A Week in the Life at Travelzoo: Inside Our Global Team's Daily Adventures

In late July 2012, an estimated 48 people were killed in Khorog as a result of clashes between Tajik rebels and the government, as reported by UPI. As a consequence, the U.S. Department of State has issued a travel warning for visitors in the area. But when Wall Street Journal editor Dennis Berman and his wife visited the former Soviet republic, theirs was an altogether different experience of waterfalls, sand dunes, villages, cherries, and

OMAN – The road from Dubai to Oman passes through four other Emirates. There are no maps. There are only a few signposts along the way and weve been given scribbled directions that say things like: Continue forward 100 km and turn left at the tree. We begin on the wide highways beyond Dubai, leaving the glass and concrete towers of commerce behind. We pass through Sharjah, where the pre-mixed gin and tonics concealed in

Ewa sank in the wet afternoon snow, through an ice trapdoor hiding a crevasse below, and stabbed her calf with a freshly sharpened crampon as I kept tension on the rope. Tears fell from her face as she struggled to get out of the hole. These few weeks had been long, with many firsts: first expedition, first time above 5,000m, and the first time we had both summited an unclimbed mountain. She clawed her way back to the surface and I saw the tears glisten on her cheek. I took a second to unde