All we kept thinking was that we were being followed by the secret police and could be thrown into an underground prison, or placed on a train to Siberia.

It was a confusing war of identity, of choosing between your land and your people, in a country with a confusing mix of identities and people. But our guide knew exactly where he was.

Migrant farm workers perform some of the toughest jobs in the United States, but rarely complain, the author noticed. Then he visited some of their villages in Mexican coffee country.

Enjoying bittersweet days of determined togetherness, as the last child goes off to college

I’d expected to find dreadlocks and Free Tibet T-shirts at the seat of Tibet’s government-in-exile. But Western ’70s culture had practically obliterated traditional Buddhist life.

Photographer Dan Bannister visited the Lima suburb of Villa El Salvador to teach children something about photography. He learned something himself.

Boring to a child, a graveyard ritual involving seven generations of family improves with age

A summer of sensory overload in China’s steamy southwest

Buying and selling in Oaxaca and San Miguel de Allende