South America
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (4 days ago)
Flickr, Michigan Municipal League
Recently, the former automotive boomtown of Detroit made history by filing for bankruptcy, making it an easy butt of jokes on Twitter and in the news. However, Motown has also been making strides to become America's great comeback city, with ...
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (7 days ago)
Beverly, Flickr
For those of us who consider pets members of the family, leaving them behind when we travel often isn't an option, especially if they're a certified companion or therapy animal. Sometimes, however, we just want to bring our furry friends along. Fortunately, ...
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (11 days ago)
Laurel Miller, Gadling
Bolivia has a turbulent, often tragic history. Rich in natural resources, the country was plundered by the Spaniards for silver and gold in the 15th century, exploiting the indigenous Quechua and Aymara peoples in the process. Yet, Bolivia has managed ...
by Anna Brones (RSS feed) (13 days ago)
Anna Brones
Why spend your summer vacation on subways and buses when you could be out exploring places on two wheels?
Thanks to an explosion in bike-share systems and a general appreciation for bike culture, making cycling a central part of your travels is becoming ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (16 days ago)
Chip Conley, Fest300
Do you travel for food, culture or history? You can find all that and more at a festival, and a website launched this week aims to connect travelers with some of the world's most unique, exciting and unusual festivals. Fest300 is part practical ...
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (18 days ago)
David Dennis, Flickr
It may be a cliche, but it's true: if you want to get off the beaten path when you travel, at some point you're going to have to take a long-distance bus ride. Even if you're not a backpacker, some destinations are accessible only by the most ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (19 days ago)
John Kucharski, Wikimedia Commons
At one point on her trip-of-a-lifetime to Peru, Rochelle Harris swatted a fly out of her ear and thought little of it. On the flight home, however, she began to hear "scratching sounds" and feel excruciating pain on the side of her face. ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (20 days ago)
Flickr, David Lytle
While much of the world is on royal baby watch, there's a new arrival in the travel world to get excited about. Arthur Frommer has just announced via the New York TImes that he will again publish guidebooks under a new name, FrommerMedia. The guides ...
by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (24 days 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) (27 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) (27 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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) (1 month 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 ...
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