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CORRECTION APPENDED 11:19 a.m. Updated There are lots of ways it could have happened: I could have been pickpocketed, or shattered a vase in an antiques shop, or accidentally dropped [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED 4:55 p.m. Updated I wouldn't call them highlights. Whittling down a 10-week frugal dream trip around the Mediterranean to just 11 items calls for a more superlative term. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER is rising, and the 9/11 Memorial will open right below it next month on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Although progress on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED I usually love to be where the action is, but there are exceptions. ''Waiting for a ferry to the Greek Islands just as port workers go on strike'' [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Just past the tiny village of Ilias, on the two-lane highway that weaves through the Ceraunian Mountains, a sign pointing down a narrow road indicated a monastery about [...]

Rome has the Colosseum, Florence has Michelangelo's ''David,'' Venice has canals, and Naples has pickpockets and uncollected trash? Nothing attracts me to a city as much as an exaggerated but [...]

Filling your time during a cheap weekend in Rio de Janeiro would seem like a no-brainer: head to Ipanema beach on Saturday, spend a couple of bucks to rent a [...]

I'd been on the road for barely an hour, but when you've got to go, you've got to go. To the beach, I mean. As I drove down the eastern [...]

A CITY of high-rises and traffic jams in a country of rain forests and beaches, Sao Paulo, South America's biggest metropolis, is a Brazilian freak of nature, except without the [...]

ONE Friday night last month, I stood watching a North African band called Daxar perform at the Satellit Cafe world music club in Paris and was considering having a beer. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED HOW much spending money should you set aside for a weekend in New York City that includes taking in some theater, museums and experimental film, dining out at [...]

SHOPPING for travel gifts after being on the road for five months brings on an acute state of something that is best described as the opposite of buyer's remorse. It [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED WHEN I told people I was visiting Los Angeles for a week without setting foot in a car, one word came up more than any other: ''impossible.'' There [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED If you have your low-budget heart set on high-end islands like St. Bart's or St. Martin or Turks and Caicos this winter, with enough research and flexibility you [...]

Most jobs begin with a training session or some sort of ''why don't you familiarize yourself with these documents'' meeting. But no orientation could have covered the sheer breadth of [...]

BASICS Somewhere along the continuum from drug-cartel central to tourism and business paradise, a city must gain its first candy-colored boutique hotel. For Cali, that time is now. More precisely, [...]

Belem sits at the mouth of the Amazon River both literally (on the delta where millions of gallons pour into the Atlantic every second) and figuratively -- it is the [...]

In ''The Last King of Scotland,'' which I watched dubbed in Spanish on the bus from Tapachula to Oaxaca, Mexico, last week, the Scottish character Nicholas Garrigan comes up with [...]

My parents and I arrived promptly for our 7 p.m. reservation late last month in what was almost certainly the lone white-tablecloth dining establishment in Los Zorros, a seaside fishing [...]

SNORKELING WITH A HUMPBACK MOTHER AND CALF IN THE SILVER BANK SANCTUARY, OFF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, APRIL 5, 2010 Thornton Kirby, 45, president of the South Carolina Hospital Association in [...]

It's one of those only-in-the-Amazon tourist dilemmas: you want to bring home a 12-foot blowgun, but don't know how to tell the genuine article from tourist schlock. And how do [...]

CLUSTERED high up in the slender, tilting palms of the eastern Amazon, the little purple orbs known as acai look mighty, like blueberries that took a very wrong turn out [...]

EVERYONE deserves to come home to a calm and tranquil space, but no one more than Francisco Osler, a senior civil affairs officer at the United Nations. He has spent [...]

BIRD-WATCHING FROM CANOPY TOWER, A FORMER UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RADAR INSTALLATION AT SOBERANIA NATIONAL PARK, PANAMA, MAY 16, 2009 Vivienne Caballero, 32, a program officer for the Poverty-Environment Initiative [...]

THE map showed two obvious ways to get from Catas Altas, a sleepy village in the foothills of southeast Brazil, to our hotel at Serra do Cipo National Park, a [...]

MONTEVIDEO may be overshadowed by its flashier neighbors, Punta del Este and Buenos Aires, but Uruguay's capital does not suffer from an inferiority complex. As the country's commercial and political [...]

HERE'S a novel idea: When in Sao Paulo, eat Brazilian food. Well, perhaps not so novel for gastronomes who travel to Milan for osso buco, the French Riviera for bouillabaisse [...]

THE default night life areas in Sao Paulo's southwest zone -- Itaim Bibi, for the clean-cut moneyed crowd and Vila Madalena, where a (slightly) more bohemian set mobs the open-air [...]

OUTSIDE of Carnaval week each February, when the emphasis is decidedly on the present, the coastal city of Salvador seems almost obsessed with its African past. Nowhere in Brazil is [...]

The Dominican Republic has gone resort-crazy in the last decade and that's not good news for budget travelers -- or those who like a touch of Dominican culture with their [...]

BEING DOUSED AT TI KWEN GLO CHO HOT SPRINGS, WOTTON WAVEN, DOMINICA, DEC. 27 John-Francis Bourke, left, , a photographer from Brooklyn. ''My mom passed away last March, and since [...]

THIS is the 130th and final Weekend in New York column. A few days ago, I moved to Brazil, where I'll be writing about South America. But first, a clarification [...]

CAN you get a better shave using a straight razor than using a standard issue Gillette Mach3 or Fusion cartridge? That depends on what you mean by better. Unless you [...]

TO the long list of things I do horribly -- break dancing, dusting and gardening, among them -- I can now add one more: shaving with a straight razor. So [...]

YOU can find almost anything you would ever want within the city limits of New York, from horseback riding paths to beaches just a subway ride away to hidden-away clubs [...]

A lot of people live in New York, which is part of what makes the city so great. But it comes with a corollary that's a bit of a downer: [...]

ATTENTION tourists: there is a hop-on, hop-off bus service in town that, at $7.50 a day, easily beats the price of the competing Gray Line or CitySights companies. In fact, [...]

NEW York is a great walking city. Except, of course, when it's not. When it's raining and miserable -- which may be the case quite a bit in coming months, [...]

Now spreading across Brazil: a chain of tiny sushi shops that glow like radioactive salmon and became a sensation in Rio de Janeiro soon after the first outpost opened in [...]

THE one place most Americans can't visit in the Caribbean, legally at least, is Cuba. And even if they could, those searching for some sort of Buena Vista Social Club [...]

HERE'S how Michael Fox, the operations manager of the Hale Center Theater in Salt Lake City, plans for his trip to New York: he waits for The New Yorker's food [...]

IT'S just a few days until Halloween, which means we're right in the midst of the annual dieters' amnesty, whereby American tradition grants absolution to adults who cannot help dipping [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL; New York Times News Service Five years ago, when a fourth horizontal line appeared on the forehead of Cody Lee, he knew he had his family's wrinkle [...]

FIVE years ago, when a fourth horizontal line appeared on the forehead of Cody E. Lee, he knew he had his family's wrinkle gene. Both his mother and maternal grandfather [...]

THOUGH New Yorkers were recently brought up short by the financial crisis, with no one quite knowing just how bad it would be, one thing this city has going for [...]

THE decision that will shape your experience in New York more than any other -- more than what airline you take or which shoes you pack or even which iconic [...]

MANY rookie tourists stick to Midtown Manhattan, where they can easily get the impression that in New York City everyone is always rushing, that you can barely see the sky [...]

WHAT with three Chinatowns to choose from, cabs driven by legions of Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and nightly colonization of St. Marks Place by the Japanese, finding Asia in New [...]

NEXT time you're in New York, be sure to say hi to Mary, Sunita, Roslyn, Jeffrey and Roni-Sue. They're proprietors of a rare kind of Manhattan business: shops and restaurants [...]

FASHION WEEK kicked off this weekend, and even visitors who couldn't care less about what the hot look for next spring might be will surely notice at least two changes [...]