As the world gets smaller, neighbors previously separated by national, economic or cultural borders are coming together to create a truly integrated global village. The European Union’s adoption of the euro, and NAFTA in the Americas have created an interrelationship and level of unity among countries not previously known. With this newly defined economic association comes the ...
Tour Host Review
Southwind Adventures offers over 40 different itineraries in six categories, from easy tours and cruises to active adventures and expeditions in seven South American countries. It also offers custom-made tours, such as family adventures, bird watching, horse packing, Andean Haciendas and a festivals-and-markets trip. With more than 20 years experience planning trips in this area of the world, Sout...
Host of the Month
Come December, North Americans and Europeans seeking one last dose of long days and sultry air might look south to one of Brazil’s most famous run-ups to Carnaval: the Dia do Samba that takes place the first Monday of every December in Salvador de Bahia.This year, on December 2, tens of thousands of people will take to the streets to samba and party the night away in Salvador’s cidade ...
Festival Pick
South America has an abundance of World Heritage Sites, including Machu Picchu, the city of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil and the magnificent Iguacu Falls on the Brazilian-Argentinian border. It also has some wannabes, sites that UNESCO has invi...
World Heritage Site
Ironically, one of the best museums in the world for viewing Latin American art is housed in a U.S. city in a former brewery. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, which opened in 1998, occupies a 33,000-square-foot space in the San Antonio Museum of Art, which has been housed since 1981 in the former Lone Star Brewery, itself built in 1884.The Rockefeller Center’s collect...
Museum Pick
This month, we introduce a regular feature on National Parks of the World. Our regular World Heritage Site department will shift to an emphasis on manmade treasures, such as cities and regions that have great historic significance. The new department will cover great natural reserves, focusing on those places that reward travelers with be...
National Park Pick
Taking Stock Post September 11
Written By Patrick Totty Posted on Adventure
Almost seven months after Sept. 11, the future of travel is taking shape. There’s a mixed bag of developments and trends to report: Travel is not as convenient as it used to be, but in many ways it is safer. Still, important segments of the industry, especially airlines and travel agents, are having a rough go.
Here’s our take on things:
The Public
What’s Good: Airport security is better now. Ticket and tour prices are still down, thanks to suppliers’ efforts to restore pre 9-11 demand.
What’s Not: Airport efficiency is a nightmare. Politicians are wrangling over whether citizens make better airport security screeners than non. In the meantime, security often is a long-running comedy of errors as low-paid, sometimes non-English-speaking, workers try to reason with harried...
Almost seven months after Sept. 11, the future of travel is taking
shape. There’s a mixed bag of developments and trends to report: Travel
is not as convenient as it used to be, but in many ways it is safer.
Still,
important segments of the industry, especially airlines and travel
agents, are having a rough go.
Last October, my husband Marvin and I traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to help build an orphanage. There were only three volunteers on this particular trip. Besides Marvin and me, there was another fellow named Jim, an enjoyable companion and hard worker whom we had known on a previous volunteer trip in Nicaragua.
Jean Carla, a native Bolivian who was Amizade’s Bolivia...
For those energetic souls waking up early after an overnight flight to Santiago, the view from the Boeing 767's window reveals the brown-red Andes, slashed by deep green valleys. It is from muscatel grapes vines grown in one of those defiles, the Elqui Valley, that Chile’s national cocktail, the pisco sour, flows. Pisco’s derives its uniqueness from the valley’s special climate and...
Come December, North Americans and Europeans seeking one last dose of long days and sultry air might look south to one of Brazil’s most famous run-ups to Carnaval: the Dia do Samba that takes place the first Monday of every December in Salvador de Bahia.
This year, on December 2, tens of thousands of people will take to the streets to samba and party the night away in...
Somewhere on the lower reaches of Peru’s Cotahuasi River, right before the Cotahuasi meets the Moran, you start to feel the ocean. At first barely perceptible, the salt-filled ocean breeze becomes stronger and stronger until it seems as the Pacific must be just around the corner. After about 20 miles of this sensation, you begin to doubt yourself. The geography around you suggests nothing...
As the world gets smaller, neighbors previously separated by national, economic or cultural borders are coming together to create a truly integrated global village. The European Union’s adoption of the euro, and NAFTA in the Americas have created an interrelationship and level of unity among countries not previously known. With this newly defined economic association comes the need for...
Southwind Adventures offers over 40 different itineraries in six categories, from easy tours and cruises to active adventures and expeditions in seven South American countries. It also offers custom-made tours, such as family adventures, bird watching, horse packing, Andean Haciendas and a festivals-and-markets trip. With more than 20 years experience planning trips in this area of the world, Southwind can create an experience around any traveler’s interest.
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Taking Stock Post September 11
For those energetic souls waking up early after an overnight flight to Santiago, the view from the Boeing 767's window reveals the brown-red Andes, slashed by deep green valleys. It is from muscatel grapes vines grown in one of those defiles, the Elqui Valley, that Chile’s national cocktail, the pisco sour, flows. Pisco’s derives its uniqueness from the valley’s special climate and...