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 Martinique
France in the Caribbean
Published in
the Fall 2009 Issue of Canadian World Traveller
By Michael Morcos
A vibrant Caribbean culture and a small part of France - this is Martinique, the best of both worlds. Located in the western hemisphere, the former French colony is now a "Départment français" (District of France). A one-week trip to this lush tropical paradise would open up two worlds, the better-known one being an ideal beach holiday location and the other an exciting adventure destination.
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 Mexico
The New Eco-Friendly Riviera Maya
Published in
the Fall 2009 Issue of Canadian World Traveller
By Greg James
Arriving from Montreal on an early December evening, I was immediately engulfed in a blanket of warm humid air the moment I stepped out of the doors of Cancún's International Airport.
Happily, for the next week I could safely store away my long winter coat, woolly scarf, gloves and boots.
However, my real mission here was to explore the new eco-friendly face of Mexico's Riviera Maya and to report on the Yucatán Peninsula's remarkable recovery from the devastating after-effects of past hurricanes.
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 New Zealand
The Maori: People of the Land
Published in
the Fall 2009 Issue of Canadian World Traveller
By Tom Koppel
"Are we ready?” asks muscular Hone Mihaka, who stands in the bow of a fifty-foot-long ‘waka’, or Maori war canoe. His bare chest, shoulders, thighs and buttocks are covered in swirling blue-black tattooing. And he is wearing nothing but a fringed breach cloth, a big white fishhook pendant, and a bone ornament through one earlobe.
"Good," he says, as his nine-year-old grandson Tani calls out a Maori chant. Hone, chief of his local clan, has been training Tani since infancy to be a future chief.
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 Xi’an, China
Where China Became a Nation
Published in
the Fall 2009 Issue of Canadian World Traveller
By Habeeb Salloum
One evening, I was watching a broadcast of the Silk Road Festival on television in Toronto. This colourful annual festival held each October in Aleppo, Syria included a re-enactment of caravans arriving after a long journey from China.
"It must have commenced its journey in Xi'an," I thought to myself. I had read much about that historic Chinese city and had always yearned to explore its historic sites.
Now, a few months later, I was walking the streets of that ancient imperial Chinese
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