Destination: Africa
The Mad Matatus of Kenya
by Carl Hoffman | 03.16.10 | 10:42 AM ET
Photo by Carl Hoffman In an excerpt from "The Lunatic Express," Carl Hoffman spends a sweaty, noisy, desperate 24 hours in Nairobi
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Yahoo! BuzzLibya’s Tripoli Airport: Airworld, It’s Not
by Jim Benning | 03.12.10 | 3:28 PM ET
REUTERS/Louafi Larbi We write a lot about Airworld and the notion that, beyond the security gates, the world’s airports are becoming more alike by the day. But a nice story in Reason about a press junket to Libya suggests that Tripoli’s airport retains its unique, uh, charm:
When the BBC reported that “at Tripoli’s ultra-modern airport…you could be almost anywhere in the world,” I expected at bare minimum a Starbucks, a fake Irish pub, and (this is the ultra bit) a bank of vending machines dispensing iPods and noise-canceling headphones.
Well, perhaps we came through Libya’s spillover airport, its Midway or Stansted, because this is “anywhere in the world” only in some mad, dystopian-novel sense. Available for purchase are Egyptian gum, cheap watches celebrating 40 years of the Libyan revolution, and glossy magazines with Hugo Chavez on the cover.
World Travel Watch: Typhoid in Fiji, Khmer Rouge Tourism in Cambodia and More
by Larry Habegger | 03.10.10 | 10:41 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
How to Take Part in an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
by Jenny Dunlop | 03.09.10 | 11:10 AM ET
In Ethiopia, people who have no one to drink coffee with have no friends. Jenny Dunlop explains why you must stay for the third cup.
Video: Steve Almond’s Toto Takedown
by Eva Holland | 03.08.10 | 5:54 PM ET
Writer Steve Almond dissects the classic travel tune, Toto’s “Africa.” I’ll never hear the song the same way again. (Via @KelseyTimmerman)
Photo You Must See: Two Girls in Cape Town
by World Hum | 02.26.10 | 1:33 PM ET
REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Two girls lean against metal shacks near a B&B in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township.
Video You Must See: Clouds on Table Mountain
by Eva Holland | 02.08.10 | 11:06 AM ET
A time-lapse visit to the ethereal Cape Town landmark
Don’t Mess With My French Toast!
by Eric Weiner | 02.04.10 | 8:11 AM ET
iStockPhoto On the meal that grounds us in our home culture, even on the other side of the globe
World Travel Watch: Machu Picchu Closed, Security Boosted in Goa and More*
by Larry Habegger | 02.03.10 | 10:30 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Photo You Must See: Che Guevara Sunglasses in Angola
by World Hum | 01.21.10 | 2:26 PM ET
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings World Travel Watch: Elections in Sri Lanka, Shark Attack in Cape Town and More
by Larry Habegger | 01.20.10 | 12:59 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Photo You Must See: Sandboarding in Egypt
by World Hum | 01.19.10 | 12:49 PM ET
REUTERS/Tarek Mostafa American sandboarder Matt Walton flies down the Al Katania dunes southwest of Cairo, Egypt.
World Travel Watch: Major Earthquake in Haiti, Road Blocks in Greece and More
by Larry Habegger | 01.13.10 | 12:25 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
What’s That Smell?
by Paul Lynch | 01.07.10 | 4:48 PM ET
iStockPhoto Paul Lynch explores the intersection of travel and the nose
France Returns Frescoes to Egypt
by Eva Holland | 12.15.09 | 2:12 PM ET
Big news in the antiquities world: The French government has returned five disputed frescoes to the Egyptian government. The painted stone fragments had been held by the Louvre for the past few years, and the Egyptians—claiming that the Louvre’s curators bought them knowing they were stolen goods—had cut off all formal ties and cooperation on archaeological digs with the museum as a result. I suspect that the British Museum, among others, hopes this move won’t become a precedent-setter.
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