The Traveler's Journal

Sweeping panoramas always capture a traveler's attention.  Here's a selection of natural highs.

Most places boast at least one great panorama.  Though generally well populated by tourists, these views are almost always worth a visit.

The Andes boast a slew of fine ski resorts, and air service to South America has improved.

Whether scaling mountain altitudes or exploring watery depths, it's crucial to take the time to adjust to your environment.

Serious photographers know the half hour either side of sunrise and sunset is when the light is best for taking pictures outdoors.

Along a 70-mile loop flanking the Spey River's run through the lowlands of Scotland, the roofs of myriad old malting chimneys bloom above dozens of weathered granite distillery buildings.

Exploration is more than a matter of miles.  It's one part locomotion and three parts the personal desire for new discoveries.

For 300 years before Ernest Hemingway and James Michener popularized this raucous ritual, the bulls have run each morning through the town's streets during the annual, week-long festival of San Fermin.

Mallorca is the largest of the three Balearic Islands that jut from the Mediterranean 120 miles off Spain's coast

This week in 1863, an epic, three-day battle changed the course of the Civil War and the course of U.S. history.

The world's best rowers are gathering this week at a small town 40 miles up the Thames River from London, as the 179th Henley Royal Regatta begins tomorrow.

Here's an interesting summer accommodations option for budget conscious travelers.  Stay at a college or university that opens its dorms to visitors.

For centuries now, newlyweds from around the world have flocked to Niagara Falls, the self-proclaimed honeymoon capital.

Every week, numerous airline passengers suffer in-flight medical emergencies.  How prepared are carriers to dispense medical assistance at 35,000 feet?

Born on this day in 1865, the poet William Butler Yeats developed an early attachment to County Sligo on Ireland's Atlantic coast and often returned throughout his life.  Especially the great brow of Ben Bulbin and a tiny island in reedy Lake Innesfree.

Wyoming's Red Desert Basin is a vast open range where the deer and antelope do run free, along with herds of wild horses.

There are myriad opportunities around the world where one can go to learn the fine arts of food preparation, with day, weekend, and weeklong workshops in some very palatable places.

For a century, this 65-room mansion overlooking the Hudson River was a private residence of the Rockefeller family.  But now visitors are invited in to enjoy its treasures and vistas.

One of the planet's oldest, driest, and least explored deserts lines Africa's southeast Atlantic coast.  A unique outpost offers the chance to explore this harsh, but starkly beautiful realm firsthand.

Honest billing error do happen, as well as cases of outright fraud.  That's why you should always check the statement carefully. Here's a simple trick to spot math mistakes and phony charges.