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Gallery: Spain's bizarre annual fire festival
We can't decide if this is artsy, meta or just plain mad. Every year, the Spanish city of Valencia (population 809,000) shuts down and sets its streets ablaze for its annual fire festival heralding the...
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Manila shoots for place at Asia's gambling table with new mega-casino
Manila’s newest and most luxurious casino has opened its doors, upping the ante in the Philippines' drive to compete with Asian gambling hot spots Singapore and Macau.The US$1.2-billion Solaire Resort...
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Huge twin deals for 350 Airbus planes
Airbus has signed two deals totaling a whopping 351 A320 family aircraft with Turkish Airlines and Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air.The European airline placed orders for up to 117 aircraft while...
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BBC sells Lonely Planet to U.S. cigarette billionaire
UPDATE: Lonely Planet, the storied travel guidebooks publisher, has been sold by its parent company BBC Worldwide for US$75 million to NC2 Media -- a significant decrease on its original purchase...
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The man who founded a religion based on 'The Big Lebowski'
Dudeism: "An ancient philosophy that preaches non-preachiness."People who intuitively perceive 2,500-year-old Chinese and Greek concepts, while nodding to California's detached hippie philosophy and...
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Super ship shots: Cruise giant in world first
Stunning images have emerged of the world’s biggest ocean liner sailing through one of the world’s most spectacular locations.The Queen Mary 2, operated by Cunard, passed through New Zealand’s Milford...
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Ultimate Dubai stopover guide
Dubai International Airport is among the world’s busiest.With more than 55 million passengers a year either arriving or passing through, there’s a good chance your next international flight may see you...
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5 great city markets in Europe
For some it’s the glitzy stores of New York and Paris.For others it’s the designer ateliers of Rome and Amsterdam.But for many, shopping is best down on the street, up hidden alleys and in picturesque...
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A look back on the 737, as Boeing delivers its 7,500th
In the time it takes you to read this story, more than 600 Boeing 737s will have landed or taken off, somewhere in the world.This week, Boeing delievered its 7,500th 737, to Malaysia-based Malindo Air....
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Complete Korean cosmetics shopping guide
With the world’s biggest obsession with plastic surgery and some of the fastest-evolving beauty technology, spas and cosmetic lines in the world, South Korea is a bona fide beauty destination....
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Going up Down Under: Southern Hemisphere's tallest building
The impressive and somewhat gravity defying Australia 108 building. Planning approval has been given for Australia 108, a 388-meter skyscraper in the Victorian city of Melbourne that will be the...
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Coffee comes home: How the cappuccino conquered South Africa
Not so long ago, if you ordered a cup of coffee in South Africa you needed to specify "filter" to avoid getting instant.A decade ago, there was no cafe culture, nowhere to go for a flat white and...
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Insider Guide: Best of Chicago
Ask anyone on the street what he or she likes most about Chicago, and you’ll mostly likely get “the friendly people.”But what makes Chicagoans so gosh darn friendly?Perhaps it’s the camaraderie they...
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10 ways to improve the travel industry right now
Few things are worse for the traveler than nasty surprises.Yet we keep traveling.Not simply because we like to travel or because we must travel, but because we accept that the world is an imperfect...
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Medical tourism: A global stampede for affordable care
Secret Surgery's group tour to Poland included some surgical procedures. If you’re considering surgery and a vacation this year, you may want to combine the two.Medical tourism is booming, thanks to...
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7 reasons to love the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens
Gratuitous shot. Celebratory haka by the New Zealand team after winning in 2011.The Hong Kong Rugby Sevens 2013 takes place this weekend, March 22-24. It's one of the few world-class international...
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Interview: Lonely Planet’s new boss on the future of the brand
BBC Worldwide confirmed this week that it would sell the Lonely Planet travel brand to Nashville, TN-based upstart NC2 Media for AUS$75 million.The British public broadcaster’s commercial arm had...
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Style over substance: Do celebrity chefs matter?
While I was attending a gathering of the world’s top chefs at the “G9 World Summit of Gastronomy” in Tokyo last year, at least half a dozen strangers asked me to photograph them next to their favorite...
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Gallery: Extreme shots by daredevil adventure photographer
Although he's often called one of the world's greatest adventure photographers, Tyler Stableford, 37, is uncomfortable with the label. "In some ways it connotes a profession more interested in...
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Surviving the Sahara: Three weeks with the Tuareg
With a camel, a head scarf and some friendly Tuareg guides, you might just make it out of the Sahara in tact.I can see Abdelkrim’s eyes smiling through the slit in his headdress as he holds up a bag of...
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