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When you’re researching a trip, it’s not always easy to determine whether your tour operator or hotel cares about sustainable travel. And when you’re paying a middleman instead of giving your money straight to a business in your destination, you may not know how much of that money goes to the local communities.
Some tour operators know an area after traveling there for years, … Read more »
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Asia’s metropolises never slow down. A new Web site sets out to cover these hip urban machines: CNNGo.
It currently covers six cities: Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. CNNGo says they might expand to cover more cities in the future.
What’s better is that they welcome stories and photos from contributors. Check out the info here: Write for CNNGo. Worth … Read more »
Granada, Nicaragua
One morning in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as I sipped coffee in the pleasant open-air environment of the Foreign Correspondents Club, I read this: “Yeay Mao was a strongly passionate, sexy woman who always needed a penis. So after she died her spirit still likes the penis, … Read more »
Quite a few vagabonders that I’ve talked to in the last couple of months are Asia-bound this year, so this promotion just announced by Cathay Pacific may offer some interesting travel options from the U.S.
The 2010 All Asia Pass, starting at $1599, not including $180 in taxes. This package includes round-trip air fare … Read more »
First, decide you’re going to go.
The untraveled route is the route you haven’t taken yet. Or maybe it’s your old route with new eyes.
Go on foot. Bike. Horse. Rollerblade, skateboard, pogo stick.
Start climbing from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port or descending from Read more »
The BBC says: “No-one sees the world the way you do. BBC World Service wants to see things from your perspective – and create a unique picture of our lives today across the planet.”
Here’s the rest of the info, including the link to enter the competition.
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Does your on-the-road lifestyle have you dragging your feet? Depending on where you are in the world, there are some great therapeutic traditions to take advantage of to rejuvenate your weary travel fatigue.
On my recent travels through Morocco I had the pleasure of experiencing the languid therapy of the local Arabic hammams. Water has been used as … Read more »
“We all go through a similar process of being formed by the culture around us. It is something described well in Bruce Wexler’s book Brain and Culture: Neuroscience, Ideology and Social Change, in which Wexler argues that much of human conflict arises from our efforts to reconcile the world as we believe it to exist (our internal structures) with the world we live in. According to Wexler, we develop an inner world, a neuropsychological framework … Read more »