Travel Picks: Top 10 chocolate museums

For people who love chocolate with love travel, what could be better than a chocolate museum.

Where simply delicious food is deliciously simple

Accustomed as I am to traditional Chinese cuisine with its regional variations, I was thrilled to find I could feast on delicious and wholesome foods while traveling across Yunnan.

A taste of local life

I almost swallowed my tongue at the first bite. It must have been decades since I last tasted such fresh and delicious home-raised chicken. We were sitting along a country road beneath a giant poplar tree, hungrily fishing for chunks of the fowl boiling in an old-fashioned hotpot.

Through the looking glass

When photographer Chen Haiwen tried to take pictures of the Jingpo ethnic group in Yunnan province for his ambitious photo album featuring all of China's 56 ethnic groups, he ran into a problem.

Wine tourism, on safari or from the armchair

"In Search of Bacchus: Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism", by George M. Taber: Thirty-three years ago, George M. Taber set the world of wine on fire with a four-paragraph dispatch about a tasting in France.

Ciao, ciao my bella, bella China

Sauro Angelini has dined with Deng Xiaoping and watched locals weep at news of Mao Zedong's death.

Britain the "worst place to live in Europe"

Britain has been designated the worst place to live in Europe, compared with nine other major countries, despite the fact that Brits earn by far the highest wages.

Tours of escape tunnels mark Berlin Wall history

When the East German government built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to prevent its citizens from leaving, the regime failed to account for the ingenuity and creativity of those willing to risk anything to escape the communist system.