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Climbing Through Clouds in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam
As you sip warm green tea with local farmers, they will tell you with certainty, “The sweetest fruits are those with seeds." The sentiment sings through the mountain paths of Tam Dao National Park,…
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Poking Around an Abandoned French Mountain Retreat in Cambodia
Empires rise and fall. Cambodia teaches us this, not only at Angkor Wat, but also here, the Bokor Hill Station. The air is cool and misty and the views to the sea unparalleled, no…
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Time Traveling in a Historical Fantasyland in the Vendée, France
Knights jousting for love of fair lady, hairy Vikings raiding hapless French villages, Christians getting gobbled up by lions in a full-scale Roman amphitheater…all this and more wholesome family fun awaits at the second-most-visited…
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Feeling Like Edmund Dantes in Marseille, France
It’s impossible to visit Marseille and not think of the Count of Monte Cristo. The whole city seems to funnel down off the hills and into the perfect horseshoe harbor packed with masts and…
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Remembering the Martyrs in Oradour sur Glane, France
Sometimes, travel takes us straight to the heart of darkness. Oradour sur Glane is one such place. Entering the village gates, you will find no festivals, wine, or gaiety. You will find only silence…
