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A potential buyer must carefully inspect the rugs at the Navajo rug auction.

Where to Get a Great Rug, and a Helping of Navajo Culture

Connoisseurs of Native American textiles know to go to the Crownpoint, New Mexico, Navajo Rug Auction

Welcome aboard!

The Irritations of Airline-Speak

They may look friendly, but be warned: These village men will smother travelers with kindliness and drown them in tea.

The Long and Bumpy Road to Cappadocia

Of all the bizarre landscapes created by water, wind and time, Cappadocia is among the strangest

A Buddhist monk at Preah Vihear

Travel Pioneers in Southeast Asia

Ex-pat Americans in Asia lead travel firms with a difference—giving back

Friends are easily made - and tea quickly served - while tasting cheese at the town bazaar.

What to Eat and Drink in Turkey

My favorite place in any large town is the fruit bazaar, where all this goodness is crammed together into a circus of fragrant, colorful mayhem

Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown L.A. Edges Toward Livability

In downtown L.A. the vibe remains edgy, but that’s the point

The floating fishing villages in Vietnam's Halong Bay

The World Monuments Fund 2012 Watch List

The latest Watch List from the World Monuments Fund cites 67 invaluable places in need of attention, in some cases protection from tourists

No doubt about it, bears had been in this area.

The Bear and the Bullet

The truck came by slowly and a spotlight swept the river bottom. “My God—they’re hunting me!”

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Lodi, N.J.

Right outside of New York

Turkish tea

Tea and Bear Talk in Turkey

“It’s too dangerous,” said a villager. “There are bears.” His boys growled and clawed the air

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Custer, Mich.

Population: 400

Visitors to Greenland don't have to forgo modern comforts. Pictured is a 24-year-old restaurant in the capital, Nuuk, home to a quarter of the nation's residents.

Climate Change Tourism in Greenland

With 80 percent of the ice that covers the island melting, Greenland has become a hot travel destination

"Luminescent and, unlike me, very tall" is how photographer Ruth Orkin described her friend, then know as Jinx Allen.

An Image of Innocence Abroad

Neither photographer Ruth Orkin nor her subject Jinx Allen realized the stir the collaboration would make

People who eat too many croissants for breakfast or visit during August.

Swimming in Paris

Lap-swimming in Paris takes cultural openness and skimpy bathing attire

Water in the Black Sea’s northern reaches gets as cold as seawater can get—31 degrees Fahrenheit—and as warm as the 80s in summer.

The Wild World of the Black Sea

Visitors come for the place and spill onto the beach and pose exuberantly under umbrellas and wrestle with colorful inflatable toys in the brown waves

The Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

Mount Lebanon Shaker Village Redux

An outstanding collection of Shaker arts and crafts moves to the old Shaker Village in New York

Fishermen pass the hours along the Bosporus Strait. They occasionally catch sardines.

Istanbul: The Maddest City in Europe

“That’s the fattest stray dog I’ve ever seen.” A lot has changed here since Mark Twain wrote about the city, but there’s still plenty of mayhem

The great Selimiye Mosque of Edirne

Where to Go when Greece Says No: Turkey

That evening a man walked into my bush camp with a gun, marched straight at me as I gaped in shock and sprawled out beside me on my tarp

Pachino tomatos

Tomato Perfection

In Sicily, enjoy perhaps the finest eating tomato of all, the luscious Pachino

A relic from the communist era lies along the road to the Kabata Hut.

Uphill All the Way in the Rhodope Mountains

I have my dinner—cheese, a four-pound organic tomato, a sack of figs and a jar of pickled chanterelles—and I’m ready to get lost on the mountain roads

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