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Travel with Meaning. Join us on a life-changing adventure today @ www.destination-earth.org! We strive to incorporate green travel in all our adventures.

Destination Earth was founded by two avid world travelers with a passion for creating true connection with the people they encountered. By giving back during our adventures, we have found that both the travelers and the people we are visiting reap rewards that far exceed either parties expectations. Whenever possible, our tours, hotels, and resorts are dedicated to practices and programs that pay

respect to and lessen our footprint on our changing environment. We beleive that you can have a fun, exciting experience traveling abroad while transforming the lives of those you visit for the best. Many organizations either focus on tourism or volunteering. We feel you can gracefully combine the two for the good of our world.

08/16/2026

🇨🇷 FOUR SEATS LEFT! Message me for questions or assistance signing up 🌎✈️

🗓️ March 27–April 1, 2027
🗓️ Extension April 1- April 4, 2027
📍 San Jose, Arenal, Monteverde, Paquera Bay

What to expect:
👥 Small-group travel
🚐 Private transportation throughout the trip
🏨 Hand-picked accommodations
🍽️ Most meals included
🌎 Local guides and authentic experiences
🌿 Conservation experience with the Monteverde Institute
😊 Flexible free time with optional adventures like zip lining, horseback riding, kayaking, cable cars, or relaxing by the pool.

Highlights include:
🌋 Arenal Volcano & hot springs
☁️ Monteverde Cloud Forest
🦥 Wildlife viewing
🌱 Tree planting with the Monteverde Institute
🌊 Pacific coast beaches
🍍 Fresh local cuisine & Costa Rican culture
✨ Optional extension: Bioluminescent kayaking on the Nicoya Peninsula

If you’ve been dreaming about Costa Rica, now is your chance 🌎

13 seats available.

🔗 Learn more: https://destination-earth.org/trips/costa-rica-volcanoes-rainforests-and-beaches-with-paquera-bay-bioluminescent-kayaking-extension/

🔗 Recieve our newsletter: https://destination-earth.org

🔗 contact Dawn at [email protected]

Questions? Send me a message—I’d love to help!

07/20/2026

🌎 Adventure Spotlight 🌎

Rancho Margot: A Conservation Leader, Costa Rica

Rancho Margot is a working farm and eco-lodge near Arenal Volcano that brings agriculture, renewable energy, water management, forest protection, and wildlife conservation into tourism.

The farm produces food and renewable energy by working with the natural processes already occurring. Hydroelectric generator, solar panels and biodigesters all work together to keep Margo Rancho off the grid.

Rancho Margot’s conservation work is based on a simple idea: farming does not have to operate separately from the surrounding ecosystem.

By recycling nutrients, protecting forests, conserving water, and using renewable energy, the farm shows how food production and conservation can support each other.

⚡ Producing Energy From the Landscape ⚡

Rancho Margot generates much of its electricity through two small hydroelectric systems powered by water flowing across the property.

Solar panels provide additional renewable power, helping the farm diversify its energy supply.

Rancho Margot also uses biodigesters to capture methane released as animal waste decomposes. That gas is then used as fuel for cooking and heating.

These biodigesters illustrate one of Rancho Margot’s central principles: the output of one system can become the input for another. Food scraps and crop residues become compost that rebuilds soil fertility, water moving through the property generates electricity before continuing through the surrounding watershed, and animal waste becomes biogas for heating.

Together, hydroelectric power, solar energy, and biogas allow the farm to meet many of its daily energy needs using resources naturally available.

At Rancho Margot, we will see conservation in action across the farm, from renewable energy and water use to food production and forest protection.

✈️ Costa Rica: March 27–April 1, 2027
Optional Montezuma extension: April 1–4

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07/17/2026

🇨🇷 Costa Rica is now open for booking!

🗓️ March 27–April 1, 2027
🗓️ Extension April 1- April 4, 2027
📍 San Jose, Arenal, Monteverde, Paquera Bay

What to expect:
👥 Small-group travel
🚐 Private transportation throughout the trip
🏨 Hand-picked accommodations
🍽️ Most meals included
🌎 Local guides and authentic experiences
🌿 Conservation experience with the Monteverde Institute
😊 Flexible free time with optional adventures like zip lining, horseback riding, kayaking, cable cars, or relaxing by the pool.

Highlights include:
🌋 Arenal Volcano & hot springs
☁️ Monteverde Cloud Forest
🦥 Wildlife viewing
🌱 Tree planting with the Monteverde Institute
🌊 Pacific coast beaches
🍍 Fresh local cuisine & Costa Rican culture
✨ Optional extension: Bioluminescent kayaking on the Nicoya Peninsula

If you’ve been dreaming about Costa Rica, now is your chance 🌎

13 seats available.

🔗 Learn more: https://destination-earth.org/trips/costa-rica-volcanoes-rainforests-and-beaches-with-paquera-bay-bioluminescent-kayaking-extension/

🔗 Recieve our newsletter: https://destination-earth.org

🔗 contact Dawn at [email protected]

Questions? Send me a message—I’d love to help!

07/14/2026

Explore Costa Rica biodiversity and discover how geology, climate, rainforests, cloud forests, and conservation created one of the richest ecosystems on Earth.

07/13/2026

🌎 Adventure Spotlight 🌎

Bioluminescence in Paquera Bay, Costa Rica

Bioluminescence is light produced by a living organism through a chemical reaction inside its body. In coastal waters, the flashes are often created by microscopic, single-celled organisms called dinoflagellates. When large numbers gather near the surface, the movement of waves, fish, hands, or paddles can trigger thousands of brief blue-green flashes.

The organisms do not remain constantly illuminated. Each flash is a rapid response to physical disturbance. A paddle stroke pushes water against the cells, setting off a chemical reaction involving a light-producing compound called luciferin. Instead of releasing most of the reaction’s energy as heat, the organism releases it as visible light.

That efficiency is why bioluminescence is sometimes called “cold light.”

✨ Why Disturbance Creates Light ✨

Scientists believe the flash may function as a defense mechanism.

A sudden burst of light could startle a small predator attempting to eat the dinoflagellate. It may also expose that predator to a larger animal nearby. This idea is sometimes called the burglar-alarm hypothesis: the light draws attention to the attacker, increasing the chance that something larger will find and eat it.

Dinoflagellates are also part of the plankton community that supports marine food webs. Plankton includes organisms that drift with currents and range from microscopic algae to tiny animals. These small organisms help transfer energy through the ecosystem as they are eaten by zooplankton, shellfish, fish, and other marine life.

Seeing bioluminescence means observing the behavior of organisms usually too small to see individually. During daylight, they may be nearly invisible. At night, their combined response reveals how much life can be present in a single section of coastal water.

Paquera Bay lies along Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya, where sheltered coastal waters support bioluminescent plankton. The intensity can change with water conditions, weather, moonlight, and the concentration of organisms, so every viewing is shaped by what is happening in the bay that evening.

Join Destination Earth as we will travel to Paquera Bay for a sunset and bioluminescent kayaking experience.

✈️ Costa Rica: March 27–April 2, 2027
✈️Optional Montezuma extension: April 2-4, 2027

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Contact Dawn at [email protected]

07/11/2026

Destination Earth provides an opportunity for people to experience authentic adventures that will change their world forever. Plan a trip today!

06/28/2026

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06/27/2026

The world is a magical place.

📍Tanzania, Africa

06/22/2026

☀️🦒Sunrise in the Serengeti ☀️🐘

As temperatures begin to rise, wildlife starts to move, predators end their nighttime activity, and grazing animals spread across the plains in search of fresh forage.

Join us in Tanzania and experience the Serengeti at sunrise, when the landscape begins to stir and a new day unfolds.

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