Africa articles

Luxury adventure travel in South Africa
Columns, January 2006 issue.
(First of three parts, jump to part 1, part 2,

Boarding Pass
Columns, December 2005 issue.
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 358th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.

Travel Tidbits
Travel Tidbits, December 2005 issue.
The Palámidi fortress in Nafplio, Greece, was the best of all the fortresses we visited in that area on our trip. It was built by the Venetians from 1711 to 1714 but was seized by the Turks the following year. My wife and I must have burned up four rolls of film between us on the structure.

Dining in Paris
Travelers' Intercom, December 2005 issue.
Karlette and her husband, Ward, shared a number of restaurant recommendations last month (page 42), gleaned from more than 20 trips to Paris. Here are a few more. (Reservations are advised.)

Dramatic sunrise in Morocco
Travelers' Intercom, December 2005 issue.
The guidebooks say that when visiting Morocco, you should spend a night in Marzouga so as to witness the sunrise the next day. You could do that via camel or Land Rover, and on a trip my daughter Heather and I took one July, we decided to use camels.

Flying around the world
Travelers' Intercom, December 2005 issue.
Nancy Stott of Walnutport, Pennsylvania, wrote, “I would like to see readers write on the topic of ‘around-the-world itineraries’ such as those featured by airline alliances and some consolidators. It would be great to have a few first-person accounts of experiences plus suggestions.”

Money Matters Overseas — a follow-up
Travelers' Intercom, December 2005 issue.
Having traveled abroad over 33 times in the past 13 years, I heartily concurred and empathized with the preponderance of opinions expressed in the October ’05 issue regarding money.

Give Bhutan a break
Travelers' Intercom, December 2005 issue.
I have been trying to get a reader’s letter, titled “Bhutan Arrangements ‘Challenging’” (Oct. ’05, pg. 31), out of my mind, but I can’t. Bhutan, the country complained about, is my favorite place in the world, and I feel it was unfairly maligned by the traveler.

Queen Zenobia & Palmyra, Syria
Columns, December 2005 issue.
Most know that Hollywood made Cleopatra famous with movies of her romantic trysts with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony, but historians generally view Arab Queen Zenobia as having greater beauty, chastity and valor than her Egyptian ancestor. But who was Zenobia?

Malta festival a highlight
Travelers' Intercom, November 2005 issue.
We took a 2-week trip to Malta plus an add-on week in Sicily, April 16-May 6, ’05, with Grand Circle Travel (Boston, MA; 800/221-2610 or www.gct.com). For my wife and me, the cost was approximately $6,254 from Los Angeles.