We have two amazing speakers lined up for our fall “Conversations” series, held at our National Geographic headquarters and hosted by our Trip Lit columnist Don George . Tickets are on sale for them now
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Susan Orlean and Greg Mortenson Event Tickets On Sale
Anson Wong, the notorious kingpin of the illegal wildlife trade, was finally convicted by a Malaysian court this week and sentenced to prison.
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World’s Top Dealer in Endangered Animals Snagged
Santa Monica’s biannual Glow Fest 2010 takes place this year on the evening September 25th and the L.A. Times blog has details on hotel rates and packages. The overnight festival celebrates the work of area artists by having them set up shop on the beaches along the pier, and the city has commissioned 20 original artworks for the celebration this year
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The Radar: Glow Fest, Driving Chinese, and Tourism Fees
Heavy tourist traffic, and the resulting smog and stuffy interior climate that has accompanied it, are threatening the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican officials say. The chapel’s air filtration system is overworked and in need of repairs, but officials have yet to make determinations on how best to preserve the artwork.
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The Radar: Wasted Gap Years and a Smoggy Sistine Chapel
Welcome to a new feature on the blog we’re calling Library Fridays, where we’re teaming up with our National Geographic Books division to provide you excerpts and sneak peeks of some of our upcoming titles. Our inaugural excerpt, The Last Speakers, is one I’m particularly excited about.
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Book Excerpt: The Last Speakers
A few weeks ago, we introduced a new magazine feature called “Ask a Park Ranger” where we track down the best advice from the experts about our national parks . We’ll be featuring the results in a column in the magazine and here on our blog
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Ask a Park Ranger: Acadia in the Fall
Many of our readers have responded to Daisann McLane’s latest column in our September issue, “The Lies We Tell,” in which she discusses posing as a jewelry designer when visiting a gem dealer in Jaipur, India, and other instances when she’s twisted the truth while traveling. An excerpt: …when I travel, I’ll improvise extravagant new identities for myself only with shopkeepers, hoteliers, and strangers I’m absolutely sure I’ll never see again. I try on the hats that, but for a few twists of fate, I might have worn (as well as some I would not have): anthropology professor, Peace Corps volunteer, Hare Krishna devotee
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Your Take: Do You Lie When You Travel?
This weekend I took advantage of a free Zozi deal I blogged about last week and tried out stand up paddleboarding for the first time. After driving about an hour southeast of Washington, D.C., to YK Kiteboarding and Stand Up Paddleboarding in Maryland’s Chesapeake Beach , I got my sea legs, so to speak, on a wide and surprisingly stable board and managed to hold my balance while cruising the bay without falling off
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10 Tips for Walking on Water
The Boston Public Library has just opened an exhibit of hundreds of postcards depicting the city in the early 20th century. It’s a companion to their popular exhibit of vintage travel posters which opened earlier this year. Both are on display at the Central Library at Copley Square
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The Radar: Vintage Postcards, Beer Facts, and Disappearing Brazilians
Jeff Probst travels a lot . As the host for CBS’s Survivor , he knows a thing or two about zipping around the globe and what happens when you drop everyday people into exotic countries. Curious to know what he’s learned from a life on the road, Andrew Evans caught up with Jeff on a steamy beach in Nicaragua, where he’s currently filming the show’s 21st season, to find out how the man behind Survivor handles his extensive travels and what it’s like to sleep on the Great Wall.
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Traveling with "Survivor"
An unique village in Karangasem regency closed to Candi Dasa resort, it locates on the slove of the hill, the village itself is sorrounded by the wall. The village related to the story of “Oncesrawa”, a beloved horse of the Bali ancient king of Bedulu, the horse lost. Those who find the horse whether dead or alive, he will grant a piece of land
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Tenganan Village
In Bali not all the deceased cremated directly, most of them buried but after several years because of there is no more space in the cemetery to bury the dead body the community conduct a mass cremation. This cost cheaper than the private one. In cremation we need to make a tower to transfer the dead body from our house to cemetery and make a sarchopagus in the form of animal mostly black bull as a media to cremate the dead body.
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Mass Cremation
Discover the European road less traveled – the edges of Slovenia, where five countries converge and borders, both physical and cultural, are reimagined. Carl Hoffman journeys into the heart of Europe to experience the picturesque villages and mountain passes left unchanged by decades of political upheaval.
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Our September Issue Is Now on Newsstands
“The Eiffel Tower pulses like a nagging cell phone, weekday traffic on Place de la Concorde snarls and honks, sidewalks along Rue de Rivoli resemble ant colonies, cafés jam and jangle, waiters frazzle, market vendors push and pull, hawkeyes snag park chairs. . . . Every week of the year I pray for Sunday
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Video: Paris in August
Paris officials announced plans for a September 2011 launch of a fleet of electric cars available for easy renting, similar to the city’s highly successful Velib bike rental program. The program (to be called Autolib ) is projected to further cut down on pollution and traffic in the city. Various green policies and public transport initiatives have already contributed to a 25 percent decrease in Paris traffic since 2001
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Daily Radar: 08.04.10
Every so often, we let you in on the inner workings of Traveler magazine before it hits newsstands. And if you’re a close reader, you may be aware that I write a column each month on the latest news from the National Parks.
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New Magazine Feature: Ask a Park Ranger
Traveler intern Daniel Bortz revels in plans for a newly redesigned flying car and revisits his childhood — an era where flying cars only existed in dreams and lofty children’s novels.
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Bird in the Sky: Flying Car Revealed
Kintamani is a village to overlook to huge caldera where Batur volcano and Batur lake exist, usually people go there on lunch time to enjoy the scenery but it worth visiting also during the morning on sunrise time, take some pictures while enjoying cups of Bali coffee from the “warung”
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Sunrise From Kintamani
When Meaghan Mulholland heard about a Hong Kong restaurant offering a unique style of service, she knew she had to try it, even if it did turn her stomach. Until a few days ago, if you’d asked me to pick the restaurant industry’s worst contribution to society, I might have chosen KFC’s “Double Down” sandwich, or perhaps the aggressive marketing of Fast Food corporations towards children.
Alison Brick pauses to thank the people behind our National Parks. It’s the heart of summer, and you can almost hear the pounding of tent stakes into the ground and the blowing of embers to start campfires as people make their way outdoors.
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Thank a Ranger Day