Since the Italians saved their neighborhood from the earthquake and fire of 1906 by uncorking their wine barrels and swaddling the houses with blankets soaked in vino rosso, San Francisco’s North Beach has developed itself into a wonderful hub of ristorantes, caffes and Old World-style...

The Maya were an ancient Mesoamerican civilization known for their advanced developments of written language, mathematics, architecture and astronomy. Chichen Itza is a Mayan city on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, in between Valladolid and Merida. As it most likely served as the...

Giant tortoises slowly wander the highlands while tiny penguins dive and dart through turquoise waters. Sea birds with bright blue feet waddle along the brilliant white sandy shore as prehistoric iguanas sun themselves on black lava rocks. The Galapagos Islands are a string of islands best...

Inside the Amazonian jungle, in south eastern Ecuador, reside an indigenous people called the Shuar. Their practices and beliefs place great value in the connection to plants and animals, a connection ancestral in its nature. To the Shuar, the rainforest is the “lungs of world”...

Rows of small, pretty Mediterranean-white hotels, villas and apartments are hazy in the background to the yellow beaches and warm, turquoise water. Cala d’Or, located on the east coast of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, is a 4km stretch of resort development expanded from a traditional...

With gnarly breaks and easy vibes, the birthplace of surfing has some of the best waves to catch in the world. The earliest account of surfing was written just after Captain Cooks death in 1779. Lieutenant James King described native Hawaiians “feeling great pleasure” riding planks of wood on...