Extravagant abandon By Don George
Helmut Teissl's photographs capture the sensual heart of Rio's Carnival. (02/26/00)

Viva la evolución By Rachel Louise Snyder
From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution. (02/24/00)

This is my home By Pico Iyer
We clarify ourselves among the foreign, make camp where we'd least expect to. (02/23/00)

Junker By Rachel Louise Snyder
Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels. (02/23/00)

A very foreign life By Pico Iyer
In Nara, Japan, a universe of connections and contradictions unfolds daily. (02/22/00)

The alien home By Pico Iyer
A globe-wandering writer discovers that home is the most foreign place of all. (02/19/00)

Key to the city By Lucy McCauley
The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture. (02/16/00)

Snakes and rapids and paradise, oh my! By Bill Belleville
Seeking refuge in Guyana's Cashew Rains, I went to the brink, bushmaster snakes notwithstanding. (02/12/00)

Beach nut By Sue Wheat
An interview with Alex Garland, bestselling and occasionally controversial author of "The Beach." (02/11/00)

The queen and I By James Heer
Deep in a New Delhi forest, Doberman pinschers be damned, I begged to see the queen. (02/09/00)

Get lost By Michele Shapiro
All that "beaten path" stuff is true -- travel's better when you're lost. (02/08/00)

Will Britain lose its Marbles? By Elkan Allen
If the British Museum returned the Elgin Marbles to Greece, how safe would any loot be?

No Hue out By Lori Makabe
Stuck in a speeding Vietnamese cyclo, far from the city, I noticed headlights close behind. Was this a setup, or was I going to get my lemon-grass beef after all? (02/02/00)

Death, we hardly knew ye By Stephen Lemons
L.A.'s new Museum of Death offers a dark spot in an otherwise shiny town. (02/01/00)

Mother love in an African village By Tanya Shaffer
Is it worth saving a baby's life if everything else changes? (01/29/00)

Mother love in an African village By Tanya Shaffer
Is it worth saving a baby's life if everything else changes? (01/29/00)

Trying to stay afloat By Simon Winchester
Pitcairn Island, Britain's tiny colonial outpost founded by Bounty mutineers, is desperate for economic survival. (01/27/00)

Sledding in Davos By Mary Roach
To succeed at Switzerland's hot new sport, you have to remember how to be a kid again. (01/22/00)

Paradise found By Simon Winchester
Our roving connoisseur uncovers the finest hotel on the planet -- in Patagonia. (01/19/00)

Did Mallory make it? By Pat Joseph
The Everest expedition that triumphantly discovered George Mallory's body wasn't supposed to end like this -- in contradictory accounts and bitter countercharges. (01/15/00)

Fear and loving in Sri Lanka By David Fox
Serendipity is the traveler's best friend. (01/12/00)

Finding gold in Turkey By Maxine Rose Schur
A stay among remote mountain villagers unearths life-changing riches. (01/10/00)

Finding gold in Turkey By Maxine Rose Schur
A stay among remote mountain villagers unearths life-changing riches. (01/08/00)

Why I stopped being a vegetarian By Laura Fraser
It's anti-social, not necessarily healthful -- and besides, meat tastes good! (01/07/00)

Bottom's up By Simon Winchester
What happens when a fleet of millionaires descends on the innocent shores of Antarctica to celebrate the millennium? (01/05/00)

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Travel Feature archives for: 1999