Writing about travel for the web is a difficult matter. There's little time to evoke a sense of place and many of your readers are more interested in finding restaurant and hotel recommendations than engaging with an essay, however compelling. Some of the sites below reproduce print articles, while others are special to the web; they tend not to list the practicalities, but look at places in a slightly oblique fashion.

Salon
The online magazine Salon used to host the best travel journalism on the web. Sadly, the Wanderlust section is no more and visitors have to content themselves with an archive search. It's still the best place to look for this particular brand of impressionistic reportag though.

Al Mashriq - the Levant
Probably the most fascinating collection of travel writing, history and background information anywhere on the web, Al Mashriq is a celebration of the Levant region - Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and especially Lebanon.

New York Times
Readers of the NY Times online must register. It's worth the trouble in order to access some well written and solid - if slightly unadventurous - travel writing.

Time Photo Essays
World events as seen by the US. Although pictures of the presidential candidates dominate these essays, others - such as Anthony Suau's tour of the former Soviet bloc - look further afield.