Do not disturb By Jason Wilson
On a small Nicaraguan island, two strangers and I find paradise. Naked on a pristine beach, I wonder if there's anything wrong with clichˇ. (05/13/00)

Close Quarters By Eric Lawlor
In the compartment of a train leaving Cape Town, South Africa, I discover something about race, witchcraft and toaster ovens. (05/06/00)

Breaking down the Skoda By Jay Speiden
A telltale madras golf hat, a '78 Soviet jalopy and the blood-curdling scream of a man named Stipe. (04/29/00)

The other beach By Morris Dye
In the unimpressive wake of "The Beach," a local director releases quite a different take on life in Thailand. (04/25/2000)

Material world By Gallaudet Howard
Wearing a sari took me deeper into my adopted Indian home than I had ever imagined. (04/25/00)

"African Ceremonies" By Karen Templer
A photographic masterwork illuminates a continent's life-spanning range of cultural rites. (04/22/00)

Bearing the smoke By Don George
How photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher captured an Africa no other outsider has seen. (04/22/00)

In search of the real Bali By Jack Goldfarb
A little-visited village illuminates the fabled island's mundane treasures. (04/19/00)

Travel by the book By Megan McNamer
Guidebooks ridiculously chart out a trip's every moment. And on some dark evenings, that's not so bad. (04/12/00)

Heading for home By Larry Habegger
Sometimes even the simplest things seem impossible to imagine. (04/04/00)

Earthy adventures in Italy By JoAnn C. Gutin
"A Garden in Lucca" offers many blossoms -- and a few thorns. (03/29/00)

A tale of two cities By David Downie
Two exhibitions, one in London, the other in Paris, offer clashing views of "Paris 1900" -- and 2000. (03/29/00)

At Copacabana By Mark Jolly
How Rio de Janeiro boasts the most famous beach in the world. From dangerous muggers to skimpy ball hangers, the title was hard won. (03/25/00)

The perfect pasta sauce By Laura Fraser
At an Aeolian restaurant, two Italian men offer an American woman the ultimate challenge. (03/23/00)

Monster mush? By Sally Eckhoff
The Alaskan Iditarod is supposed to be about huskies having fun, but that's not what animal rights groups think. (03/22/00)

The odyssey of "Genghis Blues" By Jennifer New
The tale behind the Oscar-nominated documentary is as extraordinary as the Tuvan throat-singers it celebrates. (03/22/00)

Why we travel By Pico Iyer
It whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head. (03/18/00)

No pain, no pleasure By S. Forester Hayes
For exhibitors and tasters at the annual Fiery Foods Show, merely tongue-numbing is sissy stuff. (03/17/00)

Bird's-eye view By José Klein
On the way to film school, I spent a week in the former Yugoslavia. Amid the rubble, I found that movies provide a strange entree to real-life devastation. (03/15/00)

Naxos nights By Laurie Gough
A lotus-eating stay on a Greek island ends with a life-changing midnight encounter. (03/11/00)

Raël love By Taras Grescoe
A gorgeous group of alien spawn hones a hedonistic hankering for sex. (03/08/00)

The other Scotland By Alicia Rebensdorf
Looking for the non-Disney version of the Outer Hebrides, I found it's not such a small world after all. (03/07/00)

Aussie epiphany By Laura Miller
How I learned to stop hurrying and love the Great Barrier Reef. (03/04/00)

"Bruce Chatwin: A Biography" By Jonathan Miles
A superb portrayal of the restless and randy travel writer brings us as close to his hidden heart as we're likely to get. (03/01/00)

Extravagant abandon By Don George
Helmut Teissl's photographs capture the sensual heart of Rio's Carnival. (02/26/00)

Viva la evolución By Rachel Louise Snyder
From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution. (02/24/00)

This is my home By Pico Iyer
We clarify ourselves among the foreign, make camp where we'd least expect to. (02/23/00)

Junker By Rachel Louise Snyder
Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels. (02/23/00)

A very foreign life By Pico Iyer
In Nara, Japan, a universe of connections and contradictions unfolds daily. (02/22/00)

The alien home By Pico Iyer
A globe-wandering writer discovers that home is the most foreign place of all. (02/19/00)

Key to the city By Lucy McCauley
The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture. (02/16/00)

Snakes and rapids and paradise, oh my! By Bill Belleville
Seeking refuge in Guyana's Cashew Rains, I went to the brink, bushmaster snakes notwithstanding. (02/12/00)

Beach nut By Sue Wheat
An interview with Alex Garland, bestselling and occasionally controversial author of "The Beach." (02/11/00)

The queen and I By James Heer
Deep in a New Delhi forest, Doberman pinschers be damned, I begged to see the queen. (02/09/00)

Get lost By Michele Shapiro
All that "beaten path" stuff is true -- travel's better when you're lost. (02/08/00)

Will Britain lose its Marbles? By Elkan Allen
If the British Museum returned the Elgin Marbles to Greece, how safe would any loot be?

No Hue out By Lori Makabe
Stuck in a speeding Vietnamese cyclo, far from the city, I noticed headlights close behind. Was this a setup, or was I going to get my lemon-grass beef after all? (02/02/00)

Death, we hardly knew ye By Stephen Lemons
L.A.'s new Museum of Death offers a dark spot in an otherwise shiny town. (02/01/00)

Mother love in an African village By Tanya Shaffer
Is it worth saving a baby's life if everything else changes? (01/29/00)

Mother love in an African village By Tanya Shaffer
Is it worth saving a baby's life if everything else changes? (01/29/00)

Trying to stay afloat By Simon Winchester
Pitcairn Island, Britain's tiny colonial outpost founded by Bounty mutineers, is desperate for economic survival. (01/27/00)

Sledding in Davos By Mary Roach
To succeed at Switzerland's hot new sport, you have to remember how to be a kid again. (01/22/00)

Paradise found By Simon Winchester
Our roving connoisseur uncovers the finest hotel on the planet -- in Patagonia. (01/19/00)

Did Mallory make it? By Pat Joseph
The Everest expedition that triumphantly discovered George Mallory's body wasn't supposed to end like this -- in contradictory accounts and bitter countercharges. (01/15/00)

Fear and loving in Sri Lanka By David Fox
Serendipity is the traveler's best friend. (01/12/00)

Finding gold in Turkey By Maxine Rose Schur
A stay among remote mountain villagers unearths life-changing riches. (01/10/00)

Finding gold in Turkey By Maxine Rose Schur
A stay among remote mountain villagers unearths life-changing riches. (01/08/00)

Why I stopped being a vegetarian By Laura Fraser
It's anti-social, not necessarily healthful -- and besides, meat tastes good! (01/07/00)

Bottom's up By Simon Winchester
What happens when a fleet of millionaires descends on the innocent shores of Antarctica to celebrate the millennium? (01/05/00)

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