Perceptive Travel Blog

Stone Gods of the Australian Outback

Antonia Malchik — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:15:11 +0000

(A version of this essay first appeared in Go World Travel.) Uluru, or Ayers Rock, as non-Aboriginal Australians call it, sticks out of the near flat of the desert, an uncompromising, awesome structure. It and Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) face off over the desert like two ancient stone gods, unmoved and unmoving. To my eyes, the [...]

Destruction and Creativity in Berlin

Alison Stein Wellner — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:33:47 +0000

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I wish I could have been there for it. Actually, I just want to go back to Berlin, historic milestone or no — the city took a hold of my imagination in a way that few others have before or since. I was [...]

The November issue of Perceptive Travel Magazine

liz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:06:13 +0000

The November edition of Perceptive Travel magazine features three new travel articles that will leave all us armchair travellers wanting to pack the bags and hit the road. First up is Jim Johnson’s On a Slow Boat down the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay to the temple city of Bagan in Myanmar, a country that many other [...]

Jetting with your kids? Get a seat

Antonia Malchik — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:21:19 +0000

. Sometimes you stumble across information on the Internet that can knock your socks off or scare the pants off you — until, that is, you cool off and remember it’s the Internet and there’s a lot of different ways of looking at the world. But a few days after running across this free chapter from [...]

Postcards, Art and The Future

Alison Stein Wellner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:30:58 +0000

Earlier this year, Tohono Chul in Tucson put out a call to artists asking for 4 inch by 6 inch postcards representing a real or imagined trip to Arizona. The cards were to be made in any kind of fiber art technique, and were to be sent unprotected through US mail. The 174 submissions that poured [...]