Guest houses/Apartments

| Staying Green & Local | I have a hot lead on a green home stay (and a very cool community organization that fosters them) in the dusty central India town of Orchha. And so with my travel buddy Canada Mike, I hop a local bus and hit the road. Located in Madhya Pradesh state, [...]

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| Green Travel News | The Bioclimatic Houses of Tenerife, a village of unique eco-homes, invite you to stay with them on your next visit to the Canary Islands—and if you do, you’ll be helping to determine which of these green designs work best. Only 25 of the homes (known as Casas Bioclimáticas on this Spanish [...]

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| Garden Isle Green | Sometimes, a great notion: Even on a tropical island paradise like Kauai, we’re in the mood for the unique, the more personal, the less expected. We seek an intimate experience unattainable at a big, showy resort. From the lush north coast with its hidden bracelets of beach to the sunny [...]

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| Shades of Green | Green has many meanings on this island of drama and history in the eastern Mediterranean. Cypriots probably identify the word first with their infamous Green Line, which has separated them into mutually wary Greek and Turkish enclaves since 1974. Arriving in early spring, as we did, the absolutely stunning greens [...]

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| The Resort Alternative | This is the Big Island of Hawaii most of us yearn for. The western, leeward side: the famous Kona Coast. Best beaches. Best weather. And how about those coffee beans? They cup such a hang-loose brew they are prized around the world. The nexus of this kind of paradise is the town of Kailua-Kona, which gets crazy busy … by [...]

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| Greening in Conch-a-ritaville | It had been a while. Been years, in fact, since last we ventured as far south as you can go in these United States. To the the capital of the Conch Republic, Key West. And it is with no small measure of relief and pleasure that we can report the [...]

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| Time Forgot Isle | Molokai’s best hope for a green future lies in its steadfast desire to be left alone. It calls itself Hawaii’s most natural island. And, amazingly, it does still offer the distinctly non-21st century pleasures of no traffic and no traffic lights. Even though bustling Maui is but 8 miles away, [...]

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| Meet Mr. Delicious | On the Big Island of Hawaii, the fiery, lava-spitting Big Kahunas of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park draw awe-struck visitors from around the world. Only a mile from the park, in mystical Volcano Village, there awaits another unstoppable force of nature. His name is Ira Ono. That’s what he calls himself [...]

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| Elements of Green | Whether you favor the notion that Isla Mujeres (Island of Women) got its name from images of Mayan goddesses that the 16th-century Spaniards discovered here or the legend that this is where pirates of the Caribbean secreted their their special ladies, the place has a feminine vibe. Sultry. Welcoming. Gentle, [...]

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| Shades of Green | Green has many meanings on this island of drama and history in the eastern Mediterranean. Cypriots probably identify the word first with their infamous Green Line, which has separated them into mutually wary Greek and Turkish enclaves since 1974. Arriving in early spring, as we did, the absolutely stunning greens [...]

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