The Lewis and Clark Trail

U.S.A

In the winter of 1803–1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent two Virginians, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to lead the search for a navigable route through the American West to the Pacific Ocean, estimating that they'd be home within a year. He underestimated the task by about sixteen months, as Lewis and Clark endured a veritable American odyssey, blazing a 3,700-mile trail through a land previously known only to Indians and trappers. Many sites along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail (which runs from Wood River, Illinois, to the Pacific Coast) have been established by the National Park Service, and from January 2003 till 2006 will take part in Lewis and Clark's bicentennial, giving “lewisandclarkers” the chance to follow in the footsteps of the great explorers, their thirty-three-man “Corps of Discovery,” and Sacagawea, their Shoshone guide and interpreter, who gave birth to a son (“Pomp”) along the way. Segments of the trail can be explored by foot, horse, bicycle, car, or boat, and patches remain where the landscape appears virtually unchanged since the explorers' journey. The notorious Lolo Trail through the Bitterroot Mountains on the border of Idaho-Montana remains almost as tough going today as then, when Lewis and Clark described it as the hardest test of the expedition.... read more >>

EUROPE

From the Highland Games of Scotland to the Acropolis in Greece, wine-tasting in Burgundy to walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and Count Dracula's Castle in Romania to Santa's Village in Finland.

AFRICA

From the Great Pyramids of Giza to the Imilchil Betrothal Fair in Morocco, safari in Kenya's Masai Mara to climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the spectacular Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

MIDDLE EAST

From the Dead Sea to Jerusalem's Old City, the rose-red city of Petra in Jordan to Krak des Chevaliers in Syria, shopping in Dubai's Gold Souk to one of the world's oldest inhabited cities in Yemen.

ASIA

From Beijing's Forbidden City to Xi'an's Terra-Cotta Warriors, Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival to Calcutta's Marble Palace, Turkey's Whirling Dervishes to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

USA & CANADA

From the Las Vegas strip to the French Quarter in New Orleans, Alaska's Inside Passage to Skating the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, and sailing at Cape Cod to whale-watching in Vancouver.

LATIN AMERICA

From the Mayan Ruins in Mexico to Belize's Barrier Reef, the San Blas Archipelago of Panama to Buenos Aires's Tango Bars, and Machu Picchu in Peru to the Penguin Rookeries of Antarctica.

The CARIBBEAN, BAHAMAS & BERMUDA

From Cap Juluca in Anguilla to the Shark Rodeo at Walker's Cay in the Bahamas, Cuba's Jazz Festival to Sailing the Grenadines, and Old San Juan in Puerto Rico to Carnival in Trinidad.

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & The PACIFIC ISLANDS

From the Sydney Opera House to Ayers Rock, New Zealand's Tasman Glacier to the Cook Island's Dance Festival, the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea to Tonga's Heilala Festival.
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