In my 20 years of International travel, nothing has had a more profound effect on me than meeting local people and joining them in their everyday lives. Cross-cultural immersion and an understanding of the people and their traditions are the true pleasures of travel.This month we have stories from around the world that speak to us of the values and traditions that enrich different cultures. The ev...
Tour Host Review
For 16 years, Cross-Culture Inc. has been bringing travelers in touch with the people and cultures of the destinations they visit. With an inventory of more than 70 trips to 29 different countries, the company offers many of its trips only once a year to coincide with special events. Journey to Old Japan takes advantage of the annual Shinto Festival, while Christmas trips to England and Salzburg ...
Host of the Month
In the human world, coincidences abound. Off the European continent lies an island nation that held itself aloof from its continental neighbors, built a great navy and became very good traders. Off the coast of Asia, another island nation did much the same. Thus, did Japan
Festival Pick
Geography, natural resources and history often unite to create cities that have an aura about them, no matter what era they’re in. Istanbul, situated on the strategic Bosphorous, comes to mind, as well as New York, with its great natural harbor and location at the outlet of a river, the Hudson, that would play greatly in the rise of the U.S. as an economic power.On a smaller scale, Austria&r...
World Heritage Site
Pittsburgh is a strange bird. Located at the hill-rimmed junction of three rivers in one of the most beautiful locales of any American city (probably only San Francisco, Seattle and San Diego have more dramatic waterside settings), Pittsburgh is a place that Winston Churchill once described, “If it were located in Europe, people would go hundreds of miles out of their way to see it.” Y...
Museum Pick
About Our Values
Written By Sheri Leigh Posted on Nature
It has been two years now since we first started publishing The Cultured Traveler. During that time I’ve learned about places and cultures I had not been previously exposed to, and I loved every minute of it. I hope you have experienced the same excitement in discovery as I have.
Our philosophy is simple. We strive to create a forum where experienced travelers can share with others the special people, places and events that add meaning to our lives by opening our eyes to the diversity and uniqueness of every culture. I am glad that that vision has been so well accepted.
Since the start, what rather than where has been the guiding force of our editorial and directory design. The experience of exploration and discovery — finding that unique off-the-tourist-path trip — are what we promise to deliver. The companies...
It has been two years now since we first started publishing The Cultured Traveler. During that time I’ve learned about places and cultures I had not been previously exposed to, and I loved every minute of it. I hope you have experienced the same excitement in discovery as I have.
Geography, natural resources and history often unite to create cities that have an aura about them, no matter what era they’re in. Istanbul, situated on the strategic Bosphorous, comes to mind, as well as New York, with its great natural harbor and location at the outlet of a river, the Hudson, that would play greatly in the rise of the U.S. as an economic...
Who’s to say where the Italian love of eating began? Did it start with the Etruscans, or perhaps the Romans with their enogastronomic (eno meaning wine) excesses, often depicted as grand bacchanalia? Maybe it stemmed from the spread of a food-friendly Catholicism under the Vatican and the Papal States, or just maybe it was born with the Renaissance and seeded abroad by probably one of the greatest culinary traditionalists in history, Catherine De Medici.
In the human world, coincidences abound. Off the European continent lies an island nation that held itself aloof from its continental neighbors, built a great navy and became very good traders. Off the coast of Asia, another island nation did much the same. Thus, did Japan and Great Britain come to mirror each other in certain ways.
Another coincidence involves the Scots and some...
It can be done. I saw it with my own eyes very late one night at a waterhole in the Etosha National Park in Namibia.
But I’m getting ahead of myself…
Namibia, an independent nation and one of Africa’s few democracies, is one of that continent’s best-kept secrets. It has remained, since its independence from South Africa in 1990, an attractive...
Smoke creeps through the grass roof of the bush house. I see no chimney. I enter the house and see nothing except the fireplace in the middle. No window, only a door. The family sits around the fire and I think about home. The place where the mother cooks the food radiates coziness and life. I participate in this atmosphere. I sit silently and speechless, watching what is going on, and I look around...
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About Our Values