David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of d...
In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.
To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.
Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.
None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free...
Air travel reminds us who we are. It’s the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, che...
Do you know who I am? she demanded.Well, you're Night, I suppose, said Annabeth. I mean, I can tell because you're dark and everything, though the brochure didn't say much about you.Nyx's eyes winked...
TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound t...