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Quiz: What Kind of Tourist Are You?
Are you the type to watch travel videos or to sleep on a grass mat with the locals? Take this quiz to find out.

Top 10 Hilarious Travel Stories
If you travel extensively, you should have a few essentials: a compact carry-on bag, a valid passport, all required inoculations, comfortable walking shoes, and perhaps most important of all, a sense of humor.

How to Get Lost
The Canadian band known as the Cowboy Junkies once asked: "Have you ever satisfied a gut feeling to follow a dry dirt road that's beckoning you to the heart of a shimmering summer's day?"

Top 10 Ways to Annoy the Locals
Tourist is one of those words that's loaded with meaning. The way some people use it, you might think tourist is synonymous with words like loud, obnoxious and clueless. How did tourist become an insult?

Quiz: Are You a Language Butcher?
For some reason, many of us have a tendency to mangle non-English words and phrases in offensive or amusing ways -- depending upon our foreign hosts' degree of graciousness. Are you one of those stereotypical language butchers?

Is Jet Lag Making Me Stupid?
For the occasional traveler, jet lag is relatively benign, causing daytime fatigue, muscle aches and insomnia. But research indicates there's another symptom to add to the list: Jet lag can make us dumb.

International Guide to Toilets
There are significant variations in toilet customs, etiquette and technology around the world, and a savvy sojourner would do well to master them in order to avoid discomfort or a mortifying faux pas.

Top 10 Weird Laws
Most of us will never spend time dredging through the mountainous volumes of laws that constitute a legal code, which is a shame. Because hidden among the expected laws barring disorderly content and reckless driving are some astoundingly weird decrees.

Top 5 Phrases That Don't Translate
If you're traveling in a foreign country where you don't speak the language, every so often you'll encounter an expression that'll leave you scratching your head. These words or phrases usually aren't literally untranslatable, but are difficult to grasp because they fall into what linguists call a lexical gap.

What Is Culture Shock?
Culture shock involves coming into contact with a way of life very different from your own, but it's a condition that tends to develop over a period of time rather than something you'd experience on vacation.

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