Sunday Newspaper Travel Highlights
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.20.06 | 12:42 PM ET
In the Washington Post, T. R. Reid, author of the terrific Confucius Lives Next Door
Also:
- The San Francisco Chronicle’s John Flinn interviews climber Greg Mortenson, whose Central Asia Institute has built 45 schools in Pakistan and eight in Afghanistan.
- Also in the Chronicle, Rolf Potts visits India’s island of Diu.
- Credit card and ATM fees often surprise travelers abroad. David Bear of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers tips on saving money.
- The Mexican economy is bad for monarch butterflies. The Philadelphia Inquirer visits them near Valle de Bravo, Mexico and explains why.
- “I’ve come to believe that travel inevitably intensifies the elements in a person’s nature, making their good and bad qualities stand out more sharply,” writes Susan Spano in the Los Angeles Times.