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Turkmenistan's Monumental Marble Capital City

Photo of the Week: Turkmenistan's Monumental Marble Capital

Photo of the Week: Turkmenistan’s Monumental Marble Capital   The name ‘Turkmenistan’ for most people brings to mind fiery craters in the desert or maybe the cult of personality surrounding former president Turkmenbashi, if indeed it conjures up anything at all. Very few people have any conception of the capital city Ashgabat, an inexplicable city …

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Photo of the Week: Industrial Tourism, Tokyo, Japan

  Industrial Tourism Tokyo Japan   It’s an oft-overlooked fact that Tokyo is a city by the sea, and to be honest, it’s easily done.  Visitors to the world’s largest urban area spend most of their time trying to keep from drowning in an ocean of metropolitan pleasures that encompass the mad kaleidoscope of rabid …

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Underground Vienna: CIty Sewers

Underground Austria: A Visit to the Sewers of Vienna

Underground Austria: A Visit to the Sewers of Vienna Austria-bound travelers may be forgiven for thinking that Salzburg and The Sound of Music are the be-all and end-all in ‘Osterreich’ cinema tourism. Frolicking in the lively hills of the Austrian Alps isn’t quite it, though. On the contrary, the ancient capital Vienna has its own …

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WWOOFING 101: Your Guide to Working on Organic Farms

By Gabi Logan For independent travelers, WWOOFing is an ideal way to travel slowly and inexpensively and learn something along the way. But what is WWOOFing? How do you do it? Why on earth does the word have two ‘w’s? What is WWOOFing? Officially, WWOOF stands for “World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms,” but among …

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