World Hum’s Most Read: Aug. 30-Sept. 5

What We Loved This Week: Jose Feliciano, Rub’ al Khali and Raw Oysters

Don’t Be Cruel: Traveling ‘Elvis’ Draws Attention, Groans

It’s Not Easy Being Green and Crucified

A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different?

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Paul Theroux: Invisible Man on a Ghost Train

Jim Benning asks the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” about his new book, aging and the challenge of disappearing in the age of the BlackBerry

Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

My Travels, My Feet

After taking one too many headless torso shots of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square

Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling

Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.

A ‘Random Guide to International Behavior’*

Phong is definitively the highlight of your trip to Vietnam. Anywhere in this country you could have this delicious soup

Yep, anywhere in Vietnam you could enjoy the food, but the famous brand name is Pho24, it has many branches abroad including Japan, USA..ect.

Ask someone to name a Vietnamese dish, and he or she will most likely say pho (rhymes with “duh’’). Twenty-nine years ago, who would have dreamed that the national soup of Vietnam would be so well embraced in America?

Too bad I found better PHO in the U.S. than in Vietnam itself… IMHO

Also:
A list of faux pas from different cultures around the world. “In German business dealings, scooting your chair closer to the host is considered an insult.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_faux_pas

Pho better in the US than in Vietnam? Surely not.. though I guess it depends where you bought it!

There is the whole North Vs South debate in Vietnam - among other differences Hanoi is said to be the home of pho, where pho is one of the most important dishes and people have great pride in it…

Sadly, they’re much mistaken. In the south it is spicier, tastier, more herbs, more mmm! Northern Pho is great if you like your beef, as it is nothing but. Down south Pho is lighter, fresh, and full of flavour.