Stone tools, flakes and the remains of a final feast at the site in Wiltshire hint that the huge sarsens that now stand at Stonehenge were brought to Marden Henge first View an interactive guide to the site The last revellers seem to have cleared up scrupulously after the… Read More

New wooden henge, a circular ditch that aligns with world-famous monument, deemed site’s most exciting find in a lifetime Without a sod of earth being dug up, a new henge, a circular ditch which probably enclosed a ring of timber posts and may have been used for feasting, has… Read More

This week is contest week at Go Green Travel Green . Comment on this post to be entered to win. Depending on your travel habits, you may only bring out your luggage only a few times a year. But when you do use it, it takes a beating. We… Read More

The royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Mr Daniel Westling on 19th of June, 2010, is an unique event without doubt. It will be the first wedding of a female successor to the throne in Sweden’s monarchy. It is also a historic event because when The Crown Princess… Read More

Who hasn’t thought over and over about their “checklist” destinations, the kinds of places that are just too iconic to miss? The Great Wall of China, the Grand Canyon, the Eiffel Tower. But who goes through the trouble of making the opposite list—the places to avoid at all costs?… Read More

I first came to Italy in 2006. It was one of the first stops on my just began round the world adventure. Italy was everything I thought it would be and more. If there was a country that lived up to the hype, it was Italy. Backpacking around Italy… Read More

Traveler intern Daniel Bortz explores a program that creates bike-powered machines in Guatemala. Across Guatemalan farmland, a new breed of bicycles is being used to thresh corn, de-shell coffee beans, and even blend fruit smoothies. There, in a country with a history of endemic poverty, Maya Pedal works to… Read More

Welcome to Star Maps , a new feature wherein a big timer does our work for us. For the second post in the series, we’ve enlisted the help of Grant Achatz, chef and owner of America’s best restaurant. For last month’s Star Map, David Chang’s Guide To Tokyo, click… Read More

On the mountain of the night in the kingdom in the sky, just space – no gimmicks – at southern African tourism’s final frontier “This is the last frontier of tourism in southern Africa,” said our guide as I gasped and wheezed my way up Thaba Bosiu, meaning “mountain… Read More

In my post last week I wrote about La route Napoléon , the modern-day motorway that follows the route Napoléon took to Paris through the south of France on his way back from exile on the island of Elba. Not only does the N85 motorway follow an event of… Read More