by Nicole Carlson | Dec 9, 2020 | Escapades, Winter 2021
Communities around the world come together to celebrate animals in these fun festivals. Pied Piper Duch Show Sydney, Australia Dolled-up ducks waddle down the runway in Sydney during the Pied Piper Duck Show. These ducks, dressed from head to toe in haute...
by Jordan Park | Dec 8, 2020 | Features, Winter 2021
Religious tourism is the oldest form of planned travel in the world. Even now, it remains a prevalent industry, with around 300 to 330 million tourists visiting religious sites every year. Religious tourism has two different forms: visiting a religious site just for...
by Abbey Huch | Dec 8, 2020 | Field Notes, Service, Winter 2021
Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all...
by Jordan Park | Dec 7, 2020 | Features, Winter 2021
Some borders lie along physical barriers, like mountain ranges or large bodies of water, while others are solely based on treaties, purchases, and wars. These types of borders don’t always take into account the people living at the new edge of a country. Regardless of...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2020 | Features, Winter 2020
Where did China get its first cup of tea? Who invented boomerangs in Australia? How did African leopards get their spots? Though there are plenty of factual answers to these questions, we can often learn more about a country from its bedtime stories than its history...
