Hotel with Heart: Pesona Beach Resort, Gili Trawangan
With its bohemian decor, seaside location, delicious Indian restaurant, lounge area, pool, spa, eco-friendly ethos, and onsite dive center, Pesona Beach Resort...
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The Best Things to do in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
The Baja Peninsula of Mexico is an adventurer’s dream – well worthy of making a road trip. At the southern end of Baja, where the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Corte...
Malamala Beach Club: One of the Best Day Trips from Nadi
The city I live in, Suva, isn’t exactly the postcard-picture that many imagine when they think of Fiji. Suva is often chaotic, dirty, and is a boat ride or 30-m...
Diving with the Devil Rays in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Every year, thousands of devil rays migrate to the sea extending out from Cabo San Lucas. They glide in like fighter jets and often launch themselves out of the...
Adara, Atauro Island: Timor-Leste’s Coral (and Pig) Paradise
“Are you sure this is a good idea?” My friend asked.“They’re supposed to be smarter than dogs. She’s domesticated,” I replied.The pig looked up at my ou...
Freediving and Hiking Across Atauro Island, East Timor
Two of my friends clung to the side of the swaying boat. They glued their eyes to the horizon, and commanded their stomachs not to hurl. Meanwhile, I sat at the...
Getting Freedive Certified in Bali: Why Didn’t I Do This Sooner?
“Before I freedive, I tell my body that it’s time to enter dream time. It’s time to go to sleep,” a freediver in Amed, Bali, told me. “Your entire body and mind...
Freediving 101: All About Freediving and Why You Need to get Certified
A month ago, I made one of the best decisions I’ve ever made and got my AIDA** Freedive Certification at Fusion Freedive in Bali. Since then, I’ve gone on tens ...
Too Sketchy to Stay: Why I Left Penida Dive Resort
Penida Dive Resort is the worst dive center I've ever been to.This is the first dedicated negative review I've ever written on this site and the point of it...
A Q&A With Holly Ogden: Artist, Diver, and Activist
Holly Ogden has spent the past few years traveling as an artist, spreading her love of the ocean and life in general through her colorful paintings of beach sce...