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Help Friends Stay Safe

Jacqueline Washington | Posted 04.16.2013 | Technology
Jacqueline Washington

LadiesintheCity.com is an exciting user-driven social justice app and networking site focused on personal safety. From ensuring that friends get home...

PHOTOS: Top 10 Trailblazing Women Travelers

Cheapflights | Posted 05.08.2012 | Travel
Cheapflights

In honor of International Women's Day, we're celebrating 10 of the top trailblazing women travelers.

What Women Want: Single Sex Hotel Floors

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 12.14.2011 | Travel

Women may have fought long and hard for equality, but now hotels are returning to another era by offering floors exclusively for female guests, report...

The Single Traveler

Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson | Posted 12.10.2011 | Fifty
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson

The over 50 crowd in the U.S. is growing exponentially, and the singles who inhabit this universe announce that they are making themselves the citizens of the world that their parents never were.

The Gender Gap in Travel: Myths and Revelations

New York Times | Posted 11.06.2011 | Women

Readers often write in to remark that I am a man, a fact of which I am generally aware. But then they point out something that often slips my mind: my...

From Devils to Zebras: Riccardo Orizio's Safari in Kenya

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Karin Badt

The politics of Africa is all about the elephant.

Christmas in Cairo: A 48 Hour Story

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Karin Badt

Surprisingly, neither of the two taxi drivers I asked to take me to the pyramids understood my destination -- despite the fact that I would think these large stone edifices are a mainstay of Cairo tourism.

The King of Morocco and a Little Girl in Bombay (xvii)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Karin Badt

The waiter was very concerned that I liked the food -- that it was not too spicy for me -- and he came and offered me, as a treat, a handful of three Chinese fortune cookies.

A Clean Karma Bath in the Muck of the Ganges (xvi)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Karin Badt

Only in India do people comment on the experience of getting there ("this was fresher," said Vivek) rather than the destination itself.

Child Photography in Varanasi: Pooja with Puja (xiv)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Karin Badt

I sat on a curb in the dark, the sun not yet lifted, watching dozens and dozens of people sleeping on the concrete, some beginning to rise, the breeze fresh from the Ganges.

Varanasi: The City of the Dead (xi)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Karin Badt

Varanasi, the holy city of the dead, is a blast of life. Right from the train station, the roads are dense in clanking bicycles, women in black veils...

Taj Mahal and Love (x)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Karin Badt

I enjoyed walking freely, by myself, along the long balustrade to the marble dome.

Udaipur: No Lake Palace (ix)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Karin Badt

Arrival I have now been two days in Udaipur and have not yet even seen the site that most people come for: the floating Lake Palace, although I did ...