For the next two weeks, National Geographic Traveler columnist Christopher Elliott will be trekking through the Los Angeles area with his family in search of the real Southern California . This is his first dispatch
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The Real Southern California: Olives, Marshmallows and Mega-malls
Check out National Geographic Adventure’s Ultimate Adventurers 2010 Gallery , which features this year’s most adventurous people, like Oh Eun-Sun, the first woman to conquer all 14 8,000-meter peaks , or Jessica Watson, the youngest person (at age 16) to sail solo around the world, or eco-adventurer David de Rothschild, who sailed from San Francisco to Sydney on a boat made entirely of recycled plastic bottles. Click here to see all of this year’s Ultimate Adventurers.
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Daily Radar: 06.22.10
Nick Fitzhugh is in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, working with Pete Muller to produce a documentary series about the cultural significance of soccer in black South Africa. He’ll be blogging about the World Cup, and the life surrounding it, for us here at Intelligent Travel, and today shares his experience at the USA vs.
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World Cup Dispatch: Inside the USA vs England Match
This week, the National Geographic Museum unveiled Da Vinci: The Genius , a traveling exhibition that delves into one of history’s greatest minds. The gallery, which runs until September 12, is filled with a myriad of da Vinci’s fascinating inventions, all created based on the sketches he left behind in his famous codices. Beyond his well known flying machines (designed more than 400 years before the Wright brothers achieved the first flight), there are military machines, weather instruments, civil machines such as cranes and cars, a model of an “Ideal City,” and nautical inventions, including an ancestor of modern scuba gear.
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Da Vinci: The Genius
Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel . Now he’s writing a column that focuses on traveling with kids
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Searching for Great Summer Camps
And it’s a really good issue, if I do say so myself. Our cover story makes the case for visiting Paris in August , when the city forgoes its bustle for a month-long weekend of lazy doings and simple diversions.
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Our July/August Issue Is Now on Newsstands
It seems the coin toss will be the deciding factor concerning who has the advantage as Nigeria takes on Greece in day seven of the 2010 FIFA World Cup .
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Nigeria vs. Greece: The Super Eagles Take On Galanoleyki
Each spring I look forward to the National Geographic Geography Bee , which will be hosted here at our headquarters tomorrow. Because it’s a closed event (even for us), I can’t sneak in to catch a peek of the action live (though it is streamed on video throughout the building).
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Gender and the GeoBee
Shanghai’s World Expo is in full swing ; since its May 1 st fanfare-filled opening, over five million people have stopped by. Event organizers expect another 65 million people to visit before the expo’s Halloween closing. Curiously, those 70 million won’t likely see pajama-clad Shanghainese about town, as NPR’s Morning Edition reported last week.
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No Pajamas in Shanghai
Wonder where the tourist hotspots are? An Estonia-based developer has put together a Google map of world “touristiness” based on the analysis of photos submitted to the Panoramio photo-sharing site. The regions attracting the most tourists are the bright reds and yellows, while the cool blues and purples are less visited sites.
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Daily Radar: 05.25.10
I loved New York City’s cow parade when I first saw it in the summer of 2000, and enjoyed watching other cities follow suit, introducing their own public art “parades” of animals or objects scattered about, livening up the streetscape. But after several iterations, I have to admit that they also were starting to feel a little bit tired. So I’m excited that the natural progression of public art would be to actually engage the public in the making of art
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New York’s Street Pianos
Praise for Elizabeth Berg ‘s “Amalfi Coast: A Moveable Feast” feature in our April issue has been flowing in. Our readers have been made hungry by her account of heading solo to the coastal hill town of Positano to take a week’s worth of cooking classes with Cooking Vacations Italy and sample some of the region’s fresh and lovingly prepared fare (check out the delicious photo gallery from the story)
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Ten U.S. Cooking Vacations
When Traveler contributing writer Donovan Webster and his son James traveled to Niger late last year for the annual Tuareg Festival, they managed to get prime seats for the festival’s main event: the Camel Races.
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Video: Camel Race in Niger
During a recent visit to the Florida Keys, I toured the Turtle Hospital , the only state-certified veterinary hospital in the world dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of sea turtles. Located in an old motel, the small staff and dedicated volunteers routinely help injured and sick turtles, and, when possible, release them back into the wild
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Turtle Hospital Prepares to Help Victims of the Oil Spill
RARE from Joel Sartore on Vimeo . Today marks the fifth annual Endangered Species Day , and to raise awareness about endangered animals, there will be events at zoos, aquariums, and botanic gardens around the country. Here in D.C
Among the many terrible outcomes that we’re just starting to see stem from the Deep Horizon oil spill, perhaps “cultural genocide” is one of the most devastating. The Audubon Society’s blog, The Perch, reports that livelihood of the Atakapa tribe, a small group of American Indian families living at the mouth of the Mississippi in a village only accessible by boat, is now threatened
Our Photo of the Week this week was taken in the Bolivian salt flats, one of the many destinations featured in our annual Tours of a Lifetime issue. As part of its “Bolivia Backroads and Oruro Festival” tour, Adventure Life brings travelers to the Salt Desert of Ulyuni, where they can learn about the production of salt bricks and climb the Tunapa Volcano for panoramic views.
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Photo of the Week: Bolivian Salt Flats
Earlier this year, the European Union published a list of airlines banned within the EU. With over 100 African airlines on this list, the African Airlines Association’s secretary general described the ban as “undermining international confidence in African aviation” making European carriers the “ultimate beneficiaries who will dominate the African skies to the disadvantage of African carriers,” reports the Flight Africa Blog
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Daily Radar: 05.20.10
Tourism is an incredibly lucrative industry in the Galapagos: The numbers of visitors have quadrupled between 1990 and 2009, and more than 160,000 people now visit each year. For mainland Ecuadorians, the islands are seen of a source of higher incomes, and many move to the archipelago to earn better wages. But thanks in part to lax enforcement of residency permits, the population of the protected region now stands at 30,000 and is growing at a rate of 6.5 percent a year, compared with 2.0 percent on mainland Ecuador
We have a sneaking suspicion that Andrew Evans traveled the entire 10,000 miles by bus just to hang out with penguins. You don’t have to remind me: I know how lucky I am
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Bus2Antarctica Video: Coping with Penguin Addiction