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9 Places to Experience New Orleans Culture
I’ve waited my whole life to explore the landscape of New Orleans culture, and over the past couple of years, I’ve been consumed with a desire to experience the south. Southern food, language, history, belief systems, all of it. Louisiana is about as south as you can get, and New Orleans was the perfect place to whet my cultural appetite. Affectionately coined ‘The Big Easy’, and renown for everything from the birth of Jazz, deep fried crawfish, Mardi Gras, and more recently, the horrors of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans proved to be the ultimate expression of healing old wounds, celebration, cultural survival and a synthesis of modernity and antiquity. I spent 5 days exploring this incredible…
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Photo of the Day: Look into My Eyes
Jemaa EL Fnaa square in the heart of Marrakech is teeming with hundreds of vendors hawking everything from magic carpets, tea, and spices, to camel-skin handbags, rubies (so they say) and yes, photos with cobras. These self-proclaimed snake charmers will attempt to hypnotize you into paying for a selfie with a cobra. I was lucky enough to charm my way out of not having one of these vipers draped across my neck and I suggest you enjoy this fabled tradition from two snake lengths away!
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8 Honest Travel Writing Tips
Every travel writing blog claims to have some sort of magic formula for writing amazing, super-engaging, viral-worthy posts. But doing a cut and paste job isn’t going to snag you 100K visits to your blog. The truth is, with an estimated 3 billion people accessing the internet everyday, and only a handful of those readers seeking out travel blogs, it’s easy to feel like a minnow lost in a sea of content. That being said, there is still plenty of room in the travel writing genre. So how does one stand out from the crowd? While I don’t have a magic formula, I do have these 8 travel writing tips…
