Destination: Asia
Photo You Must See: New Meaning to the Term ‘Auto-Rickshaw’
by World Hum | 02.03.10 | 1:41 PM ET
REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri A man uses a cycle-rickshaw to move a wrecked car to a scrap yard in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri.
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Yahoo! BuzzWorld 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
Must I Get ‘Off the Beaten Path’ When I Travel?
by Rolf Potts | 02.01.10 | 11:15 AM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel and the world
World Travel Watch: Violence in Cartagena, Evacuations in Peru and More
by Larry Habegger | 01.27.10 | 11:36 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Photo You Must See: Solar Eclipse Over Bangkok
by World Hum | 01.26.10 | 11:53 AM ET
REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom A plane flies past a solar eclipse above Bangkok on Jan. 15
Photo You Must See: Mardi Gras in Manila
by World Hum | 01.25.10 | 1:20 PM ET
REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo Students in costume perform in a parade for Manila's Caracol, a local version of Mardi Gras
Photo You Must See: Sunset in Afghanistan
by World Hum | 01.21.10 | 1:33 PM ET
REUTERS/Marko Djurica The sun sets behind an Afghan man as he walks in the Delaram district of southern Afghanistan.
New ‘World’s Highest Airport’ Planned for Tibet
by Eva Holland | 01.21.10 | 12:32 PM ET
The AFP reports that the new facility will be built in the Nagqu prefecture, at 4,436 meters (14,554 feet) above sea level—102 meters, or 335 feet, higher than the current record holder, also in Tibet. (Via @alisonbrick)
Orwell Birthplace Museum in the Works
by Eva Holland | 01.20.10 | 4:28 PM ET
The New York Times looks at the development plans for a remote Indian location where the author was born, and rounds up a few other visit-worthy writers’ residences too. (Via The Book Bench)
Reviewed: The Matteo Ricci World Map
by Michael Yessis | 01.20.10 | 3:39 PM ET
Commissioned in 1602, the Matteo Ricci World Map is the first written in Chinese to show the Americas. It’s currently on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Edward Rothstein reviews the exhibition:
Ricci created two earlier versions, beginning in 1584, drawing on atlases and materials he took with him on his journey from Italy. But this third version is the earliest to survive and the first to have combined information from both eastern and western cartography. It is also the oldest surviving map to have given the Chinese a larger vision of the earth.
Even the sturdiest of wall maps tend to have limited life spans, but this large, segmented map is so rare that for centuries it was uncertain if this copy even existed, which is why it has been nicknamed the “impossible black tulip” of maps. It is one of six known copies.
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
Happily Adrift in Airworld
by Eric Weiner | 01.19.10 | 11:57 AM ET
On his love for the places so many hate, from Amsterdam's Schiphol to Doha International
Photo You Must See: Balloons Over Bagan, Myanmar
by World Hum | 01.15.10 | 2:30 PM ET
REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun Hot air balloons drift over the temples of Bagan, the ancient capital city of Myanmar.
Slideshow: The Uighurs of Xinjiang
by Michael Yessis | 01.14.10 | 3:56 PM ET
Some compelling black and white images at burn. by David Denger, who traveled to Xinjiang, China, before the Beijing Olympics to chronicle the plight of the Uighurs.
Video You Must See: At the Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan
by Eva Holland | 01.14.10 | 2:21 PM ET