Video: Sunday In The Plaza With Jose
Located in Guanajuato in Central Mexico, Sunday in the central plaza of San Miguel De Allende means ice cream, fresh fruit, and most likely a parade, something this town is very good at doing. Often.
Let’s Show Mexico Some Love
So Mexico hasn’t really been getting a lot of love lately, what with the the whole swine flu and drug war thing going on, but that means that deals abound and there are far fewer tourists to deal with (plus you can get to Mexico with JetBlue’s all-you-can-jet $599 pass). But what to do when […]
Organized Chaos Meets Chaotic Chaos: Welcome To Mumbai
In a city of 21 million (with some parts containing more than a million people per square mile), it’s almost impossible in Mumbai to come by peace and quiet or to avoid images of heartbreak while traveling in the city. As David Farley describes in his piece at World Hum, a stroll on the way […]
Trying To Find The Perfect Pair Of Shoes For Traveling
This topic has actually been on my mind recently as a result of my concern that my now going on two-and-a-half-year-old pair of New Balances (that I bought used, mind you) may not quite hack it in the bush of Southern Africa, where I will be (barring any unforeseen impediments) in less than two weeks […]
Heard About The Online Petition To Open Travel To Cuba?
It’s amazing the looks of incredulousness that Americans get when they tell others about the U.S.’s now 50-year-old ban on travel to Cuba. This is America, land of the free that’s restricting travel to its own citizens? Doesn’t the ban just hurt poor, low-income Cubans who benefit most from tourism? Hasn’t the ban proved ineffective […]
Screw Sydney, Melbourne’s The Spot
I can honestly say that I’ve spent the summer hanging out with more Australians than any other nationality, American included, and I’ve learned a few things by doing so. Number One: Australian beer is bad, with micro-brews and specialty beers almost non-existent. Number Two: Australians love traveling to the U.S. because it’s one of the […]
Did You Ever Think That So Little Could Do So Much?
Jasmin, a friend of TheExpeditioner.com, is throwing a small fundraiser tomorrow night here in the City of New York to help raise funds for a school in India her father helped found that is desperately in need of help. Given the recent economic turndown, the school has a very real chance of shutting down and […]
11 Reasons For An Indian Summer
So how exactly do you benefit from visiting India in the summer? Plenty. Mumbai’s Ganesh Chaturthi Festival, Ayurvedic treatment during the wet, moist monsoon season, and mango fever. Yes, Mago fever, or mania, as experienced during the early parts of the summer when the emergence of this revered fruit makes newspaper headlines and Indians all […]
Tehran: Skiing Paradise?
Just 7 kilometers from Tehran, Mt. Tochal offers the 10 million or so living in the city a winter getaway with some of the country’s best skiing. And as seen above, if you’re just in it for the ride, the gondola stretches over 8 full kilometers. File this one under things you didn’t know about […]
Top 10 Snorkeling Dives In The World
It seems like every few months or so there’s a new “Top 10 Snorkeling” article published. This one from CNN seems to be a little Caribbean-heavy, and by heavy I mean 8 of the 10 from the list are located there, with only Catalina Island and Maui there to mix things up. Other locations including […]