| Guatemala’s Green Godfather | The ancient Mayan city of Tikal is a true wonder of the archeological world, and the 200+ square miles of protected tropical forest that surround it are reasons enough for a visit to northern Guatemala. But where do you stay? We have a suggestion you shouldn’t refuse. Film director Francis […]
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| Delhi’s Mission Possible? | How is it that India’s vast capital city, roundly maligned in the past as among the world’s most toxic metropolises, now says it hopes to be pollution-free in 2010? It’s a story line as unlikely as, say, Slum Dog Millionaire sweeping the Oscars, and, yes, it seems totally improbable to us. […]
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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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| Tented Green Luxury | How can any green traveler resist this call of nature? Flying into the private airstrip for Bateleur Camp at Kichwa Tembo (head of the elephant) you reenact the famous final scene from Out of Africa by skimming over the very same glorious Kenyan plains, the zebra and giraffe and gazelle […]
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| Cottage or Tent? | The Serengeti. The name conjures up mythic Africa, images created by writers the likes of Hemingway and Robert Ruark. The Serengeti’s oceanic plains in northwestern Tanzania are home the year round to an ark of wild things, but twice annually they host the world’s largest, longest overland animal migration. The […]
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| Green In Uttar Pradesh | Even in one of India’s most visited (and justly celebrated) places, you can’t be too careful. The standard guidebooks warn of pickpockets and pushy touts who pretend to be guides. As green travel sleuths, though, we worry about the basics when we’re in Agra, home to the iconic Taj […]
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| Holy But Filthy | You must come to Varanasi. Here in this holiest of Hindu cities edged by the holiest of Hindu rivers, your eyes are opened to the mystical India, an unfathomable place which defies so-called rational (i.e., Western) explanation and challenges all your senses, all at the same time, almost all of […]
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| Inspiration to Millions | If you don’t know her amazing story, you should. She’s Vandana Shiva, environmental guru and so much more. Based in New Delhi, she’s been a thorn in the side of GMO thugs like Monsanto and became high priestess of India’s tree huggers as far back as the 1970s. She’s fought […]
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| 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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