For a full list of today's Salon Travel stories, go to the Travel home page. Rendezvous of the sun and the moon Our eclipse correspondent witnesses ancient treasures and a modern miracle in Iran. Total eclipse Encountering Iran on the cusp of change. Binh Hoa Hoping to find an obscure Vietnam War killing field, our correspondent discovers that some lessons of history teach themselves.
Nothing is simple in Tibet.
With some help from Bali, I learned how to let go again. I'm going for the cultural experience and the solitude. I'm going so that someday I can come back here and start my life over. She just smiled, no questions. I'd been through a lot during that visit to the United States.