Oct 14th, 2009 at 12:00PM: Happy Hump Day, Gadling'ers! It's time to look at the festivals and events happening around the world, and this week has a particularly international selection of happenings. If you're close and have time, then you have no excuse to get out and go!
Islamabad - The Hot Air Ballooning Competition in Pakistan begins this Thursday, October 15 and ends on the 18th.
Malawi - Lake of Stars: This ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Get out and go: Events around the world (October 15-18)
Oct 14th, 2009 at 12:00PM: Happy Hump Day, Gadling'ers! It's time to look at the festivals and events happening around the world, and this week has a particularly international selection of happenings. If you're close and have time, then you have no excuse to get out and go!
Islamabad - The Hot Air Ballooning Competition in Pakistan begins this Thursday, October 15 and ends on the 18th.
Malawi - Lake of Stars: This ...Photo of the Day (9.29.09)
Sep 29th, 2009 at 5:00PM:
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Today's Photo of the Day comes from Milan-based photographer, il lele. This photo was taken in the city of Fatehpur Sikri, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It's a great moment captured - and it's easy to appreciate the simplicity & contrast of the image. Il lele has alot of ...Seven jobs that may soon disappear: Travel to where they are while you can
Sep 1st, 2009 at 12:30PM: With Labor Day approaching, as we think of work, consider the culturally significant jobs in the world that may not be around in the future. Here is a look at seven that are hallmarks of particular regions.
First up. Traditional Glass Blower. In one of the furnace rooms at Cam Fornace in Murano, Italy, a short water bus hop from Venice, is a black and white photo from the 1920s (or thereabouts). ...Gadlinks for Friday 8.14.09
Aug 14th, 2009 at 7:00PM: I hope everyone on the mainland enjoyed the Perseids meteor shower earlier this week! There were plenty of lovely streaks in the sky worthy of a few ooo's and ahh's. Here are few recent articles that might elicit similarly inspired reactions.
The most beautiful destinations in Asia [via OpenTravel]
Is Beirut gorgeous, dangerous, or both? This article sorts out the myth that is Beirut. [via ...Crane falls in India: A thought about geography lessons and missed opportunities
Jul 13th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Tucked into the news this morning, in the midst of seemingly endless Michael Jackson news and the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, was a quick story about cranes falling over in India. The cranes were being used to clean up the debris caused from a flyover that had collapsed.
It wasn't that a flyover had fallen, or that cranes had tipped over that had caught my attention as much ...Do you annoy people with your travel tales?
Jun 18th, 2009 at 3:30PM: 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 deck or window treatments whenever she returned to the U.S. After all, she'd just been on a run past cows in the streets of ...World Laughter Day
Continental's Restaurant Week could increase revenue
May 1st, 2009 at 8:00AM:
On its face, Continental Airlines' participation in International Restaurant Week seems like just another promotion. Think harder, though, and you'll see that it's really a way for the airline to bring in a little extra cash. Since passengers with a bit of extra girth may be charged for an extra seat, it only makes sense to fatten up fliers and reap the rewards.
A dozen New York restaurants ...Adventure travel in India: Rafting
Apr 26th, 2009 at 11:00AM: 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 take in a rafting trip.
Arthur Max's article published in The Columbus Dispatch gives details about his six-day rafting trip ...Model's boyfriend puts the "bang" in Bangalore
Apr 6th, 2009 at 1:30PM: 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 flight from Bangalore to London, as anyone would hope to do on such a long flight. Oh, and having bent elbows with boyfriend ...Seven Endangered Species You Can Still See in the Wild
Mar 30th, 2009 at 8:00AM: 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 allows for these kinds of animal encounters, they you'll want to check out BootsnAll's list of the Seven Endangered Species ...Amazing Destinations That Can't Be Reached By Car
Mar 25th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Modern transportation has made it extremely easy for travelers to get to just about any place in the world. Each day there are international flights that can take us to the four corners of the globe and modern roads and trains will deliver us to the best sights and monuments to be found at our destination, before whisking us back to a comfy hotel, complete with hot and cold running water, room ...Multisport Adventure Destinations From Around the Globe
Mar 24th, 2009 at 8:00AM: 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 destination of their choice. For those active travelers, Backpacker Magazine has put together a list of the best multisport ...Amazing Race 14 recap 5: Jaipur, India brings some to tears
Mar 23rd, 2009 at 3:30PM: 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. This week's Amazing Race 14 took teams from one end of this spectrum to another.
Because the teams were all on the same ...Book give-a-way and travel read: The Open Road, the Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama
Mar 22nd, 2009 at 10:30AM: When Pico Iyer was growing up, his father was a friend of the Dalai Lama. That was the beginning of Iyer's own relationship with a person that many seek out as a spiritual rock star of sorts. In his book The Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Iyer gives insight into what it's like inside the Dalai Lama's circle, as well as, what it's like being inside Iyer's life.
When ...Ten Must See Monuments
Mar 21st, 2009 at 8:30AM: 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 miles just so we can take them in ourselves. Some of the selections on the list are centuries old, such as the Nubian monuments ...Talking Travel with Pico Iyer and a book give-away
Mar 16th, 2009 at 11:00AM: 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 one hasn't been, he draws you into the scenes as if you are there looking at the world through his perceptive eyes.
Seven ...Happy Holi: Another version of India than Slumdog Millionaire's
China Exiles the Dalai Lama - Again!
Mar 10th, 2009 at 8:00AM: 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 President Hu has called for a "Great Wall against separatism" that would protect the unity of the "motherland" and ensure that ...Gadling Take FIVE- Week of Feb. 28--March 5
Mar 6th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Yes, yes, yes. It's 70 degrees where I'm sitting. People have seemed to be feeling chipper in Columbus everywhere I've gone today. I'm ready to head outside again, but before I do, here are some Gadling gems that you might have missed.
Brenda's post Eddie Aikau and the Hokule'a voyage gives the back story to the term "Eddie Would Go" and news of the upcoming 'round the world voyage of the ...
