| Eco-Heroines All | Nairobi—never mind its incessant traffic congestion and generally uninspiring central business district—is pleasingly clean and leafy. Colorful beds of well-tended flora edge the roadways and parks. Signs urge reuse and recycling. Billboards promote organic milk. But when we think of the Kenyan capital’s most ardent defenders of the environment, we think […]
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| A Village Green | We’re climbing most of the 5-hour drive from the Malabar Coast (in that cartoonish Indian classic, the white Ambassador sedan). Past coffee, teak, rubber and tea plantations splayed across the hillsides, chaotic villages and lush forest, until the air cools perceptably and sends us motes of cardamom, cinnamon, clove. We’re […]
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| Green Sugar Sand | The western edge of the southern Indian state of Kerala is virtually a long beach, but this isn’t the Costa Brava or even Goa. Only relatively few stretches are traveler-ready, and these, like Kovalam in the far south, are rapidly becoming overdeveloped to the point of serious strain on their […]
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| Water, Water Everywhere | In the state of Kerala, greenest in all India, there are not 1 but 2 monsoon seasons each year. But that is not the water that creates our reality just now. We’re in the Kerala backwaters … a lattice-like network of waterways—29 lakes, 41 rivers, estuaries and canals—that parallel India’s […]
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| Mother India’s Mantra | We come to the sprawling Asian subcontinent for the sweep of its history, its spicy curry of culture and geography, its ancient pathways to spiritual discovery: to see how 1.2 billion Indians co-exist while living life at the extremes. Indian trip planning invariably includes precautionary advice. Against getting sick or […]
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| Green Travel Paragon | As we hope you know by now, we absolutely believe that green travel will thrive only if it is great travel. And in our global search for the greatest in green travel, we’ve encountered no one who understands this better than Sonu and Eva Shivdasani. And no one who masters […]
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| Laidback Capital City | Compared to teeming, polluted capitals elsewhere in Asia, Vientiane is a fresh breeze. Prettily situated on a broad bend in the Mekong River, it has fewer than 450 thousand residents, and most attractions in the city center are easily reached by bicycle or on foot. As elsewhere in Laos, most […]
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| A Green Giant | The town of Vang Vieng in Laos, about midway between Luang Prabang and the capital city of Vientiane, is a head scratcher. Whose idea was this anyhow? It’s got a pretty river running through it, and it’s surrounded by dramatic, saw-toothed karst limestone peaks. Thus we can easily understand its […]
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| World Heritage Gem | At the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Kham Rivers, Luang Prabang is among the best preserved and beautiful of the ancient cities of Southeast Asia. The U.N. named it a world heritage site in 1995. For centuries this was the royal capital of northern Laos, and French colonial rule […]
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| The Mythic Mekong | What better way to make the transition from touristed Thailand to laidback Laos than on that most famous of Southeast Asia’s rivers, the Mekong? And among the numerous “slow boats” that make the leisurely 2-day journey from the Thai-Lao border town of Huai Say in the Golden Triangle to the […]
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