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We arrive in San Jose, from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School.

Audio Journeys explores ancient history and centuries-old structures, inculding an anquduct, and view new and old art. We also visit a lapidary specializing in local gems.

Audio Journeys, from Travel Radio International, explores the Caribbean rainforest of Guatemala with a team of biologists. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys explores a small patch of some of the Republic of El Salvador's last remaining rainforests. Fifty spider monkeys live in the canopy of 300-year-old trees. The spider monkeys are protected as long as they stay in this very small area, known as the Chaguantique Nature Reserve.

This important private reserve is maintained by El Salvador's ministry of Natural Resources.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Beaver Lake Nature Center. The Center offers over 400 annual programs. A rich mix of habitats creates the possibility of seeing more than 200 species of birds and over 800 varieties of plants.

We arrive in San Jose from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School. After a pleasant walk up the hill from the school, we find botanists preserving the traditional Mayan medicinal plants in gardens where signs help visitors with identification.

Audio Journeys explores the Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park, a few minutes from the Pacific Ocean and downtown Carlsbad, California. In 1937 vaudeville and silver-screen actor, Leo Carrillo (the Cisco Kid) purchased, and preserved over 2,000 acres of the southwest US's rolling hills. This was a retreat for Leo, his wife, their adopted daughter, and their numerous friends from Hollywood.

Audio Journeys explores La Antigua, Guatemala, on Easter Sunday. Our walking tour begins at a hotel that once was a monestary. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys exploration of The Cornell Lab, one of the largest nature research and conservation organizations in the world, continues behind the scenes with researchers and biologists.

Listeners of Cogito: Part 2, The Dream will not take long to realize that they are entering a different world, the world of Cogito. Years after he was released from captivity by Palestinian terrorists, a prediction Antoine Bacha heard from what he calls "the voice" came true. The voice told him, among other things, that he would meet an unusual woman that would share in his spiritual journey. He did not know that the woman would also experience the very same kind of intuitive lessons from the voice as he did. That woman is Liliana Franco....

Tikal was a major center of Mayan civilization for centuries. Today Tikal National Park is still used by Mayans for ceremonies. Tikal is also home to thousands of animals and plants. We find out about some from our guide.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International is on a road trip through the Southwest United. On Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona, still has the look and feel of a Wild West town. Holbrook, about 100 miles east of Flagstaff, was once the roughest, toughest, most lawless town of the Old West. We explore the Navajo County Courthouse Museum. Some people, including our guide, believe the 1898 courthouse is haunted.

In Scotland's Clyde River Valley, not far from Glasgow, the industrial town of New Lanark was established in 1785. New Lanark was one of the largest cotton manufacturing centers in Great Britain, and a model for how employees, both adults and their children were treated by the companies they worked for. Today, New Lanark is a model of cultural heritage, preservation and restoration thanks to the New Lanark Conservation Trust. We are exploring the Village with Richard Evans, development officer for the trust.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the most important trading posts in the West. Hubbell was meeting ground for two cultures: the Navajo and early settlers who came to the area.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area at the base of the Cascade and Klamath mountain ranges. At Whiskeytown, a few miles west of Redding, California, we meet naturalist guide Steve Zachary. Zachary is dedicating his life to preserving the web of life on earth. His life's work includes learning about, and then teaching others of all ages about, how to protect the web through education and legislation.

Preserving a California nature preserve.... Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Rodman Nature Preserve with preserve guides. The Rodman preserve is next to Clear Lake, the largest freshwater lake completely within California.

In the Southern Highlands of El Salvador, 2,600 years ago, a clay terrace was built on the side of a mountain. Today, the fan shaped terrace is covered with a thick layer of earth and artifacts belonging to the people who built and used this important ceremonial site. The site is also covered with hundreds of coffee trees, belonging to the Santa Leticia Gourmet Coffee Farm.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the B. Bryan Preserve in the little coastal village of Point Arena. Here, Judy and Frank Mello are protecting endangered African hoof stock from extinction on their private preserve.

An audio journey exploring eastern Guatemala. In the first days of April 2004, the Mayan Q'eqchi people living in and around the Rio Dulce River celebrated the ending of their 360-day agrarian calendar. The Ak' Tenamit Association Campus and cultural center hosted the event. The Mayan Deer dance was performed for the first time in decades.

In 1867 the Dominion of Canada was formed. In 1931 Canada became an independent nation within the Commonwealth. We are exploring Ottawa, Canada's Capital, in the Province of Ontario. Our exploration begins on Parliament Hill and ends across the Ottawa River at the Civilization Museum.