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It is a startlingly pleasant anomaly in the normally intimidating 11-million-person megacity of So Paulo. On a quaint square across from a tiny 112-year-old church, a bar called Frang (frangobar.com.br) [...]

Like a robust zinfandel and delicate oysters, Napa Valley and frugal travel aren't exactly an ideal pairing. Or so I thought. Despite Napa's reputation as a pricey destination for wine [...]

If you followed my summer road trip from Baton Rouge, La., to Fargo, N.D., you may have wondered how I got from New York to my starting point in the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED''The udder on this cow just keeps getting better and better as the day goes on,'' remarked Barry Visser, Kandiyohi County Fair dairy cattle judge, over the PA system. [...]

The lunch and dinner I enjoyed on a recent day in Iowa didn't belong on the same planet, let alone in the same state. The first was a sandwich of [...]

SEO PAULO, Brazil -- Every weekday morning dozens of government vans, ambulances and battered sedans marked with the seals of towns across So Paulo State drop off their passengers at [...]

SEO PAULO, Brazil -- One of President Dilma Rousseff's signature efforts to temper the huge protests shaking Brazil suffered a setback on Thursday, as leaders of her governing coalition agreed [...]

SEO PAULO, Brazil -- As crowds protesting government corruption and overspending on World Cup soccer stadiums clashed with the police outside Maracan stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, a [...]

I'm not accustomed to staying in places like Room Mate Emma, a slick boutique hotel in Barcelona. But there I was one Sunday in May, and for only 74 euros [...]

I figured I might someday take an amibitious cultural jaunt through Europe, catching a classical concert at La Monnaie in Brussels, a musical off Las Ramblas in Barcelona, and cutting-edge [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBerlin might be a young, vibrant, creative city, but during the long, cold dark winter all that youth and vibrancy and creativity is cooped up indoors. This winter was [...]

The priest faltered a bit as he climbed the stairs to the museum, housed in an attic above a church in Itap, Paraguay, a town founded as a Franciscan mission [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe banner-waving, anthem-singing fans of Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo club formed a billowing mass of ruby-and -- black-clad humanity. They moved not only in reaction to the ebbs and [...]

Philadelphia might claim Benjamin Franklin as its own, but I can think of two ways he's more closely tied to Boston. First, he grew up there. Second, I just spent [...]

As the Hai Nei Guan Guang 2 blasted its deafening foghorn and pulled into the Yangtze River port of Fengjie, I brimmed with confidence. Two days earlier, I had nervously [...]

Street signs in English, not-so-spicy cuisine, locals who don't stare, contemporary art galleries, modern youth hostels and even interpreter hot lines for cabdrivers who don't speak English. For independent travelers [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLast summer, Korea started singing along to ''Gangnam Style,'' by the K-pop star Psy. By October, my nephews in Maryland had joined the chorus. A couple of months ago [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWould you like to add travel insurance to your purchase? That little pest of a question pops up every time I book a flight, confirm a hotel room or [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt promised to be my easiest frugal assignment yet: five days in a paradise of cheap eating, cheaper drinking and free music in the walking- and biking-friendly city -- [...]

YOU'VE mastered the art of modern travel savings: your airfare alerts are set up on Kayak; you flit around Europe on cheap carriers like EasyJet and Ryanair (with vacuum-packed clothing [...]

In October, on assignment to find the cheapest way to spend a few days on a Caribbean beach, I dug up a very budget-friendly package to the all-inclusive Viva Wyndham [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDREMEMBER old New York, where immigrants strived, cultures collided, grit outshined glamour and ethnic restaurants were filled with ethnic crowds, not Instagramming foodies? Before Manhattan commerce was diluted with [...]

This holiday season, it's personal. Over the last few weeks, I've been wandering the city streets and roaming the Web in search of gifts for my favorite frugal traveler: me. [...]

For casual skiers of the Northeast, names like Aspen, Vail and Breckenridge carry a near-mystical quality. For me, those towering peaks with vast lift networks and seemingly infinite trails of [...]

Sometime this winter, many of you might wonder: What's the least it would cost to skip town and head to a Caribbean resort, leaving behind scarves, snowbanks and sniffling co-workers? [...]

Four donkeys eat seaweed for breakfast. A teenager break dances in the surf. An old man nudges a coconut from a tree. And an entire town agrees on how to [...]

Can you get a decent hotel room in Manhattan for under $150 a night? In most cities, a visitor would have plenty of options. Just pop onto booking.com or hotels.com, [...]

THE young waitress, hair tied up and black T-shirt tugged over one shoulder, was marking up the menu with her suggestions for a 10-euro tasting flight at Open Baladin, a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTravel and smartphones go together - and these days, texting, updating Facebook and good old tweeting-while-eating are the least of it. Instant access to Yelp, TripAdvisor and endless other [...]

Brazil is too expensive for budget travelers. Or is it? Evidence in the affirmative is strong. Rio de Janeiro and So Paulo are now the most expensive cities in the [...]

IT is hard not to like St. Petersburg. Its canals invite unavoidable comparisons with Venice, its Baroque and neo-Classical architecture recall, Rorschach-style, whatever other European city you know best. Meanwhile, [...]

IT was my first full day in Oslo and I thought that I had found a rare bargain: a six-pack of Carlsberg beer for under $5 (or 27.40 Norwegian kroner) [...]

The article focuses on the ordeal faced by a Boy Scout troop from Savannah, Georgia, when their JetBlue flight was delayed and they missed their connecting flight, leading to unexpected expenses and inadequate compensation from the airline.

Tell people you're off to spend the weekend in Oslo with $100 in your pocket, and the warnings start flowing. Some came in the form of legitimate research like the [...]

The wealthiest guests travel to Liceia Franklin de Oliveira's farmhouse restaurant by helicopter, landing amid the green hills outside Arapei, Brazil, about 20 miles as the chopper flies from the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED OXFORD is not a college town -- it is the college town. Its namesake university's 38 colleges are so steeped in scholarly history they make Harvard and Yale [...]

The quickest way to drive from the Washington, D.C., area to Savannah, Ga., is to steel your nerves, grit your teeth and high-tail it for nine and a half hours [...]

I LIKE backpackers as individuals and tolerate them in small groups, but this crowd terrified me. They were lining up for a bright yellow catamaran called the Yasawa Flyer to [...]

MORE than once during my attempt at a $100 weekend in Melbourne, food came to my rescue. Last summer, Melbourne, Australia's graceful, lively and remarkably clean second city, was named [...]

EARLY on a chilly March morning, my iPhone alarm clock sounded. I extracted myself from deep within a navy blue comforter, sat up and opened the door. I had momentarily [...]

I REMEMBER the days when it wasn't faceless online search engines that helped me find the best deals on flights, but real live people called travel agents. Ivica got me [...]

SMARTPHONE applications for travelers promise to organize your trip and to help you find attractions with a tap of the touchscreen. But do they deliver while you're on the road, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFIVE meals, five snacks and six drinks (including one huge margarita). Two museums (one presidential). One odd road race, one odd toy store and one very, very odd game [...]

IT was pitch black at 8:30 a.m. on a frigid Icelandic morning, but at least there was no snow falling. Though cloud cover the night before had scuttled my chance [...]

THE best way to save money in Midtown is to spend more time downtown -- advice many a New Yorker has foisted upon visiting friends. But I spend enough time [...]

Prada shoes for $129 a pair, anyone? Louis Vuitton bags (real) for under $200? On an island where Brooks Brothers counts as a low-end brand, the Goodwill Embassy Boutique on [...]

I SIZED up the 14th fairway overlooking the sea in Palm Beach, Fla., long a winter escape for millionaires, and pondered two questions: A 7-iron or an 8-iron? And, what [...]

DESPITE the modernistic monuments by the legendary Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's retro-futuristic capital city -- erected on an expanse of dry plains in central Brazil in the late 1950s and '60s [...]

The Transpantaneira Highway, despite its grand name, is an unfinished dirt road running 90 or so miles from the Brazilian town of Pocone into the Pantanal, a vast wetlands many [...]

A J's Steak and Pizza might be intimidating, I was told - kind of a bikers' bar. But the burgers were cheap and good, the peanuts were free, the place [...]