TAI TAPU, New Zealand — Can you imagine a scene in which you turn into the oak-shaded driveway of a grand country estate, pull up outside the manor house and are greeted by a row of staff standing at attention? The car door is opened, bags and vehicle are whisked off by capable hands and the...
More...Whether it's the loping blue hills of Appalachia rising from a morning mist or the majesty of Alaska's Mt. McKinley piercing the clouds,...
The morning sun shimmers on the swirling strands of the 8-foot cast net as a bare-chested young man, standing knee-deep in the shallows at...
BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA — My face flushed cherry red and my sweat-soaked sundress clung to my body. I stood, elated, on a wooden platform...
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, landed Friday in Sydney, Australia, where segments for the "Ellen" show will...
There's nothing lovelier than getting into a bath and staying there as long as you like. And when that tub has a soul-soaring view, well,...
NORTHERN TERRITORY, Australia — It was a terrible thing to admit to myself, but my teenage daughters are a bit spoiled. My own youth...
This is for those who don't mind traveling to Earth's edge to get somewhere extraordinary.
Only toward dawn did the sea begin to calm. I rose from my berth and glanced out the window. The setting moon cast a broad light on the...
Truffle-sniffing dogs, 'punters' and towering karri forests: Welcome to South Western Australia, an Eden in the rough for food and wine...
"At one time or another, I imagine that we have all dreamed about how wonderful it would be to live in a Shangri-La where the climate is...
Twice a day the tide changes here on this South Seas atoll, and when it does, 8- to 12-foot-tall waves churn through Tiputa Pass, creating a...
Times Staff Writer Rosemary McClure has a thing for islands and has hopped to dozens all over the world. Here are a few of her recent...
The fabled Ghan, one of the world's great rail trips, threads its way through the Outback, where the wild things star.
Just a few hundred yards into our family's short hike from an oceanfront hotel to the beach at Tea Tree Bay, our 5-year-old son stopped dead...
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