Travel Tips
UK Mum’s Environmentally Protected Beach Paradise: Pulau Subu
A gutsy British mother settled on Malaysia’s Pulau Sibu in the 1990s and has created a tropical haven for first-time scuba divers in a Marine Park Fancy a blue-sky break in a place where mobile phones and computers don’t exist? A gutsy British mum who settled in Malaysia’s Sibu Island in the early 1990s, has [...]
The Best Travel Applications for the iPhone
Try These Apps for Day Trips or Half Way Around the World Trips The iPhones travel apps have proven to make traveling more of a breeze. From changing flights to finding wi-fi, it seems as though there is an App for every travel need. The iPhone continues to change how we see and explore the [...]
Food
Wonderful Copenhagen: City of New Nordic Cuisine
Copenhagen is currently one of the top new destinations for good food. Find out the best places to eat in the Scandinavian capital. The preferred slogan is wonderful and the capital of Denmark encapsulates this sense of wonder perfectly. Be it the buzz of the medieval lanes of the old town, the picturesque atmosphere of [...]
Food Fairs and Food Festivals of the World
By Kelly Barnett, Explore some of the world’s best food festivals and food fairs. Let’s face it, everyone needs to eat, and many of us love to eat! For real food fans, or gourmets, food festivals and food fairs really do make the world your oyster! There are an abundance of local and regional food [...]
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Facts About The Florida Everglades
The Florida Everglades offer a very unique environment for a variety of wildlife as it spans about 13,000 square miles of many different habitats. The Florida Everglades is home to a wide variety of wildlife. This is where the alligator makes its home. The Everglades offer a subtropical environment with only two distinct seasons. The [...]
Zermatt Resort Near Park City Provides a Luxury Swiss Alps Experience in Utah
The town of Midway, Utah, was settled by Swiss immigrants who thought the mountains looked like the Alps. The Swiss tradition continues at Zermatt Resort and Spa. The arrival area for this luxury hotel gives the feeling of being in the town square of a authentic European village in the Swiss Alps. The main [...]
Funny Travel Stories
Overnight at a Hotel that Melts
Quebec City’s Ice Hotel by Susan Hallett A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Quebec City is the only fortified city in Canada. It has all the atmosphere of an ancient French town, with small houses huddled together and horse-drawn carriages to take visitors on romantic tours through the narrow streets of the old “ville”. It [...]
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Sri Lankan Vacation pictures
Snorkeling in the sea near Unawatuna. walking by the ocean and wondering around the Oceanside. The beaches are one of the finest in Sri lanka. We had so much fun visiting and swimming. Enjoy. ————————————————————————–———————–
Travel Info/ Travel News
Cruising on the MSC Sinfonia: Total bliss from Durban to Cape Town
By Helen Ueckermann “I am on a ski holiday,” announced my fellow passenger, an elderly Durban gentleman, balancing his walking stick between his knees. Ski holiday, I repeated incredulously; we are on an ocean liner, after all… Yes, he grinned, Spend the Kid’s Inheritance. He laughed a merry laugh while his sixty something girlfriend of [...]
Extreme Tourism: The Sport of Visiting the World’s Trouble Spots
By David Porter Some tourists get caught up by chance as hapless victims in troubles, strife, disasters. Other thrill junkies seek out danger as global rubberneckers. The stabbing to death and subsequent beheading of a British woman in Tenerife in May 2011 prompted both outrage and questions about the safety and wisdom of people travelling [...]
Holiday Vacations
Roujan – A Little Piece of Heaven in Languedoc
By Sarah Juggins, Come to Roujan to experience a French way of life that is miles removed from the bright lights of Paris or the jet-set lifestyle of Cannes. Roujan is a village in the Languedoc region of Southern France, about 40 minutes by car from Montpelier airport, an hour and a half from the [...]
Tropea: The Jewel of Southern Italy
Tropea, in Calabria, the toe of Italy, is one of the country’s most lovely towns. It’s holiday heaven because the town has fabulous beaches. Tropea is off the beaten track, and as such does not get too many foreign visitors. But it is well worth making an effort to get there, because this remarkable historic [...]
Travel Blogs
A Land with No Evil: Living with the Karen in the Burmese Jungle
A school for Karen youth in the Burmese jungle gives us a glimpse into the lives, hopes and dreams of the Karen people, and their 62-year-long revolt. The wind blowing through the leaves. The soft chirruping of insects. The gurgle of water in the stream. And the off-key strains of a boy warbling Louis Armstrong’s [...]
Preserving and Protecting Marine Wildfire at Elkhorn Slough
At Elkhorn Slough, marine wildlife is preserved and protected, as well as prolific. Visitors find sea otters, sea lions, harbor seals, and marine birds. Some Marine wildlife species which were endangered are returning to the US West Coast. The Elkhorn Slough (pronounced slew) is a veritable paradise for seeing marine wildlife. Kayaks and canoes are [...]
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Scuba! It’s a Gas
Scuba diving is great fun, so do we really need to look at all the technical stuff? The answer to that is without doubt ‘Yes’, if for no other reason but to ensure your own safety. Other than being devoured by a mythical sea monster, your biggest danger is from the air that you’re breathing! [...]
Rabbit. How to Deal With It When You’ve Caught It!
When people picture themselves in a survival situation, the image normally depicts them sitting by a fire with a rabbit on a spit. That’s great, if you can catch one! Without a trap, net or snare you’ll have little chance; even then it may well be a few days before you’re rewarded. Assuming that you’ve [...]
