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Listicle Travel: Planning Your Trips for 2008

December 10, 2007 at 10:00 AM | 1 Comment

Starting to make your travel plans for next year? Grab a pad and pen and dig into Denny Lee's recommended 53 places to visit next year in this week's New York Times travel section. (Is there something significant about the number 53 that we're missing?) Highlights include:

Death Valley: Recent heavy rains have flower folks predicting that the valley will have a dazzling, over-the-top spring bloom next year. With over 1,000 species of wildflowers found there, this could make for some awesome photos (like the one above).

Easter Island: This tres remote spot is getting its first luxury resort this month, and it's sure to become a huge draw. Explora en Rapa Nui will be a quaint 30-room spot, made of natural materials and featuring amazing views of the Pacific from all angles.

San Diego: Don't miss the much anticipated, newly opened Hard Rock Hotel, which literally has it all under one roof, including Nobu, Pinkberry, a spa and two hip Rande Gerber nightspots. Wildfires? What wildfires?

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· The 53 Places to Go in 2008 [NYT]
· Explora Resorts [Official Site]
· Hard Rock Hotel San Diego [HotelChatter]

[Photo: nubludust]

Times Writer Continues Hunt for Travel Cliches

May 29, 2007 at 9:20 AM | 0 Comments

What's with travel media and "X is the new Y?" Public enemy number one when it comes to the reductionist formulation would have to be the New York Times, which has another new Prague this week: Krakow, Poland.

Writer Denny Lee (turns out Denny is a good photographer as well) has some "fresh" "intelligence" from those who know the city best: a bunch of self-described bohemians. (We're suspicious.) Here's what a dozen expats got up to last October:

The group chatted about their creative endeavors as they polished off six-packs of Tatra Pilsener, smoked hand-rolled cigarettes and, at one point, began scrawling existential messages on the walls. Then, at about midnight, they headed off to Kitsch, a multilevel pansexual club on Ulica Wielopole, where they danced until the wee hours.

Sounds like Krakow might be the new Cartagena.

[Photo: Denny Lee/New York Times]

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· Poland Travel [Jaunted]