Blogs Posts in Vacation Spots category; 128 blog posts

Bahrain Hotels

Bahrain has a group of 33 islands, with an area of 707 square kilometres and is situated in the Arabian Gulf which is off the east coast of Saudi Arabia. The local time is GMT + 3 hours. The state takes its name from the largest island B [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Celebration Cruises

Celebration Cruises at the Lake of the Ozarks is uniquely suited to serve your cruising and charter needs. With a full-service lounge and a capacity of 150 passengers, the 80' Celebration is the Lake's largest and most luxurious climate-con [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Mexico - Cancun

Hand-picked by computer, CANCÚN is, if nothing else, proof of Mexico's remarkable ability to get things done in a hurry if the political will is there. A fishing village of 120 people as recently as 1970, it's now a city with a res [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Guide to the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest tropical reef system, covering an area of 348,000 square kilometers and stretching along 2300 kilometers of the eastern Australian coastline. The Great Barrier Reef is made up of over 200 indi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

Mississippi Travel Guide

The state of Mississippi, tucked between Alabama, Louisiana (separated by the mighty river from which the state gets its name) and Tennessee, with a tiny stretch of Gulf Coast right in the south, is often overlooked by tourists seeking a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Bardo Museum (Le Musee National du Bardo)

The Bardo museum is situated in the old palace of the bey, in what was the countryside before, and offers both itself and and the exhibits to be admired. The tour around the museum is a a tour through Tunisian history, though dominated by [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Casablanca Travel

Casablanca is the economic capital of Morocco and the biggest city, with about 5 million people. Tourists coming to Casa expect to find a romantic town, as depicted in the classic Humphrey Bogart film of the same name. They will soon be d [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven - China

I can't imagine the Dowager Empress actually did this. Even though it is not built by her, but she definitely knows how to party. Went to the long corridor, it is really a very very very long corridor. This is a huge park, get a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Europe - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Van Gogh Museum

Enjoy the world's largest collection of Van Goghs, including paintings, drawings and letters. The museum also has a large collection of works by some of Van Gogh's contemporaries and friends like Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as a n [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

Tokelau

Fly under the radar and rejuventate on these remote, idyllic islands. Want to get away from it all? Head off to Tokelau, where there's no capital city, no airport, no harbour, no cars, no banks, no guns and no tourism. What it does have [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2008 | Comments : 0

Fiji

A zesty blend of cultures in a heavenly setting. Fiji has over 300 islands in its archipelago, each fringed with coral reefs and lapped by warm azure waters - the diving and snorkelling are superb. Amid its wealth of natural beauty, Fiji [...]

Posted On : Jan, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Bosnia-Hercegovina

More than a decade after Bosnia-Hercegovina was only heard of in international news as a conflict area, this 'most easterly point of the west and the most westerly point of the east' is now trying to get itself back on the world's travel [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

Tegucigalpa

Nestled into a bowl-shaped valley nearly 1000m (3280ft) above sea level, Honduras' capital isn't the most beautiful city in the world, but it has a way of growing on you nonetheless. Tegucigalpa has some excellent colonial churches, a handf [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Cape Verde

Many know Cape Verde only through the haunting mornos of the 'barefoot diva'. To visit her homeland - a series of unlikely volcanic islands off the coast of Senegal - is to understand the strange, bittersweet amalgam of West African rhyth [...]