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Japan — Shining light on Shikoku

Boarding Pass, April 2009 issue
Japan — Shining light on Shikoku
While Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands — tucked under the largest island, Honshu, and to the right of the southernmost, Kyushu — it promises big surprises, as I learned on a visit Oct. 13-18, 2008. ...

Snippets of New Zealand (Second of two parts)

Columns, November 2007 issue
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D. In this issue, I am continuing my travelogue of the South Island, which we visited in January 2007 as part of a 4-week Elderhostel (Boston, MA; 800/454-5768, www.elderhostel.org) program in New Zealand. Te Anau Our group’s next overnight was in Te Anau, located on the shores of the lake by the same name. On one ...

Southern Africa trains

Travelers' Intercom, October 2007 issue
In July ’06 I made a deposit of $2,400 for trips on the following Shongololo Express trains in Southern Africa: Good Hope, March 6-21, 2007 ($3,680), Dune Express, March 27-April 11 ($3,905) and Southern Cross, April 11-26 ($4,350) — total cost, $11,935. So it was with concern that I read in ITN the news item “South ...

How much to tip on tours?

Travelers' Intercom, July 2007 issue
How much to tip on tours?
Richard E. Smith of Long Beach, California, opened up the topic of tipping on tours (April ’04, pg. 4). Questions he asked included 1) “Should the cost of tipping be included in the tour price?,” 2) “Should there be an existing standard for tipping adhered to by most tour companies?,” 3) “Should an escrow tipping ...

Travel Tidbits

Travel Tidbits, January 2007 issue
Travel Tidbits
We took an exhilarating, 2-hour white-water rafting trip down Chile’s Sarapiquis River during a December tour with Overseas Adventure Travel (800/221-0814 or www.oattravel.com). We were told the Sarapiquis was a Class III river (medium to moderately difficulty). We would experience a few minutes of rapid paddling on our trip interspersed with periods of calmly floating ...

Far Horizons » The Panama Highlands

Columns, November 2006 issue
(Third of four parts, jump to part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). The Highlands The Chiriqui Highlands of southwestern Panama, with elevation ranging from 3,500 to 6,000 feet, are indeed a special haven of nature’s splendor. A place of respite and generosity to humans, the natural world of the highlands is verdant and abundant in its ...

France — Plying the French waterways by kayak and canoe

Features, September 2006 issue
On our first visit to France’s Pont du Gard, the famous 2,000-year-old aqueduct near Nîmes, in 1996, we stood in envy as we looked down on the river below dotted with canoes and kayaks, promising ourselves that someday we, too, would be among them. It was a long time before that anticipated day arrived; in ...

Stunning Splendor of Iceland

Features, August 2006 issue
Stunning Splendor of Iceland
I was aware of the buzz surrounding Iceland as a new travel “hot spot,” but the only in-depth coverage I had actually come across was filtered through the acerbic wit of Anthony Bourdain on an episode of the Travel Channel’s “No Reservations.” (There seemed to be a lot of late-night drinking and eating of odd ...

Beautiful Bali — an unbelievable bargain

Features, May 2006 issue
Beautiful Bali — an unbelievable bargain
by Harold Grady, St. Louis, MO From the plane, I could see, appearing like tiny specks, some of the 17,508 islands of Indonesia that straddle the equator between Southeast Asia and Australia. As we flew through the clouds and circled the beautiful island of Bali, it was love at first sight. Planning the trip The idea for this ...

Clothes Shopping around the world

Features, April 2006 issue
Clothes Shopping around the world
We asked you to tell us places (outside of North America and the Caribbean) where you couldn’t resist buying an article of clothing — high-priced or bargain, fashionable or practical. In addition to describing the garment, we wanted you to pinpoint where you got the item, about how much it cost and when you were ...
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