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Global Travelers Epic Issue

May 3, 2005 -- "Suddenly, from the middle of a crowded road, through a curtain of smog and dust, we saw on the horizon the shapes that had burned in our minds since childhood."



That's how intrepid travel writers Paris Permenter and John Bigley describe their first glance at the pyramids of Giza.



Permenter and Bigley, a globetrotting married couple, are among a host of accomplished travel writers who share their impressions of epic destinations around the world in the February 2005 issue of Global Traveler magazine.



Also in the article, Rob Rogers takes us on a virtual tour of the Great Wall of China "whose 4,163 miles of rock and rubble brought the country together in 221 B.C. and remains a link between China's past and present." About Badaling, northwest of Bejing, Rogers writes "ascending its steep stone staircase is a lot like walking up the down escalator at a major metropolitan subway station during rush hour." He goes on to describe Simatai , 70 miles northeast of Bejing as a place where "much of the wall here remains as it was during the days of Ming Dynasty."



Lisa Matte writes about Ephesus in Turkey, an ancient city still standing in testament to a long ago past. "A stroll through Ephesus today amounts to a walk through ancient history," Matte writes of the city that was home for a time to St. Paul, who preached to the Ephesians in its enormous amphitheater.



"Moai, giant stone monoliths, dot the island landscape, enigmatic reminders of a lost civilization that flourished 1,000 years ago," writes Allan Seiden about Easter Island. "The most impressive site was the quarry on the slopes of Raru Ranaku, one of the island's extinct volcanic craters. It was there that the great statues were carved into and cut from the rock...carried miles overland to sites around the island."



Describing the ancient city of Petra, several hours south of Amman, Jordan on the edge of Wadi Araba, a mountainous desert on the border between Israel from Jordan, Matte writes of ancient caravan trade routes established by Nabataeans in the sixth century B.C. and Romans credited with carving a huge amphitheatre into the towering sandstone walls in later years. She describes local Bedouins in traditional garb who still today work in the city selling trinkets and offering tours to visitors.



Global Traveler is circulated nationally and with its paid ABC circulation of 60,238 is available in the top U.S. cities including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco, GT is also at select airline lounges including Alitalia Airlines, China Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines EVA Airlines, Finnair, Korean Air, Malaysia Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal, Turkish Airlines and others.

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