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Rivera's Revolutionary Frescoes Are Mexico City's Sistine Chapel
In 1923, filled with political zeal following the victory of the Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera took on a project that might have daunted even Michelangelo -- to depict (in fresco) the entire history of the Mexican peoples.
The first of two sites allocated for this grand panorama was the former convent of Santa Maria de la Encarnacion del...Read more
The Heiva Festival Is the Soul of Tahiti
If it's July, it's Heiva Festival month in Tahiti, a stunning celebration of ancient Polynesian culture, song, dance and sports known as the Polynesian Olympics. Over 140 years old, it originated in 1881 and is the longest-running and most important cultural event in the Pacific. Yet it is little known outside. The Tahitian word means to ...Read more
Falling for Rustic Bora Bora
An exhilarating four-wheel-drive tour inside Bora Bora's mountainous interior had me on the edge of my seat in more ways than one. Climbing a narrow, winding, rocky road revealed the story of this remote paradise in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. A 50-minute flight from Tahiti, French Polynesia's main island, brought to life the story of...Read more


























