Machu Pichu probably can’t be beat for shear views alone but don’t forget that Peru is also home to Chan Chan, the largest and one of the oldest ruins in all of South America. Just east of Peru’s third-largest city, Trujillo, Chan Chan is easy to get to — no [...]

Skopelos may be getting the Hollywood treatment, but this little Greek island isn’t letting it get to its head — with looks like this who needs Hollywood? By Andy Boxall As of the date of this publication, there are no official “Mamma Mia!” tours in Skopelos as there are “Sex [...]

It’s South Africa, so everything about a trip there must be expensive, right? Wrong. I’m on the South African Airlines e-mail list, and every month there’s a new deal for flights from North America (New York/Washington) to Cape Town or Johannesburg for a little over US$1,000.00. You can sign up [...]

I finished rewatching La Dolce Vita the other night and I was surprised at how different the film was from what I remember after first seeing it many years ago. Most noticeably, how critical Fellini portrays Rome. Far from the glamour and the romance so associated with the city, Fellini [...]

Rolf Potts, travel advice columnist and champion of the resistance band reflects on his travels over the past 10 years and his thoughts on the future of travel and travel writing in an interview on World Hum. Rolf describes how David Foster Wallace’s 1996 genre-bending essay on cruise travel helped [...]

Budget Travel came out with their 2008 list of the top 10 “new” places to visit this year which, by “new,” I think they mean “not overrun by tourists yet” rather than physical age. (I have a feeling Bergerac, France is probably not that new.) Here are a few highlights. [...]

How the little island of Dominica has embraced its reputation as the “real” Caribbean. By Manda Spring Imagine a unique and unspoiled land, free of pollution and overdevelopment and full of natural beauty. Many of the islands in the vast Eastern Caribbean archipelago display a sense of modernized atmosphere and [...]

Have you ever tried to find travel videos using YouTube? It’s a complete mess. I just clicked on the most watched videos of the week found under the “Travel and Events” category and I found a sampling of videos ranging from footage of planes landing to highlights of the [...]

I actually happen to love fall. I love that the hot, humid summer days are finally behind us, I like the energy of the city as people move back in from their summer retreats, and I especially love to start planning my first trip out of the country to escape [...]

Oktoberfest is just around the corner (9/20 - 10/5), and just in time for this vapid event are your predictable slew of superfluous Oktoberfest “guides” which purport to help you fit in with the mostly tourist crowd that descends on Munich every year. I’m not so much against the idea [...]