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TheBigDay.com, the leading honeymoon registy, is responding to the many requests we have had over the last several years by setting up a registry for couples who are celebrating anniversaries.

The anniversary registry will function the same as our popular honeymoon registry does and will answer the question of what to give a couple who has been married for 25 years! The registry allows guests to the celebration to give the couple fun gifts like romantic dinners, spa treatments or helicopter trips.

Many couples who are celebrating those BIG anniversaries will be taking time to travel together to places near and far. My husband and I did just that last summer when we went (with our family) to the Cook Islands to celebrate our 35th anniversary.

One of the most popular requests we get for accommodations is for overwater bungalows. Tahiti is the destination where most of these are found, but both Fiji and the Caribbean have them as well.

Punta Caracol in Panama is the latest one we've found with overwater bungalows - and they have a honeymoon special there! From what I've been able to tell from their photos online, this resort isn't as luxurious as those in Tahiti, but it's not as expensive either. Electricity is provided by solar panels and they have a "bio-digestor that debugs waste water avoiding any type of pollution of (their) pristine environment." Activites at the resort include snorkeling coral reefs, boat rides to visit Indian communities, hiking the rainforest and dolphin watching.

In a previous post I mentioned that the Royal Nepal Airlines had mistakenly published a poster with a picture of Machu Picchu and the heading "Have you seen Nepal?"

About the same time, my daughter wrote to me asking if I had heard the latest news from Nepal, and, knowing she was really talking about the encouraging news of the Maoists joining the government, I jokingly sent her a link to the article on the poster goof instead and asked if that was the news she was talking about.

She said that there is a mountain in Nepal named Machhapuchre - surprisingly close to Machu Picchu in letters and possibly pronunciation (my Nepali is limited to three words - amma, didi and ba, meaning mom, sister and dad so I'm not really sure of how Machhapuchre is pronounced). Still, it makes me think twice about flying on Nepal Airlines. (Don't ask me about sacrificing goats, blood and airplane tires.)

Here's a picture of Machhapuchre, which, from some angles looks a bit like the Matterhorn, but not really like Machu Picchu! Machhapuchre is part of the Annapurna range and is located more or less north of Pokhara, which is to the west and slightly north of Khatmandu.