In Beirut there is a newly opened waterfront promenade, Zaitunay Bay, on a mild January morning. The Lebanese capital is not exactly known for tranquillity , on this attractive marina nestled below street level, you could hear the water lapping against the hulls of docked pleasure craft.
The elegant pedestrian esplanade, which opened in December spent [...]
From giant bananas to towering Paul Bunyan statues to oversized eggs, the world’s roadsides are filled with crazy kitsch.Big roadside attractions are most popular in Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.
The Big Apple rises over Highway 401. Up in Kenora there’s giant fish called Husky the Muskie towering overhead. Down under, they [...]
United Nations World Tourism Organization
An Al Jazeera piece about how the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is predicting a BILLION international tourists across the globe this year.
That’s absolutely stunning, isn’t it? One billion international tourists in one year along, hopping into planes and trains and cars and buses and motorcycles and making international [...]
A LACK of snow across much of the United States has ski resorts from Lake Tahoe to Vermont scrambling to make enough on their own.
In Vermont, where unseasonably warm temperatures challenged snow-making in mid-December, Mad River Glen was forced to close for four days earlier this month.And resorts in Park City, Utah, have run snowmakers [...]
Natalie Batalha has had plenty of experience fielding questions from both layfolk and other scientists over the past couple of years — and with good reason. Batalha is the deputy principal investigator for the spectacularly successful Kepler space telescope, which has found evidence of more than 2,000 planets orbiting distant stars so far — including, [...]
During Shanghai’s first golden age in the late 19th and early 20th Century, the city thrummed with life, from the busy riverside wharves and docks to the dancehalls and theatres in the city’s centre. Until the 1949 Communist Revolution, the city’s famous Bund waterfront was known as the Wall Street of Asia and housed the [...]
Snowflakes are starting to fall on mountain tops across the nation – and only if money fell from trees, as well, would it seem like anyone and everyone could book a skiing or snowboarding trip.
Between the cost of snow pants, helmets, rentals, lift tickets and lodging – skiing is inherently an expensive sport. But don’t [...]
Mention this buzzing city-state and several things comes to mind: urban jungle, chilli crab, hawker food, perhaps even shopping. Yet, Singapore has a skyscraper-free side that even locals do not know about. From green corridors to hot springs, these places and experiences are slices of a rustic, unique Singapore that is best to see now [...]
Just one hour north of Sydney lies the Central Coast of New South Wales. Blessed with some of the world’s best beaches, this bucolic region is the first stop on Australia’s legendary Pacific Coast drive, which stretches 900 km from Sydney to Brisbane. The Central Coast has more than 15 golden beaches beckoning along nearly [...]
Head to Cala Goloritzè for a perfect half-moon bay and a sea that shimmers through the entire spectrum of blues.Locals will tell you that the only way to see Sardinia’s startlingly beautiful coastlines and rugged hinterland is to get out and hike.
And there is no better place to hit the trails than in the [...]
