Death Valley is alive and well. During a normal year, tourists stream into the sun-scorched Badwater Basin area of Southern California’s Death Valley National Park to see what it feels like to be at the lowest point in North America. The answer is that it’s hot, very hot, sometimes hotter than anyplace else on earth. Sinking … Read more
Finding your zen? Turns out it’s trendy for 2024. According to the Global Wellness Institute, wellness tourism is projected to grow by 16.6% annually, reaching $1.4 trillion in 2027. It is one of the fastest-growing tourism trends, and despite a 2020 dip due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, wellness travel is back and better than ever … Read more
RENO, Nev. — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada playa, the long-ago floor of an inland sea. The tiny gathering became … Read more
What a waste. A satellite image taken above Chile’s Atacama Desert captures ever-growing mountains of discarded clothes as the problem of fast fashion persists. The photo, shared last month by the satellite photo and video app SkyFi, highlights the result of the roughly 59,000 tons of used and unsold clothing that arrive at Chile’s Iquique … Read more
Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette stars in the new comedy series “High Desert” opposite Matt Dillon — with whom she was smitten in her youth. “I had grown up watching him and had a big crush on him, like all girls my age,” Arquette, 55, told The Post. “I never thought I’d get a chance to … Read more
Elvis has left the building — and brides are discovering a new side of Las Vegas that has nothing to do with greasy pompadours or rhinestone suits. When Sophie O’Brien decided that it was finally time to tie the knot with her childhood sweetheart, Bernie O’Brien (handily, the couple happened to share a last name … Read more