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Mar
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4
Mar
I’m picked up at my hotel in Kiev, along with five other intrepid travellers. Sergei, the rep from the travel company, seats us in the VW Transporter and warns us that, when we get to Chernobyl, we can enter any building but at our own risk.
They’ve been abandoned for more than 20 years and [...]
4
Mar
Being somewhat vertically challenged, I’ve always believed in the idea of small is beautiful. Happily, it’s a view supported by Little Ongava, one of Namibia’s most luxurious lodges.
With just three suites - houses might be a more appropriate description - spaced along a hillside, this place defines safari chic.
Overlooking a game-filled savannah stretching [...]
4
Mar
Discovering the joys of hiking in the rain
Gene Kelly might have enjoyed singing in the rain, skipping as he did in the gutters with that umbrella over his head, but would he have sung as much, I wonder, had he been caught, as I was, in a seriously wet, wintry downpour, turbo-charged by gusting winds, [...]
4
Mar
Dal Lake, Indian Kashmir’s top tourist attraction, has become a “cesspool” and huge efforts are needed to save it, a court-appointed committee said, according to a report.
The lake, ringed by mountains and celebrated by admirers as Kashmir’s shimmering centrepiece, is being flooded by raw sewage and silt, said the committee, formed by the state’s high [...]
4
Mar
Visitors to Thailand will always receive warm sawadees from their gracious and friendly Siamese hosts. Any holiday in that fascinating country will always include action-packed days in vibrant Bangkok.
This is a metropolis with almost 10 million industrious people, continually on the move by river, underground and sky trains, taxis, buses, tuk-tuks and motorbikes.
The skyline [...]
2
Mar
I’m picked up at my hotel in Kiev, along with five other intrepid travellers. Sergei, the rep from the travel company, seats us in the VW Transporter and warns us that, when we get to Chernobyl, we can enter any building but at our own risk.
They’ve been abandoned for more than 20 years and [...]
28
Feb
Friday, 29 Feb 2008
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26
Feb
In Egypt’s southwest corner, straddling the borders of Sudan and Libya, the elegant paintings of prehistoric man and beast in the mountains of Gilf Kabir and Jebel Ouenat are as stunning in their simplicity as anything by Picasso.
But lying 500 kilometres from the nearest habitation, the desert offers little sanctuary for these masterpieces and any [...]
26
Feb
By Christian Chaise
Muscat - Fearing that oil reserves may one day fail to support its economy and growing population, the Gulf sultanate of Oman is investing billions of dollars in a massive tourist resort near the Arabian sea coast.
On Saturday, Oman’s quest to draw tourists was unveiled in plans to construct “The Blue City” (Al-Madina [...]
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