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List of World Heritage Sites grows by 13

List of World Heritage Sites grows by 13 The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee just wrapped up its 33rd annual conference in Seville, Spain, where they added 13 new sites to their list of amazing locations around the globe, and made the unusual move of ...

Amster-done? Try Delft

Amster-done? Try Delft Amsterdam has long been a favorite for travelers, whether they are dope smoking hedonists or art loving dilettantes (or both) but what many visitors don't realize is that the city offers a wealth of fun day trips. Here's one of my favorites. Delft is less than an hour by ...

Everglades to be put back on U.N. endangered list?

Everglades to be put back on U.N. endangered list? Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is meeting with a task force charged with overseeing the restoration of the Florida Everglades this week. He intends to tell them that the Obama administration will ask the United Nations World Heritage Committee to put the national park ...

UNESCO adds sites to World Heritage list, and drops one too

UNESCO adds sites to World Heritage list, and drops one too The UNESCO World Heritage List has just gotten a lot longer. Officials meeting for the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee have added more than two dozen sites of great cultural, historical, or natural value to the list, and they're considering more. Among the new ...

Gadlinks for Monday 6.29.09

Gadlinks for Monday 6.29.09 Welcome to another glorious week of Gadlinks! It looks like the web is full of travel news and stories, so we're not short of interesting links. Here are a few to keep your juices flowing: Matador and the Dir Journal explore abandoned cities in the world and discover ...

Walt Disney Museum to open this fall

Walt Disney Museum to open this fall When I was writing my post Five famous fathers: Visit where they lived with their children, I did research Walt Disney to see what else there was to head to that is not a theme park. Walt Disney was a dad as well as a family entertainment genius. I wasn't able to find a site ...

Grand Canyon hiking: Tips on how not to have a heart attack

Grand Canyon hiking: Tips on how not to have a heart attack If hiking the Bright Angel Trail, or any other trail that leads down into the Grand Canyon is the stuff of your dreams, be warned--it isn't the easiest thing to do. Sure, going down is fine. That path of switchbacks, often with mule pee at every turn, beckons downward. "This ...

On the trail of the Kalahari bushmen

On the trail of the Kalahari bushmen A few days back we posted about 18 unique travel experiences that even the seasoned traveler would find interesting. One of the suggestions on that list was to travel to the Kalahari Desert to stay with bushmen and partake in an initiation hunt with the tribes that still ...

Travel quotations and underground philosophy

Travel quotations and underground philosophy Travelers on the London Underground will soon get a dose of philosophy along with their overcrowding, noise, and proximity to body odor. The Evening Standard has reported that drivers on the Piccadilly line have been issued a book of quotations from famous philosophers to ...

Museum Junkie: Hermitage Amsterdam launches grand opening

Museum Junkie: Hermitage Amsterdam launches grand opening A branch of Russia's famous Hermitage museum opened to the public last weekend in Amsterdam. The giant Hermitage Amsterdam houses treasures from St. Petersburg including costumes, jewelry, furniture, and art from the time of the Tsars. The museum's opening was done with ...

A visit to Victoria Falls

A visit to Victoria Falls Back in 1855, Scottish explorer David Livingstone was nearing the end of his exploration of the Zambezi River when he came across a sight that was quite unexpected at the time. For days he had heard from the local tribes about a great water fall that lay ahead on his ...

Five famous fathers: Visit where they lived with their children

Five famous fathers: Visit where they lived with their children For a Father's Day nod to famous fathers, it seemed apropos to do a post on Father's Day travel with a twist. Read a biography of famous men and it may take more than a few paragraphs to get to their children. The children seem tucked in between those details that made a man ...

Gadling Take FIVE: Week of June 12--June 19

Gadling Take FIVE: Week of June 12--June 19 Happy summer. It's official. The Mermaid Parade is happening in Coney Island today, and Catherine has the scoop on the solstice in Alaska. Hopefully, you've snagged a travel bargain. Tomorrow, for starters, take Dad to a National Park for Father's Day--or take yourself. ...

Was Machu Picchu always a tourist attraction?

Was Machu Picchu always a tourist attraction? Travelers to Peru almost invariably make a stop at the famous Inca lost city of Mach Picchu. Situated on a mountain top, the spectacular ruins have been luring visitors almost immediately after they were rediscovered by Hiram Bingham back in 1911. But according to this story ...

Bowermaster's Adventures -- Ibo

Bowermaster's Adventures -- Ibo Ibo – officially Ilha Do Ibo, by the Portuguese who colonized it - is one of a string of 32 islands that make up the Quirimbas archipelago, separated from the Mozambique coast by just a shallow channel. Barely two miles long and two miles wide a fringe of reefs ...

A hidden church near Oxford

A hidden church near Oxford Yesterday I reviewed Michael McCay's Hidden Treasures of England, a book filled with wonderful places that most people miss. Here's one McCay missed. Not far from the popular destination of Oxford is the little hamlet of Binsey and its historic St. Margaret's Church. St. ...

Take dad to a national park this weekend for free!

Take dad to a national park this weekend for free! Just in time for the Father's Day weekend, the National Park Service has announced that all entry fees will be waived for both Saturday and Sunday, June 20th and 21st. This means that more than 100 parks that traditionally charge for entry will be fee free this weekend. In ...

Traveler's Bookshelf: Hidden Treasures of England

Traveler's Bookshelf: Hidden Treasures of England I've been to 25 countries and I've never seen any place with so many overlooked treasures as England. Maybe that's why I keep making excuses to work here. A wonderful new book by Michael McNay, Hidden Treasures of England, reveals some of England's lesser-known artistic and ...

Along the Hudson: The Hudson River School and top places to see the paintings

Along the Hudson: The Hudson River School and top places to see the paintings Four hundred years ago, when Henry Hudson first saw the river that was named after him, I imagine he felt inspired by its beauty. The river not only captivated Hudson's attention motivating him to take a look-see far up into its reaches, it has also inspired artists to ...

Bowermasters Adventures -- Becoming a French state

Bowermasters Adventures -- Becoming a French state Dozens of small tri-colored French flags hang from the awning of the bar 5/5 on Mamoudzou's seafront. A Malagasy polka/country/blues/rock band plays to a mixed crowd of blacks and whites. Two weeks ago a historic vote turned the street out front into a riot of celebration ...

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