by Jennifer L. Price Towering above us at 9,724 ft (2,964 meters) was the Zugspitze, Germany’s tallest mountain. Although it was two in the afternoon and the sun was shining, it was April and the thermometer showed zero degrees. I looked at my two friends nervously. Are we really going to do this? We stood…
by Amy Lynch May is the perfect month to visit Indianapolis—the flowers are starting to bloom, the weather’s warm but comfortable, and the air is filled with the sweet sounds of racecars. Although Indy has plenty of redeeming features going for it, racing remains the city’s bread-and-butter attraction. Even for non-gearheads, the month-long calendar of…
by K. Kalyani It will be a very exciting and much interesting experience if you get a chance to see a lot of captive elephants together in one place, playing, fighting and chasing each other for fun. There is only one place on this earth, at present, to visit and have this fantastic experience. It…
by Uduak Oduok For a safe, beautiful, relaxing and refreshing place for your next vacation, try the city of Accra, in Ghana, West Africa. The tropical climate, citizens’ warmth, good infrastructure (clean and good roads, working street lights, accessible and efficient transportation, consistent power supply), beautiful beaches and scenery, great food and local fashion hot…
I had packed up all my possessions in San Francisco, abandoned my apartment, quit my job, ditched my cat with my parents and boarded a plane for Europe. The nervous breakdown occurred about ten minutes into the flight. After a glass of water, a Valium and my boyfriend’s reassurance that we were not in fact…
by Janet Bein, Young at Heart Diva Looking for jewelry that is exotic and artistic? Consider Yemenite filigree. Its origins go back over 3000 years. Perhaps King Solomon’s romance with the Queen of Sheba was the reason that the Jews left Judea and arrived in Yemen by way of Africa. Once they arrived, they remained…
by Sarah Fazendin On most African safaris, the “Big Five” of African big game—including Lion, Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino—is the main attraction. African Latitude (www.africanlatitude.com), a Nairobi-based safari company that has been leading expeditions into the Kenyan and Tanzanian bush for over twenty years, gets travelers out of the safari vehicles to allow…