If you've dismissed the idea of a guided tour due to financial reasons, award-winning Geographic Expeditions has your back. Pointing out that the travel industry employs one out of every twelve jobs, the company has lowered its prices - by a lot - in their own effort to ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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If you've dismissed the idea of a guided tour due to financial reasons, award-winning Geographic Expeditions has your back. Pointing out that the travel industry employs one out of every twelve jobs, the company has lowered its prices - by a lot - in their own effort to ...18 unique travel experiences for the well traveled
So you think you've been everywhere and done everything? Is their something missing when you travel these days? Is the sense of adventure gone? Never fear, because the Times Online has compiled an interesting list of 18 unique travel experiences that are designed to give us ...Do you annoy people with your travel tales?
It's not uncommon for people who live overseas to complain about people back home who don't want to hear about their journeys. They recount the eye rolls and vacant looks. A woman I know once lamented that she just couldn't get excited hearing about one of her relative's new ...Photo of the Day (6.12.09)
This candid shot from flickr user Peter Rivera was taken while riding in a car in the streets of Mumbai. I wonder if the woman, probably a mother to one or more of the kids, has told her son and his friends to stay close to her so she can keep an eye on them. After all, ...Photo of the Day (6.7.09)
I'm loving the simply symmetry of Flickr user arunchs' photo above of mangoes in India. The repetition of pattern and form, the geometry of stacking and the bright colors all caught my eye. It's offset nicely by a few touches of light pinkish-orange color on a few of the ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (5.15.09)
Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" feature, brought to you by our friends at travel website BootsnAll. How does it work? We input thousands of travel variables into the Gadling mainframe computer, and out comes five of the best and most interesting travel ...Saving Endangered Species Through Tourism
One of the real successes in ecotourism over the past decade or so has been the use of tourist dollars to aid in wildlife conservation. Many countries have discovered that travelers are willing to pay a good deal of money for the opportunity to observe wildlife in its ...Adventure travel in India: Rafting
One could say that any travel in India is an adventure and that could be accurate--even if you have loads of cash and are sticking close to swank establishments. If you head out of the mainstream, adventure is guaranteed. One option to add some thrills into your trip is to ...Dutch tourist killed by elephant in India
A few weeks ago I commented on Shoba Narayan's rather stuck-up dispatch about elephant and tiger watching in India that appeared in the Washington Post. These types of treks for the rich are nice and all, I thought, but what happens when nature acts more unpredictable than ...Model's boyfriend puts the "bang" in Bangalore
It always starts with a drunken model. Always. Cover girl Sarah Hannon was beyond furious when awaking to find her boyfriend, Daniel Melia, engaged in a "sex act" with the woman next to him. It sounds like he had a middle seat and liked it! Hannon fell asleep on a nine-hour ...Crowne Plaza Today Gurgaon nabs top hotel award
The Crowne Plaza Today, Gurgaon just picked the Best Luxury/Upscale Hotel of the Year Award at the Fifth Hotel Investment Conference for South Asia (HICSA). Winners were determined by a vote of registered HICSA delegates, and this was the first year the awards were held. ...Seven Endangered Species You Can Still See in the Wild
There is no doubt that we are fascinated with wildlife. We love to watch diverse and interesting animals, preferably in their natural habitats, and we're often willing to travel to remote places, sometimes at great expense, to see them. If you enjoy the kind of travel that ...Multisport Adventure Destinations From Around the Globe
When most people go on vacation they like to visit someplace relaxing, maybe spend some time on the beach or hop a cruise ship and spend their days in a deck chair. Others prefer something a bit more active, preferring to hike, bike, and paddle their way across the ...Amazing Race 14 recap 5: Jaipur, India brings some to tears
If you took two places and put them on a spectrum to show a contrast between opposites, you could do no better than Siberia, Russia and Jaipur, India. Icy, white snow switched for dry, yellowish dirt--frigid cold for scorching heat, and organized traffic patterns for chaos. ...Ten Must See Monuments
BootsnAll brings us another excellent list, with the intention of adding yet more destinations to our ever expanding "life lists". This time it's their selection of ten magnificent monuments, amazing structures from around the globe, that inspire us to travel thousands of ...Talking Travel with Pico Iyer and a book give-away
When I first read Pico Iyer's book Video Night in Kathmandu, I was hooked. Reading Iyer's words is a trip down streets that you may have traveled before but have not found the words to describe. When you read his prose, the tendency is to say, "Yes, that's it." For places ...Happy Holi: Another version of India than Slumdog Millionaire's
China Exiles the Dalai Lama - Again!
A few weeks back we reported on China closing Tibet to travelers in preparation for potential unrest in the country as the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama fleeing into exile grew near. Today marks that anniversary, and and in a attempted display of nationalism, Chinese ...Touring the Taj
Built in 1648 by Shah Jahan as a monument to his third wife, who died giving birth to their 14th child, the Taj Mahal still stands as one of the greatest man made structures anywhere in the world. Attracting upwards of 4 million visitors per year, the Taj is India's top ...Life of Pi to finally hit the big screen?
The critically-acclaimed bestseller (yes, such a thing exists) Life of Pi is another step closer to finally hitting the big screen, according to Entertainment Weekly. Ang Lee, the director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, is said to be in talks to ...
