GRAN CANARIA, Spain – Thousands of people protested against mass tourism in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday, urging authorities to limit the number of visitors to protect local residents from ...

Travel, noting that it was rated the best Caribbean island overall. The consumer magazine says: 'It's known as the Spice Island, due to the nutmeg, clove, cinnamon and ginger that thrive in its ...

We’ve sailed to Banda Neira on a seven-day Spice Islands cruise on the Aqua Blu, a former British Navy workhorse once tasked with mapping the oceans’ depths. After its military retirement in ...

Mo’s Island Spice, a new Jamaican eatery, has taken up residence in a particularly delicious little stretch of North Country Road in Setauket: Next door to Taj Crown of India, it’s only a ...

Kilauea volcano on Hawaii island, also known as the Big Island, began erupting at roughly 2:20 a.m. and continued throughout the day –– bringing packed crowds to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ...

The new Six Fisher Island development is drawing the young and wealthy with 50 units across 10 floors; it's offering condos from $15.45 million for a three-bedroom to $31.65 million for a five ...

Mace is a warming spice derived from Myristica fragrans, an evergreen known as the nutmeg tree. Native to the Banda Islands, aka the Spice Islands, in Indonesia, it’s the only tree that grows ...

or Spice Islands, he had five ships — lead vessel "Trinidad," "Victoria," "San Antonio," "Concepcion" and "Santiago" — and approximately 265 men under his command. Of these men, 170 — or 64 percent of ...

In the late 1700s, a representative of the British East India Company, which controlled Penang at the time, was sent to the Moluccas (i.e. the Spice Islands) to collect nutmeg, clove and pepper seeds.

In the 1600s, colonizers from the Netherlands, who took control of the Spice Islands in what is now Indonesia, added cardamom and white pepper to the main ingredients to create a similar ...

At the epicenter of this demand was Indonesia, with its plethora of tiny islands sprinkled to the northeast, veritable gardens of Eden. Visited as far back as the 1520s by the Portuguese, then the ...