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Dia de Los Muertos is the ONLY holiday that is truly Mexican with Pre-colombian origins, symbols and practices still observed today in all communities. Dia de los Muertos begins on Oct. 31st and ends on Nov. 2 with the celebrations on tombstones washed clean and decorated with flowers and incense. Day of the Dead.jpg
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Posh Area in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Airport Road in Dhaka is one of the best places to get real entertainment. You will be amazed to see many decorated items. The road is very smooth as silky. The road is connected between the main city and the new city, Uttara.

Another advantage is that the road is also connected with the International Airport. There are two hotels; one
is Dhaka Regency and another is Hotel Radisson. Both are five stars hotel with fully international facility for tourists. While, driving my car on that road, I noti
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Just as astrology can identify, say, business and romantic opportunities or challenges, those celestial bodies slinking about the stars can help pinpoint optimal times and places for travel. Also, destinations have their own astro-charts, which interact with yours -- meaning astrology can serve as a kind of spiritual travel agent. It can tell you, for example, about places likely to be good or not-so-good matches for your temperament, personality, and current astrological indications. Check your
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Location-Based Mobile Brands on Demand

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Location Based Mobile Brands on Demand

Location-based marketing or geo-location allows a business to “capture a customer” when he or she is near a place of business creating, what the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) calls a “here and now experience for consumers”...meaning, delivering real-time calls to action to buy, explore or just engage customers.

It’s what they’re now calling “brand on demand.”

A lot of the talk about location based services h
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Paris' Amazing Hotel Moderne St-Germain

I stayed in Paris with a friend two weeks ago, and it was awesome. It was the second time I went to Paris, but for the first one I didn't stay in an hotel. This year, my friend and I saved some money to have an unforgettable trip to Paris. We chose the Moderne St-Germain Hotel ( http://www.hotel-paris-stgermain.com ), following my uncle's recommendations, and were completely overjoyed when we discovered the hotel and our room!

We had the superior room with a white and red theme. There was a very
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Vacations in Winter

Those looking for unusual destinations for the winter, climb volcanoes, explore deserted beaches or enjoy the holiday all the romance of winter.Christmas Holidays in winter is highly popular. When the days get shorter and the gray day, it attracts many in southern climes. In addition to popular destinations like the Dominican Republic or the Maldives, there are a number of other countries that are particularly in the winter months a visit. These do not always lie at the equator.

Holiday in the Ca

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Rajasthan Tour: Mandawa

Mandawa_Fresco.jpgMandawa is located in the heart of the Shekhawati region of Rajsthan. It is known for its forts and Havelis. It is situated in Rajasthan around 190 km from Jaipur, and 250 Km from New Delhi. The fort town of Mandawa is well connected with the other places in region through a good road network. It is a small and busy little market town that was settled and fortified in 18th century by the dominant merchant families of the region. The wealthy businessmen of the village constructed many havelis and

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By Roy Heale


Latin lovers are world renowned for their passion and intimate love affairs. Perhaps the most famous of these romantic couples was Juan Domingo Peron and Maria Eva Duarte de Peron---more commonly known as Evita. But prior to this historic coupling the 20th President of Argentina, Maximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, met with a stellar Portuguese opera singer, Regina Pacini, whereupon another great love affair began. The latter couple is less renowned globally but equally immortalized i

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Travel Through The Theater of the Mind

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Listen to a poor Elvis Presley talk about his daddy’s arrest and imprisonment for forging an eight dollar check to feed his hungry family.

Hear the irrepressible Mark Twain in his always wry observations about New York, the rascals on Wall Street and how sales of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer kept his family afloat in an ever-exciting Manhattan.

Welcome to The Amazing People Club, a new concept in audio storytelling that bring the listener “face to face” with some of the world’s most in
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The Gnus of Mara/Serengeti Ecosystem

A rare episode is happening in a great Serengeti–Mara ecosystem. The nature's most spectacular event of wildebeest migration is making a surprise revolution of its traditional movement.


From time immemorial, the wildebeest used to roam in Maasai Mara for at least three months, surprising this year they have spent less than the usual
period.

This fascinating episode in recent history caught the ecologists in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya
offguard.


Righ

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Pushkar Fair in India

Pushkar_Fair-300x300.jpgThe Pushkar Fair: It is the annual five-ten days camel and livestock fair, held in Pushkar town in Rajasthan, India. It is one of the world's largest camel fairs that involves buying and selling of livestocks at one place. At present it has become an important tourist attraction in India. The highlights of this fair consist some interesting competitions and events such as the "matka phod", "longest moustache”, "bridal competition" and exhibition cricket match between the local Pushkar club and t

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Shai Hills in Ghana

I had a couple of free days in Accra recently while winding up my month in Ghana. I decided to visit the Shai Hills Resource Reserve for a change of pace. By tro-tro to Ashaiman and then another one got me to the Reserve in less than 2 hours, a distance of 33 miles. I had booked a room at the Shai Hills Resort, supposedly 300 m. down the road from the main entrance. Actually, it's more nearly 1 mile, which I walked instead of waiting for another tro-tro. Hot!
There are extensive jungley grounds a
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In Portugal, Port Wine is King

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If Vasco do Gama, Magellan and Henry the Navigator fortified themselves with Port, Portugal’s most famous product, it might have made their journeys less horrific.

But Port wasn’t created until the 17th century, and today it’s undergoing a renaissance.

This easy-going, southern European country produced navigational giants that dominated the sea routes of the world, and controlled colonies as diverse as Brazil and Angola.


But what it controls today is perhaps more precious. Accordi
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Tips For Booking Your Holiday Travel

If there were ever any hard and fast rules for booking airfare, they seem to have “flown” out the window. Airfares change constantly, even by the minute. It can be frustrating trying to get that best rate, but these tips can help you pay less.

1. Book early. The sooner you can decide on your holiday travel plans, the better. If you wait too long, you run the risk of less availability and higher rates. The Air Transport Association reports Thanksgiving, and the winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukk
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Today I headed south on Rt. 11. Through Kailua, past Captain Cook. We turned south on the South Point Rd. and drove the 12 miles to the end of land–”the southernmost point in the USA”. We watched and talked to the local fishermen, walked the cliffs and climbed the rocks out as far as we could go. Stunning, gorgeous. The one lane narrow rutted road, the rock walls across pastures, the cliffs, crashing waves and gray skies all bring England to mind–reminded me alot of Cornwall and Land’s End–not Q

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A Vacation From (My Typical) Vacations

Guest Post By Kathryn Christensen.

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I am on the Big Island.

As we were walking on the beach yesterday, Scott (my son) said to me
“Mom, I don’t remember when we were last on a vacation like this.”
“What, with just us, not the whole gang? ” (I do have 7 children, 4 of whom are married, and 5 grandchildren– so we can have quite a crowd)
“No, I mean we usually go to the cabin or Seattle and then all you do is work. Now you are just on vacation!”

Such an insightful comment. As those of you who are fellow va

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Back in the day, you'd stroll into a travel agency, get face-to-face advice, and leave with an armful of color brochures and a paper ticket. Then the Internet came along, but for a long time consumers were slow to warm up to paying online with a credit card. That's mostly history now: Most will happily divulge those 16 digits in return for the savings that online competition and the elimination of the travel agent middleman have brought about.

All well and good, for the most part, when it comes t
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Costa Rica

In the spring of 2009 I headed to Costa Rica for a 8 day trip for my Capstone in my MBA program. A group of 3 students and our instructor were tasked with helping the tourism board on the eastern side of the country. Costa Rica is a cutlurally rich country with amazing weather, more animals than anywhere else in the world and locals who are so caring about each other and the planet.

We got to live like tourists and experience tours of pineapple plantation, a flower farm, a zip-line, whitewater ra

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Of Twitter, Burgers and Hotels

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Of Twitter, Burgers and Hotels

I don't much like case studies. The ones that business school students labor through.

I prefer the kinds of quick case studies I get in Entrepreneur magazine.

In his “Talk of the Town” column in this month’s magazine small business “thought leader,” Chris Brogan, talks about Joe Sorge who runs AJ Bombers, a burger place in Milwaukee.

Sorge does with Twitter something close to what we reported Chicago and other cities are doing with Foursquare.

He trolls
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Rajasthan Tour

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Rajasthan consists some of the most important celebrated tourists cities in India i.e Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Jaisalmer. These destinations are renowned among luxury tours of India. Your trip to India is not complete without Rajasthan tour. It is known for its palaces, lakes, gardens and temples.

During Rajasthan Tours you will find that distances between cities are usually long and transportation is relatively slow. The ideal time to visit Rajasthan requires eighteen days. The travelers who

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