Category : Travel

MOVE from Rick Mereki. And don’t miss the equally compelling LEARN and EAT

Go along on a roadtrip with one of the world’s greatest living photographers and you’ll see it’s all about the crackers.

In case you missed it, here’s Kseniya Simonova, the 2009 winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent.

If only for a day or two, horrible dust storms have given Sydney a J.M.W.Turner-meets-Mad-Max sky.

Recent photos of the former President of the Council of State of Cuba, Fidel Casto, show how the 83 year-old has somehow morphed into your Uncle Morty who spends most of his day sitting at a booth at Denny’s in his tracksuit complaining to the waitress about how salty the eggs are.

This week David Lynch launched Interview Project, where he goes on a 70-day, 20,000-mile road trip interviewing random people. New ones are added every 3 days.

Things are a lot creepier underwater. In 2006 English artist Jason de Caires Taylor created one of the world’s first underwater sculpture parks in Grenada, West Indies and soon will create another, larger one off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan pennisula. He’s also got plans for a land-based sculpture park in Crete that uses sculptures filled with earth and seeds from native plant species which will eventually continue his theme of organic transformation. See some photos or watch a video and swim among de Caires Taylor’s creepy sculptures.

Personally, I never thought that Chicago was all that bad, but the Second City rated number 3 in Forbes recent ranking of America’s Most Miserable Cities. Come on, they’ve got great bars that are open past my bedtime, hotdogs, the ghost of Studs Terkel, and… well… give me a day or two. But how can Chicago be more miserable than Buffalo or Detroit? Number one? Stockton, California, where only 15% of adults have a college education.

It seems Luca Marchio, a 33 year old native of Como, Italy, is perhaps the first Western tourist in Iraq since the start of the war. It wasn’t an easy trip to get there either. Marchio went from Italy to Egypt, then to Turkey, and from there to Kurdistan on a 10-day visa and then took a taxi 200 miles to Baghdad. After spending an afternoon touring the sites of Baghdad by taxi, the next morning he took a public bus 40 miles west to Fallujah. I am a tourist. I want to see the most important cities in the country, Marchio told a journalist as to why he was in Falluja. But fearing for his safety after spotting him on a bus, Falluja police called in the American marines, the Italian Embassy and then held him overnight for his safety. The flummoxed Italian Embassy in Baghdad explained to him that it was not safe to move around in Iraq. He is a little bit naïve, said the deputy chief of the Italian mission in Baghdad.

The best First Class in the air is probably on Emirates planes where they offer private suites in First Class. They come fully equipped with individual storage, a coat closet, vanity desk and personal mini bar. The extra-large seat reclines to become a fully flat bed, and the 23″ wide-screen LCD screen with 600 channels of entertainment. It’s more like a train compartment with a real door you can shut.

Got a lot of time to kill? Then take a look at the more than 900 photos I took in Japan. Just not all at one time. Seriously, take it one city at a time or something or you’ll ruin your eyes.

Headshaking article on the bizarreness that is Dubai. But where are you? Is this a new Margaret Atwood novel, Philip K. Dick

3 guys just rain 4000 miles in 111 days. They ran across the Sahara Desert– the entire Sahara for the– H2O Africa Foundation. That’s nearly 2 marathons a day along camel tracks in 130F degree heat. See photos of their tired asses at National Geographic’s Running the Sahara.

Here you go, an atlas of world faiths showing who believes what, where.