by John Chatfield, Contributing Editor, ITN

From the gleaming modern city of Dubai to a safari in the bush in Kenya — there couldn’t be a larger contrast.

In November ’04 I was on a familiarization trip to Kenya sponsored by African Travel, Inc. This was a joint effort of the Kenya Tourist Board and several American tour operators to boost tourism to Kenya, which had been hurt badly after the bombing of our embassy in Nairobi in 1998. There were over 160 travel agents visiting...

We stood in rapt attention as our guide pointed out the figure of a bison on the cave wall. The artist had used the natural contours of the rock to give a 3-dimensional quality to the body of the animal. As the guide used his flashlight to outline the figure, we could almost imagine it was a torch like that used by a shaman or medicine man 15,000 years ago.

We were in Grotte Font-de-Gaume, a cave in the Dordogne, or Périgord, region of southwest France. This is one of the last caves...

—by Beverly Shaver, El Cerrito, CA

Almost every visitor to Asia at one time or another passes through Singapore, be it on a shore excursion from a cruise ship or while changing planes. We did not plan to linger as we arrived there on our way home following a 2-week, September ’04 ramble through eastern Malaysia, given the few antiquities and the super-modern urban environment there. We likely would have spent the night before our departure in our hotel room had it not been for the...