My Senegalese Cousin, the Rice-Loving Pig

When the woman selling peanuts at a Samba Dia market learned the Senegalese name adopted by Katie Krueger, negotiations took an insulting turn

Slumming in Rio

Slum tourism is on the rise. But are the guided tours educational or exploitive? Rob Verger joined one in Rio de Janeiro’s impoverished favelas to find out. 

World Hum Travel Movie Club: National Lampoon’s ‘Vacation’

Philadelphia Welcomed Record Amount of International Visitors in 2007

Denali National Park Buses Going Hybrid?

Baggage: Check It or Ship It?

Susan Sessions Rugh: ‘The Golden Age of American Family Vacations’

Elyse Franko asks the author of “Are We There Yet?” about the rise and fall of the family vacation, segregation in travel and how family trips are changing today

As a Woman, Can I Really Travel Without Much Fear for my Safety?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Inside Slum Tourism

With mixed feelings, Rob Verger recently signed on for a tour of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. He looks back on the experience—and the photos he was allowed to take.

Break Bread and Brie in France

Great cheese abounds in the land of Gaul, but dig in and you risk committing any number of faux pas. Terry Ward explains how to partake of the nation’s famed fromage with savoir faire.

10 Wanderlust-Inducing Summer Concerts

Call it world music or global pop or the sound of the world hum. Ben Keene reveals 10 acts on tour that are sure to transport you. Plus videos.

A Journey Into ‘The Second World’

Some bureaucrats joke that they would never claim expertise about countries they had not at least flown over. In an excerpt from his new book, Parag Khanna argues that real global understanding can only come from serious travel.

‘The Worst Guidebook Writer Ever’?

Lonely Planet author Robert Reid reviews Thomas Kohnstamm’s “Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?” and weighs in on the controversy surrounding it

The Critics: ‘Into the Wild,’ the Movie

I read a brilliant article about Christopher McCandless’ odyssey some years ago in “Outdoors” magazine.  If the film is half as good as the article I would really recommend it.

Hy! i want to say only that:
- Hal Holbrook was just perfect, as was the cast as a whole, and I think Emile Hirsch is really going places - he was fantastic and he owned the role. Eddie Vedder’s music worked perfectly as well - not distracting or quirky - just a part of the whole.

I enjoyed the movie, and read the article from “Outside” magazine. The article is such a “teaser” to the movie. Chris McCandles story is very inspiring. Not to go out and die, but to see the world as it is, the importance of being conscious of the truth to ones personal life. I liked how in the movie it portrayed his views on, love, and being rightfully true to yourself. Even though he learned this to late in the bus...I recommend this movie and have a copy of it in my collection.

On a side note: It is so motivating[in that he just wants to be free from society] that my parents wont show it to my step-brother because they are afraid he might do the same thing.

This remarkable film deserves every penny and accolade it got. Actually, it deserved much, much more. A film like this is rarely made, actually able to capture the raw essence of numerous people’s lives of all its wide varieties.
If the ending of this film doesn’t draw strong emotion in you, full of its tragic but beautiful way, then you truly do not know what it means to be human.
After seeing this film, Sean Penn has proven to me he is as good - if not better - than such huge directors such as Spielberg and the like.