Aug 2nd, 2011 at 9:30AM: Pavia Rosati is the founder of Fathom, a recently debuted travel website. Fathom is smart and beautifully designed. It's full of exciting short briefs about various destinations across the globe.
Rosati, as you'll see from her answers below, is an experienced editor and an avid traveler. Her enthusiasm for Fathom's subject matter is palpable and infectious. We love Fathom and can't wait to see ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Traveler Q & A: Pavia Rosati
Aug 2nd, 2011 at 9:30AM: Pavia Rosati is the founder of Fathom, a recently debuted travel website. Fathom is smart and beautifully designed. It's full of exciting short briefs about various destinations across the globe.
Rosati, as you'll see from her answers below, is an experienced editor and an avid traveler. Her enthusiasm for Fathom's subject matter is palpable and infectious. We love Fathom and can't wait to see ...India restarts ferry to Sri Lanka after 30 years of civil war
Jun 14th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Sri Lanka is still recovering after a long and brutal civil war that started in 1983 and only ended two years ago. The fight between Tamil separatists and the government left 100,000 people dead, many of them civilians, and there were accusations of war crimes on both sides. The government won and the island nation is now beginning to rebuild.
A sign of that rebuilding is the relaunching of ...Photo of the day - Non-royal wedding
Apr 29th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Well, it's all over. Whether you woke up in the middle of the night to watch Will and Kate get married or ignored the deluge of media coverage, today's historic Royal Wedding has said "I do" and we can all breath a collective sigh of relief that we can stop hearing about it. We're still feeling a bit romantic here at Gadling, so today's Photo of the Day is of another wedding couple leaving the ...Top 20 least sexist countries in the world
Apr 24th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
Have you ever wondered which countries are the least sexist in the world?
The Global Gender Gap report calculates such a thing. The study chronicles gender disparities and progress for rights across the sexes in several countries. It essentially gauges the treatment of women using various data points including educational attainment, health, and political empowerment. The study encompasses ...Knocked up abroad: pregnant travel in the first trimester
Mar 16th, 2011 at 11:30AM: For more on pregnant travel, see parts 1 and 2 of Knocked up abroad: pregnancy in a foreign country here and here.
There's no question that having a baby changes you: your body, your lifestyle, even your shoe size. One thing I hoped not to change altogether was traveling, as long as it was reasonably safe and comfortable for me and the baby. From the beginning of my pregnancy in Istanbul, my ...Travel to Sri Lanka grows, along with obstacles for tourism
Feb 1st, 2011 at 11:00AM: Since the end of the Tamil Tiger confilct in May 2009, travel to Sri Lanka has been increasing, with the country celebrating their 600,000th foreign tourist last month. This year, 700,000 are expected with tourism growing to 2.5 million a year within 5 years, reports the BBC. "The nature has blessed us with beautiful beaches, waterfalls, exotic wildlife and historic places. We as a nation have a ...Photo of the Day (8.31.10)
Aug 31st, 2010 at 5:00PM:
I think that the best travel photography is the kind that captures a unique instance of the human experience and opens it up for further discussion. It intrigues the viewer to ask questions, to delve deeper and to examine the unfamiliar. It refuses to let you look away or ignore the subject. For me, this moment captured by e.r.g.o in Sri Lanka does exactly that.
The festival being ...New York Times names 31 places to go in 2010
Jan 12th, 2010 at 12:30PM: As the final weeks of 2009 stretch into the first few weeks of 2010, we see a lot of lists predicting the hot destinations for the next year or telling us where we should plan on going in the next 365 days. The New York Times recently put out their list, but unlike some lists that just seem to be composed at random, based on an individual's personal travel wishlist, this list actually makes a lot ...East of Africa: Toliara (Tuléar)
Jan 2nd, 2010 at 8:30AM:
Our driver has a big smile on his face. He points ahead at the landscape which has become increasingly flat in the past hour or so. I follow his finger up to see the road dramatically disappearing into a vast, clear, blue horizon.
After two days and 1,000km, we've made it to Madagascar's southwestern coast - to the small, sleepy town of Toliara. ...Not-so Dangerous Destinations
Nov 5th, 2009 at 2:00PM: "You're going where?!" my father asked when I told him of my plans to go to Colombia. The Colombia he knows of, the one from the 1980's, is filled with cocaine, street violence, and Pablo Escobar's thugs. The country's days as a dangerous destination are gone, but its stigma still remains.
Colombia isn't the only now-safe country still considered by the masses to be too dangerous to visit. ...Talking Travel with Pico Iyer and a book give-away
Mar 16th, 2009 at 11:00AM: When I first read Pico Iyer's book Video Night in Kathmandu, I was hooked. Reading Iyer's words is a trip down streets that you may have traveled before but have not found the words to describe. When you read his prose, the tendency is to say, "Yes, that's it." For places one hasn't been, he draws you into the scenes as if you are there looking at the world through his perceptive eyes.
Seven ...Here is to Arthur C. Clarke. Here is to Sri Lanka.
Mar 19th, 2008 at 5:00PM: I just read that Arthur C. Clarke died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. He was, no doubt, one of the coolest guys out there. Not only was he a great writer, but he was a pioneer traveler, too.
Although he was British, he moved to Sri Lanka some 50 years ago because "he loved diving." Honestly, how many 90-year-olds do you know today who could say that?
The photo is of Kirinda, Sri Lanka, a place ...How Much Would You Pay for Dessert? $14,500?
Sep 27th, 2007 at 5:33PM: There's a lot I would do for the perfect Creme Brulee. You see, I'm a bit of a dessert fiend and it's certainly my all-time favourite. In fact, I ate more than my share at the last wedding I photographed. But I digress. What's the most you would pay for a dessert? $5? $10? $25? $100? How about $14,500? That sounds a bit excessive, but that's what the most expensive dessert in the world recently is ...Photo of the Day (12/16/06)
Dec 16th, 2006 at 10:48AM: Feeling dizzy yet? All the frenzy seen in this shot is caused by the rope dancers during Esala Perahera as described by E-R-G-O. The ceremony takes places in Sri Lanka and this shot is a second Gadling selection from the experience. The swirling colors and excitement is what got me. It isn't exactly related to some of the festivals being celebrated at this time of year, but it sure captures human ...
