Light and airy with a heavenly taste that stole my heart at the Pacific Wine and Food Classic in Newport Beach this past August 19.  Oh yes, there was plenty of wine and food, but these beauties put the event in a new dimension.

Walking over the bridge to the Newport Dunes Resort with calm blue waters underneath, I saw people laughing as they paddled on stand-up boards and dunked their toes in the water from the sandy shore. 

When time came to enter the event, each person was given a wine glas

Another of the reasons I love living in Sydney is that there are events here all year round, many of them free to attend. If you are visiting the city this spring, there are some events on the calendar that you just can’t miss. You will have a fantastic time if you schedule your trip around one of these, though make sure you book your tickets in advance so you can definitely get a place!

Antidote

Let’s start off with a new festival which I love. Antidote is all about art and social change and tak

Bangalore is one of the biggest metropolitan cities in India. It boasts top-notch education institutions and a thriving IT sector, which attracts people from all over the country and the world. The ‘bustling Silicon valley of India’ has made a name for itself as a great destination for work purposes, but that isn’t all that the capital of Karnataka state has to offer.

Bangalore is located in proximity to some of the best hill stations of South India, making it a great base for an adventure into

Algarve is the southernmost province of Portugal, with a coast of about 200 kilometers and ravishing beaches. This developing resort European is considered the cleanest one, the most comfortable and at the same time a prestigious resort in Europe.

If the Lisbon Riviera is primarily a "rich" excursion, then Algarve is quite different. Here it's all about rather a beach holiday with periodic excursions along the coast or inland.

Why do tourists choose Algarve? Because of local fishing villages,

Costa Rica Tubing Tours on Rio Negro

There’s nothing like a day of exciting fun bouncing and splashing down a cool, crystal clear tropical river under the hot Guanacaste sun. On the Rio Negro (Black River) Tubing Adventure at Hacienda Guachipelin, you ride five kilometers (three  miles) of class II and III rapids in special, individual river tube rafts that are designed with handles and protective bottoms. Guides are with you the whole time to ensure your safety.

Waterfall Canyoning

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CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture


It was the first time I visited Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. It’s chaotic, buzzing - and hungry - with a lot of interesting things to do. Before visiting Hanoi, my friend recommended me to try street food in Hanoi, especially in Hanoi Old Quarter which is a paradise of street food and the tastiest food place in the capital.

Honestly, all my knowledge of Vietnamese food barely stretched beyond pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) and  banh mi (baguet

Without any doubt, Sky Bridge is the most interesting place in this archipelago of 104 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 kilometers off the coast of northwestern Malaysia. In general, Langkawi has few attractions apart from its famous beaches, duty-free zone, and resort atmosphere. However, this ropeway to a 708-meter mountain and the legendary bridge is something you will remember forever.

Personally (and I'm not alone), I consider Sky Bridge one of the seven wonders of the world, though it h

To help the north Caribbean help itself in the wake of Hurricane Irma, see the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association's Caribbean Tourism Recovery Fund or the Caribbean Tourism Organization's Hurricane Relief Fund .

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Quick, what’s Africa’s largest country? If you said Congo, Libya, or South Africa, well, yes, they’re certainly up there, but the answer is Libya’s (plus Morocco’s and Tunisia’s) next-door neighbor Algeria – bigger than Alaska plus California put together, or nearly three times the size of the British Isles. It shares many allures in common with Morocco and Tunisia, but although it has been a major trading partner for Europe (especially in petrol and natural gas), touristically it ha

Museums are a gateway to a country’s history, architecture, and culture. Most countries have several museums that house artifacts, paintings, and other things sourced over a long period of time. These items are put on display so that people studying them would have able to learn about the ancient times. However, not everyone knows how to make the most of a museum trip and come back with the best experience. It’s mainly because not a lot of thought behind a museum trip and is usually considered t

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My solo travels have mostly taken me throughout North America; but this last trip stretched my independence and my endurance. I was originally intrigued when several months ago I saw an online mention of airfare to Reykjavik from Los Angeles for $200. Wow, I cannot fly anywhere in the US for that price, so I made a mental note. Of course, by the time I had decided that I would venture to Iceland, the price had doubled; but it was still an unbelievable deal. I booked one week in Iceland a

Nature’s Amber, Golden, and Crimson Leaves of Splendor Beckon Travelers on Tobu Railway – Traveling North from Tokyo’s Asakusa Station – to Nikko and Kinugawa in Tochigi Prefecture

While American domestic travelers marvel at New England’s autumn leaves in shades from saffron to crimson, Japan’s fall foliage also beckons leaf peepers from around Japan itself and across the globe. Japanese culture reveres the changing of the seasons. Plus, the ephemerality of ruby maple and the golden gingko, alon

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Ach, du liebe! It’s that sudsy time of year again, as Germany’s Oktoberfest begins anew later this month. When many of us think “beer”, Deutschland naturally springs readily to mind – and for some, perhaps also Belgium, known for some distinctive brews of its own. But after more than a quarter century recovering from its unfortunate 20th-century stint behind the Iron Curtain of the Cold War decades and resulting beer-industry degradation, the beer-pioneering Czechs are once ag

If you’ve always wanted to go mountain biking in Costa Rica, but thought it beyond your ability, there is hope.

In Costa Rica, the northwestern province of Guanacaste is a big place for biking tours. Especially mountain biking due to its rugged terrain of mountains and volcanoes.

Now electric mountain bike tours in Costa Rica are making the sport of mountain biking accessible to everyone. This new technology allows people of all abilities to explore the Costa Rica countryside by bike.

“You can

We heard about a sleepy little fishing village just north of Puerto Vallarta from friends who had visited the area and found this relatively hidden gem of a vacation destination, situated on a prime section of sandy beachfront with a long, gentle surf break of warm, clear water.

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Cliffs plummet dramatically to beaches and crashing surf. Lush green hills rise and fall, then keep rising until they swell into the craggy, majestic Picos de Europa range. In the compact principality of Asturias, roughly midway along Spain's north coast, nature is front and center. There are several good-size cities here, for sure. But the flavor of this land is bucolic and small-town, with picture-postcard views almost everywhere you look. It is not what most anyone would think of a

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Corporate art collections have been with us for generations (indeed, in some sense for centuries), but in recent years, an increasing number of hotels – both indies and entire chains – have been focusing on art as both a guest perk and a point of prestige (and some have even been theming themselves completely with art – I fondly recall staying in Berlin as far back as the early 1990s at the Art Hotel Sorat). If you’re an art lover, there are an increasing number of o

There are a number of tourist attractions around Vietnam's capital to domestic and international tourists, especially backpackers who use motorbike to explore their own pace. If you have never been to these below places, pack your luggage and prepare a plan for interesting experiences of sightseeing around Hanoi. 

Bat Trang Pottery Village

Some 20 kilometers outside Hanoi on the left side of Red River, you can drive motorcycle or take a bus to

Argentina's rich winemaking heritage dates back to the early 16th century, putting it in an entirely different league than neighboring new world producers Chile and Brazil. Spanish settlers planted the first specimens of vitis vinifera in monastic vineyards throughout Argentina's central, western, and northeastern regions.

Soon an extensive agricultural irrigation system of ditches and canals modeled after those of the Incas drew water from melting Andes snow caps into reservoirs, utilized to th