10 of the Best Novels Set in Russia—That Will Take You There
The Guardian · 8 minThis list of novels and novellas will help you explore Russia’s vast landscapes and complex history.
This list of novels and novellas will help you explore Russia’s vast landscapes and complex history.
An interactive map highlights the least traveled routes in the country—and some of the most scenic.
Fifty years ago, this prosperous Pennsylvania coal town was ripped apart by a devastating subterranean mine fire. Today, the flames still burn in Centralia.
As a cuke deckhand, your job first and foremost consists of making sure your diver survives.
The archaeological site, now open to tourists, offers clues about the mysterious empire that built it and its more famous sister city of Petra in Jordan.
People who miss flying are rushing to buy tickets for flights that land in the same place they depart from.
Until the pandemic the term “remote worker” conjured up an image of a young hipster lugging a Mac around a co-living space somewhere in Bali or Berlin.
For all too brief a time, the Italian summer offered a glimmer of hope. After emerging from what was in early 2020, one of the world's harshest coronavirus lockdowns, Italy managed to dust itself down in time to welcome visitors.
The airline industry says getting on a plane is safe. But nothing is perfectly safe when it comes to Covid-19. According to the airline industry, it’s safe to fly during the Covid-19 pandemic. United Airlines boasts that the “risk of exposure to Covid-19 is almost non-existent on our flights.
Last month, a war erupted in America over whether to celebrate Thanksgiving if it involved visiting family and friends. My Twitter feed was filled with people railing against scenes of crowded airports, as if those traveling to see loved ones were attacking them personally.
Travel bloggers have flocked to Pakistan in recent years – but have some of them become too close to the authorities?
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, air travel looked like a risky endeavor. Some scientists even worried that airplanes could be sites of superspreading events. For example, in March a Vietnamese businesswoman with a sore throat and a cough boarded a flight in London.
While you might be eyeing remote-work visas abroad as a way to travel internationally again, Hawaii just created a long-term-stay program for U.S. residents to get away from the mainland.
Manhattan’s Chinatown and its roughly 100,000 residents took a triple hit from Covid-19 this spring.
THE MORE than 13m tourists who visit Nara, an ancient capital of Japan, each year tend to follow a well-worn path. On their way into a park at the edge of the city they pass the towering wooden pagoda of Kofuku-ji, a temple complex founded in 710.
Even with a vaccine in sight, the city’s iconic taxi industry may be a long way from recovery. The black cab is an iconic symbol of London and indeed England as a whole. They're operated only by highly trained, professional drivers, and being a cabbie in London is a respectable career.
Written by Thousands of rock art pictures depicting huge Ice Age creatures such as mastodons have been revealed by researchers in the Amazon rainforest.The paintings were probably made around 11,800-12,600 years ago, according to a press release from researchers at Britain's University of Exeter.
Can a post-vaccine return to travel be smarter and greener than it was before March 2020? Some in the tourism industry are betting on it.
For centuries, the maze of narrow, cobbled streets that make up Lisbon’s Alfama neighbourhood has told the story of the city’s past. But in recent years, as trendy cafes and tourist flats proliferated, the historic quarter began telling a worrying tale of the city’s future.
In the 1970s, new downtown hotels often boasted soaring atrium lobbies, filled with glass elevators, bars and restaurants. What’s inside this uniquely American building style?