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Interesting news, articles, stories and tips from travel world.July 16, 2010 Island Vis, Croatia - Top Secret Military It has been almost fifty years since the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) occupied the island and completely isolated it from the rest of the world. It thus not only prevented the island’s progress and stopped the clock, but also forced the local population into unwanted emigration... |
January 19, 2010 TOP 20 European beaches for 2010 Yes, it’s still nippy out. But don’t despair — here are Europe’s finest expanses of sand, where the sun shines and sea shimmers ... |
May 23, 2009 A Great British vacation? No thanks This year, for the first time since I was a teenager, I vacationed in the UK. I was not alone. Faced with tighter household budgets, soaring travel costs and a strong euro thousands of my cash-strapped fellow Brits decided to stay at home too... |
May 16, 2009 Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia A three-hour drive through the lush green Sabahan countryside gets you to the Mount Kinabalu National Park. The park, which is Malaysia's first UNESCO World Heritage site has an impressive collection of flora and fauna. Mount Kinabalu, at 4,095 meters (13,430 ft)... |
March 28, 2009 Australia: Abundant wildlife and the world's smallest miner About 40 kangaroos, flocks of galahs and cockatoos - and all before breakfast somewhere east of Broken Hill. It seems almost decadent to be sitting up in bed drinking coffee and spotting wildlife while making no effort at all..... |
March 20, 2009 What a bad trip it's been By the beach in Baracoa, Cuba, 2004 A flight in a pensioned-off Russian Air Force plane landed me on the remote eastern Caribbean coast of Cuba (pictured). 'The most beautiful place in the world. I heard the birds sing that they will never ever leave,' wrote Columbus in 1492. Of course, he'd just spent several months .... |
February 22, 2009 Gay Travel Adventure Rafting the Grand Canyon from Spirit Spirit Journeys’ latest addition to their calendar is a gay travel adventure rafting through the Grand Canyon. Titled “Going Deep”, this adventure starts and ends in Las Vegas. In between, there are eight days of rafting 280 miles of the Colorado River.... |
February 14, 2009 How to survive a family vacation Different interests, same old roles sometimes clash when parents travel with their grown children, but that doesn't mean it can't still be a rewarding experience ... as long as everybody behaves like adults.... |
February 9, 2009 Fiordland: A deserted paradise (Lake Gunn) Lake Gunn is a long narrow, forest-fringed lake at the head of the Eglinton Valley. To the south there is an amphitheatre of tawny mountains, their scree slopes, although devoid of snow, glistening with mica.... |
January 20, 2009 Looking for love on the ski slopes We're in the tiny village of Kaprun, Austria, which offers lower runs for beginners and superb high-altitude skiing for competent skiers and boarders. Unfortunately we haven't explored much of its 130km of runs or its sprawling snow park.... |
January 9, 2009 Top 10 Apocalyptic Retreats As Sting once sang: “When the world is running down, you make the best of what’s still around.” Face it - we’re not just going to plod around indefinitely; some major stuff is bound to hit the fan someday..... |
November 26, 2008 Bedum Tower Mathematicians have worked out that the 12th-century building in the northern Dutch town of Bedum would, if it were the same height as the Pisa tower, have a greater tilt.... |
August 5, 2008 Lost world frozen 14m years ago found in Antarctica A lost world has been found in Antarctica, preserved just the way it was when it was frozen in time some 14 million years ago.... |
July 17, 2008 SOCA - CHRONICLES OF A TRUE FAIRYLAND The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian was filmed partly in New Zealand for its magnificent scenery, but the final battle scene takes place in a remote but wonderful valley closer to hand, beside a river of otherworldly blue, the Soca in Slovenia.... |
July 4, 2008 Going Trans-Siberian by train Trans-Siberian railway - made famous in the 1965 film version of Dr Zhivago in which a fur-clad Julie Christie is held hostage on the Trans-Siberian Express by a dashing Omar Sharif .... |
May 25, 2008 Lighthouses in Croatia Lighthouses on the Croatian islands and promontories are special places for a unique holiday. Choose a lighthouse in the vicinity of tourist centers.... |
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