HANNIBAL might well have been just another medium-sized river settlement, had not Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who renamed himself Mark Twain after the cry of pilots on the Mississippi, spent his boyhood here. Although Hannibal does have...
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YÕTHIO , Sparta's ancient port, is the gateway to the dramatic M·ni peninsula, and one of the south's most attractive seaside towns in its own right. Its somewhat low-key harbour, with occasional ferries to Pire·s and Kythira, gives onto a graceful...
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The sleepy little port town of LABUHANBAJO is the gateway to Flores from the islands of Komodo and Sumbawa, a delightful journey past myriad tiny green islands. Ferries arrive late in the afternoon and are met by touts and boats...
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