Standing in the middle of Muir Woods it’s a little hard to believe that San Francisco — and I mean downtown San Francisco — is just 20 minutes away, over the Golden Gate bridge. It’s so eerily quiet in this stand of old-growth redwood trees, you may as well be a thousand miles from civilization.
That’s probably why people find it attractive; like standing on a beach with raging surf, the force of nature (more…)
Editor’s Note: Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. Author of “A Compendium of Miniatures,” she is an editor of Plazm magazine and adjunct faculty at Prescott College. Follow the Easter Island Project (her ongoing participatory project of art, music, and writing) on her website at www.magdalen.com or here on the Viator Travel Blog. This is the first installment.
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Sometimes, new technology makes like more complicated. Think: the highly programmable coffee-espresso machine that collects dust in your kitchen pantry.
Other times, new technology looks cool at first. And then quickly turns tedious. Think: laser pointers and clapping light switches.
And then once in a blue moon, along comes something new that is actually useful. In this category (more…)
I am noticing a strange trend in my travels over the past year. I end up in places turning 400.
Are a lot of places celebrating 400 years? Probably not. Nor do I seek out the big birthday celebrations. And yet last summer I found myself in Quebec City for its 400th anniversary. This winter, escaping from work and the rain, I headed to Bermuda as they kicked off their year of 400th anniversary celebrations.
Bermuda has a (more…)
“You can’t come to Cornwall without having at least one cream tea. And one again tomorrow. And one again on Wednesday.”
I turned quickly but this obvious expert had put the scone into her mouth before I had time to find the answer to a question haunting me all afternoon: jam first or cream?
I was in Cornwall, England, in the small ex-fishing village of St Ives, now popular for beach holidays (and voted (more…)
It pays to walk in London. It may be tempting to jump on the Tube or hail a taxi to get from A to B, but the city gives up its secrets on foot. In a few paces, you can move from a 21st-century glass tower to an 11th-century church. This sequence of walks – if you do them all – takes you from the Tower of London to the London Eye. You cross the Thames river three times and walk a total distance of approximately 5 miles. The things you’ll (more…)
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The last 60 hours have been interesting to say the least. To tell the story will take a bit of time and is a great reminder of how things on the road are totally out of your control.
The plan was to leave Luxor on Friday evening hoping to take a bus to Hurghada on the cost of the Red (more…)
When anyone asks me for recommendations on things to do on their vacation, it’s hard for me to give advice on the “one” thing you have to do. That said, there is one thing I always recommend as a great way to find things to see and do in almost any destination worldwide–get yourself a “Sightseeing Pass.” It’s an all-in-one pass that usually covers admission to popular attractions and, even better, offers direct admission to (more…)
2009 Chapeau Blog Awards
Today we learned a happy fact – the Viator Travel Blog (um, the one you’re reading right now) was nominated as one of two finalists in the 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards. You can read the full announcement here, if you like.
We were nominated in the Travel & Leisure category. What’s interesting about the Chapeau Blog Awards is that they don’t nominate a short list of (more…)
Editor’s note: This is part of Jack’s ongoing series (saga? odyssey? final reckoning?) about Western Australia and the Outback. Click here to read Jack’s previous entry, Western Australia: Halls Creek to Windjana Gorge.
Like a Don Juan of the Outback, astride a faithful steed and with loyal Pancho by my side, I stand and gaze out upon boundless joyful beauty. A rest for the eyes and drink for the soul, pausing amid (more…)
