Travel is essentially about storytelling, about sharing what we discover of our global home. This blog is about just that — the unusual, the unique, the gems — from Tombée du Ciel, House Fallen from the Sky, to the ghost trees of India, to the Bolivian cemetery where trains are buried. There are countless stories, large and very small, that we come across as we travel the globe. It would be a shame to pass them by without notice.
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The first photograph ever taken is said to be “View from the Window at Le Gras” [Circa, 1826]. It was...
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Stroll through the charming old town of Hoi An, Vietnam any evening and you notice them glowing outside restaurants, shops and hotels...
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The world, it seems, happens in threes… Trinity, triad, triangle, trimester, trident, tripod… Three is a symbol of universal significance,...
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Madaraka is Swahili for ‘freedom’. June 1st commemorated the day that Kenya attained internal self-rule in 1963, preceding full independence...
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“It’s like coming home,” said Ashish Sanghrajka, president of Big Five. That is how he describes the feeling that embodies...
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For many of us, an iconic image of summer involves the great outdoors, a hammock and a tall glass of...
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The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Sri Dalada Maligawa, houses one of the most sacred artifacts of Buddhism –...
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Surprising, startling, amazing, magnificent… This is the general reaction when travelers come upon the Anglican Cathedral of St. Peter on...
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Friday, April 22nd, will mark the 46th year of what would prove to be the birth of an amazing social, political...
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The ghost pepper! In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was at the time the world’s hottest...
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