Laura Kiniry

1 month ago | smithsonianmag.com | Laura Kiniry

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the real stories in what doesn’t When standing at the center of Vietnam’s Hien Luong pedestrian bridge, the former divide between the country’s north and south is painfully obvious.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Laura Kiniry

16 hours agoPlus, editors share their favorite scalp massagers. I don’t know about you, but I mainly go to the salon for the scalp massage. Sure, a perfect blowout is great, too, but there’s just nothing like that intense kneading post-wash. Well, guess what? Thanks to a host of scalp massagers on the market, …

2 months ago | mwg.aaa.com | Laura Kiniry

Stretched across the border between California and Nevada, Death Valley National Park is both the hottest and driest place in North America. This desolate wilderness east of the Sierra Nevada mountains is home to more than 1,000 flora and 400 fauna species, as well as the Timbisha Shoshone people who have lived in the region for centuries. The highest temperature ever recorded on earth, a searing 134.1 degrees Fahrenheit, was seen at Death Valley’s Furnace Creek in July 1913.

2 months ago | nathab.com | Laura Kiniry |African Sermon Safaris

“I’ve got something special to show you,” said our guide Issac. I couldn’t imagine what it could be. We had already spent the last few hours exploring the western region of Botswana’s Chobe National Park—a hotbed of local wildlife—where we’d seen a pride of lions wandering along the park’s dirt roads, and discovered a pack of African painted wolves (aka wild dogs) lounging quietly in the sun. How could anything be more remarkable than that?

2 months ago | nathab.com | Laura Kiniry |African Sermon Safaris

On a recent morning game drive in Botswana’s Chobe National Park, our group happened upon a pack of wild dogs. “Are those hyenas?” someone in our vehicle whispered. The resemblance was obvious. Both animals are medium-sized carnivores with patchy fur and a canine appearance. However, when it comes to canines, only one of these creatures is the real thing. African wild dogs, also known as “painted wolves,” and hyenas are often mistaken for one another, and they do share a lot of similarities.