ITKT Features - In the Know Traveler

What To Do with 24 Hours in London

A father and son squeeze 24 hours in London into one perfect day: breakfast in Paddington, the parks, Buckingham Palace, Covent Garden, and Grease on the West End.

7 Megalith Sites of Melaka: The Hunt into Myth

Most visitors never know Melaka holds ancient standing stones said to grow year by year. A road trip into Malaysia’s megalith country, and the folklore of the lords who raised them.

An Unexpected Hello from Clifden, Ireland

At about 2pm on Monday, May 11, nearing the end of five months of travel, I had already had quite a long day. I had just finished hiking Diamond Hill in Connemara National Park, about two hours from Galway, and my feet were almost as tired as my will…

Toledo: The World’s Finest Swords

It was a sunny yet cold morning in the ancient town of Toledo, Spain. I could feel the tourists' happiness wandering the narrow and colorful streets, delighted to explore a place that offers such a historical and archeological uniqueness. For no other reason, it is...

Silversmithing in Breckenridge’s Arts District

When I think of Breckenridge, Colorado, I immediately think of skiing, so I wasn't sure what to do when meeting a group of friends there during the off-season. Imagine my surprise to find myself trying my hand at silversmithing/transforming clay into a silver pendant!...

Fall in Love with the Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands is a wild and unspoilt archipelago of 776 small and mainly uninhabitable bits of land, with two large islands deep in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. This British Overseas Territory has been the subject of ownership disputes...

My Life on the Road: Touring America One Gig at a Time

Before I was a travel writer, I was a traveling musician. And before I was a traveling musician, I was a kid from Ann Arbor who just wanted to see what was out there. The thing about touring is that you don't usually see the tourist version of anywhere. You see the...

A New Chapter for In The Know Traveler

Some of you have been reading In The Know Traveler since the very beginning, back when Devin started this thing in 2004 as a way to share real travel stories and convince more people to get out and see the world. We became friends around this time. Others found us...

Havana:
Dancing with Gods and Goddesses

Havana Like an untethered live wire, Havana sizzles at a single touch. Rumba music serenades the city from the balconies of colonial mansions as mango juice cups are hawked from their first floor window sills. Fiery competitions of street-corner domino games punctuate...

A Stranger Roadtrippen’ in a Strange Land —
How I Learned to Road Trip Abroad

Friends often call me a NASA-TV nerd. I watch transfixed by late night filler video of an earth rotating below the orbiting International Space Station, and in the same way I' m fascinated at how Google Earth maps depict the earth from space. I've found it to be my...

Siwa — A Magical Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert

There was once a straight road from Cairo to the Siwa Oasis, but the desert had other ideas. Wind and sand wiped away any hopes of such convenient travel and that road is closed off today. The only way to Siwa now is up to the port of Marsa Matruh, and then down again...

Hwange Safari Tour: Zimbabwe

I visited Hwange as part of an organized safari tour. When they told me that I was heading to this park, I was unsure about what was to come. I had never heard about Hwange National Park before and most of what I had seen in Zimbabwe previously, had been a...

Four Days in Asuncion, Paraguay

For everybody who is looking to explore exotic ruins, visit colonial towns and stunningly lush rain forests - Paraguay has it all. Paraguay is one of those places that is often overlooked by people visiting South America. However, landlocked in between Brazil,...

The Famous Hanoi Train Street

I visited the energetic city of Hanoi, one of the most popular holiday destinations, last summer. Hanoi Train Street is one place that will never disappear from my travel memories. I had put Train Street at the top of the list of to-do attractions while planning the...

Constantinople, not Istanbul

Today's Istanbul is a vibrant and modern city built on top an ancient past. What's the past beneath, you ask? Maybe you remember these lyrics from the early days of rock'n'roll: Take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Now it's Istanbul,...

Sailing over the Myanmar’s Plains of Bagan

Bagan Archaeological Zone More than 2,200 eleventh to thirteenth century temples and stupas pepper the forty square miles of Myanmar's plains of Bagan. Why are so many of these graceful, exotic structures clustered in this Southeast Asian country once known as Burma?...