(First Part of a Two-Part Series) By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL Whether it is your first visit to the jungle-shrouded Buddhist citadel or a return trek to re-witness the wonders of its timeless palatial opulence, you cannot help but be engulfed by an overriding sense of calm and tranquility when you arrive at Angkor Wat. The pervasive ataraxia of its impeccably
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL We woke to a dark, overcast day and drizzling rain in Kruger National Park. It was Day Two of five in Kruger, after five days of safari in the Ingwelala Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Our agenda for the day was to locate and photograph lions, one of the Big Five that had eluded us
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Tlalpujahua, a little mountain town on the northeast end of the Mexican state of Michoacán, just two and a half hours outside Mexico City, didn’t start off to be a Christmas village. In fact, when it was first founded by Spanish settlers back in 1560, it was primarily a mining town, home to the Dos Estrellas mine,
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By RICH GRANT With more than 5 million people, Mexico’s second-largest city can be modern, sprawling and congested, but it also offers a wonderful, colonial, pedestrian-friendly downtown worth spending a day or two exploring. Start at the Catedral de Guadalajara, begun in 1561, this is the heart of the city, surrounded by plazas, shopping and incredible architecture. The balcony of La
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By BOB SCHULMAN (†) “Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California … and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.” So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise ruled by a black super-woman he called Queen
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … If you are planning a ski trip this season, Aspen Snowmass are five good reasons why the resort is the best choice for Mexican skiers…
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Spanish explorers first showed up on the beaches of the Mexican fishing village of Cihuatlán in 1522
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During the “Golden Age of Piracy,” the greatest conglomeration of pirates the world has ever known assembled at Nassau and created an actual Pirate Republic that terrorized the Americas and even challenged the European powers of Britain, France and Spain
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The whales bring in thousands of visitors each year
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In the 4th century you would have been able to do one-stop shopping by visiting the Forum Romanum, or Roman Forum
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