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Audio Journeys explores the Mayan world of Mesoamerica. We travel through Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

On a busy canal lined street in Amsterdam, Anne Frank and her Jewish family hid from the Nazis near the end of WWII. Anne Frank wrote accounts of their lives in this confinement. Learning from the one radio they shared and quietly listened to, Anne hoped her diary would be published. It was published posthumously, by her father; Anne's only relative to survive the Nazi death camps.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores nature at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Refuges, engineered by humans for the benefit of birds, attract birds that would otherwise be harmed by cities, agriculture, and industry. There is a National Wildlife Refuge within a one-hour drive of most major U.S. cities.

Audio Journeys is in Holbrook, Arizona, exploring a private collection of pictographs and a museum of artifacts available only through private tours. The pictographs in the steep red rock canyons tell stories of an ancient way of life. We are with our Payson Adventures Guide.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Fairy Tale Route in Bremen, Germany. The 1,200-year-old city state of Bremen, the City of Peace, became wealthy enough to buy its independence. We speak with the Bergermister, who is out showing his beautiful city to friends.

Audio Journeys explores the ancient ruins of a Mayan village in El Salvador. Twenty kilometers northwest of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, is the 650-year-old village of Joya de Ceren, the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in El Salvador.

What makes this site unique is that the everyday life of the Mayans was preserved when around 600 A.D. a volcano erupted spewing volcanic ashes that covered the land, caused the common people to flee their homes.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the B. Bryan Preserve in the little coastal village of Point Arena. Here, Judy and Frank Mello are protecting endangered African hoof stock from extinction on their private preserve.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the most important trading posts in the West. Hubbell was meeting ground for two cultures: the Navajo and early settlers who came to the area.

Audio Journeys, from Travel Radio International, explores the Caribbean rainforest of Guatemala with a team of biologists. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores three historic hotels of the Rocky Mountains: the Alex Johnson in Rapid City, South Dakota; the historic Franklin Hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota; and the Isaac Walton in Montana.

Audio Journeys, by Travel Radio International, visits the Netherlands, exploring Zannse Schans, a reconstructed Dutch Village. We visit the clock shop, the bakery, and the wooden-shoe factory.

Audio Journeys is at the annual Oostende sailing ship festival on the old freight docks of this once very busy seaport.

In the seaport town of Oostende on the last weekend in May, one of the world's largest sailing-ship festivals is held. There are many ships to explore and much activity when we arrive on the docks of Oostende; announcers, marching bands, and battle-ship reenactments fill our senses. The first person we meet is a musketeer and one of the Festival's organizers.

Preserving a California nature preserve.... Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Rodman Nature Preserve with preserve guides. The Rodman preserve is next to Clear Lake, the largest freshwater lake completely within California.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the countryside near Muenster, including a 300-year-old Westphalia village that has been reconstructed. Houses, barns, buildings, and artifacts from the time make it seem as if people will be returning from their fields soon.

Outside of Muenster, we visit a unique project: a biotope, an important sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of birds. We enter a bird blind with Dr. Hans Schutz, the man in charge of the biotope.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the National Currency Museum of Canada, where we find out about the history of money around the world.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area at the base of the Cascade and Klamath mountain ranges. At Whiskeytown, a few miles west of Redding, California, we meet naturalist guide Steve Zachary. Zachary is dedicating his life to preserving the web of life on earth. His life's work includes learning about, and then teaching others of all ages about, how to protect the web through education and legislation.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the 200-year-old village of Potsdam, New York, where Clarkson University was founded by two Clarkson sisters, to honor their brother who died young. Today, Clarkson is one of the world's leading electrical engineering universities. Nanotechnology is being developed and studied there.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the 200-year-old village of Potsdam, New York. The village is home to The Crane School of Music, the first school of its kind to teach teachers how to teach music.

Audio Journeys visits the Via Delorosa in Jerusalem. Our guide, historian Ruth Holzman, describes Jerusalem, looking east down the Via Dolorosa, in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. The Via Dolorosa, according to tradition, is the route Jesus followed to his crucifixion.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the 900-year-old city of Freiburg, Germany. An Historic Highlights of Germany city, Freiburg was traditionally a market place on an important trade route through Europe. Our walking tour takes us through the canal-lined streets of the historic district.