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Treichville may be a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, but it is also a restaurant in New York City, both of which I have never explored personally. However, for a sampling of the Ivory Coast and for less than half the cost one may consider ...

Selling souvenirs is a big industry; everyone wants to take a little bit of their travels home with them. For most people that means a beer stein from Munich, a triangular hat from Vietnam or a maple leaf flag from Canada. But for others -- with lots ...

After the Perfume River in Hoi An and the souks of Marrakech, Zanzibar rounds out the trio of 'most-exotic' places on the globe that I've long wanted to spend not days, but weeks. While these are very real places - crowded, often hot, occasionally ...

I didn't realize the FAA officially rates airlines based on their security standards. Well, they do. Just this week, Philippine Airlines got downgraded to a Category 2 airline requiring "heightened FAA surveillance." They join countries likes ...

Looks like good stuff for the folks in Brinkley, AR and even better news for the avid birder looking to catch sight of the ivory-billed woodpecker.  The Lord God Bird was presumed extinct having not been seen since 1944, but after hiding out ...

With the advent of the Internet and Google maps and all that, globes almost seem passe. But when was the last time you actually looked at a globe, spun it with your hands, ran your finger over the equator and plotted the distance between Los ...

We didn't realize that the US was such a terrible place to live until the Sydney Morning Herald reported it this morning. According to the Economist's 2009 liveability survey, Pittsburgh is the most liveable city in the United States of America, ...

My guess is most travelers are already pretty green. Not in the inexperienced sense, but in the we-give-a-damn-about- the-globe sense. But it's always nice to be reminded of what you can do to make the earth a better place when you set out on your ...

Last week Terry Riley at Tripso posted this creative bit about vocation vacations. His list of locations and matching vocations is catchy and fun, inspired by Site 59's work-themed travel packages. As Labor Day comes to a close and many of us prepare ...

Did a small post yesterday about odd museums like the great toilet museum in India. Myself, I've never visited the toilet museum, but I confess that during a recent trip to India, I noticed a conspicuous scarcity of toilets. So perhaps it is to the ...

A new study [pdf] by three researchers purports to show that soccer players in European leagues who come from countries with histories of civil war are more likely to play violently on the field, as measured by their tendency to get yellow and red ...

We're into the home stretch on 2009, with only three months left to enjoy. Then, the calendar page flips over, and we take on 2010. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways left to make the rest of this year memorable. In Finland, home to some of the ...

It has been a while since "après-ski" meant simply "after skiing." Today, après-ski is a whole philosophy. What you do after you ski often means more than how you ski, which is undoubtedly good news for people like ...

According to National Geographic, an ancient temple has been discovered in southeast Turkey, on the site of an ongoing archaeological dig, near the border of Syria. The temple sits at a location that is believed to have been a cultural and economic ...