Category: Travel and Vacations

The Return of the Jaguar in the Yucatán Peninsula

Thanks to Mexican conservation efforts, the jaguar is making a comeback in the Yucatán Peninsula. A traveler ventures into its habitat in the tropical jungles surrounding an ancient Maya city.
Airbnb Will Make Cleaning Fees More Transparent for Travelers

Cleaning fees and checkout requirements, often hidden until checkout, have been a source of frustration for users. The company said it was changing its policy to include them earlier in a search.
The World’s Most-Visited Glaciers Could Soon Be Gone

The U.N.’s cultural agency warns that ice sheets on Kilimanjaro, in the Dolomites and in Yosemite and Yellowstone may disappear by 2050, highlighting travel’s impact on climate change.
Touring Atomic New Mexico and the State’s Surrounding Attractions

The Southwestern state was central to the development of nuclear weapons. When the testing ground for the first detonation recently reopened for visitors, a writer decided to confront that difficult history.
In Bid to Show It Is Open, Hong Kong Bends Covid Rules … for Some

Three splashy events this week were meant to prove that the former British colony was still “Asia’s World City.” But pandemic exemptions were only doled out to those who could afford them.
Meet the Woman Planning an Underwater Highline

Part public housing for fish, part carbon-capture project, part art installation, Ximena Caminos’s project for Miami Beach, known as the ReefLine, aims to call attention to the challenges facing the city’s marine life.
At Home Beneath the Waves

Those fascinated by the ocean can now vacation, dine or even live underwater in these specially designed locations.
How Do You Visit a Vanished World?

For T’s Winter Travel issue, we look at three cultures that have all but disappeared — or been resurrected.
Domestic Fliers Will Need Real ID Compliant Identification in 2023

For years, the government has warned travelers they will need security-enhanced identification to board domestic flights, and for years the requirement has been delayed. Now they mean it.
From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway

With no billboards or gas stations, a fall drive along this winding, verdant All-American Road, is a head-clearing journey, offering encounters with history, nature, music and more.
Fragile, Delicate, Free: Glimpses of Circus Life, at Sea

A photographer embedded with the Sea Clown Sailing Circus on the troupe’s journeys through the Mediterranean. Here’s what he saw.
Savoring Oregon’s Wine Country, No Driving Required

In the Willamette Valley, public transportation takes you to McMinnville, where you can walk to one, or all, of its nearly 20 tasting rooms.