Posts tagged Africa
We Rolled Out 'All Things Wanderful' — And Then 2020 Happened

I’m sure everybody else is saying it, too, but I just gotta do it: What. A. Year. Whew, okay, that felt good. You know what hasn’t been good, though, especially for travel fiends like myself? This godforsaken year that began with such promise.

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This Top-Rated Adventure Travel Company is Ready to Rock Your World in 2021

If you’ve been sitting on your hands and knees since March, just itching to get out there and explore the great unknown once more: pay attention, because one of the world’s most highly-rated adventure travel companies has a full slate of trips just waiting for your travel-bitten butt to salivate over in the coming year.

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Satisfy Your Wanderlust by Streaming One of These Excellent Travel Shows

Regardless of what you had planned at the beginning of 2020, it’s pretty likely you’ve traveled far less this year than you originally thought you would. Maybe you got a quick trip in way back in January or February, but now it’s been months since you’ve gone anywhere, and you’re about to go completely bonkers if that isn’t soon rectified.

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Let's All Just Escape to These Beautiful, Off-the-Radar African Islands

Just picturing the crystal clear waters of Fiji, the white sandy beaches of Aruba, or the colorful coral reefs of the Bahamas is enough to have you daydreaming all afternoon. However, while all of those island nations offer the whole package, we’re not here to talk about any of them.

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6 Travel Novels I Would Recommend (& One That's Better Left on the Shelf)

Sometimes, for whatever reason — be it financials, career, or, ahem, a global pandemic — we find ourselves unable to venture off to the various destinations, near or far, inhabiting our travel bucket lists. In these times there is little we can do other than dream of the myriad places we wish to experience firsthand, and things can get depressing.

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The NY Times' 52 Places to Go in 2020: Reactions, Highlights & Other Tidbits

That’s right, folks, it’s one of my favorite times of the year: the release of The New York Times’ annual “52 Places to Go” list, which is packed with so much travel inspiration that an extra baggage fee is surely unavoidable.

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7 Social Norms from Around the Globe That May Seem Strange to Americans

It could easily be argued that the U.S. is near the top of the list when it comes to countries that are so contained within their own bubbles that people tend not to think about the way life is lived in other places. That in mind, here are some social norms from other parts of the world that may sound a little odd to American ears.

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Why It's Time to Give the Middle East a Chance

There are 17 countries (including the partially-recognized state of Palestine) that are typically categorized as part of the Middle East, and while some areas are dangerous for travelers, there are also many, many places that would be worthy of any travel bucket list.

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Looking for Something New? These 5 Countries Were Created Only This Century

New countries don’t necessarily crop up all the time, but, believe it or not, there have been 34 countries added to the map since 1990. A host of these, including the likes of Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, became independent once more and were thus “new” again when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. Several other new countries came into being during the ‘90s as well, but there have only been five nations newly created in the 21st century.

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