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in two months i will know if i am a neanderthal
I am soon to embark on the most interesting and unique of journeys; a journey into my ancestral past via my DNA, and I...
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travel tech
app-solutely perfect: the national geographic world atlas app
Those of us who travel often are usually also geography nerds. Like any good and proud nerd we need our tools of the trade....
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the time I was molested by the government of ecuador
I really had no preconceived notions about Ecuador. The only things I really knew about the country were that it was among the poorest...
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cartagena, colombia: a colonial port city less than 5 hours from nyc
By Guest Blogger Vince Catalanotto.
Intrepid American travelers, are you tired of the usual warm weather locales of Las Vegas, the Bahamas, or Cancun? Are...
mostar and the old bridge in bosnia and herzegovina
By guest blogger Fabien Reynaud.
During a recent trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia, my partner and I decided to spend a day in Mostar, Bosnia and...
from london to the simple life in altus, arkansas
By guest blogger Fabien Reynaud.
I never thought that after viewing a television program, my partner and I would end up in what at first...
a serbian in new york [srbin u njujorku]
By guest blogger Nebojša Vlaškalić.
As a kid born in a small, beautiful country with open wounds, I have always carried a big burden of...
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a tour through the grand palace complex in bangkok, thailand
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the wildlife of namibia's etosha national park
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australia - a virtual tour of sydney harbour: day and night
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greetings from all seven continents
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the landscapes of antarctica
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puerto rico’s fort san felipe del morro
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the hedonism of patong in phuket, thailand
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flying north in antarctica
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the vernadsky antarctic research base
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montevideo, uruguay
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the kennedy space center, florida and the space shuttle atlantis
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flying north in antarctica: official trailer
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from batna: the logistics of travel to and in algeria
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vlog from algiers, algeria
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vlog from the pyrenees mountains in andorra
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Vlog from Belgrade, Serbia [featuring Mr. Hleb]
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from sarajevo, bosnia and herzegovina
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Reporting from the Rwanda - Congo (DRC) border
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reporting from akagera national park, rwanda
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vlog from the hiroshima peace memorial park, japan
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Haeinsa Temple and the Tripitaka Koreana
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blog from abiverd, turkmenistan
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registan square, samarkand, uzbekistan
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reporting from queen elizabeth national park, uganda
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reporting from the grand place in brussels
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reporting from machu picchu, peru
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unesco sites
my birthday in dubrovnik: how old do I have to be to become unesco...
There are many reasons to celebrate this week. After six years of effort, Croatia this week formally concluded the accession negotiations with the European...
a history of hagia sofia in istanbul, as told by sofia petrillo of the...
Picture it, Constantinople, 537. A young emperor dedicates a new structure to St. Sophia, the Divine Wisdom. Before this, he had spent many hours...
uganda’s queen elizabeth national park [video]
In the first in a series of videos featuring Uganda, this mini-report, from the roof of a safari vehicle, gives a brief introduction to...
koyasan and the daito, or great pagoda
Koyasan, Japan is a center of Buddhist study and practice, located in the Wakayama Prefecture at an elevation of approximately 900 meters above...
the reality of tracking mountain gorillas in the bwindi impenetrable rainforest, uganda
As I mentioned in a prior post, the reality of tracking the critically endangered mountain gorilla in the Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest in southwestern Uganda...
polar regions
if you feel particularly magnetic today, blame the sun
If today you are watching BBC news or Al Jazeera, or even, dare I say, the Real Housewives tonight and you lose signal, blame...
