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10-04-08
Bohol is by far one of the most popular destinations in the Philippines. With its combined historical and natural sights and a number of high class and budget hotels, this is a must see destinatio...
10-03-08
Napa Valley is probably one of the most well-known American
Viticultural Areas in the world, and receives over five million
visitors each year. Many of the wineries in Napa County have long
riv...
10-03-08
Capital of Gran Canaria, Las Palma de Gran Canaria is an attractive
holiday destination enriched with culture and heritage. Form historical
sites, rich architecture to exotic beaches, Las Palma ...
10-03-08
Spring break need not to be notorious. There are a lot of alternative trips and you can make the most of your vacation. Spring break is a time most awaited by college students. This is
because i...
10-04-08
If you are looking for a European tourist destination, consider the
city of Milan in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. We certainly
can't say that Milan whose population exceeds 1.3 million...
10-04-08
Norway brings striking sceneries to its visitors for a stunning
holiday. This country has diverse cities, amazing centers and sites
rich in architectural and historical value. With a combination...
10-04-08
Are you planning your next vacation and thinking of taking an adventure
travel tour instead of traditional beach - resort type of vocation? You
are not alone, many people these days prefer activ...
10-03-08
Go straight to Alaska, travel back to the Caribbean, invite some
friends from Europe, move along to New Zealand and take some time to
rest in South America. People all over the w...
10-03-08
If you're searching for lodging in Breckenridge, Colorado, chances are you'll find the term "ski in ski out" being used to describe the locations of various properties relative to the slopes. Some...
10-04-08
London is england's capital city & one of the world's leading financial, business and cultural centres. as well as this, the city's influence on politics, education, entertainment, media, fash...
10-03-08
Turkey is gaining ground as a favorite holiday destination for Brits. The Cooperative Travel Group's director of retail travel, Trevor Davis, said packaged holiday sales for Turkey have increased ...
10-03-08
Many people want to travel, but cannot make it due to the inflation.
However, there are many ways to low down your travel costs. Internet is
the best place to find discounts on hotels, airfare a...
10-03-08
More than ever before we are able to travel the world and see sights and places that a century ago was not even possible. If you are planning to see the world, then you have a variety of different...
10-03-08
Koh Samui is an island of Surat Thani province on the east coast of Kra
Isthmus, Thailand. Samui is one of the most beautiful beaches of
Thailand. It is famous for its natural beauty, which cons...
10-03-08
California family vacations take on various guises. It could be a back to nature trip targeting nature parks and wildlife preserves. Or it could be a fun jaunt from one amusement park to another. ...
10-04-08
With marvellous art galleries, fantastic art galleries & exciting sights, London is one of the much popular excursionist destinations in the world.London boasts a really diverse population &am...
10-03-08
Whether you are going for a holiday or a business meeting, travelling is an essential part of your routine. A lot of people get wrapped up in the excitement of travelling and forget to do a lot of...
10-03-08
Mauritius is the heaven on Earth. Mauritius is situated in the south-west of the Indian Ocean about 800 km east of Madagascar. Mauritius was probably visited by Arabs and Malays in the middl...
10-03-08
Egypt is the oldest tourist destination on earth. Ancient Greeks and
Romans started the trend, coming to goggle at the cyclopean scale of
the Pyramids and the Colossi of Thebes. At the onset of ...
10-03-08
For Westerners,
Morocco holds an immediate and enduring
fascination. Though just an hour's ride on the ferry from Spain, it
seems at once very far from Europe, with a culture - Islamic and...
10-03-08
A tiny landlocked kingdom,
Swaziland lies in the
spanner-like grip of South Africa which surrounds it on three sides,
with Mozambique providing its eastern border along the Lubombo
Mounta...
10-03-08
South Africa is a large, diverse and incredibly beautiful country. The
size of France and Spain combined, it varies from the picturesque
Garden Route towns of the Western Cape to the raw stretch...
10-03-08
Lying on the equator, with the glaciated peaks of Mount Kenya - second
highest mountain in Africa - rising from a natural environment of
exceptional beauty, Kenya is a hugely rewarding place to ...
10-03-08
"Unity in Diversity" was the slogan chosen when India celebrated fifty
years of Independence in 1997, a declaration replete with as much
optimism as pride. Stretching from the frozen barrier of ...
10-03-08
China is not so much another country as another world. Cut off from the rest
of Eurasia by the Himalayas to the south and the Siberian steppe to the
north, it has grown up alone and aloof. The o...
10-03-08
Cambodia was largely out of bounds to tourists until recently, but now, areas
that were unsafe because of Khmer Rouge guerrillas and bandit groups
have been returned to the control of the Cambod...
10-03-08
Entirely surrounded by South Africa and sometimes mistaken for one of
apartheid's ill-conceived semi-states, the aptly named "mountain
kingdom" of Lesotho (pronounced Le-sue-toe) is, in fact, pr...
10-03-08
The tiny but thriving Islamic Sultanate of
Brunei perches
on the northwestern coast of Borneo, completely encircled by the East
Malaysian state of Sarawak. It has a population of 323,000, ...
10-03-08
For
sheer size, scale and variety, Indonesia is pretty much unbeatable. The
country is so enormous that nobody is really sure quite how big it is;
there are between 13,000 and 17,000 islands. I...
10-03-08
For a country that lived in self-imposed isolation until 150 years ago,
Japan has not hesitated in making up for lost time since the world came
calling. Anyone who's eaten sushi or used a S...
10-03-08
Less than a decade ago,
Laos (pop. 5.25 million) was
largely unknown to Western travellers. Other than a brief period during
the 1960s, when the former French colony became a player in the...
10-03-08
Malaysia does not have the grand, ancient ruins of neighbouring Thailand, but
its rich cultural heritage is apparent, both in its traditional kampung
(village) areas and in its commitment to rel...
10-03-08
Nepal forms the very watershed of Asia. Landlocked between India and Tibet,
it spans terrain from subtropical jungle to the icy Himalaya, and
contains or shares eight of the world's ten highest ...
10-03-08
The
Philippines has suffered in the tourism stakes because
of its position on the map. Imelda Marcos once said it was
"hamburgered" geographically. What she meant was that the Philippines
...
10-03-08
Conveniently linked by a kilometre-long
causeway to the southern tip of Malaysia, the tiny city-state of Singapore (just 580 square kilometres) makes a gentle
gateway for many first-time travell...
10-03-08
With over six million foreigners flying into the country each year,
Thailand has become Asia's primary holiday destination and is a useful and
popular first stop on any overland journey thr...
10-03-08
History weighs heavily on
Vietnam . For more than a
decade, reportage of the war that racked the country portrayed it as a
savage netherworld, yet, only twenty-odd years after the war's en...
10-03-08
For five centuries, travelers have brought
their hopes and dreams to America. For the earliest pioneers, it was a
virgin wilderness ready to be shaped into a "New World," a potential
paradise w...
10-03-08
Canada is almost unimaginably vast. It stretches from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the latitude of Rome to beyond the Magnetic North
Pole. Its archetypal landscapes are the Rocky Mountai...
10-04-08
Mexico enjoys a cultural blend that is wholly unique: among the fastest
growing industrial powers in the world, its vast cities boast modern
architecture to rival any in the world, yet it can st...
10-03-08
Update: Argentina has been getting bad press since December 2001 - a year after the first edition of
The Rough Guide to Argentina was published. Media headlines have made the country sound d...
10-03-08
Brazilians often say they live in a continent rather than a country,
and that's an excusable exaggeration. The landmass is bigger than the
United States if you exclude Alaska; the journey from R...
10-03-08
"Ecuador, so tiny on the map of the world, has always possessed the grandeur of a great country to those who know her well."
- Albert B. Franklin,
Ecuador: Portrait of a People
Si...
10-03-08
The land of gold and of the sun-worshipping Incas, Peru was
sixteenth-century Europe's major source of treasure, and once the home
of the largest empire in the world. Since then the riches of th...
10-03-08
Australia is massive, and very sparsely peopled: in size it rivals the
USA, yet its population is just over eighteen million - little more
than that of the Netherlands. This is an ancient land, ...
10-03-08
New Zealand comes with a reputation as a unique land packed with magnificent, raw
scenery : craggy coastlines, sweeping beaches, primeval forests, snow-capped
alpine mountains, bubbling vol...
10-03-08
Barely 35 square miles in size, and rising
to a highest point of just over two hundred feet, Anguilla has an interior that is dry, dusty and covered in
scrubby vegetation. However, this fact is ...
10-03-08
Famous for its beaches and its cricket players, tiny
Antigua is now one of the Caribbean's most popular destinations. The country
has taken full advantage of the publicity gained from its ...
10-03-08
With its seemingly endless supply of white sandy beaches and turquoise blue waters,
ARUBA is one of the more popular Caribbean destinations for many
sun-worshipers and cruise-ship passenger...
10-03-08
Graced with beautiful beaches of pink sand, evocative windswept
panoramas and countless opportunities for diving, snorkelling and
fishing, the islands of the Bahamas are well established as one ...
10-03-08
Tourists pour into
Barbados from all over the world, drawn
by the delightful climate, the big blue sea and brilliant white sandy
beaches. Many of them rarely stray far from their hotels an...
10-03-08
Update: Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) has a new Numbering Plan for
Belize, effective from May 1, 2002. With this numbering plan, a new 7-digit number will be applied countrywide, replac...
10-03-08
Regarded as one of the world's premier sites for shore diving, the tiny boomerang-shaped island of
BONAIRE , located 80km north of Venezuela, has much to offer those seeking an
active tropi...
10-03-08
Forming roughly two chains separated by the Sir Francis Drake Channel, the
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS are a haven for snorkelling, fishing and diving enthusiasts. The BVI also offers some of the...
10-03-08
Just south of Jamaica, the
Cayman Islands have truly grown
up the past thirty years, driven by tourism and banking. The Cayman
Islands rank as the world's fifth largest offshore financial ...
10-03-08
In sharp contrast to the brutal internal conflicts in Guatemala or the grinding poverty of Nicaragua,
Costa Rica has become synonymous with stability and prosperity - Costa Ricans
enjoy the...
10-03-08
CURAÇAO (population 170,000), the largest of the ABC islands,
and the administrative centre of the Netherlands Antilles, remains
relatively unknown outside of Holland and the Caribbean. O...
10-03-08
The first thing you'll notice about
Dominica (pronounced
Dah-min-EE-ka) is how intensely green the island is. Lush, steep-sided
peaks rear up 4700 feet to meet cloud-capped summits that re...
10-03-08
Occupying the eastern half of the island of Hispaniola, the
Dominican Republic (or the DR, as it's often known) is a hugely popular destination,
thanks to the portion of the country that m...
10-03-08
The smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, El Salvador is chiefly remembered for the vicious
civil war of the 1980s, when streams of harrowing news stories brought t...
10-04-08
The southernmost of the Windward Islands,
Grenada is known as "The Isle of Spice", producing one third of the world's supply of
nutmeg along with quantities of cinnamon, cloves, ginger...
10-04-08
The largest French West Indian island,
GUADELOUPE encompasses a massive 1704 square kilometres, the majority of which is
taken up by its two adjoining mainland islands, Basse-Terre and
Gra...
10-04-08
Spread across a verdant and mountainous chunk of land,
Guatemala is endowed with simply staggering natural, historical and cultural interest. Though the giant
Maya temples and rainfor...
10-04-08
The original Banana Republic, a byword for corruption and poverty,
Honduras is all too often overlooked by foreign tourists. Many of those who do make it here head straight for the ruins of ...
10-04-08
Rightly famous for its beaches and music, beautiful, brash
Jamaica is much more besides. There's certainly plenty of white sand, turquoise
sea and swaying palm trees, but there are also sp...
10-04-08
Wedge-shaped
Nicaragua may be the largest country in
Central America, but it is also one of the least visited. Even after
more than a decade of peace, Nicaragua is synonymous in the minds ...
10-04-08
Even before the construction of its famous canal,
Panamá 's strategic location at the wasp waist of the Americas and at the
meeting place of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans made it ...
10-04-08
Geographically,
Puerto Rico is a Caribbean hub, presiding
squarely over the waters between Hispaniola and the Virgin Islands. As
a commonwealth of the US, however, it remains a world apart...
10-04-08
At the top of the Eastern Caribbean chain,
and despite covering just thirteen square kilometres, SABA has plenty of small delights. Its quaint villages are
neat and attractive places, its main r...
10-04-08
The Caribbean playground of the rich and famous, the diminutive 25-square-kilometre
ST BARTHÉLEMY (St Barts) looks like it's been plucked from the Côte d'Azur and dropped into t...
10-04-08
Despite a fascinating colonial history, Statia, as everyone knows the little island of
ST EUSTATIUS , is now a tropical but slightly forlorn outpost of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands. Once ...
10-04-08
The islands of
St Kitts and
Nevis ,
which together comprise the smallest nation in the western hemisphere,
are unique in the Eastern Caribbean for their remarkable preservation
of W...
10-04-08
St Lucia more than lives up to the paradisal Caribbean stereotype: a glorious
mix of honey sand beaches, translucent waters sheltering reefs swarming
with tropical fish, lush interior rainforest...
10-04-08
Shared between the French and the Dutch since the mid-seventeenth century, the tiny island of
St Martin/St Maarten is one of the most touristed islands in this part of the Caribbean and
a h...
10-04-08
Situated about one hundred miles west of Barbados, and nestled between
St Lucia to the north and Grenada to the south, the string of islands
known collectively as St Vincent and the Grenadines m...
10-04-08
Just off the coast of the South American mainland they were once part of,
Trinidad and Tobago (usually shortened to T&T) form the southernmost islands of the
Lesser Antilles chain and t...
10-04-08
Just twenty years ago, the
Turks and Caicos Islands were
one of the quietest and least-known destinations in the West Indies.
Today, on the back of classy development on Providenciales, an...
10-04-08
With its sea-swept landscapes, historic towns, duty-free shopping and luxurious resorts, the
UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS bask in the combination of familiar yet exotic that makes them one o...
10-04-08
It's the spectacular, snowcapped mountains of regions like the Tyrol that provide the most familiar images of
Austria - a landscape of jagged peaks and rampaging rivers, giving way to green
...
10-04-08
A federal country, with three official languages and an intense
regional rivalry, Belgium has a cultural diversity that belies its
rather dull reputation among travellers. Its population of arou...
10-04-08
In many ways, Bulgaria remains the unknown country of the Balkans. Less
newsworthy than the former Yugoslavia, and less heavily touristed than
neighbouring Greece and Turkey, it's a place that b...
10-04-08
Croatia (Hrvatska) has come a long way since the summer of 1991, when foreign
tourists fled from a region standing on the verge of war. Now that
stability has returned, visitors are steadily com...
10-04-08
Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution" in November 1989 was probably the
most unequivocably positive of eastern Europe's anti-Communist
upheavals, as the Czechs and Slovaks shrugged off 41 years o...
10-04-08
Delicately balanced between Scandinavia proper and mainland Europe,
Denmark is a difficult country to pin down. In many ways it shares the
characteristics of both regions: it's an EU member...
10-04-08
London is the place to start. Nowhere in the country can match the scope and
innovation of the metropolis, a colossal, frenetic city, perhaps not as
immediately attractive as its European counte...
10-04-08
It's a tribute to the resilience of the
Estonians that
during the ten years since the Declaration of Independence in August
1991 they've transformed their country from a dour outpost of th...
10-04-08
Mainland Scandinavia's most culturally isolated and least understood country,
Finland has been independent only since 1917, having been ruled for hundreds of
years by first the Swedes and t...
10-04-08
The sheer physical diversity of France would be hard to exhaust in a
lifetime of visits. The landscapes range from the fretted coasts of
Brittany to the limestone hills of Provence, the canyons ...
10-04-08
Germany has always been the problem child of Europe. For over a millennium it
was no more than a loose confederation of separate states and
territories, whose number at times topped the thousand...
10-04-08
GIBRALTAR 's interest is essentially its novelty: the genuine
appeal of the strange, looming physical presence of its rock, and the
dubious one of its preservation as one of Britain's last remai...
10-04-08
With well over a hundred inhabited islands and a territory that
stretches from the south Aegean to the Balkan countries, Greece offers
enough to fill months of travel. The historic sites span fo...
10-04-08
Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a
lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of just over ten million
people differs from "all those Slavs". Hungary was likened ...
10-04-08
Resting on the edge of the Arctic Circle and sitting atop one of the world's most volcanically active hotspots,
Iceland is nowadays thought of for its striking mix of magisterial glaciers,
...
10-04-08
Landscape and people are what bring most visitors to Ireland - the
Republic and the North. And once there, few are disappointed by the
reality of the stock Irish images: the green, rain-hazed lo...
10-04-08
Of all European countries,
Italy is perhaps the hardest to
classify. It is a modern, industrialized nation. It is the harbinger of
style, its designers leading the way with each season's f...
10-04-08
The history of
Latvia , like that of its neighbour
Estonia, is largely one of foreign occupation. The indigenous Balts
were overwhelmed at the start of the thirteenth century by German
cr...
10-04-08
Only slightly larger than Manhattan island,
Liechtenstein is the world's fourth-smallest country. It's a quiet, unassuming place,
ruled over by His Serene Highness Prince Hans Adam II, and ...
10-04-08
Unlike its Baltic neighbours,
Lithuania once enjoyed a
period of sustained independence. Having driven off the German Knights
of the Sword in 1236 at Siauliai, the Lithuanians emerged as a...
10-04-08
Across the border from the Belgian province of Luxembourg, the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is one of Europe's smallest sovereign states, a tiny independent
principality with a population of a...
10-04-08
Monstrosities are common on the Côte d'Azur, but nowhere - not even Cannes - can outdo
MONACO . This tiny independent principality, no bigger than London's Hyde
Park, has lived off ga...
10-04-08
The Netherlands is a country partly reclaimed from the waters of the North Sea, and
around half of it lies at or below sea level. Land reclamation has been
the dominant motif of its history, the...
10-04-08
In many ways
Norway is still a land of unknowns. Quiet for
a thousand years since the Vikings stamped their mark on Europe, the
country nowadays often seems more than just geographically d...
10-04-08
In many ways, Poland is one of the success stories of the new Europe,
transforming itself from a one-party state to a parliamentary democracy
in a remarkably short period of time. More than a de...
10-04-08
Portugal is around the size of Scotland with twice the population and has
tremendous variety both geographically and in its ways of life and
traditions. Along the coast around Lisbon, and on the...
10-04-08
Travel in
Romania is an rewarding as it is challenging.
The country's mountain scenery and great diversity of wildlife, its
cultures and people, and a way of life that at times seems out o...
10-04-08
European
Russia stretches from the borders of the states
of Belarus and Ukraine to the Ural mountains, over 1000km east of
Moscow; even without the rest of the Russian Federation, it const...
10-04-08
The Scottish capital,
Edinburgh , is a handsome and ancient city, famous for its magnificent
castle and
Palace of Holyroodhouse as well as for a world-acclaimed international ar...
10-04-08
The republic of
Slovakia (Slovensko) - independent since
1993 - consists of the long, narrow strip of land which stretches from
the fertile plains of the Danube basin up to the peaks of th...
10-04-08
The northernmost republic of what was once Yugoslavia,
Slovenia currently appears the most stable, prosperous and welcoming of all
Europe's erstwhile communist countries. It was always the...
10-04-08
If you are coming to Spain for the first time, be warned: this is a
country that fast becomes an addiction. You might intend to come just
for a beach holiday, or a tour of the major cities, but ...
10-04-08
Sweden is a large, geographically varied and strangely little-known country
whose sense of space is one of its best features. Away from the
relatively densely populated south, travelling without...
10-04-08
Switzerland is one of Europe's most visited countries, but one of its least
understood. Pass through for a day or two, as most people do, and
you'll get the quaint stereotype of Switzerland that...
10-04-08
Turkey is a country with a multiple identity, poised uneasily between East and
West. The only NATO member in the Middle East region, the country has
recently been accepted as a candidate for mem...
10-04-08
Although
Cardiff boasts most of Wales' national
institutions, including the National Museum, the appeal of a visit lies
outside the towns, where there is ample evidence of the war-mongerin...
10-04-08
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10-04-08
Russia is without a doubt a major holiday destination with its amazing historical background, rich culture and diverse tourist attractions including majestic monuments, imposing buildings, beautif...
10-06-08
No city in the world has the power to transform itself like Las Vegas,
a sales-savvy amusement park that unapologetically changes themes
whenever it likes. When entertainment revenue began to ec...
10-06-08
Forget the tourists-only zone of Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39; it's
the rest of San Francisco that begs exploration. The city's 40-odd
square miles encompass showy Victorian houses, sleek Art D...
10-06-08
It's not especially modest to call New York City the center of the
modern world-but then, as New Yorkers are the first to admit, their
hometown has never been shy about tooting its own horn. The...
10-06-08
The City of Angels evokes images that are both glamorous (idyllic
beaches, glitzy Hollywood galas) and excessive (smog, traffic, spoiled
starlets), and both are legitimate. But this complex metr...
10-06-08
Even after a century of existence, Miami still has the feel of a place
that went up last night. From its beginning, the weather, tropical
vegetation, and the waters of Biscayne Bay have made the...
02-04-09
By Gerron WoodruffeCurrency movements can affect the cost of a trip. For example, a favorable rate of exchange means that your local currency is worth more and will provide you with more buying po...
02-08-09
Are you torn between taking a luxurious, pampered holiday versus an
outdoor, sporty vacation? If you and your holiday partner can't agree
(or even if you're not sure yourself) there's no need to...
03-30-09
By Mairead FoleyCaladesi Island State Park Beach was voted the best beach in
the USA in 2008 (it came 2nd in 06 and 07). This beach is located close
to the city of Dunedin in Florida, some 36kms...
05-30-09
Always be sure to have a non-battery powered flashlight. If you get
lost at night and your flashlight runs out of batteries, you are
putting yourself in more danger. Flashlights can help you sca...
08-27-09
Have you ever considered taking a vacation with no driving, no hassle
and no worries for 7, 10, 14 days or more? How about a cruise? If
you've never been to one and not sure whether it would be ...
08-27-09
Currency movements can affect the cost of a trip. For example, a
favorable rate of exchange means that your local currency is worth more
and will provide you with more buying power. In fact, tra...
12-10-09
Vacations are the best thing to relax, recharge and begin again. And when they are planned to spend in the "City of Light" (i.e. in Paris), they can totally recharge you with some extra energy. Pa...
02-19-10
By Chuck Colman provided by SmartMoney.com
Updated and adapted from the book "1,001 Things They Won't Tell
You: An Insider's Guide to Spending, Saving, and Living Wisely" by
Jonathan Dahl a...
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