It’s a new month and time for a new issue of Perceptive Travel, the decade-old, multi-award-winning online magazine where I’m editor. Each issue puts out some of the best travel stories you’ll find on the web , plus reviews of mew world music releases and new travel books worth checking out.
This time we head first to a small, usually forgotten town in rural Malaysia. Once a year, however, they use an obscure piece of history as an excuse to set off lots and lots of fireworks. See Deep Red Threat in Malaysia .
Gillian Kendall was in fine spirits on her flight from Seattle to Vancouver, but after going back to retrieve something left on the plane, found herself Locked out of Canada .
A village on the Pacific coast of Mexico is home to an eclectic mix of surfers and ex-stockbrokers, artists and anglers. Anna Elkins stays for a while in a villa overlooking the ocean and finds her voice and bliss. See A Rumi of Her Own in Sayulita .
Susan Griffith takes the reins on the travel book reviews this month , checking out the latest from Bill Bryson and two other Americans abroad.
Laurence Mitchell spins the world music for April , with Fela Kuti’s first band (when he played trumpet), some retro Ethiopian music, and two other albums with African roots.
Take Your Pick of Awesome Travel Shoes
One of my favorite shoes brands—and I reviewed a lot of shoe brands in six years at Practical Travel Gear—is Ahnu. They make good serious hiking boots for trekking journeys and water shoes for sloshing through creeks, but also great urban sightseeing shoes that function well and look good in multiple situations. This coming month the Perceptive Travel readers with enough motivation to enter our monthly contest will have very good odds of scoring a gift certificate from Ahnu Footwear . This means if you win, you can pick up any pair of shoes you want from their catalog. It’s like we’re a genie giving you a shoe wish. There’s plenty to pick from for men and women.
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Thanks to last month’s featured gear company Native Eyewear , Canadian reader Bill K. will be welcoming the spring with a new pair of quality sunglasses worth more than $100. And all it took was a few minutes and an e-mail…
