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Harlem church tours have become a New York Sunday morning tourist attraction. They can have an uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling, but the...

So it was like this. I got a message from my friend Heath, who was on his way from Busselton in Western Australia to Gold Coast in Queens...

A large industry exists around the site of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway, where thousands were worked to death in World War Two. It va...

Travelwrighter.com, October 2018 It is 3am and the air is roaring. The sound is coming from jeeps, hundreds of them, climbing the steep i...

The Cook Islands' crown jewel is the lagoon of Aitutaki What’s your mental picture of the South Pacific? Mine was a lagoon. Clear, blue, w...

While concerns grow about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia's Indian Ocean coast boasts one just as grand but far less well...

A safari in Kenya is a bucket-list classic, and deservedly so. But it's the detail as much as the grandeur that stays with you afterwards...

To stay at Loldia House is to stay in a story. Story upon story. There is the story of the main house, a stocky brick and stone single-st...

For adventurers who like to be one step ahead of the tourist hordes, the Balkan state of Montenegro has that frisson of the "destination ...

The Ziolkowskis and the Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota Author's note: The following is an unused draft chapter of my book, No More Wo...

June 2009 I knew Hasan and I were going to get along when he threw a bucket of water over my head. Granted, he then tried to beat me to d...