The Traveler's Journal

In southern China's Yunnan Province, there's an eerie landscape, a 200-acre maze of sharp limestone pinnacles, some more than 100 feet high.

Ethnic communities are surviving and prospering in cities all across the country, adding extra dimensions to the American urban experience.

A series of five dams along the Palmetto State's northwest border have created another, much less salty, shoreline.

Airport customs inspectors are watching for amateur smugglers.  Is it the guilt in travelers' eyes that gives them away, or the heft in their handbags?

Basketball history is being made on high school, college, and professional courts around the county, but it's being preserved in Springfield, Mass, 90 miles west of Boston.

For crafty travelers the strength of the US dollar around the world can generate some significant savings in airline tickets.

Though the actual dates are sketchy, the Patrick whose birth the Irish celebrate tomorrow, was born in Roman Britain in 389 A. D.  As a youth, he spent six years herding sheep in western Ireland near a pinnacle that has become a place of pilgrimage known as Croagh Patrick. 

Though dwarfed by mighty Niagara 60 miles to the northwest, the three falls of the Genesee River through NY's Letchworth State Park are magnificent cataracts.

Unfortunately, any journey these days can be fraught with potential stresses and delays.  Even as we have reduced the physical risks, new concerns have cropped up.  Here are some tips to help ease your anxieties.

Paris can be a city of costly accommodations, but there are also myriad places and ways to get both charm and savings.

Capturing the essence of a city in a photograph or even a panorama can be a daunting challenge. Here are a few tips to help you bring that mission into focus.

A navigator born on this day in 1454 in the Italian city-state of Florence certainly left his mark on the New World.

Last time, we looked at the air inside planes. Sitting in cramped spaces for hours on end is also uncomfortable, and possibly even dangerous.  Here's an exercise routine you can do without leaving your seat.

The cabin atmosphere in airliners is pressurized, warmed and filtered to make you feel at home, assuming your home is someplace high and dry, say Flagstaff, Arizona.

This grand chasm that slashes across northern Arizona is both a National Park and World Heritage site visited by millions of travelers each year.

This time each year, the Japanese celebrate "Ume," the beautiful plums, whose blossoms are a reassurance of the arrival of Spring.

When traveling, no one enjoys being ripped-off.  These four tips may seem like basic common sense, but it pays to always keep them in mind.

For two weeks each summer, Mooseburger Clown Camp in the woods of Minnesota becomes ground zero for the serious work of zaniness.

While many travelers are fascinated by the inner workings of a factory, for car buffs, no tour is better than an auto assembly plant. Consider the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama.

This remote hamlet in the story foothills of southwestern France has become a rustic resort.