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How to take great wildlife photos
Love them, hug them, photograph them.A safari anecdote may impress your friends, but a journey in pictures will blow them away.So how do you turn a safari into an album filled with vivid wildlife...
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6 exclusively New York shopping experiences
In the endless consumer mecca that is New York, it's ludicrous to shop at ho-hum department stores that sell the same clothes you can find anywhere else. While the city's biggest fashion party --...
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Most bike-friendly cities in the United States
Ernest Hemingway would love modern Portland. Or Boulder. Or Austin.No, not because of all the great local beer. Though surely he would have guzzled his fill of that.What the cranky author really would...
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Battlefields and bunkers: Exploring Okinawa's World War II history
With the exception of the march across the Philippine island of Luzon, the battle of Okinawa was the only major American land campaign in the Pacific during World War II.Launched on Easter Sunday,...
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Makeup lessons for men: Korean Air's latest training day
Korean Air's new staff training session last month -- makeup and skincare lessons -- may not sound like anything untoward. But this training was for the airline's male staff. On February 18, at Korean...
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Asia’s top chefs: What do they eat?
Asia's best chefs have recently been named, in the inaugural S.Pelligrino Asia's 50 Best Restaurants awards, held in Singapore last week.Here, three of the winners explain how their culinary tastes...
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Panda palace pushes plush perfection
In the heirarchy of cute, fuzzy animals, there's a recognized pecking order.Kittens, koalas, penguins, harp seals and baby raccoons occupy positions near the top of the pack.But it's only the mighty...
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Gallery: World's largest natural flower garden opens in Dubai
Another week, another announcement of a massive super project in Dubai.The Middle Eastern city's latest mega-project is the Dubai Miracle Garden.Billing itself as the world's largest natural flower...
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World's most questionable tourism slogans
It's always going to be tough to capture everything your country has to offer in a catchy slogan, but sometimes tourist boards miss the mark by miles.In no particular order, here are some of the most...
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Ultimate Hong Kong shopping guide: Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay may be the shopping mecca in Hong Kong, but arriving for the first time, all most people see is an overwhelming ocean of humanity circulating around seemingly bland shopping centers.After...
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Appy Traveler: Best new apps for travelers
Bookmark this article and check back in occasionally to see what new great apps we love, and think you should try.---Updated March 6, 2013---Fly Delta for iPadNo need for weeks of planning. You can fly...
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Is this the world's most awesome taxi?
It was a dark and stormy night.I'd been working late. Thankfully, a taxi was waiting in front of our building. Climbing in, I gave the driver my address and closed my eyes.“Would you like a massage?”...
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Okinawa travel: 'Take me to Taketomi'
Okinawa's Taketomi Island is as charming as it is relaxing. Remote but not too remote, touristy but not too touristy, traditional but not backwards.With a population of just more than 300, it's an...
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20 China travel tips
Travel in China can rattle even veteran travelers.This is understandable. China is a huge country with enough languages and dialects to leave even many native Chinese flummoxed at the thought of...
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Chavez’s death good for Venezuela tourism?
Politicians and historians will argue ad infinitum about whether or not late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez improved his country’s fortunes during a reign that spanned 14 years. But there’s one area...
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Redeeming sights in the world's 'worst cities'
Silver linings are to clouds what tourism is to bad cities.Sure, there are some places that you probably wouldn't want to live. But that doesn't mean they're not worth visiting.For every reason a...
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Pope bobbleheads! Get 'em while they're hot
The first papal resignation in 600 years may have shaken some Catholics, but it sent Rome's souvenir vendors into a tizzy.Ranging from sacred to "Is this sacrilege?", Pope trinkets are a hot item in...
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U.S. cigarette billionaire to buy Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet, the storied travel guidebooks publisher owned by BBC, is about to be sold.And the buyer is a doozy: reclusive Kentucky billionaire Brad Kelley, who spent the 1990s selling discount...
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5 things airlines could learn from hotels
Air travel, for many, is something to be endured rather than enjoyed.The aviation industry “has been in survival mode for as long as we can remember,” says Eric Léopold, director of the passenger...
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The man who brought beer to Palestine
Aside from beer, tiny Taybeh is renowned for hosting Jesus and his disciples. As we hurtle along the winding roads that hug the steep hills of the West Bank towards Palestine's Taybeh Brewery, taxi...
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