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 | Foreign travel expenses shoot up 20% on falling rupee
The Times Of India, photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam
Tweet NEW DELHI: The depreciating value of the rupee has made outbound travel for Indians at least 15-20% more expensive. In India, domestic travel too is suffering because of an increase in airfares as Kingfisher and Air India reduce their inventory. | The summer break in India sees a huge number of Indians travelling internationally for an averag...
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 | Panama: a hot holiday destination?
The Guardian, photo: Creative Commons / Hollic
| It tops lists of hot destinations for 2012 and is sold as the ideal introduction to Latin America, but does it live up to the hype? Tranquilo Bay ecolodge private jetty, Panama. Photographs: Gemma Bowes | Chickens and scruffy children on bikes cross our path as we stroll along a sandy road past candy-coloured buildings beside a turquoise Caribbea...
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 | World Travel Awards: Costa Rica's Leading Golf Resorts
The Examiner, photo: Creative Commons / Mariordo
| Graham E. Cook established the World Travel Awards in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in all sectors of the travel and tourism industry. | The Wall Street Journal called the World Travel Awards the Oscars of the Travel business. It is now considered the most prestigious, comprehensi...
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» Cruisewise.com gives the lowdown on some lines
Detroit Free Press | Website: www.cruisewise.com | Lowdown: Useful cruise search site gives lots of information very quickly about the major American cruise lines, much of it in easy-to-glance-at graphic form. The downside is that it's missing some lines like Disney an... |
» Climb Kilimanjaro with REI Adventures
Detroit Free Press | Here's a deal on a great trip, "Mt. Kilimanjaro Climb and Safari," in Tanzania. REI Adventures is offering savings of $900 on its 11-day trip for very fit travelers -- a six-day mountain trek followed by five days in Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti... |
» Travel with the D to the Turks and Caicos Islands
Detroit Free Press | Kiera Malone, Jeff Malone and Kim Malone of Monroe went cruising with the Old English D. Here they are at their first stop, Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands. | Going on a trip? Take along the Old English D, snap a photo and upload it at f... |
» Correction: Travel with the D
Detroit Free Press | Correction: Last week's Travel with the D photo should have said that Ann Maskill, Brad Butterworth, Erin Maskill and Tim Maskill of Rochester were at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. | ... |
» Tips for traveling with pets
Courier Journal individual: 7 numChar :2062 | -->individual: 17 numChar :2173 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 20 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 4530 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 4235 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 295 | -->--> | With Memorial Day fast approaching, can the annual... |
» Travel letters: Fantastic memories of Hong Kong
The Los Angeles Times I just read Scott Kraft's article ["Looking Up, Up, Up in Hong Kong," May 6]. I lived in Hong Kong from the mid-1970s to 1980, and his article refreshed my memory. Hong Kong is one location that changes ever so quickly. I can only imagine what it mus... |
» Tips to eating street food in India
The Los Angeles Times | Go with a guide who knows local street food and, if possible, can help you find relatively clean stalls. | According to customers I talked with, quality street-food vendors can often be found near universities and railway stations. | For the sake o... |
» Biting into The Big Apple for free: Five New York City attra
Denver Post | (Associated Press file) (Associated Press file) | NEW YORK — It's ironic in a city with some of the most expensive hotels and restaurants in the world, but many of New York's best attractions are free. So many, in fact, that it's h... |
» Brazil, Bulgaria, India
Denver Post | (AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU ) | 1. The 27 stars on this country's flag represent its 27 states, including Mato Grosso and Paraíba. Is it Panama, Brazil or Chile? | 2. The Balkan Mountains stretch across this Eastern European country.... |
» Travel Notes, 5/20/2012: The Compassion 5K; Cortez Culture F
Denver Post | Ouray 5K. The Compassion 5K will take place in Ouray on May 28. This race starts in Ouray's Felin Park and operates in conjunction with the Compassion Weekend in June, which raises funds for families in need in Ouray County. The course mostly follo... |
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