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RESCHEDULED: Denim & Dessert Party to Benefit Pace Center for Girls
Grab your friends and join Jaffi's, Peterbrooke Chocolatier Atlantic Beach and Southern Grounds & Co. for "Denim & Dessert" in Neptune Beach, Saturday, September 30th, benefiting PACE Center for Girls of Jacksonville.
What to Expect:
Enjoy complimentary snacks, (adult) beverages, coffee, and sweet treats while you get an exclusive peek at the latest fall fashions and a jumpstart on holiday shopping. The event is open to the public, however, those with tickets who make a voluntary donation to PACE will receive 20% off the purchase of all full-priced merchandise. Advanced ticket holders will also receive a fabulous swag bag AND the first 5 attendees will receive 50% off one item. All ticket sales/donations will benefit PACE Center for Girls of Jacksonville.
Annual Jean Swap:
Jaffi's is hosting their annual Jean Swap from September 20th – 31st, where attendees are encouraged to clean out their closets and bring gently used jeans in (for donation to PACE Center for Girls of Jacksonville) to receive 20% off new jeans. If you are attending the "Denim & Desert" kick off event, please bring your jeans along with you. If you can't make it to the event, stop by Jaffi's by September 31st with your jeans and support PACE Center for Girls of Jacksonville!
Singer Songwriter Village presented by Southern Grounds and the Courtyard at 200 First Street
The Web.com Tour Championship is here and what better way to celebrate than a fun night out at the Beaches Town Center!
This event has food, drinks, and live entertainment everyone will enjoy. See live entertainment from Flow Tribe and New Orleans Street Funk. Eat your way through the Epicurean Food Village featuring select restaurants of the beaches including Poe's Tavern, Mezza Restaurant & Bar, Ragtime, Hawkers and Ocean 60. Have a drink in our Craft Beer Garden or enjoy a craft cocktail from St. Augustine Distillery.
Relax and listen to local musicians at the Singer Songwriter Village presented by Southern Grounds and the Courtyard at 200 First Street. Finally, shop local goods at the Merchant Marketplace presented by VyStar, featuring Beaches Town Center merchants and local makers. More info HERE
- Worship Tuesdays in the Courtyard at 200 First Street
Gail Beveridge – Painter & Sculptor at First Street Gallery
First Street Gallery welcomes Jacksonville artist Gail Beveridge a graduate from the University of Florida College of Architecture and Fine Arts with honors. After many years as a commercial interior designer, Beveridge made the transition to that of a professional artist. As an award winning sculptor, she exhibited in juried and invitational shows throughout the United States and has been represented in Jacksonville and New Smyrna Beach. More recently she has pursued her long time interest in painting with her works winning awards and featured in juried exhibitions.
Beveridge was Co-Chair (2011, 2012) and Chairman (2013, 2015) of the Event Committee for A Brush with Nature – a Plein Air event at the Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens and was previously a Decent at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. She was also selected by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville in 2006 to create five art awards for its annual Art Awards Luncheon honoring community leaders for their contribution to the arts.


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Im making a cake not only for easter but for my kids christening and I want to make realistic looking easter lilies and tulips but I cannot find any tutorials online. I have only been making cakes for a year and this will be my first time making flowers so I need the dumbed down version. PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!
Would you like to make them out of Royal Icing or Gumpaste?
a gumpaste fondant mix
Here is a tutorial for tulips. http://dianesdecoratingdiary.blogspot.com/2009/01/gumpaste-tulip-tutorial.html
Found this one for Oriental Lily:


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Monday, January 29, 2007
New kind of trilobite
This rather nasty and ugly bugger turned up while last fall's fossil crop was being cleaned. Not pretty, but it is something completely new.
For the lay person, it's a trilobite that looks like a blend of two other ones, a "missing link"
For the trilo fans, it's a lower Bobcaygeon Fm. (Middle Ordovician) cheirurid that was found in a unit that contains fairly common Gabriceraurus and has the general shape and the spine configuration of that trilobite, but has the pustulation of a Bufoceraurus. 3.5"
Found in Ottawa, On.
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Bike Ride
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- This is a 32.25 mi Bike Ride in Atlanta, GA, United States. The Bike Ride has a total ascent of 748.09 ft and has a maximum elevation of 1,136.61 ft. This route was created by billonmidwatch on 07/28/2007. View other Bike Rides that billonmidwatch has done or find similar maps in Chamblee.
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text: THE PHANTOM RIDER ROBERT KENT, PEGGY STEWART (1946, REPUBLIC, $29.98, UNRATED) TRADER TOM OF THE CHINA SEAS HARRY LAUTER, ALINE TOWNE (1954, REPUBLIC, $29.98, UNRATED) THE ADVENTURES OF FRANK AND JESSE JAMES CLAYTON MOORE, STEVE DARRELL (1948, REPUBLIC, $29.98, UNRATED) DON DAREDEVIL RIDES AGAIN KEN CURTIS, ALINE TOWNE (1951, REPUBLIC, $29.98, UNRATED) Stallone? Phooey. Schwarzenegger? Feh. If it's cliff-hangers you want, check out the first action heroes-the he-men of the classic movie serials. Republic Pictures made many of the best (The Adventures of Captain Marvel, Fighting Devil Dogs), but the studio's legendary production efficiency was a double- edged sword. On the one hand, Republic was able to grind out four-hour, 12- to 15-chapter epics that looked far handsomer than their meager budgets would suggest; on the other, much of the nuttiness (lost cities, superpowered heroes) that people love about serials had, by the late '40s, been replaced by formulaic predictability. This latest batch of new-to-video postwar Republics (packaged as two-tape sets) pretty much proves the point. True, the action sequences are still well mounted, but the plotting-good guys versus corrupt Indian agents (The Phantom Rider), Commie gun smugglers (Trader Tom of the China Seas), or land-grabbing robber barons (Don Daredevil Rides Again)-is remarkably slack. What's worse, there isn't a memorable archvillain (i.e., a megalomaniac decked out in a ridiculous costume) to be found in any of the four, although Republic stalwart Roy Barcroft does ham it up entertainingly in Don Daredevil. In fact, apart from the opportunity to see familiar TV faces in uncharacteristic roles- Gunsmoke sidekick Ken Curtis as a hooded avenger in Don Daredevil, future Lone Ranger Clayton Moore (sans mask) as a bad guy going straight in Frank and Jesse James-there's really nothing here to get excited about. If you're new to the genre, this batch is a painless introduction, although cliff-hangers weren't designed to be viewed at home in one sitting. As usual for Republic transfers, the print quality of all four ranges from good to % excellent. Here's hoping Republic's next group of vintage serials has more juice to it (the legendary Drums of Fu Manchu would be a good place to start). All four serials: C


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A Spiritual Hand Ayahuasca Center….ASHA Center
Listed in Ayahuasca, San Pedro (Huachuma)
- Maynas Province, Peru
My name is Ryan Frechette,
I am The owner and creator of "A Spiritual Hand Ayahuasca Center" (ASHA Center) All i want to do is help people heal themselves and NOT be in the situation I was in! I have many videos on youtube describing what happened in my life, If I was only able to meet me several years earlier in life then I would have been able to save myself from a lot of the things I went through and put myself through! Depression, anxiety, even addiction, based around many negative happenings in my personal life experience! These lead to Suicidal thoughts, but not crazy like ones, just the thought that death made much more sense then life! This is all so wrong, I am proud to have learned that now! So i found spirituality which changed sooooo much in my life!! It was too amazing to find and see clearly I needed to heal myself and it was all coming from me! This eventually lead me to Ayahuasca. This is where my life REALY changed, I heard this was the MOST deepest, profound, and life changing spiritual thing one could do! So I did my homework and I couldn't find ANYTHING bad about it! So I booked my trip to Peru, The ONLY place it can be experienced in the deepest state possible! Im a "go big or go home kind of guy! So i WENT BIG! You can see some of my journey on YouTube, but it changed my life! I had visions of helping people and this man that was also helping people!! I didn't really know who this man was, but Mother Aya sure knew that it was suppose to be! I had an amazing trip to the jungle. SO, on the way out of the city i walked out of the Hotel and the same guy from my visions was RIGHT THERE!!!! I told him a little about my visions,(he also works with the medicine) he asked me to take a ride with him before I left, so I did. We went to a beautiful place to sit down and talk and the next thing you know here we are today almost a year later. I now work with this man, he is the manager at our center! He spoke to me that day about a tiny village he spent time at, they needed help to survive and had many children and no source of money! This community was in trouble and needed some luck, little did i know, I was the "Luck" they needed! So we set out to the village several months later after some planning to see this village. They surely needed some help, but they were just FULL of happiness and pure beauty! The really cool thing was that this Village is RIGHT on the Amazon river!! The most beautiful place in the WORLD!! It was paradise in the jungle! So I got some donations from many people around the world and we bought a piece of land off them, which gave them the money they desperately needed to be able to upgrade things they desperately needed! So we hired the villagers to help clean up this land and built on it. So now they have an economy and I take people to this magical place to help heal and see all this magic! It will change who you are at the CORE, your Soul! The best part of this is that these people are from the jungle! They love showing you all around their backyard which is thousands upon thousands of acres of PURE primary jungle, DIRECTLY on the AMAZON RIVER! Nothing like the locals showing you ALL they have learned living in the jungle for generations after generations! This is now part of the Aya retreat! Not only do you heal with the medicine but you help through learning what others do to survive and being an actual part of that! We don't realize how spoiled we are until you watch how simple yet very happy people live! I tell you so much of my story because its important for you to see where i am coming from! It hurts me to think there are so many people out there right now, STRUGGLING with there own life, brain, soul, past, future, just like I use to! Its scary, so scary that you can start thinking death seems much smarter than life! No one chooses to or wants to feel this way! If you are interested in learning about healing yourself, seeing the jungle, hanging with a real village on the amazon who lives off the land/off grid ASHA Center is the place to be! I also have many videos showing a lot of what i speak of on YouTube, i want you to look us up, its important you feel comfortable with the place you attend and i try to show as much as possible without giving away all the goodies! Its important to be able to relate and see what type of place you will go too. This is why i recommend you look us up! Looking to go on a REAL adventure in the Peruvian Amazonian Rain Forest, lead by the people from that area. Do you want to heal yourself, get rid of those negative feelings you carry? Anyone can do Ayahuasca, but to do it with a true Shipbo Shaman from the ayahuasca origin of the jungle outside pucallpa! I did everything in my power to make sure every piece of this focus's on TRUE traditional healing and helping YOU change YOUR life! If you have any questions about Ayahuasca or plant medicines, please contact me any way that is most comfortable!
Biggest Difference Between Us and The others:
We believe that after care is also a big part of your healing. Someone is always available to speak to at our center before, during, and after your stay!
You will have constant and direct contact with the Shaman through the ENTIRETY of your stay, most places you only see the shaman during ceremonies and you don't really get to speak with them other then sharing your intentions, IF THAT EVEN!
The location is Literally ON the amazon river! Most say they are on the river and its actually a close but not true part of the Amazon River
Our shaman Family is from the jungle just outside of pucallpa, where this medicine originally came from, being the Shipibo blood line!
When you come here you are directly interacting with the village on the off time, visit the children in school and many other life changing experiences!
TOURS….We offer the coolest little adventures and experiences on your off time (everything is optional and included). Fishing for piranha, tracking sloths, jungle walks, we have the PERFECT spot to hang and swim with the pink dolphins of the amazon, feeding monkeys, we are open to suggestions too! Ask us if we can do something that you always wanted and I'm sure we can get you set up!
Also have other plant medicine you are able to try.
When you come to ASHA Center you can see that your healing yourself and others all at the same time. We believe in true healing for all, so just you arriving is giving this village love and light!
We follow an Aya diet here but you would never know it, This has to be what disappointed me about other places i have stayed at. The food was Terrible! We eat healthy and it is soon delicious! i Think food is very important! you spend money to heal yourself, That should include very tasty food. What you put in your body is very important for what you get back out of it! I have to say, i don't think you could get better food elsewhere!!
Comfort is soon important when it comes to healing. When you are 100% comfortable it opens you up, the more at home you are the deeper and more profound experience you are able to have! We stop at nothing to make sure you are AT HOME here with us! The connectivity you experience here is true, we feel what you need before you can even ask!
Almost everyone that leaves tells me that they have known people there whole lives, best friends and they have never felt a more stronger family/friend relationships in just on week with strangers than a life time with best friends! You are OUR FAMILY!
Our medicine comes from our Shaman out of the jungle outside pucallpa the origin of shipibo culture. We have a concentrated and even double refined brew. The thickness proves it all. Also we believe that mixing many plants into the brew is a bit much. We stick to the main ingredients that truly work. There are to many out there that are adding all these crazy things instead of just mastering the original recipe!
You will ALWAYS be taken care of! I hear so many stories of people being aloud to wonder off into the jungle and "Be with the trees" and things of that nature. everything at ASHA is under a controlled and supervised environment. We give you all the privacy you would ever need, Yet while working with the medicine, we are far enough away physically but always with you! This you feel one day one! we all want to be cared for and looked after, we know this very well! we also make sure there is only the people of the village and who should be there aloud on the property, point being, the only way one can do work is when they are safe, we make sure you are ALWAYS safe to do the deepest work possible!
What up everybody!!!!! Listen…you got to come to Peru and experience what A Spiritual Hand has to offer. Its been a crazy roller coaster for me personally to take the plunge in coming across the other side of the country(I live in USA). I must say it was worth every penny. Let me put it this way, who is going to love you more than yourself? Then why wouldn't you invest in yourself and take care of your body, mind, and soul?
I know its a lot easier said than done, but hey if I could do it you could do it. I had everybody starting with my own family telling me how this was a bad idea but you know the good old phrase, "dont judge a book by its cover". If its one thing I learned from this trip to Peru and doing this week long retreat was that everybody likes to give there opinion and usually they are not qualified to give such advice.
Mother Ayahuasca help me understand that the reason why it took so long for me to get far in life was because of all the negativity around me even though I love them with all my heart. If you want to come or have any curiosity just do it. The best thing is to not even tell anybody then when you go back home you preach to everyone how your journey to enlightenment was the best experience ever.
Dejame introducirme yo soy Bori Pati.
Esto fue una aventura. Me quede pasmado de la medicina. Esto fue lo que mi cuerpo me estaba pidiendo por años. Me matriculé es todas las iglesias. Yo leí la Biblia desde la primera hasta la última página. Es más hasta te estudie el Koran y nada surgió efecto hasta ahora que encontré la medicina espectacular. Gracias a Ryan y todos los miembros del centro de ASHA. Los amo a todos or transformar mi vida.
In English:
Let me introduce myself, I am Bori Pati.
This was an adventure. I was amazed at the medicine. This was what my body was asking me for years. I enrolled is all the churches. I read the Bible from the first page to the last page. It is more until you study the Koran and nothing came about so far that I found the medicine spectacular. Thanks to Ryan and all members of the ASHA center. I love you all or transform my life.
Sorry no speaka Inglish
Quiero disculpar para todos aquellos quienes son hablantes de Ingles, yo soy latina y estoy aprendiendo poco a poco el idioma. Pero no quize dejar que eso fuera la razon en dejar un mensaje de lo maravilloso que fue mi experencia con este retiro de Ayahuasca. Fue todo fenomenal y todos deberian ir y hacerlo.
In English:
I want to apologize to all those who are English speakers, I am Latina and I am learning the language little by little. But I did not want to let that be the reason to leave a message of how wonderful my experience with this retreat of Ayahuasca was. It was all great and everyone should go and do it.
Akagi here.
Truly favulus. Powerfu medicin. Ryan very help full. Thank yu everybodi for making it special. Yu must go!!!!
Mi name Shuji. Had great time. Danny master very smart with jungle. Chaman amaxing very powerful with spirit catching. I have great life now, thank you.
I had the best time of my life. It was better than expected. ASHA Center is transforming lifes. Words cant express the way i feel. My lifes purpose is clear now and I see what Im destined to do. Thank you so much Ryan for guiding me through the process, your the man!!!
A Spiritual Hand is a safe place to experience Ayahuasca. This will be my second Ayahuasca retreat and my first one was in Brazil with another company that I won't disclose out of respect to them. I will say that I'm taking the time to write about A Spiritual Hand because this was by far the best experience yet. The energy is great and it was very important to me because it's the only way it allowed me to fully transform my inner darkness and convert it into something beautiful and satured. Now experiencing and seeing how things are done in Peru I could say that from here on forward I would only recommend this retreat, ASHA Center is the best!!!!
THIS is it, this is the place, this is the one you've been looking for. My experience has been nothing short of miraculous. The place is right on the Amazon River, the food was all natural, fresh, and exquisite, and the staff are all expert at what they do. I was met at the airport, brought to the hotel until the others arrived, shown everything around, brought by boat the the center, which is beautiful, and taken care of. I never understood "safe spaces" before, but this place made me feel safe and I felt a peace I never have before. I had a lot wrong with me including a number of physical ailments, many of which they had the cure. So tell them EVERYTHING when you go – you'll be amazed.
I'm not going to go into everything here and now, but contact Ryan, the owner, and I'll tell you how much my life has changed over just two weeks.
It was different from what I had imagined. I realized my imagination came short to what I experienced with A Spiritual Hand. They are a company that prides themselves in excellence because they really put some thought about the whole process of healing. The journey is sacred from the start. The jungle excursion was the best for me because where I'm from there is nothing like it. Peace and tranquility are just nonsense words to describe how wonderful this place is. I'm not the type to leave reviews ro post things in Facebook but let me tell you I have no choice but to share and talk about this place that is hands down the cure to many conditions any civilized human being has by default. Stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia is all in the past the moment you come to the ASHA retreat. I was mind blown to see how not only me but all us in the group did not want to leave when the retreat was over. The tears of emotion and the hugs and not just ordinary hugs, these were real hugs taht come from a person that truly cares and loves you. OMG!!!!…I left Peru with a new family. Thank you so much A Spiritual Hand for giving me the purpose in life
P.S: what are you wating for…. join on the next retreat!!!!!!
Amazing, Amazing, Amazing!!!!! The most professional staff from the facilitators, the shaman, the tour guide, everybody was just amazing. I cant believe there is a hidden gem deep inside the Amazon and how I was blessed to experience an unforgettable experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life. When I told my family I was going to Peru to do Ayahuasca, everybody all of sudden got worried for me. Its the safest place on this planet!!!!! We dont see the dangers around us because we live in it every day so we as human get desensitize to it all and are quick to judge the unknown. Well let me bring you all at ease, A Spiritual Hand is the safest place you will ever be to lift yourselft to a higher enlightenment.
I just returned from an Ayahuaska journey at the ASH center that was beyond epic!
I've always dreamed of going to a spiritual retreat in Peru. By fate and in great timing, I took a blind leap into the Amazon. I let go completely and felt safe in the center with the native staff. The tour guides pick you up from the airport and from that moment on you are in paradise. We transported to the center by boat down the amazon to the heart of the Earth. The Medicine Shaman Woman from the Shipibo tribe facilitates incredible Ayuhascha ceremonies. She knows what she is doing and creates beautiful embroidery tapestries, clothing and jewelry of the Icaros. I got more than I ever thought I'd experience. The boat tours, hiking to the 20,000 year old tree, the cabana, the dieta, the Kambo, Aya, remedies, the stellar staff and everything about this was worth going! A really good price for all we were offered. I even learned how to use and administer jungle remedies. Im going to keep healing after this I feel complete and like I received everything needed to stay not the right path. I felt an experienced nirvana and enlightenment. I see the world with new eyes, protected and walking in the light. And if this is just the beginning and theres more than that during the process, Im going back and bringing family and friends! Thank you ASH center it was an honor.
-Susanne Gardner Massage Therapist/ Reiki Master
I served in the military for over 8 years and have been honorably discharged. With that came many sacrifices and results that Im not to proud of. I'll start off by saying I was away from my family too long and now the wife I had no longer wanted to stay with me. My relationship with my two kids well its hanging by a thread. I will admit that hurt me more than when I got the news that my leg needed to get amputated. This is just some of the many scars I got to live with for the rest of my life and it should not alarm whom ever is reading this to know that I ended up with PTSD(post-traumatic stress disorder). I have been searching for the outlet for what I need to bring balance into my life. Just as any fellow Marine in my circumstance will do, you ask for help. I got the assistance from a shrink, got the pills, and the list goes on but nothing was working. I knew deep inside there was something else that could help me with my depression and I found it with A SPIRITUAL HAND. The moment I came across their website I knew deep inside I had found what I needed. Let me tell you, I no longer need a shrink, I no longer take pills, and best of all with the help of Ryan and his crew and mother ayahuasca I could proudly say I no longer have PTSD. So for all of you struggling with any form of depression you need help and the best help is coming down to Peru and having A SPIRITUAL HAND give you the hand that you need.
Hello my name is Clara. After many months of research I found the best retreat and the most beautiful place on earth, A Spiritual Hand Center. Im in deep love with this place and did not want to go home because I found a new definition of what home should feel like. I enjoyed everybody that I shared my Ayahuasca experience with but I must say whom I enjoyed the most was the connection I had with the shaman. She was like the mother I never had. For some reason from day one I could not leave her sight and the best part of it all she didnt seemed to mind. The communication and the bond was so perfect that it made it much more pleasent to proceed with the Ayahuasca ceremonies. The other person who I enjoyed was the tour guide. From the moment I saw him I knew he was experienced and knowledgeable. I have been in some other tours non-ayahuasca related that the tour guide would either get lost or just simply uneasy in what his role was and I did not get that feeling at all in this retreat. Last but not least, I want to thank Ryan, owner of ASHA, for being such a blessing to my life. I could not thank you enough for changing my life.
I just got back a few days ago from the most amazing experience in my life. I was in the tour that started from April 3- April 10 and it definetly was the best gift I have ever given to myself. Hands down the best 7 days of my life thanks to A Spiritual Hand!!!! I learned so much about myself but if it's one thing I will like to share is this: That great things come when you approach fear. I was scared out of my mind especially watching all those YouTube videos of people vomiting their guts out once they took Ayahuasca. I was scared of all the posible side effects. I was scared of the thought of mosquitos biting me I mean if you were to only see how much I over packed for the trip it was hilarious. Not only did I buy enough mosquito repellant to go around the whole village I was staying in but all the unnecessary belongings that I brought with me. All the clothes like if I was going out to the club I clearly realized that I was fearfull in how others saw me at the retreat. Now I'm not saying self-awareness is not important but it hit me how much fear leads to insecurities. This trip to the Ayahuasca center of A Spiritual Hand it helped me so much. It's a magical place and a remarkable experience you got to go…Im already planning going back in the next 6 months.
Im a single mother of two children and let me tell you if I did it you could do it too. I had to make special arrangements for me to make this trip possible as you could imagine. As a parent, we normally deprive ourselves of doing things for ourselves for the sake of pleasing our children first. Well years upon years of doing this my body was giving me signs that I needed to recharge my body and soul. I did my research and I quickly realized that A Spiritual Hand was my best option to experiment with this medicine called Ayahuasca. Obviously, there are other retreats that offer similar services but the reason why I went with A Spiritual Hand is because they seemed so genuine and vastly knowledgeable with the process of Ayahuasca. I wanted to be safe and not worry about anything and that is exactly what I got from Ryan and his crew. Everything was perfect and I recommend to everybody who wants to connect with mother nature to go with this company because they are truly professionals.
When I first heard of Ayahuasca and I got to admit I was the first to brush it under the rug because I was wired to believe that any source outside of God is evil. I come from a very religious background and with that many limitations and a very narrow perspective in life. Then life started hitting hard and brought me down to my knees begging for help. Everything I knew in how to solve my situation was not really helping and hte closest relief to my situation was to believe that this is happening for a reason. Then I remebered a saying if you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Well I did go into many stages of depression to the boderline of insanity and then it clicked I needed to do something different.
Well in my journey in seeking spiritual enlightenment I came across Ayahuasca once again and it took a lot for me to build the courage to step outside my element. At first I was thinking in all the reasons why I shouldnt do it and I must admit even after I made the decision of going it felt wrong. I was even second guessing myself just thinking how was I going to get around Peru if I dont even know how to speak Spanish. Let me tell you that the moment I arrived in Peru everything started changing. When I saw the staff from A Spiritual Hand at the airport welcoming me to my arrival I felt safe. All my worries had vanished.
From that moment on everything was amazing. Its hard to admit but I was really scared abouit it all but I'm so glad that I pushed through my insecurities and didnt have my ego take over. If your reading and you resonage with what I'm saying just remember that its normal to feel that way in the beginning. I promise you that doing the Ayahuasca retreat with A Spiritual Hand is the best decision you could do in your life, it will literaly change everything for the better
This is one of the experiences that I remember at some point of my every day, since it all happened last year on 2016.
I embarked into it with many factors at my sights, and it signified such a good turn to take in my Life. It brought more light than I could've ever fathomed beforehand.
Thankfullness is a strong feeling with this one. And ever since, my eyes are so sensitive to what the Universe reflects through our World, our Nature, our fellow humans. My eyes and my heart are open to receive the messages of Existence in a way that I didn't quite know I could Feel; just by typing this there are many emotions coming, resounding to my core.
I learned so much… about me, about my identity, about my world and my demons, about my angels.
Who knew 2 months in the Amazon, could go by in a mere blink?
Who knew so much about Life, could be compressed within sixtysomething days?
This world is flooded with endless, ever-going Mysticism, and it fulfills me to realize this Center concentrates such armonic and chill waves of it, and that I am now part of it, and it's a part of me.
Friendship. Warmth. Understanding. Expansion. Depth. Sparks. Blessed food. Nature's embrace.
My path and my Soul have been forever touched by my brother Ryan's Spiritual Hand.
I will periodically come back HOME.
wow for starts I can't express how much this center has done for me! Everywhere from stepping off the plane and being in good hands through out the whole trip! Being on the Amazon River alone was amazing!! The city was fun but the actual center is so beautiful! The amazing staff of this center was very comforting and helpful through everything the food the views from the rooms where so beautiful the jungle was filled with amazing plants and wild life! me and my boyfriend both went to asha looking for a new type of adventure and we got that and some def 5 stars thank you a spiritual hand for having us! Amazing!
Okay so my time here at Asha is one that I almost can't describe! For one the food was soooo amazing!everyone is so helpful and amazing it's really home like and was like a little jungle family but anyway the medicine was strong and I experienced what was life changing for me I went to this retreat kind of a mess my life was a little all over the place when I left I felt so relieved!! So fresh so new like I had meaning to get back to my life and make certain changes and I did I have been clean and sober for a while I changed alot of other things as well for the better! But I have been to other places and we'll it's just not the same as Asha. The ppl here are amazing the food is amazing the experience is priceless I'll forever go to this amazing piece of land! Thank you Asha and Ryan frechette! Your amazing! 🙂
Let me start with Wow!!! WOW!!! Wow!!!. A Spiritual Hand is by far the best retreat I have ever had. I always plan to visit a new place every year. Let me tell you I have traveled many different places and this trip was by far the best experience I have ever had.
For those whom are reading this post I'm sure you could relate when I say sometimes you need a vacation from your vacation, right? Not from this place. Usually when I come home from a vacation I get that sense of relief and for the first time ever in my life I felt the complete opposite. Its been about roughly 1 month since I got back from ASHA Center and I still feel the urge to go right back to Peru. Everybody needs to come see what they got to offer. For me personally it was a wakeup call and a soul clense all at once.
Hi!My name is Denise and I went to this center in February this year. First time I've been in Peru and Iquitos. I must say that I loved the place, witch it's in the jungle. I felt very safe on the ceremonies with the shaman and the safekeepers. In the whole week I was there. The food is great, very organic. The rooms where great with beautiful views. I would highly recommend this place for anyone who's travelling alone. Never felt alone or abandon in any way.
I have been to a few centers all fine.
AshA center though blew my mind!
The staff picked my mom and I up from the airport and from the second we were picked up, my mom and I were catered to and relieved of any worry.
All of our bags were taken and always exactly where we needed them. The center is beautiful and I loved every adventure we were taken on. I held a baby sloth, swam in a natural spring in the deep jungle during a hike to one of the oldest trees I have ever seen. We saw dolphins and went fishing.
We had fresh tasty meals, they did our laundry, taught us about the jungle and the culture. One of the most powerful and hard working shamans I have worked with. We had such individualized attention. I was given daily remedies, a massage, flowerbaths, junge sauna, and several talks with Wilma about intentions and insight with ceremonies. We got a tour of the land and village and got to meet the people who lived there. Everyone was kind and friendly. There is a lot of love in this village!
I was able to heal some deep rooted things I had been working on for awhile.
I will always be grateful for the healing and love AshA and all the staff showed me. And I will be back soon!
Thank you all!
Since joining the asha group it has made a huge impact on my life both mentally and physically. Before this group my mindset was limited in that I had made my own limitations on what I thought was possible in life, I had always thought these barriers we make for ourselves in our own minds and that of society's expectations were what life was and what it was always going to be. My mindset now is positive open and the belief that anything is possible with self belief and determination. I wake up each day now feeling blessed that it's another new day and I am excited about what the future may hold for me. Physically I have more energy more get up and go just thrive for each new challenge. I really hope many others can experience this wonderful feeling and spread it world wide. 🙂
A Spiritual Hand was a life changing experience for me! I traveled alone from the United States. As soon as I touched down in Iquitos I was welcomed by the ASHA center staff. That was when my five star treatment began. They relieved me of my bags and escorted me to our transportation. I stayed one night in Iquitos while the other passangers in our group arrived. The hotel was very nice and a warm shower after 18 hours of travel was amazing. I was shown a great spot to have a meal that was on my Ayahuasca dieta.
After a great nights rest and a delicious breakfast we were off to the jungle. We went by river fairy, they have a great relationship with the boat owners so we had all of our things safely secured and they had hammocks waiting for us. On the last stretch of our boat ride the captain allowed our group to go on the top of the boat. I loved this opportunity, it allowed for me to take some great pictures.
We arrived at the center and it was a beautiful facility and very well kept. The staff was all waiting to greet us. The shaman purified us right away apon our arrival. They took care of all our luggage and showed us around the property.
They fed us the most wonderful hommeade food. All of the food we ate was grown on the property.
We met with the shaman and discussed with her our intentions for our ceremonies. Through out the stay the shaman would give us remedies that were spicific to our intentions. We were given a ginger massage a special herbal sauna session. Before each of our ayahuasca ceromonies we were purified with a flower essence bath, all organic to the jungle.
The shaman took very good care of us after our ceromonies by sitting with us and discussing what we had experienced.
All of my journeys with mother aya were amazing, the dosing, the atmosphere and the facilitators just amazing.
Each day we had an optional activity to do (weather permitting). One day we went sloth searching and found a baby one. I went parana fishing, pink dolphin watching and a jungle adventure walk as well. We got to drink water from a vine and swim in a natural waterfall spring.
The guides were so great and had answers to all of my questions.
One of my favorite parts was feeling like I was at home!!! They were always checking in and making sure I was comfortable and had everything I needed.
I was living like a queen at the Asha center. This trip changed my life and has continued to do so apon my arrival back home.
I am not even sure where to begin!? This place changed my life! I always felt like life was so messed up and i just needed some peace! I was so sick and tired of feeling like life was never going to get better. Once i had chosen to try Ayahuasca, I had so many places to choose from! I was so overwhelmed! I watched many YouTube videos and stumbled across ASHA Center. It looked very fun and had other options most did not. The thing that really got me was when i had questions, an worked up the guts to send the email to Ryan, he responded right away and answered like 1000 questions i had! lol, he is a great guy and turned out we had a lot in common. I realized Ryan and the workers, specifically Danny, the man who picked me up at the airport, their goal is to make it as comfortable and easy as can be!! This put all my worry away and even more so when i finally met them! Danny is the main guide who lives at the center with his girlfriend Hilmer who cooks sooooo well!!!! These people are soon AMAZING! this place is RIGHT ON the AMAZON river! like room views of the river! It was purely magical! Safe, great village, Food, views, knowledge, I could go on and on, but i want to leave some surprises for y'all. The best thing was you get to constantly spend time with the Shaman, other places they seem to hide the shaman. You also get to meet and help the village ASHA Center is there for! everyone wins! my life is forever in perfect perspective now! Thank You Ryan, Danny, Hilmer, Wilma, And ASHA Center for showing me exactly what i needed to see!
Wow, where do I even begin here!! I guess first by saying, this place is an absolute healing paradise! I attended the ASHA center a couple months ago now and was absolutely in awe of everything about it. The incredible landscape, the humbleness of the people in the Yanomano village, the inspiration , generosity and kindness of Ryan and his crew, the inner healing abilities of the Shaman with her icaros and medicine on so many different levels. It is so remarkable and deeply inspiring to me to see and know the vision Ryan has and the dream to create this retreat , this powerful space for the purpose of helping as many as he possibly can …to hold this space for healing in any and all ways one could be needing. We all have ways in which we can heal on this journey here that we call life…and the immense growth through that is all part of it…how exciting is that?!
Mmmm, and did I mention the food? The local food here is absolutely phenomenal! Id personally go back even just for that :p haha.
I highly encourage anyone who is seeking intensely deep healing and growth, or even just to experience something of a lifetime, to please go and check out being a part of the beautiful sacredness of this…I believe with all my heart that you will be so forever grateful you took this time to invest in the pure magicalness of what is to be offered here. YOU deserve it! Many blessings…
I was scared, I was excited and nervous all at the same time. But the moment I landed and was greeted by the staff my fears went away. These people really care about "Me" They all took the time to make sure I was comfortable and getting the most from my experience.
The ceremonies and my experience with the Shaman were life changing. It is a very hard thing to describe but what I can tell you is that for me, it brought an end to many issues I have carried for years, it allowed me to let go and except. The is a more beautiful think than you know.
ASHA is a safe and loving place that allows you to give in and embrace your true yourself and others as they do you, on an intimate level that you never excepted but are so comforted by.
I pray that if you have fear, anger, insecurity, pain, either physical or mental, you will reach out to ASHA for assistance, you will come home a new person with an experience that will outlast all others.
Ineffable. That's what i can say about my Ayahuasca "spiritual" journey with ASHA Center. It was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me. Words are not enough to describe how i felt during my 2-week stay in the amazon jungle. My intentions were all granted, a gift of power to heal, having better instincts and intuition, and meeting my spiritual guide to help me in making good decisions. I even saw fairies 🙂 I have experienced being loved and taken cared by someone invisible. The staff and place are so welcoming and treated me as if I was one of the family. Something BIG is going to happen in my life and I can feel it in every fiber of my well-being. Im glad and proud to say that I was able to heal a friend's cough back here in Saudi Arabia. Thank you Ryan and to the rest of the staff, keep sending LOVE to the world!! Namaste. <3 <3 <3
ASHA Center has changed my life, down to root of everything- my soul. From the environment to the people who run it to the medicine that is Awayaska I am moved by my experience. The staff is beyond amazing- the shamin was able to personally help with all my weight and struggles that I entered the jungle with to be unnoticeable to the me that is writing this. I can't believe the healing powers! It's something words are difficult to describe I am so connected to what is REAL in this world, connected to what actually makes sense in the world. I cried because I never wanted to leave the center but who I am now after my experience is a stronger, happier complete soul full of love and gratitude. I recommend ANYONE coming to the ASHA Center, I brought my mother and it was the perfect experience for her as well. Do this to help yourself!!!
I just got back from a week at ASHA center and it's hard to put into words how truly amazing it was. The center overlooks the Amazon river to the front and beautiful green jungle to the back. The staff was so welcoming and caring at all times! I couldn't have asked for a more comfortable jungle experience! As far as what it did to my spiritual side, I can only describe it as life changing. The power of the medicine is incredible! I learned so much about my strength as a person and I will be forever grateful to ASHA Center. If you are considering a center to go to… This is the one! I guarantee you will get so much more out of it then you ever imagined, as well as feel safe and relaxed the whole time! So much love to those who made this trip to be more then I could dream!


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Going through some of my older videos on youtube, I watched the house tour one to see how I changed things since the first few months I moved in. Some furniture rearrangements have occurred, but the main difference I wanted to point out is the change in my cooking habits/situation.
I was avoiding getting a huge gas tank/wok combination because I honestly didn't think that I would use it that much given that I am, in every sense of the word, a beginner when it comes to cooking and more refined tastes. But then again I had no way to heat or cook anything and a girl can eat peanut butter sandwiches before craving some changes. Enter Jeff Jackson.
Now I'm not just talking about the creative dishes he's provided for me when I go to visit (he has an actual gas tank), but he literally gave me the power to do them. In the form of this electronic, one heat setting (scalding), mini-wok, thing.
I started with some very basics that I already knew, but a combination of taste bud boredom, general displeasure with some weight I've put on in Thailand (mostly due to lack of exercise and eating crappy foods so I wouldn't have to cook) and seeing Jeff's nightly special, I decided to get chopping, though that even started off a bit rocky as the first casualty in my right index finger happened the night out of the gate.
I am proud of my new dedication to cooking (well, no longer extreme aversion) and decided to do a little mini-series called 'My Thai Kitchen' sharing what I've tried and succeeded with, both 'Thai' and 'American' dishes. Those are in quotes because I do not cook like a Thai person (they have reminded me many times how I'm doing it 'wrong') and sometimes I have to be a little creative in the ingredients for foods from home. Anytime I want something remotely American, I usually have to go to the provincial city or wait for a trip to one of the bigger cities (Bangkok, Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai) for some harder to find things.
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Preventing kids taking up smoking
Researchers in Western Australia have used the 'disgust' factor to put kids off taking up the habit of smoking, with some success it seems.
Let's get back to humans, little ones at school and the challenge of preventing them from using a dangerous drug like tobacco.
There's been a debate about whether it's better to scare the hell out of kids to put them off or give them a message about the positive effects of not smoking.
Professor Rob Donovan of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control at Curtin University has gone one step further down the negative track. And I warn you, it's pretty disgusting.
Rob Donovan: It arose from several areas I guess Norman. One was the I guess tendency towards moralisation of tobacco issues.
Norman Swan: By moralising, you mean what? Tut, tut, tut?
Rob Donovan: Well yes, tut, tut, tut and people seeing it as definitely right or wrong. And so we were looking there as well in terms of whether people did in fact see things like tobacco and alcohol and drugs as a moral issue, or as other people would put it, just an individual choice.
Norman Swan: And presumably that means some implication of you being weak-willed, and somehow a lesser mortal if you're fat, or smoke?
Rob Donovan: Yes it's coming along now in the obesity area, that people who are overweight and obese are being looked at in that sideways way as sort of 'How dare you?' and 'How dare you do that to your children?' and so on.
Norman Swan: What's the line to disgust?
Rob Donovan: The line to disgust is that the emotion that's most associated with the moral perspective on things, is the emotion of disgust. So if I find something morally averse, I'm more likely to say 'I'm disgusted at that', 'I'm revolted'.
What we were picking up too in other surveys though was when if you asked people about what's the single word that comes to mind when you think about smoking, disgust was coming up in about 30% to 40% of responses. So people already considered smoking itself to be a bit of a disgusting habit.
Norman Swan: And just before we go on to the further research you've done, disgust is one of those words that often doesn't have a clear psychological definition. Some people who hear the word 'disgust' say, 'Well I'm kind of angry at these people, because I think they could stop eating, or they could stop smoking and they're not. So I'm kind of disgusted at them', of 'There's disgust which makes me feel nauseous, and I generally get this real gut reaction when I see somebody doing it.' So there's a kind of gradation of sensation attached to the word 'disgust'. We kind of know what we mean but not exactly.
Rob Donovan: Yes, there's I guess in one sense a sort of cognitive disgust, and that may relate to a set of religious beliefs or a set of values, social justice values, so that I can express disgust at the thought of young children in forced labour in factories and so on, so that's a sort of a what you might call a cognitive disgust.
Norman Swan: A cerebral thing. A head truth.
Rob Donovan: Right, yes. The other one is more of the autonomic nervous system, if you like, so it's an automatic reflex of one. So that I might present you with a cockroach, a dead one, that's been sterilised and perfectly clean, but you probably still wouldn't want me to put that cockroach on your sandwiches or so on, you wouldn't have it. So a lot of that food contamination, revulsion against faeces and so on, is that of automatic disgust. We were actually thinking of bringing both of those aspects together, but also to see whether each one could work independently. So in the National Tobacco Campaign ad where the doctor squeezes some fat out of the aorta -
Norman Swan: This is one a couple of years ago?
Rob Donovan: Yes. There's a couple of elements there: there's the cerebral component there that smoking is harmful to your health but the sight of the fat being squeezed out is also pretty disgusting. But the disgust there is directly related to the health impact. What we wanted to look at more was a straight conditioning effect of disgust, in the same ways that a lot of advertising uses positive conditioning, positive music, images, symbols associated with brands, and then they generate those positive feelings.
Norman Swan: In fact that's what they used to do with tobacco in the old days, that you were young and beautiful and active and you smoked Something Lights.
Rob Donovan: Well exactly, and a lot of our older smokers that we were just talking to in fact miss some of those old ads that gave them images of glamour and sophistication and so on. So with the disgust one there, this was more like aversive conditioning. We thought if we could develop ads that showed cigarettes and tobacco smoking as disgusting, or associating them with disgusting objects, then the disgust would transfer to the cigarette. So we began a project with young kids.
Norman Swan: What age group?
Rob Donovan: These are primary school kids, between 9 and 12. The first thing of course was to find out what did kids find disgusting.
Norman Swan: Pretty difficult because they like most things that we would find disgusting.
Rob Donovan: Yes, and that's one of the problems here, that we've got to be careful that disgusting is not cool. But we've got a range of things, and we talked both to kids and also to adults who were in touch with kids to figure these out. And of course we came up with the usual thing of maggots in your sandwich, so it was more where things were likely to be ingested or you came in contact with a contaminated thing. Vomiting is pretty disgusting, but being vomited on is a multiple of that.
One interesting thing they did come up with though, which we didn't think we could use was that they also nominated the thought of their parents having sex as one of the disgusting things.
Norman Swan: This could have a rebound effect on the tobacco quitting campaign.
Rob Donovan: Well it could. It could actually reduce smoking after sex I suppose which would make some of those movie scenes a bit shorter. We chose four ideas to develop up into ads. One was the use of maggots and in this particular case to show somebody smoking and then as they put the cigarette into their mouth, the cigarette would morph into writhing maggots, particularly with the maggots then on their lips and so on.
Norman Swan: These are young people smoking, presumably?
Rob Donovan: These are young people, yes. Another one would be to have a cigarette, a similar concept but that morphs into a cockroach that they're putting into their mouth. Another one was to show different layers of rubbish and the lower you got, the more disgusting was the rubbish, like soiled nappies, or a used condom or some such, and then a cigarette amongst those at the end.
Norman Swan: Which somebody then smoked?
Rob Donovan: Which somebody then - well it headed towards their mouth to smoke. Another one, perhaps the one that really did seem to work quite well was of somebody dropping a cigarette into a toilet bowl, I might say it was an unflushed toilet bowl in a public convenience.
Norman Swan: I hope nobody's eating as we're speaking.
Rob Donovan: Well I hope this is before breakfast, not after breakfast. What they do, the cigarette drops onto the side of the bowl but the smoker puts their hand in to retrieve it and then actually puts it back into their mouth. That was an interesting one to film. The photographer had to stand actually right on top of a public toilet cubicle with the camera aimed down in front of the smoker who dropped it. An interesting thing about making the ads too, the team had to go in and clean the public toilet first and then scatter around the make-believe rubbish again.
But we developed those four into reasonably good look-alike ads, filmed with real people, but of course we couldn't use the morphing, we had to just cut the scenes and then in the case of the maggots we stuck them to a little cone which the kid put in their mouth. Kids will do anything for money. So we filmed those, and then we ran them through an ad test which is a commercial ad test, very similar procedure, which we'd had developed when I was in market research, and we compared the results of those four ads against ads that we had tested for the Smarter than Smoking youth program, and the ads tested extremely well.
Norman Swan: What does that mean, extremely well?
Rob Donovan: What they meant is the kids found the message believable that cigarettes were disgusting. They found the executions quite involving and interesting, if not amusing, but certainly they found them disgusting.
Norman Swan: Did you test them for aversive conditioning? In other words, that they got the yuk when they presented them with a cigarette?
Rob Donovan: Oh no, not in that sense. The measure here, because it's only a one or two exposures, is more an advertising consumption type measure. The measure was looking at how likely they were to be a smoker in a year's time, which we found to be one of our best measures of the impact of an ad, because one ad is not going to lead them to quit, but to change that overall attitude towards smoking. So in that particular measure, it out-performed most of the other ads that we had used. So we felt that it actually added a really valid extra dimension to the anti-smoking efforts. I think it's got a lot of potential for more classroom exercises as well, for kids developing disgusting scenes and juxtaposing them with cigarettes, where you would build up that aversive conditioning with repeated exposures of that.
Norman Swan: Do you think you'd ever get it a commercial channel to actually show such ads? Because you in the past have been involved in notorious escapades where you've actually had ads which for example have used sex to sell healthy messages and got them banned.
Rob Donovan: I think these have got a chance if we - well certainly the maggots and the cockroach I don't think would be a problem. The toilet bowl one I suspect that they may be concerned about their viewers' reactions to that, and we may have to remove something from the toilet bowl in that particular case. The rubbish one we may not be able to use used condoms and used tampons, but perhaps a dirty baby's nappy might be fine. But you're right, there may be some issues getting some of those there.
Norman Swan: Just on the general issue of negative messages for health promotion, there's been this huge debate about for example when those National Tobacco ads came out, people were critical of them saying Look, negative messages don't work, whereas positive messages put you in a more changed frame of mind. What's your view of this? Because disgust would certainly be part of a negative message.
Rob Donovan: I think the best campaign is a combination of both of those, but if you can only use one message, it's the negative messages that time and time again have proved most effective. That's not to say that they're most effective for everybody, but in the majority of cases it's negative messages that motivate people along. You see if we took away the health impact of tobacco, the campaign would disappear. And smokers tell us time and time again the reason they quit is because of the health consequences. So if we went more positive and just said things like -
Norman Swan: That your skin would look better and you'd be able to exercise more easily.
Rob Donovan: Yes and your food would taste better, it would smell better and so on. We call them sort of added benefits, and the good strategy is to add as many benefits as you can, but the underlying motivation is to avoid those health consequences and of course reduce the anxiety that a lot of smokers continually feel, because they know what they're doing could be having a bad impact on their health, but at the same time they continue doing it, and that's an uncomfortable state of mind. So you either have to negate those health messages, or downplay them, minimise them, and of course lots of smokers do that successfully. Or you have to do something about your smoking.
Norman Swan: If you were to generalise this disgust notion and the aversive conditioning, and if it's working, to other areas where you want to change people's behaviour, you run the risk of course that the moralising becomes even more intense, and the problem there I'm really thinking of is people who are obese, where it's not necessarily always their fault.
Rob Donovan: No, actually I think the obesity epidemic is exaggerated to some extent. I think we run the very real danger there of in fact intensifying eating disorders.
Norman Swan: And again that could be the disgust playing out.
Rob Donovan: It could be, and what we're seeing is the eating disorders emerging amongst men as well, and of course the increase in steroid use for body image purposes and so on. We would never think of using disgust or immoralisation in obesity. You might use it to intensify the impact of saturated fats in some way, but not in those other areas. I certainly think being vomited on has got a lot more potential too, than a couple of those ads we tested.
Norman Swan: I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to it. Rob Donovan, thank you very much.
Rob Donovan: Thank you, Norman.
Norman Swan: The disgusting Rob Donovan is Professor of Behavioural Research and Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control at Curtin University in Perth. And you've been listening to The Health Report.
Now I can't go without commenting on the furore which followed last week's program. Analytically-oriented psychotherapists have been up in arms, and all I can say to them is, 'Provide the scientific evidence that what you do works'. I can't find much at all, despite having searched hard. But I must make an apology to the two complainants in the Towndrow affair, because on Life Matters, following the program, even though we strictly preserved their anonymity, I did compare the negative impact on them, which I should not have done, and caused them needless upset, for which I apologise.
- Dr Rob Donovan
- Professor of Behavioural Research
Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control
Curtin University
Perth, Western Australia
- Presenter
- Dr Norman Swan
- Producer
- Brigitte Seega


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Apartment in Belém with easy parking
Size70 m²
Floor No.2
- Family/child friendly
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
This apartment has 1 room, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen a cozy balcony with a view to the Tagus River, where will be the ideal place to have your breakfast.
The facilities available are: microwave, fridge, oven, stove, dishes, bed linen and towels are provided. You can also use wi-fi at no extra cost.
The apartment is located near the "Memória" Church, 10m away from the central are of Belém, where the Jeronimos Monastery is and where there are several buses to the historic center. In this area you can visit the Monument of Discoveries (which is also a viewpoint) and Belém Tower (World Heritage). In Belém it's also located the Presidential Palace, the Cultural Center of Belém (that has local art exhibitions, musical performances and workshops), and several museums: the Planetarium, the Coach Museum, Museum of Popular Art , Electricity Museum, the Maritime Museum and the Museum of the Presidency. This whole area is surrounded by beautiful gardens.
Pstry lovers should go of the coffee "Pastéis de Belém" to taste the famous "Pastel de Belém", which is manufactured since 1837 and are it's part of traditional pastry in Lisbonand Portugal.
For the ones who enjoy the night life, the Alcântara docks are very close, and there you can find restaurants, bars and popular nightclubs in Lisbon. During the day, this is also a very nice area for a drink or lunch, with views of the marina and the bridge April 25.
Another advantage to be living in this area, is that the beaches are closer. At the railway station in Belém, take the train to go to the beach at Cascais. The journey takes only about 40m, and it's unforgettable, because almost all the way is done along the river and the sea, which allows you to enjoy the magnificent scenery as well. At Alcântara (near Belém), you can catch a bus to Costa da Caparica, which is across the river and is an area where there are some of the favorite beaches of the Portuguese.
At the Airport: Take the metro to "Alameda", then switch to the green line (direction: Cais do Sodré ") and get off at the last stop Cais do Sodré. Then take bus 732 and get off at "Rua Marques Bica".
House rulesDeposit €100,00. Please Note the deposit value will be returned via bank transference after your check out.
Check-in is after 3:00 p.m. and need to be arranged before the day of arrival. Please call or send us a message after collecting your luggage at the Lisbon airport, or train/bus station, to let us know you are already in Lisbon. Our representative will give you a friendly welcome and answer any questions you may have.
Check-in after 23:00 is subject to a 25 EUR fee.
Check in on the 24th of December and 31 of December after 6 pm are not allowed..
We will provide you with our contact details after your reservation is confirmed. The apartment will be ready and cleaned for you before your arrival. Fresh towels and bed clothing are also provided and all is included in the total price. You will be given a set of towels per person. Keys delivery: In the apartment. Cleaning: On departure.
Please note that from the 1st of January 2016 a city tax of EUR 1 per person, per night is not included in the total price and should be paid on site. This tax is charged to guests aged 13 and older. It is subject to a maximum amount of EUR 7 per guest.
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Reviews for this host's other properties
Das Appartement ist wirklich nur zur empfehlen! Es liegt mitten in der Altstadt Bairro Alto ist ein super Ausgangsort für alle geplanten
Ausflüge/Besichtigungen. Abends muss man zwar damit rechnen, dass es lebendig im Stadtteil wird, da fußläufig alles erreichbar ist.
Das Appartment selbst ist sehr hübsch renoviert und eingerichtet. Es hat alles was man braucht, ist sehr sauber und für zwei Personen wirklich ideal. Es ist durch viele Fenster sehr hell und man hat einen großartigen Ausblick über die Dächer von Lissabon.
Einchecken mit den erhaltenen Codes für die Türen war problemlos möglich.
Wir waren mit unserer Unterkunft sehr zufrieden. Die Lage ist super zentral und wir würden diese Unterkunft gern wieder buchen. Wir empfehlen die Wohnung allerdings nicht Personen, die keine 4 Stockwerke die Treppe hochlaufen können. Wir haben nach den Treppen aber jedes Mal die wunderschöne Aussicht aus den vielen Fenstern genossen.
alloggio in buona posizione e silenzioso, ma con arredi di basso livello, scarse le sedie (3x4persone), scarsi i punti di appoggio per valigie e vestiti, scarsa manutenzione (rubinetto della cucina rotto e scarichi poco liberi), finestra del soggiorno vecchia e pesante da sollevare.
il servizio di pulizia scarsissimo (pavimento sporco e pieno di polvere), copriletto macchiato. Soluzione che non consiglierei. Marco
Todo perfecto.Un pequeño apartamento muy limpio y centrico,,la unica pega la falta de ascensor. El recibimiento a nuestra llegada perfecta, jhonas encantador
La chica que nos atendió era muy amable, nos trajo un mapa y nos indicó todo lo importante.
En cuanto al apartamento hemos ido en julio y hacía muchísimo calor y no contaba con aire acondicionado por lo tanto era necesario abrir ventanas. Lo peor de eso es que hay bares y discotecas y la gente pasa gritando y no te deja dormir, si cierras la ventana te mueres de calor y si la abres oyes los gritos.
No tiene armario, tiene un pequeño burro con 5 perchas. No tiene tendal por lo que tuvimos que usar el burro para poder secar algo de ropa.
En la cocina hace muchísimo calor y huele un poco a humedad.
A pesar de eso el resto estaba bien.
Buona struttura, arredamento essenziale, check-in e check out facilissimi. Quartiere molto caratteristico, Bairro Alto, anche se un po' rumoroso la notte, nel complesso comunque tutto ok. Connessione wi-fi ottima. Qualche problema in bagno dovuto all'assenza di luce. Rapporto qualità-prezzo ottimo.
fed lejlighed for 2
Appartement magnifique, très propre, spacieux et pas trop loin du centre! Bien équipé (sauf le lave-vaisselle qui était en panne) mais le reste était très bien! L'hôte nous a donné de très bon conseils pour nos visites/sorties. Seul petit point négatif : l'appartement est situé à côté d'un bar bruyant le we.
This apartment has its charme!
We were 6 Persons and all of us were content with the apartment. It is beautifully furnished and the location is just perfect. I would recommend it to every one who wants to have a great time in Lisbon and enjoys night life. The apartment is not far from the streets that are full with bars. So for families with kids it can get loud at night but more because the walls are very thin and you can also hear every move from the room next door.
The check in was without any problems and we had a contact number for any questions. Pedro was very friendly and he introduced us with the help of a map to the important sight seeings and stations in Lisbon. That was very helpful.
All in all we enjoyed our stay!
The title says it all -- this is a cozy one bedroom in the heart of Lisbon, easily walkable to the metro and Barrio Alto nightlife, and steps from a great viewpoint overlooking the city. Super clean, great hosts. The neighborhood is lively, so expect some street noise, but I would definitely stay here again.
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