Though it’s officially a single metropolis, Tokyo is often described as several small cities connected by a massive public transport system. In fact, each neighborhood is identified by its corresponding train station. Since Tokyo has over 1,000 train stations,...

Sri Lanka boasts an array of national parks that are home to a plethora of wildlife and endemic fauna and flora, catering to a multitude of interests. From hiking trails to safaris and bicycle tours, traveling through the country...

The capital city of the world’s richest country, Doha is perched on the east coast of the Persian Gulf. Founded around 1820 as an offshoot of a local settlement Al Bida, Doha was a sleepy pearling village prior to...

Decolonizing Travel is a series aimed at shedding light on the colonial past of major European and North American countries through the revisiting of monuments, streets, and sites particularly related to it.  Long before European colonizers ever knew the area...

It was the middle of the night and our train finally arrived in Amsterdam after about 18 hours of traveling and layover-ing from when we’d left Arizona the night before. And, ah! There was the train we needed to...