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?
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
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.
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
Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.
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5.30.08
Celebrity Travel Watch: Chris de Burgh in Iran
Chris who? You probably know his syrupy song “The Lady in Red.” (Video below.) It was huge in the mid-’80s. Turns out the British singer is still huge in Iran, where, for almost three decades, most Western music has been forbidden by the ruling Shiite Muslim clergy. De Burgh’s songs circulated on illegally copied tapes there, and he became rock-star popular. So much so that, in an apparent lifting of the Western music ban, de Burgh recently became the first Western pop musician to visit Iran since the 1979 revolution.
The Washington Post’s Thomas Erdbrink covered de Burgh’s triumphant visit, complete with fawning fans and ritual pop star stage banter, albeit with a novel delivery. De Burgh spoke a bit in Farsi.
