DARWIN, Australia — I stop in my tracks for two things: the delicious scent of grilled chicken is becoming too difficult to ignore, and the sunset’s afterglow illuminating the night market is just too irresistible not to be captured. I take a deep breath, raise my camera, and work the shutter. When I put my…| Yosh Dimen
Hokkaido’s kitchens have, for a long time, offered a warm refuge from the region’s famously harsh winters, and out of those havens of heat, some of the| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
2011 • 9 • 4 I don't usually dine at the airport. I have always had this notion that airport food is ridiculously overpriced. I usually eat first at home| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
When Captain John Lort Stokes of the Beagle reached a harbor in Northern Australia in 1839, he thought about a friend and former shipmate who would| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
Our tour guide Ray called everyone to gather around a particular stick figure of a man with barbed spears and a dilly bag above a signage that says, "A| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
The boat approached a nook along the Mary River, parting the sea of lotus lilies along the way. Our driver and guide Reuben moored the boat and rose from| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
On that bus, I was the only one below 40. As I made my way to my seat, I was greeted with cheery hello's by a bus-ful of middle aged to senior tourists,| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
I looked at the town's location on the map, and I was instantly intrigued. I had never been this far from the shore: Alice Springs is tucked 1200 km from| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog
There was a lot to be nervous about during the cruise. For starters, we would be cruising down the Mary River, one of the eight Top End rivers and is| The Poor Traveler® Itinerary Blog