Wining and dining in Burgundy and in Idaho, biking Utah's Canyonlands, jousting in the Czech Republic, sacrificing chickens to the sacred catfish of Burkina Faso -- we have something for everyone at GoNOMAD this month.
A blue-footed booby - photo by
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Editor Max Hartshorne leads off
the GoNOMAD invasion of France with a trip to the idyllic, pastoral province of Burgundy, and he reports that the number one travel destination in the world fully lives up to its reputation for hospitality, and, bien sûr, for food and wine.
Now get set for the other three GoNOMAD writers -- Sony Stark, Ginger Warder, and Senior Travel Editor Kent E. St. John -- who will be posting stories from France next month.
Paul Shoul visits Boise, Idaho, and reports on the fine food, the stunning scenery, and the overall livability that has made Idaho the third fastest growing state in the US. Annika Dash writes about the Five Petalled Rose Festival in Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic, which includes jousting, parades and many other forms of merriment.
The intrepid David Rich visits Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and offers some unfortunate chickens to the country's sacred catfish. David also writes about the colorful markets and Dogon dancers in Mali.
Lisa Lubin sends some delightful photos and commentary from her cruise to the Galapagos Islands, and
NYU Senior Courtney C. Reed provides an insightful look into the world of Dark Tourism -
travel to the sites of disasters and tragedies.
Brent Lewin gives us a close-up look at Holi, India's festival of color, during which everyone is sprayed with colorful paints and powders, and Connie Maria Westergaard takes her 80-year-old grandmother, Birthe Ewertsen, to Greenland where they enjoy sightseeing, dogsledging, and cruising among the icebergs.
Matthew Kadey takes a breathtaking mountain bike trip on Utah's White Rim Trail, and Global Roamers Kelly Westhoff and Quang Nystrom offer tips on packing for a long journey.
Just another month of top-notch travel writing at GoNOMAD.com.
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Burgundy Lives Up to Its Reputation
An April trip to France’s Burgundy region made it clear why more people want to visit France than any other destination in the world. Quite simply, France has been luring visitors from around the world for centuries because this country knows how to make visitors feel welcome... |
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Boise Idaho: An Air of Optimism
Boise is a very livable city, located on a high desert plain, abutting the mountains that come right down to its edge. The natural beauty of the scenery is simply amazing. It has parks, wildlife reserves, skiing, biking, hiking, great museums, amazing food, diverse culture, and a great nightlife. It is easy to see why so many people are moving here... |
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Granny Goes to Greenland
With an almost 80-year-old birth certificate, my grandma had almost given up the dream of dogsledging through sparkling frost, sailing among giant icebergs and snowcapped black mountains and standing on the ice cap with nothing but ice in sight, but this Winter Granny and I traveled to a different world for eight days... |
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Jousting in Cesky Krumlov
Watching a prince engage in the ancient art of jousting for the affections of a princess is a heart-stopping experience, especially when that prince has to grab the mane to stop himself tumbling off his horse.
This is part of the Five Petalled Rose Festival in a square in Cesky Krumlov, a medieval town in the southernmost part of the Czech Republic... |
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Biking Utah's Canyonlands: The White Rim Trail
We have driven 1,600 miles from Canada to the American Southwest for the privilege of joining Maggie Wilson and Mike Holmes of Magpie Adventures for a four-day guided pedal through this grand high desert. With at least 100 completed loops, they know the route better than anyone... |
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Shedding Light on Dark Tourism
AI knew I had to go. When people asked, I simply responded that I was traveling alone to Auschwitz because I felt I needed to – I had no other reason. Since adolescence I have been saturated with brutal images of the Holocaust. Could this fascination be the force behind my visiting Auschwitz, and if so, did this make me a dark tourist?
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Burkina Faso: From Holy Catfish to Percusso Picassos
Like everyone else, we were among the lucky blessed. The sacred catfish, menacing and swirling in their enormousness, devoured every savory morsel. The pilgrimage insured our future fortune and happiness, which we immediately reaped at the music and film festivals in Ouagadougou (pronounced Waga-doo-goo), the capitol of Burkina Faso... |
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India's Holi Festival: All in the Name of Fun
What do you get when you cross a kaleidoscope of colour with April Fools Day and a touch of urban guerilla warfare? I found out when I went to India to bear witness to Holi. Of the many festivals in India, Holi, the festival of colors, is the most vibrant and joyous. It is a unique celebration in that India shuts down and people take to the streets to douse each other in colored powder, or gulal, and literally paint the town red... |
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Africa Under Canvas: Camping in Botswana
Botswana is Africa’s big sky country and the dry horizon seems to stretch on and on. Much of the land here is desert, including the famous Kalahari, but we’ll be camping in the Okavango River delta, which lures animals and makes the desert green. This is my first time in Africa and everything is a surprise... |
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Galapagos A-Go-Go: "Sea Lions and Turtles and Boobies, Oh My!"
The real show here was the animals. It was truly amazing. Most of the animals here are found nowhere else in the world AND there are no predators here so none of the animals are afraid of us.
We stroll by one hundred-year-old tortoises, swim up to sharks and penguins, and even snap photos mere inches from sea lions basking in the sun... |
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Good Golly, I Sure Do Miss Mali!
There are places you always want to go back to, and Mali is at the top of my list.
The single key word is color; sheer unadulterated cacophonies of vividness to put Sherwin Williams to shame.
Color pervades Mali, from the ancient market at D’Jenne to the sheer escarpments of Dogon country, all the way up the Niger River to over-fabled Timbuktu. |
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Packing for a Long Journey: Tips From Kelly and Quang
We started our Global Roam with four backpacks – two big ones and two small ones. It didn’t take us long to figure out that our multiple packs were too heavy and too cumbersome.
Just five days into our trip, we dumped everything onto the bed of our Mexico City hotel room and sorted it into two piles – a pile to keep and a pile to ditch.
We filled the largest of our backpacks with all the stuff we didn’t think we’d need... |
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