During Shanghai’s first golden age in the late 19th and early 20th Century, the city thrummed with life, from the busy riverside wharves and docks to the dancehalls and theatres in the city’s centre. Until the 1949 Communist Revolution, the city’s famous Bund waterfront was known as the Wall Street of Asia and housed the [...]
Snowflakes are starting to fall on mountain tops across the nation – and only if money fell from trees, as well, would it seem like anyone and everyone could book a skiing or snowboarding trip.
Between the cost of snow pants, helmets, rentals, lift tickets and lodging – skiing is inherently an expensive sport. But don’t [...]
Mention this buzzing city-state and several things comes to mind: urban jungle, chilli crab, hawker food, perhaps even shopping. Yet, Singapore has a skyscraper-free side that even locals do not know about. From green corridors to hot springs, these places and experiences are slices of a rustic, unique Singapore that is best to see now [...]
Just one hour north of Sydney lies the Central Coast of New South Wales. Blessed with some of the world’s best beaches, this bucolic region is the first stop on Australia’s legendary Pacific Coast drive, which stretches 900 km from Sydney to Brisbane. The Central Coast has more than 15 golden beaches beckoning along nearly [...]
Head to Cala Goloritzè for a perfect half-moon bay and a sea that shimmers through the entire spectrum of blues.Locals will tell you that the only way to see Sardinia’s startlingly beautiful coastlines and rugged hinterland is to get out and hike.
And there is no better place to hit the trails than in the [...]
Mars and Russia have never gotten along. The Red Planet has been eating Russian spacecraft since 1960,when the then-USSR made its first attempt to launch a Mars-bound ship and never even got it off the pad. Since then, there have been 17 more missions — and 17 more failures or only partial successes.
Now add an [...]
The air whistled past my helmet as I removed a cube of raw buffalo meat from the bag strapped to my paraglider harness and placed it in my gloved hand. While a soup of haze obstructed the views of the Himalayas one afternoon last spring, I was rewarded with tilting glimpses of the Nepalese city [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — “Museum visit” takes on a whole new meaning at the New Museum in New York, where visitors can ride a three-story slide that winds through the building or jump into a salty pool — in the buff — for an out-of-body experience.
The “Experience” exhibit features the creations of German artist Carsten [...]
The closer you get to the end of a long journey, the more powerful the tug of home becomes. As the finish line begins to seem inevitable, the whole trip starts to feel as though it’s in the past while it’s still going on.
When crossed from Ohio through a sliver of West Virginia and soon [...]
In the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a woman stands alone at the fringe of one the world’s great wildernesses. Her name is Betty Higgins, a former Air Niugini flight attendant who spent decades jetting around the globe before retiring a few years ago on 40 hectares of woodland near the village of [...]
