For the best introduction to central Tokyo, I highly recommend the open-air double-decker Sky Bus. There are several routes. I took the 50-minute ($16) Imperial Palace-Ginza-Marunouchi course. This passes: the Mitsubishi Building, the Imperial Palace, the The National Museum of Modern Art, the UK Embassy, the National Theatre, the Supreme Court, Parliament, Kasumigaseki (area where most of Japan's cabinet ministries are located), and Ginza. Every participant is handed head phones with commentary
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Not much is known about the first native peoples to live near the massive Rincon de la Vieja Volcano in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste province. A new archaeology tour at the area’s eco-lodge Hacienda Guachipelin will help shed some light on the mysteries of these indigenous ancestors of Costa Rica.
“We’re rescuing the cultural traditions of Guanacaste,” said Fernando Camacho Mora, archaeologist in charge of the project.
What we know, Camacho explained, is that a tribe known as the Chorotegas migrated
I noticed that most every time I stray outside the narrow range of “Travel on Twitter” topics, I’m unfollowed.
When I question someone’s viewpoint, for example, or offer an alternative way of looking at a travel topic, I get into Twitter trouble.
Recently I raised a question about a traveler’s Tweet which expressed her love of horses and pate.. and how she loved to eat horsemeat pate.
What followed was an aggressive flurry of “mind your own business” comments from the Twitter universe, or “don’
The rugged, dry mountains surrounding part of southern Arizona, was the location of our excellent bicycling trip with Sojourn Adventures.
For six days of perfect weather (80 degrees, sunny, dry) last March, we biked through the dramatic countryside of southern Arizona, near Tuscon and with the scary-looking border fence in site.
The Saguaro cactus can take up to seventy-five years to grow an arm (!), and can live up to one-hundred-fifty-years. We biked right passed thousands of them in the So
I never really considered Lanzarote as a holiday destination. From seeing various advertisements, and hearsay, I’d formed the impression that it’s a tacky haunt for the package holiday sun-seeker, and not my thing at all.
But, a recent cruise stop caused me to change my views, and realise there’s a lot more to the island when you get away from the sun, sea, sand, sangria and … what’s the other S? I’ve forgotten!
Two excursions which appealed were on offer. I wanted to see the volcanos and lava fie
Royal Beach Hotel & Resort
You will discover the Royal Beach Hotel and Resort to be family-friendly Indian Ocean property featuring a hot tub and pool bar set within an outdoor pool. The units a
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David Warren, científico australiano, fue su inventor allá por el año 1958, quien tuvo la brillante idea de grabar las conversaciones de la tripulación a raíz de un accidente aéreo en el que nadie podía esclarecer dudas. A partir de ese momento, el grabador de voz “caja negra” fue incorporándose en algunos aviones. Sin duda fue un salto adelante en la seguridad de las aerolíneas.
La caja negra de un avión, que aun llamándose así es de color naranja para que sea más fácil su lo
Coming at the end of the month to the Osa southern region of Costa Rica, the ninth Festival of the Stone Spheres celebrates one of the most enigmatic historical and cultural mysteries of Costa Rica.
The 2014 Festival of the Spheres is bing held March 26 to 30 in Palmar Sur, Palmar Norte and Sierpe along Costa Rica's south Pacific coast. Put on by the National Museum of Costa Rica, the majority of the activities will be at its new satellite Museum of the Stone Spheres at Finca 6 in Palmar Sur, whe
I wrote this article on New Orleans as an homage to one of my favorite cities, one still fresh in my mind and heart after a long-postponed revisit there as an invitee to the Vampire Film Festival's Midsummer Nightmare last year.
All of the photos in this article are my own, except for the portrait of the Compte de St. Germain and the two pictures otherwise credited. Most of the text is a compendium of others' words and research. With apologies to anyone I may have ina
The Empire Steakhouse has gone and done it again! It recently opened a second location at 237 West 54th St. connected to the Hilton Garden Hotel. Any restaurant that plans on thriving in Manhattan better not even think about resting on its laurels for a second. With Empire Steakhouse, this goes without saying.A venerable shrine to not only prime steak cuts charred to perfection but the whole dining experience sprung from the desire of Jack Sinanaj and his family to elevate the classic steakhous
Security concerns have been increasing around the world during the past decades, not only related to major terrorism in the skies (such as 9/11) or on land (such as the Mumbai Attack), but also related to personal safety concerns arising from a growing number of pickpocket and mugging incidents in tourist destinations everywhere. At the same time, the number as well as the value of items carried by many experienced travelers has continued to increase. Wearing a suitable travel vest and hidden ca
EcoTraining wilderness camp, Mashatu, Botswana, Thursday 12 January 2012, is a day that will be etched upon my memory forever. I ran out of toothpaste.
Not life changing in itself, I agree, but it was the first in a series of interesting events that day which included having lasagne for supper (my favourite) and being charged by a lion.
Perhaps I should say a bit more about the lion thing. At approximately 06:00 that morning, a small group of us under the expert guidance of Chantelle chanced upon
Unbeknownst to most of us, Guam has had much of the same history as the Philippines, first coming to the world’s attention during Ferdinand Magellan’s famous booty call to the region in 1521. I suspect he found more in the Philippines because he died there and Spain didn’t get around to formally colonizing Guam until 1565. That’s the way it stayed until the Spanish-American War, when ownership passed to the USA. After WWII the Philippines became independent while Guam stayed Amer
Look up anything about Nosara, Costa Rica, and you are going to find mention of yoga and surfing. First surfing, and then yoga, has been a magnet for four decades to the quiet stretch of sand, ocean and tropical dry forest on the Pacific’s Nicoya Peninsula.
Starting in the 1970s,pioneering expats from the U.S. began trickling into the beaches of Nosara, most settling in the beautiful, broad horseshoe-shaped bay of Playa Guiones. They came to “get away from it all”, to surf and seek a healthier a
Travel is measurably one of Facebook’s fastest growing, strongest vertical, and this is the year Facebook will target travel as a major sales initiative.
As we reported in New Media Travel recently, impressively, 52% of the site’s users said that when they view Facebook, they already “started dreaming about a holiday even when they didn’t have one booked. And 95% use Facebook for ‘travel related activities’ prior to going on vacation.”
So what’s the bad news?
“Travel related activities,” may not me
por Cristóbal Ramírez
Es el laboratorio de ideas de Nueva York. Donde la contracultura se desparrama por las calles.Donde lo transgresor y lo divertido se unen. Donde las corrientes artísticas surgen. Donde caminan los coolhunters en busca del Street style del momento. Así es Williamsburg, dentro de Brooklyn, separado del Lower East Side de Manhattan por un puente que no es demasiado bonito pero tiene su encanto industrial. El barrio se puso de moda cuando jóvenes artistas se vieron obligados a a
Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of city life, and perched amid expansive landscapes in the heart of the mountain valley in the Alps are some of The Most Beautiful Villages of France.
These remote jewels are members of the Association "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France," each one dotted with wooden chalets, narrow cobblestone streets and century-old architecture, all symbolizing authentic charm and unspoilt beauty.
The five villages, which are mentioned below, are certainly worth a detour
Old Parish Church Cemetery in Whitby, England
My obsession to travel to every site related to either the fictional Count Dracula or his real historical counterpart, Prince Vlad Dracula the Impaler, grew out of a visit to Whitby, England, where part of the novel Dracula takes place. I stood on the cemetery hill (top) where, in Bram Stoker's Dracula Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray spent hour after hour sitting on their "favourite seat" (a bench placed over a suicide's grave near the edge of the c
Where can you get a varied, perfectly seasoned, five course rustic Italian meal with great wines and original cocktails in San Diego? Pizzeria Mozza fits that bill.
Pizzeria Mozza, sits on the western end of San Diego’s Headquarter’s, a rebirth of the historic San Diego Police Department Headquarters, built in 1939. After 28 years in limbo, it is now on the national registry of historic places, with buildings and an open air plaza at the entrance to Seaport Village. The Headquarters
