7 day ART ADVENTURE in YUCATAN (2 dates offered, as well as additional 2 and 4 day add-on options for week 1) begins in Merida, Mexico where your host will meet you at the airport with the ALWAN car and whisk you away to the nearby relaxation station to rest and rejuvenate before heading NE to explore the magical Ring of Cenotes formed by the Chicxulub meteorite crater, swim and snorkel in crystal clear spring-fed pools, witness underground cave networks, sail, enjoy the wildlife through jungles inhabited by the ancient Mayan culture and dotted with temples, ruins and stepped pyramids like Chichen Itza, Ek Balam and Uxmal,  kayak Lake Baikal, and circle around the coast heading S toward Playa del Carmen, and Tulum for the most beautiful beaches on Earth. 

WildysWorld!Art WorldWIDE : Art Adventures 

Custom crafted treks and art experiences to your bucket list destinations/locations worldwide fascilitated by traveling Artist and Art Educator Wildy Self of WildysWorld! Art. 

– expanding awareness and perspectives and always seeking new sites, new lands, new experiences, new paths to explore.

Artist / Art Teacher / Adventure Coach / Travel Guide / Trip Companion – WILDY SELF is a lifelong world traveler, fascilitating collaborative MURAL parties and team-builder experieces when not on charter and is based out of the United States for now.

This is living. This is WildysWorld!Art worldWIDE. Come experience the world with me!

ALWAN, means ‘all the colors’ in Arabic and is code for my TRAVELING ART school EXPERIENCE, now open to 1-3 guests (additional travelers). Come experience the world with me! This is living. This is WildysWorld!Art worldWIDE. Want to GO DEEP and WIDE with your cultural exploration?

We plan time to get to know the world world's vast riches and carefully cultivate a sense of wonder with our Earth and its divinity.

The world's beauty is endless and it's ultimate magnificence is beyond compare – the ultimate work of art! 

 
ART ADVENTURES are carefully crafted consciously so that you may experience total immersion in the ancient culture and rich lands of the YUCATAN. Are you curious about the stepped pyramids, cenotes or vibrant wildlife? What do you want to see? What do you want to do? Who do you want to become? How would you like to explore? What type of accommodations suit you? These questions will help guide your transformation and provide your host with insights to make sure your trip is full send!

This is not a rush from site to site or race around the country explore. Our relaxed pace involves scheduling in extra time to sit with source and absorb the radiance inherent in breathtaking vistas, much time to wander about and see for yourself what inspires you, sketching on site or setting up a plein aire painting moment on the beach of your dreams! Art ADVENTURES are customized travel experiences for 1 – 3 people so invite your family or friends if you like.

 
During Art ADVENTURES an evening follow-up session or art lesson related to our day will be on the menu for those who select the ALWAN (Add-On) while appetizers and wine are served and before a healthy home cooked meal is lovingly crafted. There will be at least 2 opportunities to exercise your creativity through ART INSTRUCTION each day with basic materials provided by Artist Wildy Self of WildysWorld! ART, the creator, guide and facilitator of ALWAN Art ADVENTURES. 

You are always free to participate at ANY level you need and return home to your safe space whenever you need solitude, rest, a meal or shower. Accommodations will be up to your standards whenever possible and depend greatly on your selected Add-Ons (beyond your basic package). Your comfort and well-being is top priority. You are also free to pursue personal goals if different from the general plan. Wildy will make every effort to assist your vision. You will want to catch the ALWAN car when it heads out of town, however!

 
ART ADVENTURES are a new way to travel, to see the world through the eyes of an artist, an art lover, transcending the mundane and transforming perspectives and lives by becoming a masterpiece work of art. We are all works-in-progress, creating ourselves every day through our experiences and our POV. We are all artists in this way and our canvas is life here on earth during the time we have. 

 
Is it time to create a new better version of yourself? Enrich your life by including new bold adventures! Are you hesitant to travel alone? Wildy is here for you and will support your journey in every way possible. 

 
Women traveling alone in many parts of the world often need a companion of some kind to be safe and well. I found this out the hard way during my year-long solo trek walking from Czech Republic through Austria and Italy to Greece, Israel, Egypt and Sinai.

I have been traveling the world my whole life (since the age of 3). I needed to take a break and raise 2 children, a single-mother, and now I AM BACK and SO EXCITED to take my traveling art studio/atalie experience, WildysWorld! Art WorldWIDE. 

 This is a CUSTOM crafted experience built to fulfill your WILDYest dreams, and focus on your personal objectives with a basic structure built in to keep your 'UNtour' on track and still provide flexibility for treks off the beaten path and a change of course when desired. 

 
ART Adventures are created and led by your guide Artist Wildy Self of WildysWorld! Art ALWAN traveling art experience and are built for 1-3 explorers. Wildy is a professional and highly trained Art Educator and is excited to share her playful and uplifting style of art-making along with skills that you want to learn to reach your personal goals. 

This is YOUR TRIP! Your personal preferences will be honored whenever possible. Our routes and itineraries are FLEXIBLE and customizable with a relaxed pace and infinite possibilities for cultural, geological and biological studies. ALWAN offers 2 Art Escapes creative sessions daily, both on-site and back at 'home' as a element of therapeutic recreation while casually unwinding over hors d oeuvres and a glass of wine, perhaps, and while a healthy dinner is being prepared if we do not plan to eat out and enjoy the local fare. 

 
ALWAN is an Add -On and will involve journaling, sketchbook, art instruction targeting your desired skills such as drawing techniques, proportion, perspective, plein air watercolor, painting and sculpture, as well as, a deeper look into art history and culture through immersion and daily practice. For MORE INFO on the leader of this expedition and her works open this link - Wildy Self.

 Art Adventure - solo/shared/flexible BASIC package

This trip package is for travelers who enjoy nature and prefer camping, hostels, basic BnBs, and apartments that may not have access to expected amenities all of the time. For RUGGED travelers who find extra adventure in 'roughing it' in a tent on the beach or in the jungle at camp, who find pleasure in homecooked meals on the campfire and solace in the stars, the RUGGED package is for you. The Art ALWAN car will transport you through the lush magical lands filled with wildlife and natural wonders. The Earth is our playground.

 
See MENU of Travel Options below for Add-Ons = more perks

upgrade your adventure with deluxe accommodations and loaded SUV

* An amazing opportunity for those who have suffered the affects of PTSD and trauma sits directly between these 7 day trips. A glorious Revive and Rise RETREAT is being offered by phenomenal healers trained in Quantum Therapeutics, sound healing, and trauma relief. You will learn a practical and successful method of healing PTSD and trauma related wounding that will turn everything around. This special event is an Add-On. Feel free to contact me for more information if interested in this life-changing opportunity. Click the link (or open link) to the retreat above to see the video and learn more.

Wildy Self - your host (BIO) - a lifelong world traveler and creator of WildysWorld!ART Collaborative MURALS, community builder, team builder facilitator, art teacher and now ALWAN traveling art experience now offering ART ADVENTURES worldWIDE arts and cultural immersion, a creative experience. Call me Wildy, short for Wildflower, a very joyful nomad when traveling and living my best life on the road. Befriending strangers and soaking up the vibes worldwide since 1975 when the family packed up and left St. Louis, Missouri for a 2 years in Saudi Arabia. Tanzania and Kenya, Africa are also among my first memories, my origin. 

Exploring the world from a young age taught me what is important in life. Experiencing life through the eyes of a child in wonder, amazed at everything and seeking all realms of interconnectedness, multiples of  perspectives always in all things drives me flies me sails me and hikes me around this Earth blissfully absorbing the LIFE FORCE present and returning it through my acts and service. 

After resident homestays New Zealand and Australia while in High School and Morocco I wandered through Spain, France, Italy. During my years in University studying Fine Art and Art History in New York, life took me to London/Amsterdam often to visit my family who had moved there. When I graduated, my travels continued. The year following was my ‘real education’ and the TRIP OF MY LIFE. A one year trek from Czech Republic through, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Israel, Egypt and Sinai, wandering alone through the Sahara Veda with no shoes, after having given them away. 

I took a break and raise 2 children, a single-mother,  and now I AM BACK and SO EXCITED to take my traveling art studio/atalie experience, WildysWorld! Art WorldWIDE. 

I call it ALWAN, meaning ‘all of the colors at once’, and am now going full time as a traveling Artist / Art Teacher nomad/guide and facilitator of creative journeys around the world offering instruction in many techniques and methods that will introduce or boost skills in drawing, painting, watercolor, sculpture and much more depending on what is available at our destination. Journaling will be our way to document the magical existence everyday at our leisure and will be a beautiful way to remember our journey.

Recent journeys had me SAILING the Virgin Islands (a former racer of sailboats) and multiple trip to Morocco in, exploring the gorgeous country thoroughly in 2022 and most recently on an ART ADVENTURE in Costa Rica.

To learn more about WildysWorld! and Artist Wildy Self open this link

to the website.

 Art Adventure - solo/shared/flexible BASIC package  $1700

This trip package is for travelers who enjoy nature and prefer camping, hostels, basic BnBs, and apartments that may not have access to expected amenities all of the time. For RUGGED travelers who find extra adventure in 'roughing it' in a tent on the beach or in the jungle at camp, who find pleasure in homecooked meals on the campfire and solace in the stars, the RUGGED package is for you. The Art ALWAN car will transport you through the lush magical lands filled with wildlife and natural wonders. The Earth is our playground.

LUX traveler (private rooms)

(Add-On)  $2200 with Basic Art Adventure package 

Private luxurious rooms in gorgeous accommodations await you, including historical haciendas, glamorous beachfront apartments, beautiful villas and luxury hotels along our journey in a deluxe SUV.

Sailing, snorkeling, and kayaking are INCLUDED in this package

LUX traveler  (shared/fam/friends)

(Add-On)   $1600 with Basic Art Adventure package 

Shared LUX rooms are for individuals traveling with family or friends who want to room together. Gorgeous accommodations await you, including historical haciendas, glamorous beachfront apartments, beautiful villas and luxury hotels along our journey in a loaded SUV.

Sailing, snorkeling, and kayaking are INCLUDED in this package

READY traveler (private rooms)

(Add-On)  $800 + Art Adventure Basic package

private rooms in modest apts., BnBs, hotels and villas with A/C and plumbing where available and travel in private suv.

READY traveler (shared rooms)

(Add-On)  $400 + Art Adventure Basic package

rooms shared with a friend/family member or fellow art adventurer in modest apts., BnBs, hotels and villas with A/C and plumbing where available and travel in private suv.

Art ALWAN Experience consists of 2 Art Sessions daily created to relax and restore creative energy while building skills of interest and taking a deeper look into the art/history of the area, with many opportunities to enjoy museums and cultural sites rich with Mayan artifacts. We will set up a plein-air painting studio outside when we feel inspired to capture the moment in watercolor or ink, and marvel at the gorgeous sunset while documenting the colors in your smashbook/journal. 

The ALWAN Art Kit is also available to Add-On and contains Wildy's favorite travel art supplies perfect for your ART ADVENTURES practice and will be shipped to your home prior to departure (time permitting) or ready for you when you arrive and includes a sketchbook/journal, watercolor set, colored pencils, ink markers and a travel easel, when requested.