Please let this be a joke. According to several news sources, Russian yacht owners will begin offering "pirate hunting" vacations to those interested in wielding AK-47's and shooting at pirates off the coast of Somalia. Tickets aboard the ocean liners, which will cruise at ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Russian yachts to offer "pirate hunting" cruises off Somali coast
Please let this be a joke. According to several news sources, Russian yacht owners will begin offering "pirate hunting" vacations to those interested in wielding AK-47's and shooting at pirates off the coast of Somalia. Tickets aboard the ocean liners, which will cruise at ...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 ...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 ...$500 million yacht to match the half-billion dollar plane
A few days back we posted a story about a custom built Airbus A380 that was being built for Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal. With a steam room, a Turkish bath, and a concert hall (complete with baby grand piano), not to mention a full garage for the prince's Rolls Royce, ...Flight attendants on hunger strike
It's hard for most of us to imagine a situation so dire it would inspire us to go on hunger strike. Sadly, that is not the case for the Russian flight attendants who were not paid for eight months of work when their airline folded. According to United Press International: ...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 ...Three travel ideas from the ITB Berlin Travel Show
More than 11,000 exhibitors from 187 countries tried to make their mark at the 2009 ITB Berlin Travel Show. They showcased wines, highlighted unique local attractions and generally tried to show that they are the best places in the world for tourists to spend their ...May Day: Festivities around the world
May 1 is May day, and here in Hawaii it's called Lei Day. Most of the islands' schools are off today, and surfers will likely be in the water (as the first legitimate south swell of the summer season is here). You will find me and most of the Oahu's daytime party goers ...Eight Great Food Markets from Around the World
One of my favorite aspects of travel is visiting unique markets in foreign countries. These sometimes charming, sometimes chaotic, always fascinating and entertaining places offer up slices of local culture, unusual foods, and a variety of other goods, both common and ...Photo of the Day (4/29/09)
In Russia, according to AlphaTangoBravo/ Adam Baker who took this photo, folks are likely to break into song at any place at any time. Of these three, I'd say that the woman is belting it out. Baker said that Americans often get stuck in such situations when asked to sing ...Barneo Ice Station Opens
In another spring tradition, the Barneo Ice Station has opened for another season, providing the gateway for adventure travelers and explorers to make a "last degree" journey to the geographic North Pole from the Russian side of the ice. The ice station sits roughly 60 ...Gadling teaches you to read the Cyrillic alphabet in 5 minutes
It used to be that when I saw Russian words like this-- ??????????, ????????, ????????-- my eyes skipped over them like yours probably just did. But the Cyrillic alphabet, which is used in Slavic languages like Russian as well as non-Slavic languages like Kazakh and ...Vladimir Putin: Fake tourist?
It was a well-known tactic of the KGB, the Soviet Secret Police organization, to disguise their agents as tourists who would ask probing and embarrassing questions of visiting heads of state. But a new photo has just surfaced that purports to show Russian Prime Minister ...Photo of the Day 3.16.09
Strong geometric patterns, the juxtaposition of the large imposing wall with the small, vulnerable child, the solitary image of the boy with his toy -- this photograph by fiznatty has it all. Beautiful capture of a child in play in downtown Moscow - well done! If you've got ...Amazing Race 14, recap 4: Siberia continued. Wear good underwear, it helps
At the start of this episode of Amazing Race 14, after an overnight rest from stacking wood, shutter building or both, teams took off from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia for Novosibirsk on a 400-mile journey via the Trans- Siberian Railway. The sleeper cars of the night train gave ...Moscow luggage handlers lighten load
What's going on in Moscow? If you have any valuables in your luggage, they may not be there when you get to the hotel! Well, maybe the odds are better now that police at the city's main international airport have arrested several luggage handlers suspected of sifting through ...Will secretary Clinton help or hinder travel to Russia?
Travelers around the world are waiting for the day when the borders to Russia open wider to visitors. Although the formerly Communist country does and will accept tourists, the application process is long and expensive -- you don't just wander up to the border to Russia, ...Amazing Race Season 14: Recap 4, Siberia looks like fun
During episode 4 of this season's Amazing Race, the teams headed off in the middle of the night from Bucharest to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia via Moscow. Unlike getting to Bucharest from Salzburg, Moscow from Bucharest is a piece of cake. Flights went through Munich, Frankfurt and ...?olcats: A hilarious Russian twist on the internet's dumbest meme
You know what Lolcats are, right? They're the pictures of cats accompanied by depressingly unfunny "lolspeak" captions which are posted almost exclusively by single women over 40 who are desperately waiting for anyone to click on their Match.com profiles.
Well, apparently ..."Vodka Pipeline" Links Russia and Estonia
An ambitious group of smugglers managed to build a 1.2 mile long pipeline across the Russian-Estonian border with the intention of pumping contraband vodka into the EU. According to this story from the Telegraph, they actually managed to get more than 1630 gallons across the ...
