Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Best kept travel secrets

During the summer of 2009 Tyler West and Bryan Rogala drove 10,000 miles. They will always remember that trip, not because of classic tourist meccas, but because of those places that most people never experience. Here are their top three "Best Kept Travel Secrets".

Paris - Lonely Planet Travel Video

While the Parisian cliches of romance and bike baskets full of baguettes are proven true, the unexpected manages to rear its head. Who wouldn't love a city that closes its streets so everyone can rollerblade?

Anatomy of a Cruise Ship Fall

When we go on holidays, we hope to enjoy and have a good time time but, sometimes, accidents happen.



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Marco Polo - The China Mystery Revealed (Trailer)

Award winning National Geographic photographer, Michael Yamashita, explores the question of whether Marco Polo actually made it to China.

Monday, February 22, 2010

The Palace Hotel

Dubbed the Gateway to the West, the luxurious Palace Hotel is a San Francisco icon dating back to the early 1900s.


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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The Hungry Cyclist: Lunch Cycling in Laos

"My name is Tom Kevill-Davies, I love riding my bicycle and I love to eat. It really is that simple. As a journalist, author and photographer I enjoy writing about and photography almost as much as eating and cycling, which basically means, I bicycle to wherever I can find good, well prepared, locally produced, fresh and traditional food before eating it and writing about it."
He's gone to Laos. Guess where he had lunch, and what he had...

The Hungry Cyclist: Phnom Penh Water Festival

"My name is Tom Kevill-Davies, I love riding my bicycle and I love to eat. It really is that simple. As a journalist, author and photographer I enjoy writing about and photography almost as much as eating and cycling, which basically means, I bicycle to wherever I can find good, well prepared, locally produced, fresh and traditional food before eating it and writing about it."
This is him, and this time he's gone to Phnom Penh, in Cambodia. Here is his video of the Water Festival.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

The Royal Hawaian, a luxury resort

Are you going on holidays?
Have a look at a piece of heaven on earth...



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Himalayan Adventure: Early Women Adventurers

The remarkable story of three English women who travelled overland to the Himalayas in 1958.
Their amazing archive footage of the Zanskar valley was recently unearthed and is shown here with interviews with the three women.
It was the first film ever shot in Zanskar and shows a fascinating insight into a way of life which is slowly fading away.
A trailer for a longer film Walking in Circles by Martin Salter telling the story of the film's return to Zanskar for the first time in 2007 can be viewed at www.himalayadoc.com