Hollywood star power created Puerto Vallarata as a tourist destination. The transformation of the sleepy fishing village of 2,000 souls began on November 11, 1954, when Mexicana de Aviación airline inaugurated its Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta flight. One of the first visitors was American movie director John Huston, who built a home here in the small cove of Las Caletas where he lived until [...]
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Each summer under the cover of nightfall, more than 30,000 female green sea turtles crawl out of the ocean and drag their 200-kilogram bodies up the palm-lined beaches of northeast Costa Rica–often the same ones on which they were hatched—and scour out a pit in the sand. There, grunting and weeping, they lay 100 or [...]
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When I was kid I didn’t know much, but I did know that Antarctica was one place that I definitely did not want to visit. I’d read about the horrors faced by the early 20th century explorers, and they scared me silly. British explorer Robert Scott and four of his comrades froze to death in [...]
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Mike Vaughan and Jason Minvielle were in a remote section of eastern Turkey when they decided to stop for the night by the roadside. As they began erecting their tent, a tank and armoured personnel carrier pulled up. The tank aimed its cannon directly at the two Regina travellers. “Soldiers with machine guns jumped out [...]
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