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Three Must-see, Car-free Destinations
by Amanda Arnold | September 29, 2011
Motorized vehicles aren’t really permitted at these travel destinations, which is a good thing — because you’ll want to drink in these gorgeous sights very slowly (aka by foot):
Mont St. Michel, France: This one was settled by hermit monks in the 6th century, who likely were flooded with peace each time the tide rolled 8 miles in over the mud flat and put a sea between them and the mainland.
When Egyptologists studied King Tutankhamen’s DNA, they learned some surprising things: In addition to being disabled, the king was inbred. And this is just the beginning. Learn more about the real King Tut — and where he came from — in this podcast.
In Ecuador’s Valley of Longevity, the tourist attraction is the old folks.
Vilcabamba, a tiny town at the base of the Andes with year-round spring weather, became renowned in the West for its long-living population in the 1970s, when a scientist discovered that out of Vilcabamba’s 819 people, nine of them were over the age of 100. At that time, in a pool of 100,000 Americans, you’d find only about three centenarians, according to The Boston Globe. The Vilcabamba’s “ancient ones” were an anomaly.
Straddling the Arizona-Utah border, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is famous for its dramatic rock formations and stark landscape. Find out why those features make it a favorite backdrop for Westerns in this episode of The Coolest Stuff on the Planet.
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