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Authenticity And The Banana Pancake Trail In India
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What and where is this pure, pious embodiment of Indianness that we are searching for? More »
Visit to a Chinese Spa: Massaged with Flames
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The good times were warm, deep massage strokes that loosen muscles I didn’t even know I had. As for the other times, well, I didn’t exactly cry o More »
The Perils And Possibilities Of Revolutionary Tourism: A Visit With The Zapatistas
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Reflecting on the meaning of revolutionary tourism after a visit to a Zapatista community in Chiapas, Mexico. More »
Qoyllur Rit’i: Beating Drums and Freezing Feet
Thousands of people thronged the immediate surrounds of the church, haggling over dream-replicas in the symbolic market, competing drum beats and twir More »
7 Ways To Tame Your Fear Of Flying
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Tips, comforting statistics, and helpful safety practices that could turn you from a murmuring terrified mess into a functional human being on flights More »
Ask A Pilot Round 2: Your Questions Answered!
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Here, Lance deals with decreasing pilot wages and makes radical claims about Chicago O'Hare. More »
Formula Travel
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It's not the formulas. It's the mere act of being present and aware. More »
How To Score Cheap Theatre Tickets In London
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The British government has long recognized that young adulthood does not come with deep resources, and so many cultural institutions offer discounts f More »
44 Organizations Providing Internships, Volunteer Vacations, and Long-Term Programs in Africa
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An informative list of organizations you can get involved with in Africa. More »
Ask A Pilot Round 1: Your Questions Answered!
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Matador's go-to pilot spreads his expertise around on everything from volcanic ash to potential hidden make out nooks below the cabin. More »
Photo Essay: Kashmir
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Photographer Sami Calado visits Srinigar, Kashmir's lakes and high pastures in the Himalaya. More »
Introducing A New Series: Ask A Pilot
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Your chance to ask a commercial airline pilot your questions about flying. More »
The Dollar Value Of A Human Life
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When we, as a voting public, think about immigration reform and the lawmakers that lobby for and against it, we need to answer one question: When do w More »
How Airport Security Changes Your Mood When Traveling
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How does airport security change your mood? More »
Finding Art In Tanzanian Tingatinga
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I go back outside and look up and down the impossibly colorful street. I’d been very close to losing interest in Tingatinga - purposefully plagiari More »
Breaking Down The Staredown
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As an avid traveler I often get asked how I deal with, you know, stares, when I travel in regions where not a lot of black people travel. More »
Dispatches From One Tuesday In Iraq
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It was quiet and Baghdad didn’t seem like a ruined city. It didn't seem like a warzone, either. More »
Confessions of an Overpacker
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For many, efficient packing is a mantra. For me, it is a mysterious holy grail. More »
Bring Your Own Food: Eating Out In The Philippines
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“I know a place,” he said, and then stepped on the gas. More »
The Stigma Of Foreignness: Traveling Back To The Motherland
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Motherland travel can sometimes be more challenging than visiting a country in which you are an obvious foreigner. More »
Oaxaca’s Pacific Coast By The Numbers
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Cows Narrowly Avoided While Maneuvering Van Through Roadless Desert To Avoid Roadblocks: 3 More »
A Virtual Ride On A Chinese Train
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Slowly the train wakes up around you. People stumble with crazy hair to the bathroom. Old men strut and flex and roam in their tight white long underw More »
Tourism And The “Preservation” Of Culture: A Rebuttal
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I find the loss of traditional cultures distressing, but I don’t think that allowing traditional cultural practices to be commercialized and purchas More »
Photo Essay: Travels In Bolivia and Peru
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A girl who attended a non-profit funded school, in Cusco, Peru. More »
On Blogs Of The World, Intercultural Marriage, and Travel Writing: An Interview With Liz Chatburn of Pocket Cultures
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Liz Chatburn, managing editor of Pocket Cultures, shares her perspective on being part of a cross-cultural couple, how blogs could change travel in th More »
11 Things I Learned In Buenos Aires
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5. Give the people the right to smoke pot in public and they will, with gusto. More »
Metric Map: Which Countries Don’t Belong With The Others?
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An outmoded system of measurement means Americans are often at a loss abroad. More »
Traveling As A Mixed-Race Couple In Asia: No, Sir, I Did Not Buy My Wife
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There is a lot of subtext crammed into the nine-word question “Where in the Orient did you meet your wife?” More »
A Mexican Road Trip: Reading Sugar Cane Landscapes
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Sometimes, I thought, all you really need to do is see; sometimes the political and social and economic realities are there laid out in everyday life More »
Luxury Cruise Ships Still Stopping At Haiti’s Private Beaches
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Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines continues to dock luxury cruise liners at private beach resorts in Haiti, where tourists jet ski while the earthquake dis More »
India, Poverty, And The Fear Of Traveling To Poor Places
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Whether you go and actually see the poverty of India up close, it will be there nonetheless. Every night as you fall asleep in your warm, comfortable More »
Gringos In Mexico And That Elusive Quest for Authenticity
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We got out of the bus in Mitla, blinking, stumbling, little swirls of dust rising around our feet, plunk, plunk, plunk, one gringo after another plunk More »
What Is Ethical Travel?
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What makes a place ethical or unethical, and should this influence the way we travel? More »
Culture Shock: When, Where, And How Has It Hit You?
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The inevitable and varied experience of culture shock. More »
Existential Migration: Is Travel An Existential Need?
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As more and more of us are expected to have mobile lives, a kind of global ‘homelessness’ may be on the horizon; perhaps we are heading towards a More »
Has The Internet Destroyed The Spontaneity of Travel?
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Has the Internet permanently altered the way we travel and if so, what are the consequences? More »
