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Travel Picks of the Week - 01/25/08
2008-01-25 16:00:00 The 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing , China from August 8th to August 24th. As the Olympics fever spreads across sports lovers in all countries.. More About: Travel , Week , Featured
A City of Deception
2008-01-10 16:00:00 Pushkar Lake in central India is unnaturally vibrant green in color and has a visibility no greater than half of a foot down. An accumulation of tobacco wrappers, cardboard boxes, and diapers clog the shores... More About: Muslim , Hinduism , City , Hindu , Deception
Kilkenny, Ireland
2008-01-01 16:00:00 On the banks of the river Nore, rise the castles and cathedrals of Kilkenny , Ireland . Its narrow, winding roads weave the magic of medieval times with antediluvian edifices. More About: Market
Skype To The World
2007-12-22 23:44:00 For those of you living under a rock, one of the most poplar and widely utilized forms of communication for the wayward traveler is Skype , a peer to peer application that allows users, for free, to communicate via the internet with one another. Consider it the modern day phone. Recent advances have allowed for video capabilities ... More About: World , The World
Tales Out of School
2007-12-03 16:00:00 Back in the Big Apple, kids have to be frisked for semiautomatic weapons before entering the school building. Having gained admittance, they then proceed to spend their time setting fires to garbage cans in the girl’s and boy’s bathrooms as a form of recreation (and no, although writers are prone to exaggerate, I am ... More About: Africa , Muhammad , School , Tales , Featured Articles
Coming to America
2007-12-01 23:48:00 I don’t think anyone really foresaw the speed, and the massive drop, that the America n Dollar has taken in the past few months. As an American studying in Canada, I know all too well that current exchange rate. My first transaction at a bank a few years ago when I first came here ... More About: Europe
Travel Picks of the Week - 11/30/07
2007-11-30 16:00:00 Photo: Flickr/Tuija December is here and ?tis the season to give and share. Tourists to South Africa, once limited to ritzy hotels and escorted safari tours, now have opportunities to get in touch with the joys and adversities of locals. A multitude of volunteer options are now available for those travelers who would like to get ... More About: Travel , Week
Travel Tips for Women
2007-11-28 18:50:00 Photo:Flickr/Green308 My heart?s pounding harder than the drills that wake the neighborhood at ungodly hours; breath fluttering faster than eyelashes at a speed dating event. No, this isn?t panic, or love at first sight ? it?s sheer excitement at being off traveling again. Having traveled solo for many years, I have the routine down pat. ... More About: Women , For Women , Travel , Airport , Travel Tips
Plane Crazy: My Climate-Friendly Trip from Ireland to Mallorca
2007-11-19 16:00:00 Photo: Flickr/Ced77vde Small talk at work: ?I?m off to Mallorca for a week?, I say. ?Oh that?s lovely. It?s nice in September.? ?Overland. No plane.? More About: Ireland , Climate , Crazy , Trip
On Beauty
2007-11-19 16:00:00 Wanting to avoid the exorbitant salon prices at the posh hotel called the Meridien across the street, I thought I would try getting my hair cut in the nearby village of Ngor before the start of classes. My last haircut was of course in Holland, when my dear aunt coiffed me beautifully and even ... More About: Beauty
Wangaloka from Mbola
2007-11-18 16:00:00 Photo:Flickr/milleniumpromise Yesterday, Lia and I emerged from the bush of Africa . A.k.a Mbola, Tanzania. Our stay lasted 5 nights 6 days. With no one speaking English, we basically had to sink or swim in the language pool, and ended up floating. We can now complete the call-and-response greeting series in Swahili and the tribal language. The ... More About: Wang
Travel Picks of the Week - 11/16/07
2007-11-16 18:15:00 Photo:Flickr/SlipperySlap National pride can be a blessing if it serves as motivation for being a force of change for the betterment of society ?or not ?if it is used for bragging rights, feeling superior or stereotyping different cultures as curiosities, so away from normal. Rick Steves narrates how travel shatters egocentricism and lets one empathize ... More About: Travel , Week
How Do You Say ?Get my friend to bloody hospital!? In Thai?
2007-11-16 16:00:00 They told us to come back with a story ? they just didn?t tell us what type of story to come back with. The countdown for New Year s was on. Lief and I decided to head over to the full moon party in Koh Phangan by ourselves. The rest of the gang ... More About: Thailand , Hospital , Friend , Thai
The Last Day For The FALL WRITING CONTEST!
2007-11-15 18:02:00 This is your last chance to get those stories in! Some of us work better under pressure (me included) so you now have only 12 hours left to transform that memory into a real traveling tale. Submission will not be included in the contest after Midnight tonight Novemeber 15th and your story will require at ... More About: Contest , Writing , Fall , The Last
Naked in New Zealand
2007-11-15 16:00:00 This entire trip I?ve been looking for a great place to go streaking. More About: New Zealand , Zealand
The Vagabond Muse: Two Women of McLeod Ganj, India
2007-11-13 16:00:00 Sunita The first time I saw Sunita she had a baby in a sling, and red and black checked blanket draped over her head. Her smile was wide and bright, despite black plaque on teeth. As her smile broke open, she broke through. I felt it erupt in me like summer ... More About: India , Women , China , Tibet , Muse
Come Strangers, Stay Free, Part Friends
2007-11-06 16:00:00 Photo : Flickr/Ansari Share This Article More About: Europe , Middle East , Friends , Asia , Africa
Eat Local!
2007-11-06 02:58:00 Even while traveling, that familiar mantra rings true. Eating local is not only better for you, it?s also better for the environment. A good way to help offset your carbon travel footprint (something that is in the back of our minds all the time now) is to eat food grown and produced locally, thus ... More About: Donalds , Local , Loca
Taking the Heat
2007-11-05 16:00:00 In my last article I mentioned how much it pained me to leave behind my swank US wardrobe items when I came to teach here in Dakar, but as far as fashion goes, at the moment all I can say is that I try to wear as little as I decently can in front ... More About: Africa , New York , Muslim , Heat , Taking
Nylon Burns Feel Like Adventure
2007-11-05 16:00:00 Photo:Flickr/Rutger I have never before saved a hot air balloon in distress. But now, I feel, is my time to shine. Share This Article More About: Europe , Adventure , Sweden , Burns , Feel
Walking with Impala
2007-11-04 16:01:00 It’s only when you go on a walking safari that you discover the biggest secret of the Africa n bush - it’s littered with poop. Rhino droppings, elephant dung, lion spore, hyena muck and steaming minefields created by a herd of twitchy zebra all lie in wait for the unwary ... More About: Walking
Our Travel Picks for the Week : 11/02/07
2007-11-02 17:51:00 Photo : Flickr/Realkuhl Sharing the fun, adventure and intrigue of travel with a like-minded companion is exciting, but keeping mutual expectations reasonable makes for better travel memories. If travel gives you a whole new persona, do not let it get too personal says Rolf Potts in The Dark Side of Travel Romance Has travel ever sparked your ... More About: Week
Yangshuo and the Dragon?s Backbone Terraces ? Overland in Southern China
2007-11-02 16:57:00 Drooping willow tree leaning over noisy stream: check. Cobbled street lined with swaying red lanterns: check. Cyclist wearing conical hat wobbling down said street: check. Everything I had come to expect of a tiny Southern Chinese town; Yangshuo is a popular backpacker hangout stuffed with character and teeming with small cafes. But the most striking ... More About: Asia , China , Dragon , Westerners
Reminisces from Misiones, Argentina
2007-11-01 17:35:00 I have finally arrived in Iguazu, after spending a whole day traveling from that jungle lodge … here it is again. It was only about 300 km away, but took all day, as the rickety bus from the nearby pueblo of El Soberbio, stopped all the time, spending ages at each town it entered ... More About: Argentina , South America , Latin America , Gent , Remi
Have Pants, Will Travel
2007-11-01 04:34:00 A key travel accessory when traveling are pants. It might seem obvious to some and asinine to others, but too often when we travel we a) forget worldwide weather patterns, or b) forget worldwide dress customs. Personally, I have been burned one time too many on this whole pants thing. I once traveled Florida and, being from ... More About: Europe , Travel , Travel Tips , Pants
The Untamed Skies of Alaska
2007-10-31 17:00:00 Traveling in America is like being constantly exposed to one and the same familiar cliché. Share This Article More About: Alaska , Canada
My English Makes Men Weep
2007-10-30 16:48:00 Photo:Flickr/Gordon This emu is staring at me, and I don’t think it speaks English . Share This Article More About: America , Europe , Spain
The Path Less Traveled
2007-10-29 06:34:00 I have to say that it was heartbreaking to leave my lovely apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Not only did I have a stable job with generous vacation time (in publishing, no less!), dishes that matched, a closet full of swank outfits - in short, all the things one is supposed to have ? ... More About: Africa , Muslim , Arabic , The U , Path
Cycloing Saigon
2007-10-29 04:38:00 The main modes of transportation in Saigon are on the back of a moped or in a cyclo, which is a bicycle carriage type of deal. The moped was the first thing I used and it?s clearly not for the faint of heart. My driver seemed to negotiate space where there was none, drove on ... More About: Asia , Vietnam
Along Estonia?s Lake Peipsi
More articles from this author:2007-10-29 02:01:00 The vast expanse of Russia ends abruptly down the middle of Lake Peipsi, where the Republic of Estonia begins. Topography on the Estonian side is muted. Should the lake level ever rise significantly, there is little to keep waters from completely inundating the country. The area is heavily farmed, and individual fields are often ... More About: Europe , World War 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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