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How to Tilt Your Head Like an Indian
by Kavita Pillay | 01.30.06 | 3:36 PM ET
A well-placed "Namaste" or "As-Salaam-Alaikum" might get a conversation started in India, but subtly tilting your head is the subcontinent's secret to real communication. Kavita Pillay explains the motion that speaks a thousand words.
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by E. Casey Kittrell | 01.23.06 | 10:31 AM ET
Photo by Michael Keating. To guide him through Tunisia, E. Casey Kittrell chose a nearly 100-year-old travelogue and discovered what it's like to travel with an observant, prescient, and, sometimes, bigoted man
What Types of Travel Gifts Do You Recommend That Are Space-Friendly, Practical and Yet Meaningful?
by Rolf Potts | 01.02.06 | 3:03 PM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel
Jeffrey Tayler: Facing Africa’s “Angry Wind”
by Jim Benning | 12.31.05 | 9:22 PM ET
Photo of Jeffrey Tayler by Tatyana Shchukina. Jim Benning asks The Atlantic's Moscow correspondent about travel writing, his latest book and the allure of the world's most remote regions
The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra
by Rolf Potts | 12.30.05 | 1:56 PM ET
Art by Jeff Wilson. He traversed an entire nation in a long weekend. Now Rolf Potts shows how you can impress members of the opposite sex and write a textbook-perfect travel article in eight easy steps.
Notable Travel Books of 2005
by Frank Bures | 12.20.05 | 1:45 AM ET
World Hum reviewed a number of new travel books this year, but not all of them. Frank Bures highlights new titles worthy of a place on any traveler's bookshelf.
Catherine Watson: “Roads Less Traveled”
by Michael Yessis | 12.15.05 | 10:17 PM ET
Photo of Catherine Watson courtesy of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Michael Yessis talks with the pioneering editor and writer about serendipity, travel as education and why travelers should talk to everyone they can, especially the quiet people
Incident in a Spanish Church
by Catherine Watson | 12.15.05 | 7:28 PM ET
Photo from Spanish Tourism. She never spoke to the boy in the red windbreaker. But Catherine Watson's encounter with her fellow pilgrim along the road to Santiago de Compostela transformed her in an unexpected way.
Have You Taken the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing? If So, Any Advice?
by Rolf Potts | 11.27.05 | 9:15 PM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel
Billy Collins: The Poetry of Travel
by Frank Bures | 11.22.05 | 12:31 AM ET
The former U.S. poet laureate brought the world in-flight poetry. Frank Bures asks him about travel, writing and the Delta Airlines flight on which poetry trumped Keanu Reeves.
Sleepless in Rangoon
by Tom Downey | 11.21.05 | 11:41 PM ET
Photo by Tom Downey. On his second visit in four years to the same Burmese pagoda, Tom Downey embraces his jet lag and revels in travel's power to reveal change
Why I am Still Going to Bali
by Liz Sinclair | 11.15.05 | 8:37 PM ET
Bombers have killed hundreds and decimated the island's tourist-based economy. But Liz Sinclair refuses to cower.
Japan Unmasked
by Terry Ward | 11.07.05 | 7:47 AM ET
Karin Muller's "Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa" chronicles the author's time in the Land of the Rising Sun. Terry Ward writes that it offers insight into the famously closed culture -- and a dose of humor.
Jennifer Leo: Travels Down the Written Road
by Jim Benning | 11.04.05 | 1:00 PM ET
Jim Benning asks the editor of a new story collection about blogging, women's misadventures and the challenges of a career in travel writing
The Joy of Steam
by Tony Perrottet | 11.03.05 | 10:29 PM ET
Photo by Kate Milford. Tony Perrottet went for a simple scrub down at the oldest bath house in Istanbul and discovered a link to the ancient Roman Empire