village
Instructors team, Instructor
Picture of the Week
Namaste friends and families! Here are some pictures from our rural homestay in Chokati village! Stay tuned!
2018 Spring Gap
Trekking for the Week
Instructors, Participant
Dear Friends and Family, Our group will be headed to Sham Valley tomorrow for the final leg of our journey: a week-long trek in the Himalayas. During this time we will not have internet access and will not be posting Yak’s. We will be......Read More
Return from Rural Home-Stays
We-Team!, Participant
Our group has just returned from Tar, a remote mountain village where we have lived for the past week. This has been an amazing time for our group to slow down, take time to ourselves, and move our bodies. Our days were spent helping home-stay......Read More
Jack Kicks a Football
TTTWJ&T: EPISODE #8, Participant
Tiny Table Talks with Jack & Tio: Episode #8 Jack Kicks a Football: VIEW HERE A chat about Mai Gang and Jack kicks a football. Enjoy!...Read More
Hiking Check-In
TTTWJ&T: Episode #6, Participant
Tiny Table Talks with Jack and Tio: Episode #6 (Filmed on April 1, 2018) Hiking Check In: VIEW HERE After leaving the pottery workshop in Jinhong, we were ready to fill our new Dai-style tea cups with all kinds of Puer! After a five hour hike......Read More
Julley from Tar!
Madison Beveridge, Participant
Nestled between large, earth-toned rocks, filled with trickling streams and smiling faces, is Tar village. Above the mountains, the sky is clear and bright, speckled with birds and void of the noises we have come accustomed to. After a morning of......Read More
Visit to the coca fields
Group B, Instructor
Coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes has been a central theme throughout our course. Contested and criminalized for its distant connection to cocaine this leaf plays a crucial role in Andean traditional belief systems and in modern day society.......Read More
The Amazon adventure continues
Jeff, Instructor
Friends and family, Greetings from the Amazon! We are here in the thick of adventure, traveling through a topical landscape of huge, expansive sunsets, thick dark green undergrowth in the jungles, and birds of every size and color. We were......Read More
7 Beautiful Things
Sophia, Participant
Pre Incan cave paintings. On the last day of our ToroToro trek closer to the end Don Mario showed use a wall of the paintings. Befor this I thought art from the reneasance was the most beautiful art in the world. My Tikipaya homestay mother Rosa.......Read More
To Enter or Not
Devan, Participant
What directly preceded our entrance sparks an interesting conversation in itself. We saw the event taking place inside a building and of course I wanted to go in and see what it was about, but two of us four insisted we shouldn´t out of respect.......Read More
On the Amazon Homestay
olivia klugman, Participant
Yak of the Week
Yonathan is laughing with his mom, Berta, on plank board they use as a bed. She is braiding seeds into a string as jewelry to sell to the growing tourism project in the Amazonian pueblo of 120 people; Huacaria. The kids, 3 & 5 years old, make......Read More
How Do I React To Andean Ceremonies?
Joe LaRocca, Participant
On many occasions during our trip, we’ve helped perform a ceremony that is known in Andean cosmovision as a coa. A coa is an offering to the Pachamama, or Mother Earth, made up of coca leaves, seeds, and many other decorations, each one......Read More
Pottery in Jinhong
TTTWJ&T: Episode #5, Participant
Tiny Table Talks With Jack and Tio: Episode #5 Filmed on March 31, 2018 VIEW HERE Episode #5 details the final weeks in Kunming, Thailand adventures, some fun dances, and our trip to Xishuangbanna....Read More
EPISODE #4 IS NOW VIEWABLE
TTTWJ&T, Participant
TINY TABLE TALKS WITH JACK AND TIO [APRIL 18, 2018] EPISODE #4: VIEW HERE (from March 18th) A note from the producer (Kristen): Well, it’s been over a month since you last heard from Jack & Tio… However, the beautiful tea hills of......Read More