Spring is the time when many travelers plan their biggest vacations of the year: Leisurely road trips, family getaways with kids out of school, and travel abroad over the peak summer season. Here are some of the new guidebook releases from this season to inspire you and help plan your itineraries. They include titles from [...]

San Francisco
On the surface San Francisco has all the cliché tourist icons that we know: the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and Chinatown, to name but a few. But keep in mind that San Francisco itself is fairly small geographically, covering roughly 50 square miles.
“The City,” as it is called by locals, is the home of [...]

CANCÚN is, if nothing else, proof of Mexico’s remarkable ability to get things done in a hurry – so long as the political will exists. Between 1970 and 1974, a near-deserted stretch of beach was transformed into a viable resort destination, as the Mexican government built city infrastructure from scratch and funded three hotels. International [...]

South Africa is a large, diverse and incredibly beautiful country. The size of France and Spain combined, and roughly twice the size of Texas, it varies from the picturesque Garden Route towns of the Western Cape to the raw subtropical coast of northern KwaZulu-Natal, with the vast Karoo semi-desert across its heart and one of [...]

Introduction to Japan
For a country that lived in self-imposed isolation until 150 years ago, Japan has not hesitated in making up for lost time. Anyone who’s eaten sushi, or used a Sony Playstation feels they know something about this slinky archipelago of some 6800 volcanic islands and yet, from the moment of arrival in Japan, [...]

It’s never to early to plan your trips. Thanksgiving is fast approaching. Not only do you have a four-day weekend, your family and friends do, too. Take advantage of the effortlessly coordinated vacation days and steal away, if only for a few hours. Here are some suggestions from members.
The City Break: New York
New York City [...]

Turkey as a nation has been influenced by rich variety of tribes and cultures since 6500 B.C. with Greeks probably having the greatest impact (from Byzantines to Lydians and Macedonians) Hattis, Hittites, Phrygians, Urartians, Аrmenians, Persians, Romans, Seljuks and Ottomans have all held important places in Turkey’s history. Ancient sites and ruins throughout the [...]

With Copenhagen dominating the news of late, the International Olympic Committee Selection meeting and the United Nation Climate Control meetings, I think it’s worth providing a guide to Copenhagen.
To many people Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens, the world’s most famous amusement park, is the key to Denmark. There, on 20 acres (8 hectares) in the heart of [...]

Australia is the largest island in the world and a continent to itself. Before European settlement, it was inhabited by the Aborigines (or Kooris) for some 42,000 years. It was first visited by the Dutch in the 17th century and later colonized by the British in the 18th century. The arrival of the Europeans resulted [...]

Denmark
Located in northern Europe, Denmark is bordered by the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, and Germany, which is its only connection to the European mainland. Most of its landmass is occupied by the Jutland peninsula while the remaining 500 islands, of which only a hundred are occupied, comprise the rest of the country. The Skagerrak [...]