Café Sabor Cruceño is changing lives, one meal at a time. The open-air rooftop restaurant perches like a treehouse on a steep mountainside overlooking volcano-ringed Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. It’s part of a vocational program supported by the nonprofit Amigos de Santa Cruz, whose mission is to improve the lives […]
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Armenia may not be on your bucket list, but it should be. The capital, Yerevan, sits in the shadow of Mt. Ararat and the country is home to treasures from the paleolithic period to modern times. Here, we’ve asked tour guide Hayk Avagyan to tell us more about this emerging
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It’s barely 10 a.m. and Jane Langdon is pulling cold bottles of Riesling from the fridge. We had just finished whirring goat cheese, sundried tomatoes and olive oil in the food processor for a simple, tasty appetizer. Jane is founder of the Wine Country Cooking Class at Strewn Winery, in
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You snooze, you lose. Some of the most memorable travel moments can only be experienced at dawn. Here are a few of my favorite moments: Angkor Wat (Siem Reap, Cambodia) A UNESCO World Heritage site, Angkor Wat is one of the largest religious monuments in the world. Built in the
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Getting off the beaten path is always an adventure—culinary and otherwise. This was certainly the case in Morocco. Our small tour group had left the Middle Atlas Mountains behind for a night’s stay in the Sahara desert. Long, lonely stretches of road are punctuated with open-air shops, some with grills
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