Archive for the ‘Travel Destinations’ Category
Discovering Ethiopia
Although it isn’t on many lists of popular travel destinations, Ethiopia offers an intriguing culture and some of the most spectacular sights in Africa, in particular the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. Joshua Hammer wrote an article for the New York Times about a recent visit to Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, the per capita income is $120 a year; tuberculosis and [...]
Travels in rural Ghana
Ever wanted to know what it’s like to travel in rural Africa? Joshua Berman and his wife are in the midst of a round-the-world journey and just spent two weeks visiting villages in northeastern Ghana. He writes about their experiences on his blog, the tranquilo traveler: We returned to Accra last night, stiff and loopy after [...]
Boosting tourism from Beirut to Bahrain
Have an interest in traveling to the Middle East? The region has dramatic landscapes and friendly residents. So long as you avoid a few unsavory locales, it’s quite an interesting part of the world for travelers. Now, countries in that region are boosting their efforts to attract tourists. The International Herald Tribune reports on endeavors by Arab gulf [...]
Hitching rides in Romania
Hitchhiking doesn’t have the allure it once did, and in a number of places it’s really not even an advisable activity these days. But Mat Schultz discovered a different world in rural Romania, where he hitched rides along with the locals and wrote about his experiences for Lonely Planet. Botiza is the most perfect European village [...]
Easter Island journeys
There is something both enchanting and sad about the ruins of lost cultures and cities. Macchu Picchu in Peru, the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, the city of Ephesus in Turkey. But even as we struggle to understand how these societies decayed with such finality after reaching such heights of achievement, it’s still hard not to marvel at these monuments [...]
‘Road Trip USA’
Ah, the enchantment of the American road. Rolf Potts uses his Yahoo travel column this week to interview Jamie Jensen, author of Road Trip USA. Jensen discusses the attraction of this uniquely American journey: In Europe, you have towns and cities where people walk around; in America, we drive. It’s the difference between the passegiata [...]
Appreciating Cairo
The Middle East is an underappreciated travel destination. The region gets a bad reputation because of Islamic radicals and the Israeli-Palestinian issue, among other things, and those realities do have to be considered when planning a trip. But it’s also true that the people of the Middle East tend to be incredibly hospitable, the ancient [...]
Travel in the Balkans
Nice trio of travel articles in the Sunday Washington Post about the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro: But as striking as the panoramas are in this part of the world, there’s something deeper than aesthetics going on. Here, in the overlooked southeastern corner of Europe that once stood for brutal warfare but is [...]
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