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The Luxury of Solitude
by David Farley | 08.11.09 | 11:23 AM ET
Photo by David Farley In a Mumbai greenmarket, David Farley hunts for the Indian city's most precious commodity
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Yahoo! BuzzThe Shanghai Qi Pao Club
by Kellie Schmitt | 08.06.09 | 2:36 PM ET
Photo by Kellie Schmitt They gathered to celebrate the sexy, figure-hugging traditional Chinese dress. Kellie Schmitt joined them for a journey into the country's past -- and future.
Love and Marriage on the Shatabdi Express
by Eva Holland | 07.27.09 | 11:19 AM ET
iStockPhoto Eva Holland hoped for a romantic boy-meets-girl story from the woman on the Indian train. She didn't get one.
Living Among Incompatibles
by Pico Iyer | 07.20.09 | 10:46 AM ET
Why Japan has the best mind Pico Iyer has encountered in a lifetime of traveling
Détente at the Russian Baths
by Peter Wortsman | 07.15.09 | 10:34 AM ET
iStockPhoto Peter Wortsman didn't mind peeling off his clothes at the banya. But he feared the worst when he revealed that he was American.
On the Perils of Travel Writing
by David Farley | 07.06.09 | 11:47 AM ET
Photo by David Farley David Farley broke into the New York Times with a story about an eccentric Italian village. When he returned, he feared being chased out by torch-bearing villagers.
‘You’re American? I Should Kill You!’
by Cory Eldridge | 07.01.09 | 10:01 AM ET
Photo by Cory Eldridge To most of his roommates at his United Arab Emirates apartment, Cory Eldridge was an exotic American. To one of them, the Iraqi who'd been held at Abu Ghraib prison, he was "President Bush."
Michael Jackson and Me: Strangers in Moscow
by Jeffrey Tayler | 06.26.09 | 2:35 PM ET
REUTERS Jeffrey Tayler recalls a cold night in 1993 when he took a break from writing his first book to see a performance by the "King of Pop"
Stranger in Paradise
by Christopher Vourlias | 06.15.09 | 2:19 PM ET
Photo by Christopher Vourlias Christopher Vourlias searches for a place to call home in Stone Town, Zanzibar
Sideways, Down Under
by Tony Perrottet | 06.10.09 | 9:50 AM ET
In the Margaret River region of Western Australia, you can just sip wine and nibble on cheese. Or, like Tony Perrottet, you can push the limits of indulgence.
The Morning After: Breakfast at Balmer’s
by Terry Ward | 06.04.09 | 8:39 AM ET
Photo by Terry Ward Terry Ward explores a travel rite of passage in Interlaken, Switzerland
Face-Off on the Congo
by Jeffrey Tayler | 06.01.09 | 10:23 AM ET
REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Jeffrey Tayler was cooking lunch along the Congo River when armed men approached, making demands. Enter the Big Man.
An Aerogram From Berlin
by Evan Rail | 05.21.09 | 10:25 AM ET
Photo by Evan Rail Evan Rail laments the slow demise of ready-to-mail aerograms
Farewell Passport 152027909
by Jeffrey Tanenhaus | 05.19.09 | 10:50 AM ET
Jeffrey Tanenhaus says goodbye to his little blue book with a travel poem
The Heat Seeker: Into the Heartland
by Alison Stein Wellner | 05.15.09 | 10:59 AM ET
Alison Stein Wellner likes her food hot and spicy. To find out how hot and spicy, she searched the world for heat. Part five of five: From Nashville to Indianapolis.