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Ecuador’s remote ecolodges put the lush, tropical woodland right outside
May 23 at 5:09 p.m.EL ORIENTE, Ecuador — This is one rain forest the world has saved.
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EL ORIENTE, Ecuador — This is one rain forest the world has saved.

Until recently, I have not known anyone who has ever visited the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In fact, I had scarcely heard of it. An impressive, two-wing structure given over to temporary exhibits of far-out art (including a great deal of video art), it has been in existence, as best I know, for no more than a decade (the east wing, a separate Museum of Modern Art, is older), and generally has been overlooked by the many travel writers who have penned guidebooks to Paris. But it deserves greater attention.

Q: I’m writing on behalf of two friends who booked a trip of a lifetime to Italy recently. They also purchased trip insurance through Access America. A couple days after paying for the insurance, they found out that the husband had to have hip replacement surgery. It was a situation that became chronic within a couple of days.

I used to think there were independent travelers and cruise passengers — two mutually exclusive categories. But now, with cruising shedding its newlywed and geriatric stereotypes, all kinds of tourists are finding shipboard travel to be appealing.