2007 | International Travel News

Old meets new in the heart of Japan’s Honshu Island

Features, December 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

by John Penisten, Hilo, HI On a March ’07 trip to Japan, my wife, Susan, and I wanted to experience something of the country’s hectic urban life as well as the slower pace of its small towns and countryside. We got both during our train trip through the heart of Honshu Island. The small, sedate market town [...]

Cruising World » Tips on snorkeling

Columns, December 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

by Lew Toulmin, (First of two parts, jump to part 2) Many cruise and expedition passengers enjoy snorkeling off beaches, Zodiacs or dive boats. Snorkeling is an easy sport and provides fantastic views of beautiful coral and fish. The sport is open to swimmers of any age. I have seen snorkelers from ages five to 85 [...]

Driving Namibia

Features, November 2007 issue ⋅ One comment

by Joyce Bruck, Ocean Ridge, FL My longtime friend Winnie Outcalt joined me in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 18, 2006, for an adventure to Namibia. My interest in Namibia began when I saw pictures of the Skeleton Coast with its sand dunes, animals and shipwrecks. As I did my usual extensive research, I discovered there [...]

Focus on Archaeology » The Plain of Jars in Laos

Columns, November 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

I stood on a hill overlooking a wintry landscape of dry fields stretching as far as the eye could see. All around me were stone jars. Enormous stone jars. Some stood six feet high. Some were no longer upright but tilted precariously. Others lay flat on the ground. My husband, Paul, moved from one jar [...]

The Discerning Traveler » Snippets of New Zealand

Columns, October 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

—The Discerning Traveler is written by Philip Wagenaar. (First of two parts) It was our third trip to New Zealand. We were on a 4-week Elderhostel (11 Ave. de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111; 800/454-5768, www.elderhostel.org) tour of the North and South Islands. Our last journey, in 1984, had culminated in the county hospital in Nelson on the South [...]

Portugal’s isle of Madeira boasts a profusion of blooms and a bounty of its namesake wine

Features, October 2007 issue ⋅ 2 comments

by Harvey Hagman, Fort Myers, FL After spending the winter of 1419 on the barren, white sands of the island of Porto Santo, Portuguese explorer João Gonçalves Zarco set sail for the mist-shrouded land on the horizon. Zarco found an island of towering peaks and thick, ancient woods — madeira means “wood” — with rugged, cliff-lined [...]

Cones, caves, and capstones — Cappadocia plus more in Turkey

Features, October 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

by David Tykol, Editor Our bus parked at the lip of the valley and everyone gasped. Looking out at a landscape of bleached-tan earth nearly devoid of green grass or vegetation, we saw hundreds of giant cones and pillars — like 3-story-tall termite mounds tinged in yellows and reds — that seemed to be piercing through [...]

All Aboard » TGV Est Premiére

Columns, September 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

—All Aboard! is written by Jay Brunhouse It is through flat, green, French countryside surrounded by fields of grain that my TGV train really flexed its muscles. Powering ahead, I didn’t feel any curves, and when I encountered slightly rolling hills, raw embankments rose high above my window. The level ride over the new Est européene [...]

Antarctica — unimaginable beauty

Features, September 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

by Debi Shank, ITN After a full day at sea, I woke up, peered through the window of my cabin and had my first sighting of Antarctica. The months of anticipation were over as we sailed past Deception Island and began our 5-day voyage through the South Shetland Islands and down the Antarctic Peninsula. The first distinct [...]

Far Horizons » Hue and Hoi An

Columns, August 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment

(2 of 4 on Viet-Nam & Cambodia) The second stop in my March 2007 journey in Viet-Nam and Cambodia, the land portion of which was hosted by SITA World Tours, focused on Hue and Hoi An in central Viet-Nam, a region that many Vietnamese feel is the historic cultural heartland of the now-thriving country. Many of Viet-Nam’s [...]

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