cuba travel expert Cuba expert Christopher P Baker is available for speaking engagements, media interviews, story assignments & tour escort. Author of six books about Cuba, Baker has visited Cuba more than 40 times and has met Fidel Castro. He has been privileged to address the National Press Club, National Geographic Society (televised “Live from National Geographic”), and World Affairs Council. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, Fox TV, NBC, NPR, & dozens of other radio & TV outlets, and serves as a travel consultant and tour escort for such prestigious organizations as National Geographic. Read my Cuba blog Listen to my NPR radio interview See my Fox TV interview Disclaimer: The views of Fox News  are not those of Christopher P Baker. This interview was filmed in 2002 and information herein may have changed. Book me! 760 327 9879 or e-mail “Thank you for your wonderful, lively, informative, fun and well organized presentation.” Kate Simpson, Academic Travel Abroad, Inc. costa rica travel expert Costa Rica expert Christopher P Baker is available for speaking engagements, media interviews, story assignments & tours. Baker has visited Costa Rica every year since 1989 and has authored five guidebooks about Costa Rica, plus the ‘Costa Rica Pura Vida’ travel app. He has given dozens of talks nationwide, acts as a tour escort for National Geographic Expeditions and Smithsonian Journeys, and has been interviewed about Costa Rica on more than a score of leading radio and TV shows. Read my Costa Rica blog See my TV show Don't need a whole book? Buy a Moon Spotlight or buy an eBook for Kindle, Nook, or SonyReader.

I’m excited to be partnering with Emmy-award-winning producer Andres Pruna as I take over as principal host of LatinEyes TV, a nationally syndicated show that for the past decade has celebrated the best of Hispanic culture around the world. A new era is about to begin as the show will be refocused and baptized with a new name: Chris Baker’s Travelnculture. Stay tuned! For more than a decade, the hip, innovative LatinEyes television show has targeted a multicultural TV audience with original, avant-garde, Latino-themed entertainment. Syndicated to more than 200 TV stations nationwide, LatinEyes has aired continuously, totaling more than 500 distinct shows featuring such acclaimed Hollywood Latino celebrities as Gael Garcia Bernal, Bianca Jagger, and Andy Garcia. The show is a 2006 Emmy Award winner (Best Cultural Show) and a repeat Emmy nominee, as well as being nominated for four Imagen Awards, the Latino entertainment community’s highest honor. Our new show will broaden the horizons as we explore exciting North American and international destinations to unravel the marriage of cultures connecting North America with the rest of the world. Travelnculture will take advantage of LatinEyes current reach of more than 80 million television viewers, while opening a whole new world of possibilities with its exploration of the edgy, exotic and esoteric. Meanwhile, here are two unfinished previews of my first show as LatinEyes TV and I journey to Costa Rica Part One: Chris Baker & LatinEyes in Costa Rica Part two: Chris Baker & LatinEyes in Costa Rica Explore with me as I discover an exciting new hotel that doubles as artists’ retreat. Executive Producer/Shooter: Andres Pruna From a young age, Andres worked with his National Geographic documentary filmmaker father, Andy Pruna, in the Amazon jungle, Patagonia, and elsewhere in South America. This led to his own work as a documentary filmmaker in Venezuela, Argentina, and throughout the United States. Andres later graduated from the prestigious Brooks Institute of Photography. Andres also has almost two decades experience as a producer and editor for such channels as including for Univision, KRON, and ABC. Also coming soon in partnership with Andres Pruna... chris baker’s road wage g Road Wage with Christopher P Baker from Andres Pruna on Vimeo.   chris baker’s palm springs Palm Springs & Desert Resorts: A Complete Guide provides rich, entertaining information on history, culture, recreation as well as indispensable information on lodging, dining, shopping and transportation, with recommendations throughout for enjoying the region to its fullest. If you are planning a quick trip, the chapter “If Time is Short” may be of special interest!     Christopher P. Baker, award-winning travel writer and photographer, currently lives in Palm Springs. When not on a travel assignment to some far corner of the world for National Geographic and other major publishers, he enjoys exploring his own backyard. Fitting, then, that Countryman Press contracted with him to produce Palm Springs & Desert Resorts: A Complete Guide in its ‘Great Destinations’ series.” This 285-page guidebook to the Coachella Valley and surrounding attractions leaves no stone unturned. Now Baker has teamed with BeHereTV to produce an online TV series... Chris Baker's Palm Springs FREY HOUSE 2 Baker takes you to the world-renowned Albert Frey home for an insight into the remarkable architecture and ascetic lifestyle of the late Swiss-born father of “desert modernism” architecture. THE COACHELLA VALLEY PRESERVE The Coachella Valley Preserve is located 10 miles east of Palm Springs in the bluffs and mesas of the Indio Hills, near Thousand Palms, California. Set along the San Andreas fault, the preserve is dotted ith beautiful standing ponds, fan palm oases including including the Willis, Hidden Horseshoe, and Indian Palms and is home to many endangered species like the Coachella Valley fringe-toed Lizard and the desert pupfish.