Features
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The challenge — and rewards — of visiting southern Ethiopia
It is said that Ethiopia has an image problem, and indeed it has. Years of relentless media coverage of famine, war and rebellions have taken their toll. Unfortunately, this has made travelers pass on the opportunity to visit an area that is unique, not only to Africa but worldwide. Deciding on a destination Ethiopia has [...] Read more »
Visiting the Valley of the Geysers on the remote Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula, part of The Russian Federation, extends from the northeastern end of Siberia, thrusting down to divide the Sea of Okhotsk from the Bering Sea. It is one of the few truly unexplored wilderness areas left in the world. Sharing a latitude with Alaska, it is remote and difficult to get to. Conditions [...] Read more »
Tiny Luxembourg — a land of international diversity
Do you speak French? No? Then perhaps German? Not to worry, everyone you meet in Luxembourg will also speak English — and most likely Spanish. However, a phrase in Luxembourgish, the national language, best describes the citizens of this grand duchy: Mir wölle bleiwe wat mir sin, or “We want to stay what we are.” [...] Read more »
Burma: a land lost in time
by Rob Sangster, Nova Scotia “. . . For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say, ‘Come you back, you British Soldier, come you back to Mandalay!’. . . On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin’-fishes play. An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay. . [...] Read more »
Connecting with the animals at Nepal’s Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge
by Jack Ogg, Houstin, TX My wife, Connie, and I, in planning our Southeast Asia trip with our son Jon and his wife, Kendra, in late 2003, originally intended to include only Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia (the countries included in our special Cathay Pacific promotion) on our itinerary. However, the more we read, [...] Read more »
Ukraine — in the wake of Catherine the Great
by Gloria Grant, Chevy Chase, MD As a docent at Washington, D.C.’s, Hillwood Museum, featuring fabulous Russian treasures, I have been fascinated with a trip Catherine the Great made down the Dnieper River in 1787. Accompanied by the Austrian emperor and other diplomatic guests, she led a tour of her expanding empire from Kiev to [...] Read more »
Southern Africa — the benefits of visiting in the wet season
by Nili Olay, New York, NY My husband, Jerry, and I live in New York City. As much as we love the city, we do like to get to a warm climate for a while each winter. Southern Africa seemed a logical choice until I started to read the guidebooks. They all warned that during [...] Read more »
Flights spoiled a good trip
A couple mailed to ITN a copy of their letter to Grand Circle Travel, as follows. My wife and I were on your “Great Rivers of Europe” riverboat cruise from Vienna to Amsterdam, embarking July 2, 2004. We are “Inner Circle” members. While we were extremely pleased with the river cruise, the accommodations, the program [...] Read more »
February in Paris — a perfect time for a family visit
by Yvonne Michie Horn, Santa Rosa, CA “Je voudrais pasta avec fromage, s’il vous plait.” Eight-year-old Taylor, who at home is highly suspicious of anything stranger on her plate than noodles with cheese, had practiced her dining-out phrase to perfection. Her brother, 12-year-old Max, on the other hand, was ready to try anything, with one [...] Read more »
Skiing to the North Pole — at 73
by Henry Linden, Torrance, CA I love to travel. Since I have visited about 75 countries, I am constantly on the lookout for new and unusual experiences. About a year ago I was thinking about going to the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, located between Greenland and Norway, to get an idea of [...] Read more »