South America
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (18 hours ago)
Michael Stout, Flickr
Raise your hand if you've ever had heightened expectations or an ill-informed idea of a destination prior to a trip.
Me too. Many things influence our preconceived ideas about a place: daydreams, prejudice (I'm using this word in its traditional ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (3 days ago)
From the outside, it resembles a rock or coral. But on the inside, pyura chilensis is a gooey mass of blood red. This immobile, hermaphroditic sea creature survives on microorganisms and produces vanadium, a rare mineral also found in crude oil and tar sands. But despite ...
by Elizabeth Seward (RSS feed) (4 days ago)
Odra Noel is a scientific artist who has just created and released a piece she called "The Map of Health." The map provides a visual representation of diseases affecting regions of the world. What's more is that she uses depictions of affected body parts by each disease ...
by Jonathan Kramer (RSS feed) (6 days ago)
Dibojutri, WikiMedia Commons
For more than 4,000 years, a pyramid stood in El Paraiso, "The Paradise," one of the largest settlements of its time in Peru. Last week, the pyramid stood almost 20 feet in height; today, it no longer exists.
The Wall Street Journal reported ...
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (8 days ago)
LEOL30, Flickr
If you're an avid traveler, chances are you've experienced some type of fantastical sight, to which no photograph can ever do justice. Talent and camera quality have no bearing whatsoever on the ability to capture this moment, and so you resign yourself to ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
Patrycja Przadka Giersz
It has been a busy couple of weeks for archaeologists across the globe. First, a team of researchers discovered a lost city in Cambodia and then a week later another team made a similar find in the jungles of Mexico. Not to be outdone, a group of ...
by Jessica Colley (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
Duran Duran
On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, a man named Duran Duran shares his love of Cartagena with visitors from near and far.
Some want to see the main sights, others come to explore backstreets of the colonial walled city on foot, but all leave with the benefit ...
by Josh Wolff (RSS feed) (17 days ago)
Rio de Janeiro boasts some of the beaches you'd spy on calendars, postcards and the odd screensaver in your dentist's office cubicle farm. So when we passed through on a whirlwind trip to Brazil, I took the advice of our friend Kent Wein to jump off a mountain to get a ...
by Adam Hodge (RSS feed) (18 days ago)
f_jensen_at_sdr.vinge, Flickr
AKA: Fete Nationale du Quebec (Canada), Kupala Day (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland), Festa Junina (Brazil), Foguera de San Xuan (Brazil), Jaanilaupaev (Estonia), Saint Jonas' Festival (Lithuania), Jani (Latvia), Dia de Sao Joao (Portugal), ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (19 days ago)
Whenever I need a little escape but can't get out of town, I fire up an episode or two of "Globe Trekker" so I can live vicariously through the adventures of travelers like Megan McCormick. Since she started hosting the show in 1997, she's taken viewers to the Greek Islands, ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (20 days ago)
"Taurinorum Charity Rally 2012 - APEMAYA Official trailer" from Taurinorum Travel Team on Vimeo.
On my recent trip to Italy, I fell hard for the tiny Piaggio Ape (say AH-peh, means bee in Italian, for its pleasant hum), a glorified Vespa scooter with a truck bed or a back ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (22 days ago)
Just weeks before Pat Farmer was scheduled to depart for a 20,919-kilometer run from the North to the South Pole, his major sponsor pulled out and he was faced with a choice: give up his dream to be the first man to run Pole-to-Pole or sell everything he owned to finance the ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (24 days ago)
Alexandro Auler/LatinContent/Getty Images
A wave of protests is cascading through cities in Brazil, including in Brasilia, where demonstrators stormed the country's National Congress building, Reuters is reporting. The protests, which are the largest seen in Brazil for more ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (29 days ago)
Courtesy of FluentRoad.com
Traveling to Spain or Latin America this summer and want to say more than "Donde esta el bano?" (though, that's an important one to know)? Lonely Planet has just launched a new online foreign language program, Fluent Road, partnering with Spanish ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Mariano Kamp, Flickr
There are nearly 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world today, the majority of which are predicted to become extinct by the end of this century. Half the world's population speaks the top 20 world languages - with Mandarin, Spanish and English ...
by Megan Fernandez (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Laurel Miller, Gadling
Llamas are the pack animal of the Andes Mountains in South America, and you could use one to carry home all of the llama-related goodies you'll want to buy in Bolivia. Gadling's Laurel Miller surveyed the options while traveling through the country ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Galapagos Fishing Boat by Libby Zay, Gadling
The strict environmental regulations of the Galapagos Islands make it one of the most protected places in the world. The islands are so sacred that when you fly in, flight attendants spray the overhead bins in planes to make sure ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
More and more often, ads are showing up in unlikely places. Soon, grocery store shoppers will find a tiny ad promoting tourism to Ecuador in a curious place: on each of the 24 million tons of bananas that are exported from the country each year.
Skift first broke the ...
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Courtesy of Romy Natalia Goldberg
Since April, I've been writing about my adventures in Paraguay. Gadling sent me there for the exact reason most of you are reading this post: because few people, especially Norte Americanos, know anything about this mysterious country. The ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Google
Google's Street View technology is a fantastic tool for those who love to travel. The service, which is integrated into Google Maps, gives us the chance to take a virtual tour of places that range from our hometown to some of the more iconic places around the globe. ...
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