Lia Oprea

Part Romanian, Lia gives credit to her Gypsy heritage for her peripatetic nature and love of exploration. This love led her to travel widely around the globe and, quite naturally, to a career in adventure travel, a trade she has plied for more than a dozen years. During this time, she has worked in several capacities, including translator, cruise director, and expedition leader. Her passion for travel dovetails nicely with her other interests, such as herpetology, ethnobotany, birding, and Mayan history. A fluent Spanish speaker, Lia has a home in Ecuador which makes a convenient base for her frequent visits to the Galapagos Islands, the Andes, and the Amazon regions of Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. When not in the Southern Hemisphere, Lia makes her home at the family farm in upstate New York, in an 1850s Greek Revival farmhouse.

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