Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands: Beauty and a Bummer By Patrick Smith Off the coast of southwestern Thailand, the Phi Phi Islands rise from the Andaman Sea like an apparition. Approaching by ferry from Phuket, the sight of them gives you the chills. Clusters of baroque limestone towers soar out of…
Jaipur, India: The Monkey Business Traveler By Ashutosh Ratnam Getting mugged and nearly molested by a troop of monkeys isn’t everyone’s idea of holiday fun. But the volume and persistence with which Jaipur hawks its forts and palaces can sometimes make you sick enough to sell yourself ‘very-nearly-catching-rabies’ as ‘breakaway…
Rome’s famous neighborhood near the Colosseum By Greg Roensch I recently spent three weeks in Rome, in the cramped and cobbled district of Trastevere. Looking back on the trip, I find it was the sounds of this ancient district more than anything else that left a mark on me. More…
Jordan: Lessons From the Other Holy Land By Janis Turk But tell a real traveler, and he’ll say, “I’m jealous.” Just before dawn, the dark streets of Amman feel more cool than dusty, like the way clay feels cold in your hands. The windows of my hotel room are cranked…
Yes, Thailand Celebrates July 4th! By Ronald Estrada I love my new life in paradise: Bangkok, Thailand. Now, I finally get to do life’s little pleasures — those things I always wanted to do, but was just too busy working to do. These days, I regularly write while seated on…
Living in Jordan as a woman: Sophia Jones shares a box of chocolates with a Jordanian woman on a park Bench in Amman, and reflects on the lives of women in the Middle East.
Jean Miller Spoljaric attends bullfighting in Valencia Spain and is so horrified she cheers for the bull, hating seeing an animal die of stab wounds.
A Frenzied Meal Quest in Antigua By Michael Chrisman So it’s Sunday. The family I’m staying with is taking a break today. I’m on my own for dinner. It’s about 7:30 at night, therefore dark. It’s always dark here at 7:30; that’s what being close to the equator does to…
Janis Turk writes about Morocco, a country which, she says, ‘opened to me like a jack-in-the-box, popping up with surprises at every turn.’
2009 in Review from our Travelers A travel website needs to be edited and written by real travelers. Sometimes I wonder when I read glossy magazines about whether those editors really go anywhere, or do they sit in their big offices and look at stories about other people’s travels? Not…
Ukraine:Roman Skaskiw returns to his family home in Ukraine and reflects on the country’s troubled history.
Visiting Free Ukraine – Page Two By Roman Skaskiw There are statues of poets, Roman Gods, and one statue of Austrian writer and Lviv native Leopold von Masoch, after whom masochism is named. Four universities fill the city with young people. Street musicians seem to sing or play on every…
