COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN OLD HAVANA

January 12, 2010

Over the course of the 1990s, renewal converted the outer ring of Old Havana into a tourist sector.  As restoration proceeds, more and more tourists staying in luxury hotels in the core of Old Havana open their guidebooks and strike out on independent walking tours. (More on these in coming weeks.) Heritage travelers are seduced [...]

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THE INQUISITIVE TRAVELER

January 9, 2010

Travel information from The New York Times: 36 Hours in New York City By AMY VIRSHUP In the last year, the city has opened a hot new park and Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a major face-lift. http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10hours.html?nl=travel&emc=tda2 Slide Show http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/06/travel/20100108-newyork-slideshow_index.html?nl=travel&emc=tda2 Read More 36 Hour Columns http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/features/travel/columns/36_hours/index.html?nl=travel&emc=tda2 The 31 Places to Go in [...]

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CARRIE FURNACE: READY FOR A RISING?

January 8, 2010

Don’t you just love the grit of industrial heritage? Well, if you’re one of the growing number of heritage travelers who do, you’ll want to take a trip to the Carrie Furnaces in Rankin, PA, right outside of Pittsburgh. Since the site isn’t open to the public, you’ll need to make arrangements to visit before [...]

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CRYOPRESERVATION OR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: YOU DECIDE

January 7, 2010

I suppose I shouldn’t broadcast my lack of creative thinking, but I have to admit that, until yesterday morning, I’d never given any thought to heritage animals. So I was a bit shocked to say the least when I read the article in the New York Times titled Rare Breeds, Frozen in Time. The article [...]

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10 Good Reasons to TRAVEL SLOW

January 6, 2010

Remember the Frank Loesser song about the Slow Boat to China? The verse goes something like this: I’d love to get you On a slow boat to China, All to myself alone. Get you to keep you in my arms evermore, Leave all your lovers Weeping on the faraway shore. There’s a later song with [...]

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ALERT: HERITAGE IN DANGER!

January 6, 2010

The Tehran Times reports that the Isfahan Metro is now threatening the Si o Seh Pol Bridge (the Bridge of 33 Arches).  Built in 1602 during the reign of Shah Abbas the Great, the bridge is  one of the finest examples of Safavid construction in Isfahan. According to the Times, a deviation from the correct [...]

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WELCOME TRAVELER

December 1, 2009

I just finished reading Around the World in Eighty Days, a book some say is one of the “best travel books of all times”. Since The Heritage Traveler, in large part, is a blog for bookworms who love to travel, I thought I should give it a read. In case you don’t know the book, [...]

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