Although its lack of urban grime creates a favourable first impression, it's hard to get too excited about PERTH . Western Australia's modern capital of 1.5 million people has a reputation ... Read more...
Founded in 1521 by Ponce de León, the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan , is the oldest city in US territory. Home to 1.6 million (more than a third of the island's citizens), it is also the ... Read more...
SAN FRANCISCO proper occupies just 48 hilly square miles at the tip of a slender peninsula, almost perfectly centered along the California coast. Arguably the most beautiful, certainly the most ... Read more...
If the world had to choose a capital, the Isthmus of Panamá would be the obvious place for that high destiny . Simon Bolívar, 1826 Few cities in Latin America can match the diversity, ... Read more...
AUSTIN was only a tiny community on the verdant banks of the (Texas) Colorado River when Mirabeau B. Lamar, president of the Republic, suggested in 1839 that it would make a better capital than ... Read more...
A magnet for foreign visitors during the 1950s and 1960s, the quiet town of PORT ANTONIO feels more like an isolated backwater these days. But that may change following the recent redevelopment of ... Read more...
The easy-going, snoozy little community of TREASURE BEACH has become the main tourist centre on the south coast, particularly popular with a hip bohemian crowd. It has a good range of accommodation ... Read more...