Tag: Identity
As Eco-Tourism Grows, Struggle for Cultural Identity Remains
by Joanna Kakissis | 12.30.08 | 1:08 PM ET
In places heavy with history and natural beauty, eco-tourism often comes deeply infused with nostalgia. Consider the 300-year-old Aspros Potamos cottages in eastern Crete, where goatherds once spent wintry nights as their flocks grazed along the mountain gorge. An Athenian journalist rescued the cottages from dilapidation in 1985 and turned them into simple, solar-powered lodges for those who want to commune with nature and a disappearing culture.
This time of year, you may find young Greeks on winter holiday there, gathered around a communal campfire and singing their grandparents’ favorite folk songs. It’s as much an appreciation of Crete’s fragile natural beauty as an exercise in identity.
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Yahoo! BuzzSix Degrees of Vietnam
by Julia Ross | 11.18.08 | 11:50 AM ET
Julia Ross went to Vietnam seeking relaxation and a place to recover from a breakup. She found a whole lot more.
Havana Homecoming
by Leslie Berestein | 05.02.01 | 1:11 AM ET
Photo courtesy Leslie Berestein Her family left Cuba when she was 3. Decades later, Leslie Berestein visits her old neighborhood, knocking on doors, searching for her Cuban self.
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