Megan McCormick

The richness of Italy and its people are evident in this video. Join traveler Megan McCormick as she explores the spectacular Italian Alps and the modern, cultural and gastronomic cities of the North; while Justine Shapiro looks beyond the image of the underdeveloped South, and explores Rome, Naples and countryside villages, before reaching the tip of Italy's toe in Aspromonte.

Megan explores Buddhist temples, world heritage sites, and bargains at the city's best flea market. She then learns the art of Zen meditation and visits the Gion distract, home to many of Kyoto's few hundred remaining Geisha. She then travels to bustling Osaka, and Iga-Ueno to become a "ninja for a day", continues by train through the Japanese Alps and by ferry to the remote Sado Island. Finally, in Himeji, she witnesses a dramatic fighting festival....

Arriving via the Czech border town of Czermna, Megan McCormick visits the skull-laden crypt of a church once served by a young Pope John Paul II. Then, in Wroclaw she goes hunting for "krasnale" (dwarves), albeit of the sculpture kind. North to Kashubia, she discovers the unique Kashubian language and people before heading to the Pomeranian coast to go hunting for amber, or "Baltic Gold".

Megan McCormick begins her journey in Hong Kong, looking out at the incredible skyline from Victoria Peak, then takes the ferry to visit Tap Mum Chau and Lantau Island. After a flight to Taiwan she explores the capital Taipei and Orchid Island.

Destinations include Plymouth, site of America's first pilgrim community, Boston, New Haven, Vermont in fall, Maine, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Newport.

Globe Trekker Megan McCormick travels to Barcelona in the Spanish region of Catalunya and discovers a culture that prides itself on being different. With its sun kissed beaches and Gothic palaces, Barcelona is an Olympian city worthy of the gods and the modernist capital of the world where some of the greatest artists on earth found their fame.

Join Megan McCormick and Holly Morris as they travel to China and the country of Kyrgyzstan along the ancient Silk Road. Along the way learn about the ancient explorers of Emperor Wudi, drink yak milk tea with a Kyrgyz tribe, see a horse racing festival in Kyrgyzstan and visit an ancient monastery in Georgia.

"Join Globe Trekker travelers Jonathan Atherton and Megan McCormick explore this multi-cultural, multi-faceted and richly historical city"--Container.

See some of the most remote beaches on the planet, travel to Komodo Island and see much more.