Features

by Marilyn Lutzker, Sunnyside, NY

Vienna is an urban delight. It is a majestic and opulent city for lovers of art, architecture, music, coffee and pastry.

Everywhere I went in this outdoor museum, something enticed me to look more closely. The city’s Baroque past was everywhere. Men and women of stone and marble stared out from doorways of elaborately ornamented buildings while carved faces peered down from amongst the swirls and curves above their windows. The statues that couldn’t fit at eye level adorned the parapets — a veritable army of warriors, saints and historic...

by Steven Cole, Lowell, MI (Second of two parts, jump to part 1)

Flying into Kathmandu from Bangkok at the beginning of my trip three weeks earlier, I had my first glimpse of the mighty Himalayas and the Everest region from the seat of a Thai Airways 747. I’d been told to request a seat on the right side of the plane for the best view.

Roughly two hours into the 3-hour flight, there appeared on the horizon to the north what looked to be jagged teeth in a very long jawbone. Although the plane did not fly close enough to identify any of the mountains, I nevertheless got an...

by Margo Wilson, Scottsdale, AZ

India is HOT! No, not that kind of hot, although you wouldn’t want to travel there in the summer. No, India is a hot, get-there-now travel destination. It is also economically hot, with one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia.

North versus south

The strides in economic development were apparent to us as we traveled for 23 days in southern India in January-February ’06, but the travel boom doesn’t seem to have hit that region yet. Although we met many independent British, Scandinavian and Swiss travelers who have made...