Destination: South America
Jersey Girl
by Abbie Kozolchyk | 07.08.10 | 4:28 PM ET
REUTERS/Christine Grunnet Abbie Kozolchyk finds herself on an unlikely quest to buy soccer jerseys from Bolivia to Bhutan
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Yahoo! BuzzWorld Travel Watch: Striptease at Uluru, Ongoing Strikes in Greece and More
by Larry Habegger | 06.30.10 | 12:11 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
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by Larry Habegger | 06.23.10 | 12:07 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
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by Larry Habegger | 06.16.10 | 11:32 AM ET
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World Travel Watch: Volcanoes in Ecuador and Guatemala, Violence in Rome and More
by Larry Habegger | 06.09.10 | 12:29 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Confessions of a Focus Group Traveler
by LiAnne Yu | 06.08.10 | 11:14 AM ET
iStockPhoto When LiAnne Yu visits other countries, she watches people from behind a one-way mirror. She now knows which cultures prefer jeans that accentuate curvy butts.
World Travel Watch: Floods in Central Europe, Ongoing Violence in Bangkok and More
by Larry Habegger | 05.19.10 | 10:22 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Travel Movie Watch: ‘180 Degrees South’
by Jim Benning | 05.04.10 | 2:37 PM ET
180 South looks like a great new outdoorsy travel documentary. In it, Jeff Johnson retraces a 1968 road trip from Ventura, California, to southern Patagonia undertaken by Yvon Chouinard and a few others. The film features surfing and climbing, and, it seems, a healthy dose of philosophizing about travel and life.
It’s touring the country now—dates and locations are listed here—and it comes out on DVD in June. Here’s the trailer:
Copacabana: ‘Unknowingly Retro ... Deliciously Original’
by Michael Yessis | 05.04.10 | 10:06 AM ET
It’s also Ground Zero for dog hairdressers, according to Jon Lee Anderson. His compelling take on Copacabana and Rio de Janeiro is in the Financial Times:
That’s the Copacabana I see, anyway, a place full of ordinary people and chancers, too; a bit tawdry and unknowingly retro, and, therefore, deliciously original. To a large extent, this description also applies to Rio at large. At a time when so many other cities in the world have seen radical makeovers to adopt the cloned look of homogeneous urban modernity, Rio is still refreshingly eclectic and chaotic, so enveloped in its own self-indulgent, sometimes desperate but radiant reality, too, that it seems to inhabit its own time capsule.
World Travel Watch: Strikes in Greece, Ongoing Protests in Thailand and More
by Larry Habegger | 04.28.10 | 10:38 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
The Sweetness of Brazil
by Tom Swick | 04.15.10 | 12:04 PM ET
iStockPhoto In the World Heritage city of Ouro Preto, on Brazil's fine appreciation of life's everyday gifts
World Travel Watch: Crime in Bali, Burj Dubai and Machu Picchu Re-Open, and More
by Larry Habegger | 04.07.10 | 3:03 PM ET
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by Larry Habegger | 03.31.10 | 10:50 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
The Old Patagonian Express Rumbles On
by Jim Benning | 03.19.10 | 1:44 PM ET
I’ve always thought “The Old Patagonian Express,” Paul Theroux’s book about his trip from the U.S. down to South America by train, was one of his best.
I’ve sometimes wondered what became of the old train he writes about near the book’s end—the one he seized on for the title. It turns out, it’s still operating.
The same starkness of place that struck Theroux in the high Patagonian desert remains. Like a photograph from an earlier era, the train and the landscape remain unchanged.
The Colors of La Boca
by Sarah Rooney | 03.04.10 | 11:29 AM ET
Photo by Sarah Rooney Sarah Rooney captures the mosaic of Caminito, one of Buenos Aires' most vibrant neighborhoods
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