“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.” PeopleIfsRunningAgeFormWaterHavensStonesMy FavoriteGoldenHutsTrianglesThailandFavorite PlacesRunning WaterStone AgeStilts Author:Arthur Frommer
“You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.” WayWellsMayEnjoyKnownMajorsSmartSeasonsSightEnjoyedExtrasDestinationClothingsLayersLocationWell KnownTouristsOff SeasonOvercrowding Author:Arthur Frommer
“Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!” TwoFeetAccessGoldenBusTriangles Author:Arthur Frommer
“My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel - in food, art, theater, history, in so many different areas that I simply don't get tired of it.” WorldArtDifferentWholeCitiesMajorsAreasTheaterTiredMy FavoriteWhole WorldParisCategoriesFrontiersFavorite Places Author:Arthur Frommer
“I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.” EyeCitiesBrainRegardSensesParisPhenomenal Author:Arthur Frommer
“Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.” ThinkingBigsPurposeCultureCitiesBuiltAppealsBoresTourismPossessingDubai Author:Arthur Frommer
“In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.” PeopleIdeasAdviceNew Ideas Author:Arthur Frommer
“To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.” NightCultureReadingParticularLateAddSpendingGuidesConfusionToo LateDestinationLocationPreparingLecturesVisitingExoticFlingTour Guides Author:Arthur Frommer
“If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!” IfsI CanHoursRoomsSpendingHotel Author:Arthur Frommer
“I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.” CountryFormCultureMy OwnShockDictatorDepressingThumbsCulture ShockMost Depressing Author:Arthur Frommer