Contributing writer

Norma Meyer

Norma Meyer has been a Los Angeles-based journalist for more than 30 years. She worked two decades as a staff reporter for Copley News Service, covering everything from the O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson trials to the Oscars. She's also written about her travels to all seven continents.

Travel: How a swanky Bahamas resort was brought back to life

July 14, 2025 at 11:25 a.m.

The Potlach Club was in ruins for decades before reopening.

Casablanca, also known as the White City for its chalky palette, is Morocco’s largest city. (Photo by Norma Meyer)

Travel: How to receive the royal treatment in Morocco

June 26, 2025 at 12:08 p.m.

Two hotels owned by the nation's monarch, King Mohammed VI, are friendly and not stuck-up at all.

Visitors must navigate Skellig Michael’s 618 steps both ways to see the ancient hermitage. These are the stairs that Rey climbed up to meet Luke Skywalker in “The Force Awakens.” (Photo by Norma Meyer)

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland

June 21, 2024 at 1:15 p.m.

The weeklong 'Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry' trek traverses stunning Emerald Isle landscapes.

The Seiganto-ji Temple, backdropped by the Nachi Waterfall, is one of the most sacred, iconic sites of the Kumano Kodo trail in rural Japan. (Photo by Norma Meyer)

Travel: Take a hike through ancient history in rural, mountainous Japan

May 20, 2024 at 1:27 p.m.

An 11-day trek puts travelers literally in the footsteps of emperors, samurai, merchants and princesses.

There are only about 500 flamingos in the Galapagos; many of them were in this remote lagoon on Floreana Island. (Photo by Norma Meyer)

Travel: Taking a superyacht to tour the Galapagos Islands in luxury

December 28, 2023 at 1:04 p.m.

The seven-cabin Aqua Mare takes groups of no more than 16 tourists to commune with the unique animals in ecological Eden.

The sun rises over the Platte River at the Crane Trust, where thousands of sandhill cranes roost on their migratory journey up north. (Photo by Brad Mellema)

Travel: Sandhill cranes rule the roost in Nebraska each spring

May 2, 2023 at 11:35 a.m.

Visitors throng to the area to see the annual migration of a half million birds.

The female “black lemurs” are actually a brownish color. This one lives on Nosy Komba, also known as Madagascar’s “Lemur Island.” (Photo by Norma Meyer)

Travel: Madagascar boasts plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth

April 13, 2023 at 12:14 p.m.

Nearly 90% of flora and fauna is unique to the island nation off the coast of Africa, including 112 species of lemur.

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