Category: Travel
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On CNN: Travel today I read a story about how Columbia is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. [A]fter decades of being shunned as too dangerous for travelers, the country is riding an unprecedented tourist boom. Spurred by news of the country’s dramatically improved security situation and healthy economy, nearly a million foreigners visited last…
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I have heard India being described variously as 1) a functioning anarchy; 2) a vast country which lives within one time zone and several centuries; 3) many ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse nations cobbled together to form one political entity; 4) a land of breathtaking contradictions where super rich lotus eaters live cheek by jowl…
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A recent issue of Newsweek had an interesting article by Cathie Gandel in the My Turn section. She says that at 5′ 10" and as a fair haired foreigner in Japan, she felt as conspicuous as a "nail that stood out". Japanese society is quite homogeneous and conformity with tradition is highly valued. Children are…
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