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Jan052009
Essential Travel Checklist
Category: Travel Essentials
Traveling can have its own risks as well as rewards. The rewards come with the adventure of the trip as well as experience. But the rewards can sometimes be undermined by the risks involved with travel. That is why it is also important to have a travel checklist for every planned trip that you have. A travel checklist will help you become well prepared for each of your travels by providing you with important guidelines that you can follow as you prepare yourself on a trip, whether domestic or overseas. Here are some of the important items that you should have in your checklist when you plan on your next trip.
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Jan052009
Christmas in Armenia
Category: Asia & Pacific
While the rest of the world has already celebrated Christmas on December 25, millions of Armenians are preparing for this holiday on a different date, January 6 to be precise. The reason for this date difference has a deep-rooted history.
Although the exact date when Jesus Christ was born has never been historically established, especially when it was not recorded even in the Gospels, early Christians celebrated this momentous occasion on January 6. However, in the fourth century, the Roman Catholic Church decided to change the date of Christmas to December 25 to coincide with a pagan holiday dedicated to the birth of the Sun while the Christian Church of Armenia, which until now is free from any influence of the Vatican, was not affected by the change of date.Read More...
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Jan022009
Voluntourism: A New Way to Travel
Category: Adventure Travel
Travel enriches the soul. Travellers often return from trips abroad refreshed and feeling wiser for travelling to unfamiliar places, meeting new people, and experiencing cultures very different to their own.
What strikes many of them most, however, is the poverty that denies people from less developed countries basic services such as healthcare, education, and housing. If you love travelling and care about these people at the same time, then consider becoming a voluntourist.What is voluntourism?
Voluntourism involves people who travel to different countries to help provide aid to poor communities while intima...
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Jan022009
Winter-Only Hotels: Bunk In Now Before They Thaw!
Category: Adventure Travel
Many seasonal hotels around the world have their doors open during summer and happily close them come winter time. But fun is not all about summer. Winter, too is fun. We're giving winter-only hotels some love today. Read on as we describe four famous lodgings that thrive on snow and ice. Literally.Ice Hotel (Jukkasjarvi, Sweden)
Many travellers complain about the outdated hotel accommodations. With Ice Hotel, however, there's no need to worry. Located 200 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Lapland region in Sweden, the hotel is created anew each year by highly innovative and creativ...
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Dec232008
Ski Resorts in British Columbia
Category: British Columbia / Vancouver
Probably the best thing about skiing in British Columbia is the accommodation services. Coupled with its snow-capped wilderness and wonderful scenery, an adrenaline-packed adventure may not be far from impossibility.Ski enthusiasts, even the amateurs, always look for the best in terms of the places and topography. And possibly everything anyone would like to experience is present in British Columbia. That is, both in the Interior Region and the Rockies.
Below are some of the popular ski resorts in the aforementioned places.
In the British Columbia Internal Region:
Silver Star Mountain Resort
With a season...
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Dec222008
Wakakusa Yamayaki Festival of Nara in Japan
Category: Japan Travel
Aside from being a former capital of Japan during the 8th Century, the city of Nara has been known for its historic monuments that have been recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites as well as its preservation of old-fashioned customs that still exist today.One of its famous traditional festivals comes in every January 14. The Wakakusa Yamayaki welcomes spring by burning the city's 342-meter hill. Its origins have been shrouded in mystery. Some say that the festival began as a land dispute between competing temples, but others provide a more likely explanation that the fires are a remnant of a traditional burning of the fields.
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