What do you see, smell, taste, feel . . . and hear in this bustling street?
\u00a9 Meredith Mullins<\/p><\/div>\n

Turn Up the Sound on Your Travel Adventures<\/h2>\n

Take a moment. Close your eyes. What do you hear?<\/p>\n

Silence? Auditory stimuli that provide clues to where you are? Sounds that might remain in your sense memory for some time to come?<\/p>\n

Especially when we travel, all our senses are alive. We see. We smell. We touch. We taste. We hear.<\/p>\n

Sights, smells, and a symphony of baa’s.
\u00a9 Meredith Mullins<\/p><\/div>\n

Travel adventures are enhanced when we are multisensory. Oh, I see.<\/strong>\u00a0Soundscapes can expand our experience exponentially.<\/p>\n

Often, one or more or our senses registers a memory. The vision of the Parthenon in the Athens moonlight or a camel fair in the dusty desert. The smell of French boulangeries as the early morning baguettes are baking. The warmth of the sand on a Thai beach or the humidity of an Amazon jungle. That jalape\u00f1o in Mexico City that was just two degrees too hot.<\/p>\n

Memories of moaning camels in the dust
\u00a9 Meredith Mullins<\/p><\/div>\n

When you make sound a sense priority, what travel soundscapes come to mind from your past wanderings?<\/p>\n

Sound Memories<\/h4>\n

Do you remember sounds as vividly as sights, tastes, and smells?<\/p>\n

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• The mystical call to prayer in Islamic countries\u2014all the more beautiful when mosques at varying distances add point and counterpoint to the soundscape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n