The Travel Word

Our best and most memorable experiences of travel often come from the meaningful conversations we have with the local people that we meet.

The tourism “image” of my home state of New York has a lot at stake in our great outdoors. People come from all over to glimpse our fall foliage, to savour the views from atop our mountains, and fish or boat along our freshwater lakes and rivers.

The concept of “local travel” is still sometimes misunderstood. Many people think it refers to travel that is focused on the area right around one’s home base, in contrast to “global travel” that targets places far afield.

Choosing to take a break in rural Rajasthan, four friends and I friends left Delhi in search of a travel experience that would be different than the usual touristy stuff.

The colonial mining centre of Pirenópolis is found in the shadow of the Pireneus Mountains at the centre of the Brazilian state of Goiás.

Chimwemwe Siyabu has worked for The Responsible Safari Co. (RSC) for three years and as she talks to this group of eight community representatives about the future of sustainable tourism in Malawi.

In the northern hemisphere, late summer and harvest time are upon us. We are reminded of the earth’s bounty as agriculturalists reap the fruits of the land. Across cultures far and wide, harvest is a time of feasting and merriment.

If you’re looking for a historical, unusual, challenging and epic path to follow by bicycle, the Silk Road has to be it.

Lithuania has always been known as one of Europe's premier agricultural countries.

Through our travel guide, we had found this family-owned and -run agritourism farm called Villa Solo.