Eco Chick Escapes To: Adventure Trinidad!
It was a not-so-great Monday, and I was doing an inward gripe about my life, when all of a sudden it turned into the best Monday EVER, when I got an email from a friend asking if I’d like to tag along on a trip to Trinidad to explore the country’s adventure offering for women. And oh yeah- it was leaving on Sunday, in just six days. Of course I said yes!
The organizer of the trip is one Mr. Courtenay Rooks, who runs a wonderful eco tour service called Paria Springs.
We offer adventure, sporting, natural history, wildlife and cultural eco adventure tours with rustic, colourful Caribbean styled accommodations. Experience adventures that take you deep into rainforests, wetlands, savannas, along rugged coasts, to mountaintops or to stunning waterfalls.
This is the view from my hotel room at Le Grand Almandier.
Today was just the first day, and so far we have eaten amazingly delicious Trinidadian food, mountain biked the rainforest, and went swimming in a waterfall. More to come on Eco Chick Escapes, my new sister site, coming SOON!
Me, post waterfall swim!
Signs pointing the right way out….though I didn’t want to leave the forest so quickly!
Starre Vartan
Starre Vartan is founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick.com and the author of the Eco-Chick Guide to Life. She's also a freelance science and environment writer who has published in National Geographic, CNN, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Pacific Standard, the NRDC, and many more. She lives on an island in Puget Sound with her partner and black cat. She was a geologist in her first career, and still picks up rocks wherever she goes.
