Destination Insights

China’s Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor’s Legacy

The Asian Art Museum kicks off its 10-year anniversary with an epic exhibition from one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in modern times—don’t miss it! The exhibition will be on view from February 22–May 27, 2013 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. China’s Terracotta Warriors presents ten life-size terracotta figures — the maximum number permitted outside China […]

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A Sense of Travel — Sri Lanka

By Georgia Hesse. Sri Lanka is a never-never land, a phantasmagoria, a mythosphere. Dangling like a teardrop off the southeast coast of India, only slightly larger than West Virginia, she crowds into her space primeval jungles where leopards lurk; swatches of arid desert; wide beaches…

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Kotor Marketplace and the Feta Man

By Jim Shubin. We embarked on a cheese quest in Kotor, a small town on the coast of Montenegro hosting a lively marketplace filled with fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and eggs, wine and cheese. Kotor seems to be prosperous: the women are stylish, the town sports an inordinate number of shoe stores, and…

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Olmec exhibit at the de Young

Considered the mother culture of Mesoamerica and recognized as America’s oldest civilization, the people known today as the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium BCE. Their monumental head sculptures remain among ancient America’s most awe-inspiring and beautiful masterpieces.

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Volga River Cruise: See Before You Go

Discover charming historic towns along the Volga River in this 100-page, full-color book. The view is superb from the elegant Volga Dream, the most beautiful cruise ship on the river: magnificent Russian Orthodox churches with their “onion domes,” beautiful lacquerware crafts, the Vodka Museum, traditional wooden architecture …

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Costa Rica: See Before You Go

See Costa Rica before you go: This 92-page book illuminates San José, the Butterfly Farm, the Macaw Rescue Center, mysterious espheras (spheres), wildlife diversity at Corcovado on the Osa Peninsula …

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Mandrogy Collective

Even though there is an extensive Vodka Museum at Mandrogy, there are two inviolable rules: Nobody drinks alcohol and nobody steals in the village. This collective on the Volga River is complex of farmstead-type ornate houses, craft workshops, a school, a mill, horse stables, and a rabbit farm.

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Bali: See Before You Go

Enjoy Bali, with more than 300 full-color photos and the quirky story of award-winning travel writer Laurie McAndish King’s visit to an Eat, Pray, Love healer. You’ll see Balinese dancers, Komodo dragons, ancient temples, contemporary art, rice fields, Luwak coffee, traditional batik, magical double-ikat weaving, the salt-makers of Amed…

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Earthquake in San Francisco

Prepare to be moved! Earthquake, a major new exhibit and planetarium show at the California Academy of Sciences takes visitors on a kinetic journey toward understanding these super seismic phenomena and how they fit into the larger story of our ever-changing Earth. Occupying the entire west hall of the Academy, the exhibit features a number […]

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Keys to the Outback

By Laurie McAndish King. The instant we climbed out of the car, flies covered us. Making themselves at home on my bare arms, crawling up my legs, doing their best to creep into my eyes and mouth. Billions of them live there; maybe trillions. There are more than 650 separate species…

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