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.
TRAVEL BLOG
10.11.06
Video: A Primer on “Slum Tourism”
A few months ago we wrote about Rio de Janeiro’s Little Slum Inn. Now, Yahoo! Current Traveler takes on “slum tourism” with a short video that looks at its emergence among a certain set of adventurous travelers. See it after the jump.
As far as I can understand from here “slum tourism” means “authentic life”, especially in Africa since in Brazil there more rich people than in Africa, me thinks. All in all, we should take care of what this “authentic” refers to. And when it brings us in very poor countries, we should be extra careful. Anyway, some might like it, don’t you think?
