Erik Trinidad

This is the 2024 Fodor's Travel New York City guidebook with updates from Erik Trinidad, handling The Bronx—adding in a new hotel section—and Brooklyn with Staten Island, with a revamped Red Hook section, updates to the state of Williamsburg with a new shout out to the Our Lady of Carmel Feast, the old school italian-American tradition that been around for over a hundred years. Also new hotels.

Out with outdated references to Walter Matthau (Walter Mathau really?), and in with current references to the Wu Tang Clan and Pete Davidson. All that at more, in bookstores and Kindle now.

Dragons may usually be creatures of fantasy, but after docking at Indonesia’s Rinca Island and setting foot beyond its boardwalk, my friends and I found ourselves in the presence of not one, but two. And as if this wasn’t already a fortunate chance encounter, what happened next was even more astounding...

Hiking down a rainforest trail in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park, it wasn’t long before I spotted in the distance the creature I had journeyed all the way to Indonesian Borneo to see. An orangutan mother was carrying her infant on her back and walking down the boardwalk of a research camp in the middle of the jungle...

I’m usually OK with heights, but this situation is a little different: I find myself leaning over the edge of a 140-foot cliff with nothing but a rope and a harness to keep me from an imminent, gruesome demise. It’s the equivalent of dangling off the roof of a 14-story building, and a sudden rush of anxiety fills me as I realize what I’m about to do...

I pedaled behind my cycling guide, a young 19-year-old Turk by the name of Yiğit – properly pronounced monosyllabically, he informed me. “Yeat. Like the rapper.”
A generation older than him, I did not know about that 23-year-old artist – nor any Gen Z pop-culture reference for that matter – yet as we rode through the countryside of Turkey’s İzmir Province, I knew that we’d be bonding over bicycles and the local scenery rather than our taste in music...

Panama's version of the ubiquitous Latin American soup is a nostalgic panacea of poultry and produce that is both restorative and celebratory.

Considered by some to be the “Real Africa,” less-visited Zambia offers numerous excursions, from fishing in the Zambezi River to swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls...

Woody vines — like the ones in a Tarzan film — dangled from the canopy as we hiked up the bog, the soles of our boots caking with mud on each step.
Adventures in central Africa’s rainforests are not known for cleanliness, but trekking up the sloppy foothills of the Virunga volcanoes — with the heat, humidity and bugs — was well worth the effort. At the end of this morning hike in northern Rwanda, we were rewarded with the presence of a family of mountain gorillas...

The raw fish salad, made with tuna and plenty of crisp vegetables, differentiates itself from poke or ceviche by way of fresh coconut milk.

On a trip through southern Spain, Erik Trinidad follows the sound of snapping fingers and stomping feet and gets a primer on flamenco culture.

Curious eyes peered at me from just above the surface of the river. Behind them, a wiggle of wet ears spattered water away. The features moved slowly and cautiously toward the boat I was floating in, its engine off so we could hear the sounds of nearby African frogs and kingfishers. And then, those lurking eyes and ears raised to reveal the entire head of a hippopotamus: first, its round, protruding nostrils; then, its massive mouth — the largest mouth of all land animals. Suddenly, its jaws ...

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Botswana is The Elephant Capital of the World, with an estimated 130,000 of the giant creatures. Any fan of The Lion King surely knows there’s drama to be had in the animal kingdom. And anyone who’s been on safari knows the excitement of seeing that play out. After all, wildlife is best experienced not through screens, not behind bars, but in real life...

From a smoky hot toddy to an herbaceous riff on the classic Penicillin, these cocktails put the beloved whisky front and center.

At first glance, almonjabános, a delicacy hailing from Panama’s Chiriqui province, looked to me like oversized cheese doodles. The corn and cheese fritters, tapered at the ends to form a slight “S” shape could very much be an unspoken predecessor of the American snack food. However, the batch before me wasn’t made in a factory, nor did...