Nov 14th, 2009 at 5:00PM:
Nothing makes a more beautiful photo than rolling sand dunes at sunset. Having recently experienced the tranquil oasis of Huacachina in Peru, I now fully appreciate the dry, natural beauty of the world's deserts.
This particular photo was taken in Tunisia but expert photographer kellinasf. The warm colors and grooved textures of the sand contrast so well with the cool blue sky. The grooved ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Nov 14th, 2009 at 5:00PM:
Nothing makes a more beautiful photo than rolling sand dunes at sunset. Having recently experienced the tranquil oasis of Huacachina in Peru, I now fully appreciate the dry, natural beauty of the world's deserts.
This particular photo was taken in Tunisia but expert photographer kellinasf. The warm colors and grooved textures of the sand contrast so well with the cool blue sky. The grooved ...Morocco by motorcycle
Oct 12th, 2009 at 11:30AM:
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The guys over at Urban Daddy have been on a roll lately, unearthing some pretty cool packaged tours. First there was Urbane Nomads' dive trip to the Great Wall of China. Now they've found an organized luxury tour of Morocco, by motorcycle.
Hispania Tours offers a 15-day tour through ...Have you seen. . .The Thing?
Aug 3rd, 2009 at 11:30AM: As you drive through the desert along I-10 you see them--garish signs beckoning you to explore the mystery of "The Thing?" The signs are everywhere, 247 of them stretching from Arizona to Texas. The journey is long and boring, punctuated only by bad country music and Born-Again preachers on the radio. Finally you make it to Exit 322 at Dragoon, Arizona, and see the cheap yellow, red, and blue ...Life Nomadic: Beating The Moroccan Hustle
Jun 17th, 2009 at 10:00AM: I have a lot of great things to say about Morocco, and I'll get to those soon. Today, though, I'm going to talk about an insane part of the culture that can be found everywhere from Tangier to Marakkech: the hustle. As a visitor who doesn't speak the language, I'm only really able to interact with a small percentage of the population. Of those people I interacted with, I'd say that a good ...Three important American artists and their museums
Apr 30th, 2009 at 9:30AM:
Tom's post about the exhibit in Paris of Andy Warhol's work reminded me of the wonderful Warhol experience I had this past fall at the Wexner Center and my interest in going to the Warhol Museum on Pittsburgh. Museums dedicated primarily to the work of one artist is a way to really see what made a particular artist tick and why his or her work is important to the art scene and culture.
If you ...In Iraq, soldiers get a holiday break
Dec 31st, 2008 at 9:00AM: Whether you stayed at home or suffered airport crowds to visit your family this holiday season, you were lucky. For more than 100,000 members of the U.S. armed forces and many civilian contractors, Christmas was limited to deserts, rifles and a brief phone call home. I remember from my service in Korea (10 years ago), that the military does make the effort to ease the pain a bit with a fantastic ..."No Reservations" season 4, episode 18: Egypt
Aug 28th, 2008 at 8:00AM: Location: This week Tony finds himself in Egypt, home to the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx and plenty of other tourist stereotypes. Egypt is one of the world's great cradles of civilization as well as a crossroads of many cultures (and great cuisine) from all points north, south, east and west. Episode Rating: Three bloody meat cleavers out of five. Bourdain indeed delivers the unexpected when it ...Dubai to Become World's Top Spa Destination
Aug 14th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Besides being a destination for people who like designer boutiques, tall buildings and overpriced restaurants, Dubai is on its way to becoming the best place in the world to find the perfect spa experience. The spa industry is growing by nearly 20% per year. By 2010, it is projected that Dubai will surpass other destinations with a total of 15 million visitors at its spas. Everyone (including ..."No Reservations" season 4, episode 13: Saudi Arabia
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 2:00PM: Location: This week's episode takes us to Saudi Arabia, where Tony is guided by the winner of the No Reservations FAN-atic contest, Danya Alhamrani. The master of strange destinations heads to the land of camels, deserts and oil to take a "peek behind the veil" of one of the world's more mysterious destinations. Episode Rating: Three bloody meat cleavers out of five. Summary: Last year, No ...Camel cheese - coming soon to a grocery near you
Apr 2nd, 2008 at 9:20AM: As any proper Bedouin will tell you, camels are an essential part of a nomadic desert existence. They provide a convenient method of transportation, require little water and can stand up to great extremes of temperature. We now also know that they provide the perfect compliment to your next cheese and cracker platter. I'm talking more specifically about camel cheese, the latest delicacy to make ...Dubai looking to go greener
Nov 21st, 2007 at 5:00PM: It's hard to remember that Dubai is actually a desert. Even though it has a coastline, the interior has always been an arid desert. Of the sick amount of money that Dubai spends on having the tallest, biggest, best stuff, it also spends quite a bit on making the city green. (NB: I am going to try to write this without delving into the general environmental disaster that Dubai is nurturing). There ...World's Longest Golf Course is Planned for Australian Desert
Sep 23rd, 2007 at 7:22PM: Under the glaring desert sun, the Australian outback consists of hundreds of thousands of kilometers of empty space, which, according to the Australian government, makes it the ideal spot for the world longest golf course. The Nullarbor Plain is set to see construction of the 18-hole golf course, which will stretch across 1,200 km (750 mi.) Wow. All I have to say is, if you golf there, you'd ...How To Keep a Camel From Running Away
Aug 28th, 2007 at 3:15PM:
Matt of Where the Hell is Matt? fame snapped this photo of two camels in a desert somewhere who have their front leg tied to their snout. According to the kids on digg, this is to keep them from running away. (I couldn't find the original post on Matt's site where this picture originated.) Slightly cruel? Perhaps. But effective? For sure. What else are you going to do when there are no trees to ...Ice Bar in Dubai
The Devil's Highway - Journey Along the U.S. Mexico Border
Aug 15th, 2006 at 1:36PM: Walking the Arizona desert in 100 degree heat is no joke. I've done it before. During my travels I wasn't out there alone and I had plenty of water to get me to my final stop. I was beyond well-prepared for the occasion, but it didn't take away from the brutal heat, sun exposure and vast silent nothingness the desert so often revealed. On the flip side there are secrets only the wind carries, the ...Make Fortune Cookies
Aug 3rd, 2006 at 12:22PM: One night when I called one of my close friends she rushed me off the phone because she was in the middle of cooking. When I asked what was on the menu and whether or not see needed any taste-testers she quickly told me she was ruining the fortune cookies and had to go. Fortune cookies? Huh? Who on the planet makes fortune cookies? I thought a machine did that... How do you make fortune cookies? ...Arizona & Utah's Wave
Apr 4th, 2006 at 3:35PM: Talk about breath-taking! It's scenes like the one found at the Arizona-Utah border known as "The
Wave" that make me want to toss all international travel plans aside for greater exploration stateside. The pink,
red, buff sandstone or pastel-stripped ocean wave plopped in the center of the desert, as Leon
Oliver describes for Go World Travel isn't necessarily easy to get to and should ...
