Travel

I am sitting in front of the Taj Mahal absorbing the magic of the world's most beautiful building. India's crowds, chaos and poverty are temporarily relegated to the back of my mind as I let this piece of paradise into my soul.

A delightful vacation

Nothing evokes Western nostalgia and symbolizes cherished freedoms more than wild mustangs running free against the wind, amidst the sagebrush strewn hinterlands of Wyoming's high desert.

"Bear on the right!" a male Aussie voice shouted as heads swivelled and hands fumbled with cameras and phones.

A recently opened trail in northern Nepal takes trekkers to a different place and another time.

Wake up, rock of ages, you've got guests. That was the gist of the welcoming song offered by Nuxalk Nation guide Chris Xawisus Nelson during a walking tour of an outdoors petroglyph cache in the Bella Coola Valley.

Disneyland in California is marking its diamond anniversary with a year-long birthday party.

Saint Martin/St Maarten is a tiny French and Dutch island — only 85 square kilometres — nestled in between the Atlantic and Caribbean. You can drive the perimeter in less than an hour.

"Mexico is the most underrated destination for wildlife on the planet," says the woman sitting next to me by way of introduction.

As I straggle to shore, exhausted but happy, the owner of Todos Santos Eco Adventures in Baja California gives me the thumbs up.