Destination: Nicaragua
World Travel Watch: Cholera Outbreak in Haiti, Tsunami in Indonesia and More
by Larry Habegger | 10.27.10 | 12:38 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
What Happens When CBS’ ‘Survivor’ Goes to Nicaragua?
by Jim Benning | 08.26.10 | 1:53 PM ET
For starters, the television company hypes the country’s “savage wildlife.”
A crew has been filming the next season of the hit TV show in the beach town of San Juan del Sur—it will debut on CBS next month.
Reports the Los Angeles Times:
Government officials apparently think “Survivor” could be good for foreign business investment and tourism, even though the CBS commercial for the show proclaims Nicaragua a land of “impenetrable terrain, smoldering volcanoes and savage wildlife.” (Savage wildlife? The mosquitoes?)
Yes, tourism to Nicaragua could skyrocket—and so could unfathomably horrific mosquito bites.
World Travel Watch: Dress Code in Vatican City, Taxi Kidnappings in Nicaragua and More
by Larry Habegger | 07.28.10 | 12:12 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: Protests in Nepal, Tensions in Nicaragua and More
by Larry Habegger | 11.05.09 | 7:47 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: Dengue in Nicaragua, Instability in Bosnia and More
by Larry Habegger | 10.23.09 | 12:11 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Me Gustas Tu’ by Manu Chao
by Jim Benning | 08.27.09 | 1:16 PM ET
Where in the World Are You, Lynne Friedmann?
by World Hum | 06.22.09 | 12:42 PM ET
The subject of our latest up-to-the-minute interview with a traveler somewhere in the world: World Hum contributor Lynne Friedmann. She wrote the essay All the Flowers in Amsterdam and contributed to our Top 40 Travel Songs of All Time.
Where in the world are you?
Seven Images to Inspire Wanderlust: From Nicaragua to New Delhi
by World Hum | 06.05.09 | 9:26 AM ET
Indulge your armchair traveler with seven wanderlust-inspiring travel photos from around the world
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Interview with Rick Steves: ‘Travel as a Political Act’
by Jim Benning | 05.13.09 | 2:33 PM ET
Jim Benning asks the Europe travel guru about his new book -- and where Americans can go for a politically eye-opening experience
Eight Great Family Travel Stories
by World Hum | 05.01.09 | 11:33 AM ET
To mark World Hum's eighth anniversary, we've collected eight favorite travel stories from our archives that explore the family vacation in all its forms
Street Kids in Enzo’s World
by JD Roberto | 04.13.09 | 9:51 AM ET
On a trip to Granada, Nicaragua, JD Roberto confronts hungry children and considers how to explain them to his son
Morning Links: The Zion Curtain, Pynchon and Baedeker, and more
by Michael Yessis | 03.12.09 | 10:00 AM ET
- Utah may tear down the “Zion Curtain” and make it easier to get into bars. Will that boost the state’s tourism?
- See Europe ... in New York City.
- Kurt Andersen in Nicaragua: “[T]he country has become one of those Places on the Verge, discovered by cognoscenti but not yet overrun.”
- Yes, Los Angeles has a bike culture. Matthew Segal immerses himself.
- MetaFilter celebrates Baedeker travel guides—“the de facto travel guide for international men of leisure”—and how they served as a research tool for Thomas Pynchon.
- Man sues US Airways for $1 million after it allegedly lost his Xbox and gave him “an unconscionable runaround.”
- Man jumps into Niagara Falls and survives, only the third person ever to do so.
- Welcome, Big World Magazine.
- Finally, another U.S. Senator, another embarrassing airport incident. If only someone had caught Sen. David Vitter’s alleged outburst on video like Cathay Pacific caught the Airport Auntie.
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World Hum Travel Movie Club: ‘The Art of Travel’
by Eli Ellison, Eva Holland | 10.09.08 | 5:53 PM ET
The Rise of Luxe Surf Travel (at Least According to the NY Times)
by Jim Benning | 02.12.07 | 10:53 AM ET
Anyone who surfs or knows people who do realized years ago that the sport had shed its dirtbag image—that doctors and attorneys now eagerly lay claim to the title “surfer” (even if they don’t much surf) and that big bucks are spent on travel to remote, uncrowded breaks in places like Central America and Indonesia. Now, the New York Times is on the case. In a front-page story yesterday, the Times breathlessly reported: “For $10,000 a day, you can have the ultimate surfing sojourn in Indonesia aboard the 110-foot Indies Trader IV, a sort of floating hotel with 15 cabins, a helipad and three-course meals with wine. A motorized tender takes you to the waves.” And about today’s surfers: “This new species of surfer contributes to a booming market for vacation packages, instruction, equipment and real estate near some of the world’s best surf breaks. Like golf, surfing has become an ideal activity around which to discuss business.”
Nouveau Sandalista on Venezuela: ‘There Is So Much Vibe and Passion’
by Jim Benning | 01.25.07 | 2:22 PM ET
We noted early last year that Venezuela was the new, hip Latin American travel destination for good sandal-shod lefties (or naive commies, depending on your perspective). Cindy Sheehan, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, among other famed agitators, had already made the trek. Now comes another breathless report on the phenomenon. “From a trickle a few years ago,” the Mail & Guardian reports, “there are now thousands, travelling individually and on package tours, exploring a left-wing mecca that promises to build social justice in the form of ‘21st-century socialism.’”
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