In the waters off the Yucatán Peninsula, travelers can get up close to the largest sharks in the world.

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Not long ago, staying at a hotel with fewer than 10 rooms usually meant one thing: bedding down at a guesthouse. More

When the camel cart came lurching around a bend and headed straight for us—wooden wheels clattering, turbaned drivers blaring Rajasthani music from a boombox—I was determined to keep my cool. More

Pets Alive works to provide sustainable solutions for Puerto Rico’s “satos”

 If you’ve been to Puerto Rico, you’ve surely seen them: stray dogs the locals call satos. You can spot them everywhere, trotting in the heat alongside roads from San Juan to Mayagüez More

Whether you’re after sweeping beaches or mountain trails, barbecues or Michelin-starred restaurants, these chic resorts offer quintessential summertime pleasures. More

“Bucket!” a deep, Creole-inflected voice sang up to me. “BucketBucketBucket!”

From where I stood, partway up a steep, crumbling dirt hillside on the south coast of Haiti, the owner of the voice was invisible. More

Near the beginning of “Moby-Dick,” Ishmael explains why he decided to set sail from Nantucket: “There was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island.” More

Upon observing wave-riding Hawaiians in 1907, Jack London rhapsodized that surfing was “a royal sport for the natural kings of the earth.” More

There are bats hanging over my bed. More