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Some of the curiously eroded “fairy chimneys” in Zelve, Cappa­docia, Turkey. Photo: Tykol

Welcome to the 447th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. If you’re reading ITN for the first time, here’s what it’s all about: travelers keeping other travelers informed.

A Guatapé local poses by a pub-front “socket” for which he served as a model.
Bogotá, Medellín and Guatapé (1 of 3 on Colombia)
At a wet market in Phnom Penh, chef San Sinith explained the qualities of variou
The secret to Katiev Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh Noodle Soup)
Neptune Fountain in front of the Palazzo Vecchio — Florence. Photo by Julie Skur
Beneath 
Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio (1 of 2 on Italy)
The reflective lake in National Kandawgyi Gardens — Myanmar. Photos: Yvonne Horn

During Myanmar’s colonial-British era, Maymyo — named “May Town” after Colonel May, then in charge of the 5th Light Infantry of the Bengal Army — offered a cool “hillside station” retreat from lowland Mandalay’s oppressive summer heat.

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