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Visiting
Korea's DMZ: South Korea's
most popular tourist attraction
My
friend and host Haemee asked me "Is there anything particular you
would like to see on your trip to Seoul?". Knowing my interest in
history and art, I suspect she was expecting me to mention the Changdeokgung
Palace, the National Museum or one of the many beautiful Temples and shrines
as desired sights on my Seoul itinerary. I tentatively sent my reply by
email, "Haemee, what I would really like to visit is the DMZ".
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Delightful Ascoli--"Like Tuscany 30 years
ago"
The
moonlight reflects off the travertine marble pavement,smooth as a skating
rink, onto the Piazza del Popalo (people's plaza). The low lights of the
ancient buildings and arcades that encircle the plaza are dimmed by the
glow from above the Apennine Mountains. My table at the Café Meletti
(used by Fredrico Fellini in several films) provides a backdrop unfound
on 18 previous trips to Italy. The words of my hostess Antonella Valentini,
the director of Academia Italia, also reflect through my mind. "Ascoli
Piceno has no Uffizi, leaning tower, statue of David. No worldwide destination
craved by busses carrying camera-clicking tourists. What we do have is
a wonderful mixture of history, culture and traditions". Continue
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We cross the Mekong and step back thirty years. The modern two lane highway with giant billboards selling fast food and instant beauty stops at the Thai end of the Friendship bridge to be replaced on the Lao side with a pot-holed, ill-defined, dusty road lined with concrete warehouses and dingy, crowded, wooden markets. Instead of brand-new pick-ups and SUV's there are ancient jeeps, belching buses and swarming motorcycles. The girls and women shopping in the markets are wearing blouses and the pa-sin, a traditional long wrap worn like a skirt, rather than jeans and t-shirts. And everything slows down. Continue story
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LORD OF THE RINGS tourism hits New Zealand
The star of the LORD OF THE RINGS film trilogy is not a hobbit, wizard,or
reluctant king. It's not Kiwi director Peter Jacksonor his special effects
team. No, the star -- with no acting required -- is New Zealand. New Zealand
tourist officials jokingly billed their nation as "Best Supporting
Country" shortly after THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS won an Oscar for
cinematography. The small Pacific nation provided about 150 locations
for the films, including the provincial Hobbit-inhabited Shire, foreboding
mountains of Mordor, and elven strongholds of Rivendell and Lothlorien.
The entire country seemed to get into the act, with a Wellington cricket
crowd of 30,000 bellowing like orcs for the soundtrack, and hundreds of
Kiwi extras cheerfully donning prosthetic ears and hair to participate
as orcs and urak-hai of Middle-earth. Continue
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A Korean Bathhouse
Experience: You've Never Been This Clean!
Ulsan, Korea--I'd been to a bathhouse twice before. I just wash, shave
my legs, (as my apt is too cold) and I settle into one of the two hot
tubs to enjoy the heat and the experience. The Korean women spend vast
amounts of time meticulously scrubbing every part of their bodies. I've
seen women get massages from the "agimas" (older ladies who
work there). My body had been sore lately because of my Hapkido classes
so today I decided I would check out the massage thing. I lay naked on
the padded table surrounded by steam and naked bathing Korean women. Continue
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Lodgings
To the Manor Born: Lording
it in Portugal's Grand Manor Houses
For many people the thought of Portugal only conjures up images of beaches,
golf, port wine and endless sardines. But the country has far more to
offer, especially its undiscovered northern Minho region which is dotted
with towns and carpeted by vineyards, and where a visit to the Peneda-Gerês
National Park can reveal glimpses of ancient lifestyles which have changed
little for centuries. Minho was once one of the favorite places
for wealthy Portuguese to build their manor houses, and these grand estates
still dominate large areas of the landscape. Continue
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