Special Edition
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
— Mark Twain
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A Different Kind of Paradise
If you’re looking for an alternative location with a beautiful landscape and roaring water, you just might fall in love with rocky beaches.
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Hike Inn, Hike Out
After climbing hundreds of stairs, passing a giant waterfall, and hiking the first six-and-a-half miles of the Appalachian Trail in the mountains of North Georgia, you might be surprised at what you find. I know I was.
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Cladach Sàmhach: A Peaceful Shore
My favorite place in the entire world sits at the inward-most point of Moray Firth in northern Scotland. And there, along that bay that feeds into the North Sea, just 17 miles east of Inverness, is a small, beautiful town called Nairn.
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Toxic Tourism
Antarctica: the intense frozen continent that serves as the setting for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s daring expeditions. Explorers and scholars have been making the voyage to the icy landscape ever since it was first discovered by John Davis in early 1821.
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The Dangers of Voluntourism
Generally, voluntourism is done with good intentions, but unfortunately, good intentions don’t always have good impacts.
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Safeguarding Our Starry Night Sky
Discover the magic of proposing under the pristine night sky, explore the impact of light pollution, and learn how DarkSky International is preserving our celestial wonderlands.
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Dead Serious: How to Respect the Dead While Abroad
What do the Pyramids, Westminster Abbey, and Pompeii have in common? It’s not just that they’re popular tourist sites—they’re also resting places for the dead.
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The Rise of Medical Tourism
Nose jobs in Turkey. Dental implants in Mexico. Kidney transplants in India.
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Economies Built upon the Sand
Tourists love to visit far-off countries to enjoy sand, sun, and sights; but what is life really like for the people who live in those countries? How do the residents of tourism hot spots view the travelers who frequent their sites?
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