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Travel Snapshots
By The Associated Press - 11/01/2008
PBS host Art Wolfe suggests byways NEW YORK (AP) — If you can't afford a vacation abroad this year, you may be looking to armchair travel. Consider checking out a new show on PBS, "Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge," which showcases off-the-beaten-path destinations and trip ideas from Wolfe, a photographer.
Here are a few unique, out-of-the-way alternatives to classic tourist destinations offered by Wolfe to get you dreaming about travel:
Japan: As a side trip from Tokyo during a winter trip, visit snow monkeys soaking in hot springs in Nagano, the site of the 1998 winter Olympics. Take a train from the city and transfer to a bus that takes you to Jigokudani Yaen-koen, the Wild Monkey Park in Hell Valley. An episode of "Travels to the Edge" shows the monkeys in their habitat.
Australia: On the continent's west coast, you'll find Bungle Bungles, a collection of beehive-shaped hills with interleaved layers of rock. The area is sacred to the Aborigines.
Iceland: The dollar buys a lot in Iceland these days, and on the other side of the island from the capital of Reykjavik is the Jokulsarlon, a glacier-fed lake filled with icebergs a few hundred yards from the sea.
Bolivia: Beyond La Paz and Lake Titicaca lies the Altiplano, a high plateau dotted with snowcapped volcanoes and mirror lakes, which Wolfe calls "a landscape like no other on the planet."
Nepal: After you've seen the temples and stupas of Katmandu, venture to the far west to Chitwan National Park, a marshy area that is home to rhinoceroses, tigers and crocodiles.
500 places to see before they're gone HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — They include the last of their kind, unique landmarks, places threatened by rising or falling seas or development, and homes for species or phenomena that may not last forever.
These are some of the things you'll find in "Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear" ($19.99), published by New Jersey-based Wiley's.
The book features natural and historic sites, from ancient places of worship, to disappearing landscapes, to one-of-a-kind cultural treasures like Boston's Fenway Park, one of America's last original ballparks.
The list includes, among others, Fraser Island, Australia, made entirely of sand and threatened by rising sea levels, and the Grove of Osun-Osogbo, a sacred primeval forest in Nigeria and UNESCO heritage site.
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