Blog Carnival: Fall Foliage Journeys

Monday October 5, 2009

Fall's a fantastic time to travel -- though rates heading toward winter lows in colder climes provide dynamite deal-finding opportunities, it's still warm enough even in the coolest spots for hikes through fallen leaves under canopies of color. So, where to go for the best fall foliage?

You'll be one of the crowd in perennially popular leaf-peeping places like New England, where hardwood forests around picturesque villages create the USA's fall foliage-central scene, but America's Southeast and Northwest, for instance, also offer sweet seasonally colorful and always gorgeous driving, camping and hiking. Leaves do turn worldwide, and the 50-mile German wine road

provides perfect old world quaintness and camera-ready castles amid awesome fall color; in Japan, Kyoto's "kouyou" is heartbreakingly beautiful. Learn more about the lovely lands in which to see leaves changing at Scandinavia Travel, where host Terri Mapes has assembled About.com's Travel Guides' global links to leaf peeping: