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Galapagos: People or Eco-System and Do We Have to Choose?
Simon Romero of the New York Times writes about the Galapagos Islands’ problem of overpopulation and increased immigration, a trend that is affecting the islands’ eco-system and contributing to the decision to place the islands on the United Nations’ list of endangered heritage sites in 2007. Increased tourism over the past two decades has also... »
Amazon Native Women Give Great Massages
We’ll be the first to say it – we are the Gawker of travel websites. We received this extremely funny-especially-since-it-isn’t-supposed-to-be-funny PR pitch from one Eric Schwartz earlier in the week. As is our wont, we were planning on publishing it here and making fun of it. Creative? No. Laugh-inducing? Oh yes. Then we happened to... »
Best of BT March
At The Mindful Tourist corporate headquarters (i.e., the cardboard box under the subway bridge), we receive several travel magazines. Our current favorite is Budget Travel. While the name seems to be a bit of a misnomer (we don’t think what they report on is especially frugal), the fact is their writers do a very... »
