Year: 2025

5 of the Best Cocktail Bars in NYC Not To Miss

New York City is the kind of place where you can get anything you want, and on a quick weekend trip to the city, we had our heart set on cocktails.

We’ll be the first to admit that we’d need an entire year in New York, going out seemingly every night, to even get a nice cross-section of them all. So in this visit, we really wanted to be strategic in targeting some of the very best cocktail bars in New York City.

We went to five, and we have to admit, these blew us away all for very different reasons!

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16 Photos of a Sri Lankan Elephant Safari at Kaudulla National Park

Elephants at Kaudulla National Park, Sri Lanka

There were certainly several experiences during my Sri Lanka tourism that had me uttering “wow,” but there was one place where I kept saying it over and over again: Kaudulla National Park.

If you are looking to go on a Sri Lankan elephant safari, Kaudulla National Park is the place to do it during the months of September to November. What you get here is truly exceptional.

I pick my word choice on purpose there because I do not think there is any better way to describe the scene as you pull up to a group of several hundred elephants congregating in one small area.

In fact, as words do not do this scene justice, I’m going to let my photos do the talking in this photo essay from my experience.

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The Top 8 Mauritius Attractions to See While Driving

Many years ago we published an article about the Top 10 Things to Do in Mauritius when researching our dream destinations around the world. It ended up being one of the most popular articles on this site.

Naturally, when we realized we were actually getting to visit this beautiful island nation, we used that post as one of our resources in planning our itinerary during our stay.

With a rental in hand from Maki Car Rentals to make driving in Mauritius a breeze, we developed a new must-see list during our stay on the island.  This time, however, all of the attractions are oriented by those you can visit, and in some cases only visit, via car.

The best part about this list is that they are all Living the Dream approved as they are attractions we personally explored during our stay in Mauritius!

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4 Ways to Explore The Met in New York for All Visitor Styles

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (aptly called The Met for short) is one of the world’s best museums. 

Featuring art and artifacts from the earliest days of human history through to modern times, sourced from all over the world, to say this one has a little bit of everything may be a bit of an understatement. Naturally, it means the museum is huge and, if we’re being honest, impossibly hard to see everything on a single visit.

As such, you really need to have a plan for visiting this museum so as to ensure you are getting most out of your ticket price. In this one, we thought it’d be fun to look at different ways to plan a visit to the museum in lieu of sharing great exhibits outright because, again, there are just too many!

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