Gail Howard's Travel Adventures

Earlier in her fascinating career, Gail Howard traveled the world for 12 years globetrotting in 130 countries. The photos on this page show Gail Howard in several of the countries she visited during this time.


Gail Howard's Travel Adventure Websites and Photos

Read about Gail Howard's travel adventures in Mexico *NEW*, Alaska, Colombia, Egypt, the South Pacific, The Gambia, West Africa, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Ecuador, the Philippines, Russia, and Galapagos Islands -- with more adventures to come. Click the links above or the thumbnails below for photos and stories about Gail Howard's travel adventures in each country, or a larger version of the photo if no website is available.

Click to visit Gail Howard's Gambia, West Africa travel adventures web site. Gail hunts wild boar in The Gambia to feed the village of Bansang on the River Bansang, escapes a wild boar attack by scampering up a tree, only to be viciously bitten by hundreds of huge ants.
The Gambia Travel Adventures
The Gambia, West Africa
Click to visit Gail Howard's Ecuador travel adventures web site. Gail explores the Ecuadorian jungle with Jivaro Indians of shrunken head fame, meets a witch doctor, learns how to cast a spell to attract a lover, adopts a monkey.
Ecuador Travel Adventures
Ecuador
Click to visit Gail Howard's Galapagos Islands travel adventures web site. Gail and her sister, Terry, freely roam the unspoiled Galapagos Islands where birds and sea lions have no fear of man.
Galapagos Travel Adventures
Galapagos Islands
Click to visit Gail Howard's Philippines travel adventures web site. Gail travels with the Psychic Surgeons of the Philippines for five months to see their miraculous bloodless operations and to develop her own healing powers.
Philippines Travel Adventures
Philippines
Click to visit Gail Howard's Russia travel adventures web site. Gail travels throughout the Soviet Union, Communist Russia, (USSR) and to the ancient cities along the Great Silk Road: Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan.
Russia Travel Adventures
Russia
Click to visit Gail Howard's Ceylon (Sri Lanka) travel adventures web site. Gail's adventures in the gem trade in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where she learns a heart-stopping lesson in smuggling gemstones.
Ceylon Travel Adventures
Ceylon
Click to visit Gail Howard's South Pacific travel adventures web site. Gail travels by copra schooner to the Tuamotus and Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia in the South Pacific, where she faces almost certain death -- TWICE!
South Pacific Travel Adventures
South Pacific
Click to visit Gail Howard's Egypt travel adventures web site. Gail Howard in Egypt 1968, in front of the ancient Pyramids of Giza.
Egypt Travel Adventures
Egypt
Click to visit Gail Howard's Colombia travel adventures web site. Gail Howard in San Augustin, a pre-Colombian ceremonial site.
Colombia Travel Adventures
Colombia
Click to visit Gail Howard's Alaska travel adventures web site. Gail Howard in Alaska 1956. Gail Howard at Portage Glacier in Alaska shooting a gun at something.
Alaska Travel Adventures
Alaska
Gail Howard in Mexico 1957. Gail Howard riding in a horse drawn carriage in Merida, Yucatan.
Mexico Travel Adventures
Mexico
Gail Howard in China 1979. Gail Howard on the Great Wall of China, built in 220 BC.
China
Gail Howard in Cambodia 1965. Gail Howard at Angkor Wat, built in the 12th century.
Cambodia
Gail Howard in Togo, West Africa 1968. Gail Howard in a small village in Togo, West Africa.
Togo
Gail Howard in Greece 1967. Gail Howard at the Parthenon on the Acropolis.
Greece
Gail Howard in Australia 1964. Gail Howard in the Australian Outback feeding chips to a kangaroo.
Australia
Gail Howard in Morocco 1962. Gail Howard in Marrakech (Marrakesh), Morocco, talking to Muslim women wearing the traditional burqa robe (jilbab) and veil (hijaab).
Morocco
Gail Howard in India 1965. Gail Howard sitting on a marble bench at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
India
Gail Howard in Japan 1964. Gail Howard brushing a future Kobe steak dinner.
Japan
Gail Howard in Kashmir 1967. Gail Howard standing on a shikara floating taxi on Dal Lake en route to Shalimar Gardens.
Kashmir
Gail Howard in Hong Kong 1964. Gail Howard in Hong Kong lighting incense for Chinese New Year.
HongKong
Gail Howard in Korea 1965. Gail Howard hauls her handbag in the traditional Korean laborers' A-Frame wooden backpack, much to the amusement of the Mama-san looking on.
Korea
Gail Howard in Chad, Central African Republic 1968. Gail Howard with the 'duck-bill' women who insert increasingly larger wooden disks in a hole in the upper lip to widen the mouth to look like a duck's bill.
Chad,
Central African Republic
Gail Howard in Peru 1961. Gail Howard and friend at the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman near Cuzco (Cusco) Peru.
Peru
Gail Howard in Spanish Sahara 1962. Gail Howard on a mountainous sand dune in the Spanish Sahara.
Spanish Sahara
Gail Howard in Fakahina 1963. Gail Howard wearing a pareu, holding a coconut.
Fakahina
Gail Howard in New Zealand 1963. Gail Howard resting in a yoga posture after hiking up Mount Cook in New Zealand's South Island.
New Zealand
Gail Howard in Thailand 1965. Gail Howard riding an elephant near Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Thailand
Gail Howard in Lebanon 1968. Gail Howard inside the 2000 year-old Temple of Bacchus at Baalbeck in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.
Lebanon
Gail Howard in Viet Nam 1967. G.I.'s glancing back at Gail Howard walking down Tudo Street in Saigon.
Vietnam
Gail Howard in Sri Lanka 1967. Gail Howard at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka
Gail Howard in Huahine, Society Islands 1963. Gail Howard in a pareu worn as a skirt in Huahine, Society Islands.
Huahine
Gail Howard in Turkey 1967.
Turkey
Gail Howard in Ghana 1968. Gail Howard at the Volta River Dam at Akosombo in Ghana, West Africa.
Ghana
Gail Howard in Samoa 1963. Gail Howard in Pago Pago, Samoa, at Mary Pritchard's house, Mary Pritchard of Rainmaker Hotel fame.
Samoa
Gail Howard in Singapore 1979. Gail's sister Terry and Gail Howard at Tiger Balm Gardens, Singapore.
Singapore
Gail Howard in Uzbekistan 1967. Gail Howard at Sher-Dor Madrassa, Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan
Gail Howard in Nepal 1965. Gail Howard at Swayambhunath Temple overlooking view of Kathmandu Valley, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Nepal
Gail Howard at Los Riscos near Momostenango, Guatemala in 1960, Gail Howard standing in front of the Los Riscos curious sand formations.
Guatemala
Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma)
Myanmar (Burma)
Gail Howard at the pirogue races in Tahiti during the July 14, 1963 Fete
Tahiti
Pollo Maria Vera Tanguis, Gail Howard and Lidia Rodriguez holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Italy
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