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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 one of the largest canal systems in the United States. The Erie Canal no longer flows through Syracuse, but along its former banks, the weigh station was restored as a museum.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International takes a walking tour of Erfurt's old city. We find out about Martin Luther, the founded of Protestantism and the Lutheran faith, and a creator of the modern German language.

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 2,000-year-old Roman city of Trier, Germany. With our Historic Highlights of Germany guide, we walk through a garden with a beautiful water fountain,to the ruins of a large Roman thermal bath complex that built by order of the Emperor Constantine in the third century. It was never finished, but today it is a tourist destination and a stage for live theater.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the wildest towns in the West. At the end of a box canyon, near precious metal deposits, Deadwood lured such famous Old West characters as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Deadwood might have been torn down and forgotten, except that it also holds the distinction of being the town where an angry assailant killed Wild Bill Hickok while he was on his honeymoon.

We arrive in San Jose from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School. After a pleasant walk up the hill from the school, we find botanists preserving the traditional Mayan medicinal plants in gardens where signs help visitors with identification.

Audio Journeys are exploring 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 very 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 explores a small patch of some of the Republic of El Salvador's last remaining rainforests. Fifty spider monkeys live in the canopy of 300-year-old trees. The spider monkeys are protected as long as they stay in this very small area, known as the Chaguantique Nature Reserve.

This important private reserve is maintained by El Salvador's ministry of Natural Resources.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International is on a road trip through the Southwest United. On Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona, still has the look and feel of a Wild West town. Holbrook, about 100 miles east of Flagstaff, was once the roughest, toughest, most lawless town of the Old West. We explore the Navajo County Courthouse Museum. Some people, including our guide, believe the 1898 courthouse is haunted.

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 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, visits the Netherlands, exploring Zannse Schans, a reconstructed Dutch Village. We visit the clock shop, the bakery, and the wooden-shoe factory.

Audio Journeys are exploring Quebec City, Quebec in early February during their Annual Winter Carnival, the largest winter carnival in the world.

Zion is Utah's first national park. Audio Journeys explores this 100-year-old national park with a park ranger.

Audio Journeys are exploring Copan, the ancient cultural center of Honduras. For years, Copán has been renowned for its magnificent Maya Ruins, a designated World Heritage Site believed by archeologists to be the cultural center, the Paris, of the Maya world.

Audiowalk Berlin provides you with a clever solution of using your mp3 player or iPod to get to know one of Germany's most exciting cities: Berlin. Let Audiowalk guide you along the main landmarks of the formerly divided city. Listen to valuable information and insider stories, told from authentic Berlin residents, while visiting the famous "Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church", the German Parliament known as the "Reichstag", or stroll down the new City-Center "Mitte".

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International takes a road trip through the southwest United States. Overlooking the Little Colorado River, near Winslow, Arizona, not far from Interstate 40, we stop to explore Homolovi Ruins State Park. This very important Arizona park protects and interprets the 5,000-year-old Homolovi Pueblos, built by ancestors of the Hopi people of today.

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 by Travel Radio International explores the over 2,000-year-old city of Trier, Germany. The Porta Negra, or Black Gate, is a small piece of what remains of this ancient fortified Roman city. We explore the old city with a Historic Highlights of Germany guide.