After living in Kigali, Rwanda for the past two and a half years, I can’t speak highly enough about the place. The lively culture, the friendly and innovative people, the delicious food… it’s pure paradise, and there’s no end to the adventures, opportunities, and passionfruit juice you’ll encounter. I could ramble for hours on the topic, but I’ve decided to compile my top reasons to live in Kigali to hopefully convince others to move to the land of a thousand hills (if you have any, feel free to…
For the talent show at the end of our six week yoga teacher training program, my friends and I decided to create a Rishikesh version of the ever-so-popular Pharrell Williams “Happy” video. . . I had such a blast filming these ladies in the Beatles ashram, alongside the Ganges River, and on the Laxman Jhula bridge. It’s good to know I’ll always have a fallback career as music video director/producer! A shame the video doesn’t convey how amazing the food is here, or how much cow poop there…
With my sister Elizabeth in Bali for a short visit, we decided to check out a few of the tourist must-do’s on the island, which naturally included the legendary cat poop coffee, or “kopi luwak” as it’s more appropriately known. Luwak refers to the animal, the Asian palm civet, that is responsible for the coffee, eating the ripe coffee berries at night and thus producing (a nice way of saying defecating) the beans which are collected by the farmers. . The practice originated in the early 18th century…