The Best Travel Writing 2010is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. InThe Best Travel Writing 2010readers will explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon, discover the meaning of life with an Irish carpenter on a long flight, take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour, delve deep into a sacred Japanese pilgrimage, travel solo in Panama's forbidding Darien jungle, comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal...and much more. CONTENTS Saigon Trio VIETNAM Stuck in Bulawayo ZIMBABWE A Dugout Canoe in the Darien Gap PANAMA Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim in Tea-Stained Pajamas ITALY A Viking Repast ICELAND Bored Japanese Housewives TOKYO Kaptein, Span die Seile SOUTH AFRICA We Wait for Spring, Moldova and Me MOLDOVA Submitting to Shasta CALIFORNIA Can I Help You? PHILIPPINES My Roman Reality Show ITALY “Takumbeng, C’est Quoi?” NEGERIA/CAMEROON Ready or Not SOUTH KOREA Très Cheap: A Travel Writer Storms the Caribbean CARRIBEAN L’Inondation FRANCE Living Among Incompatibles JAPAN The Facts of Kathmandu NEPAL In or Out GRENADA The Train at Night USA The Two-Dollar Difference JORDAN Ashes of San Miguel MEXICO Freewheelin’ Liberia LIBERIA For the Spirits of Guinaang PHILIPPINES Fruits of Childhood UGADA/THAILAND Inside Kumano Kodo JAPAN 12 Hours in Barcelona SPAIN Frenzy and Ecstasy GREECE French Dolls THE WORLD Training Ground HAWAII
