Crossing Time Zones is a meeting place for travel, environmental issues, and sustainability. Along with destination features, travel tips, and dispatches from the road, you'll find articles on ecotourism, responsible travel, sustainable development, conservation, cultural heritage, voluntourism, and related issues. CTZ author Annika Hipple is a freelance writer and tour leader, as well as the news editor at Ethical Traveler. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Sweden, she indulges her Scandinavian side in the Nordic Corner.

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