Affordable Travel Ideas: Learning Esperanto and Diamond Hunting

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PHOTO: ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF PARTS AND TOURISM
 At a modern-day diamond hunting excursion, prospectors sift rock-rich soil for precious stones and minerals.

The following affordable travel ideas were submitted by readers.


Learning Esperanto

During MOTHER EARTH NEWS’ 1979 tour of the Soviet Union, one of our participants–who was on his first trip to that country–was nevertheless able to line up, in advance, people to visit all across the USSR. Their common ground was a knowledge of the international language, Esperanto.

Now, another reader–Joseph F. Conroy–has written to tell us more about the worldwide community of Esperantists, perhaps the planet’s first culture in which no one group dominates another linguistically.

  • Published on Sep 1, 1981
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