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Costa Rica is known around the world for superb mountain biking. In November 2016, hundreds of international riders competed in the 24th annual La Ruta de los Conquistadores (The Route of the Conquistadors), often called the world's toughest mountain bike race. Race founder Román Urbina became the first Latin American to be inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in California earlier this year.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica is a great year-round destination for mountain biking. It’s mostly sunny

10th edition of International Festival of Cell Phone Cinema will be starting from 11th January 2017 . A two days event to be held from 11th January to 12th January 2017 at Marwah Studios, Film City, Noida.
Take a Picture or Record a Video on Your Mobile Phone..!!
Last date of Submission of Entries 7th January 2017
for more Details Log on To www. ifcpc. com

How many cities in Sweden – or for that matter, anywhere in Scandinavia – can you name outside the country’s capital? For many of us, the answer is few if any. And yet, the smaller places like Denmark’s Aarhus, Bergen in Norway, and Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg, number among my very favorite city breaks in the region – cosmopolitan and interesting, yet in some ways even more accessible, easygoing, and friendly.

Out on the lovely west coast where the Göte River meets the sea – abo

Travelling to the United States for a holiday? Your passport isn’t all you’ll need to visit the country. You also need an ESTA. This is an electronic approval that permits you to travel to the U.S. However, the ESTA is not a final authorisation to enter the country because you will have to go through the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the airport.

Failure to get the ESTA approval before your trip could have you delayed upon arrival, or sent back. Everyone traveling to the UK, whether by a

One of my earliest memories of Spain – lo, these many years ago – was jumping a high school trip in Andalusia to visit (with permission of all concerned, of course) a pen pal in a somewhat isolated, provincial backwater – but one filled with venerable Renaissance architecture. And returning a couple of times as a somewhat more, er, jaded adult, I couldn’t even remember that long-ago girl’s name, but was struck by how impressive I still found this city and its province. It’s truly one of Spain’s

The allures of the tiny Central American country of El Salvador are still not all that well known beyond its borders. Furthermore, local tourism, even though ramping up infrastructure, has been further challenged by perceptions of insecurity, though most of these issues don’t affect visitors and are limited to areas off the tourist track. But for me, very high up amid its appealing menu of beaches, colonial towns, ecotourism,and more is its ancient Mayan ruins – and in particular, one site which

Still one of the plane’s top destinations, this flashy vision in the USA‘s Nevada desert is of course world-famous for its world-class casinos, shopping, shows, dining, nightlife, and attractions. But most of us wouldn’t necessarily think of “Sin City” as a place for museum mavens and culture vultures. And yet, in my visits to Las Vegas I’ve come across some pretty impressive museums indeed, along both traditional and also definintely untraditional lines. Sadly, the Liberace Museum has hung up i

Andrea Visconti

Abandoned towns and villages can be found all over the world. But there’s something especially haunting and charismatic both about the remnants of settlements that photogenically preserve the look and feel of the 19th-century Wild West. Especially because we’ve all seen them in so many movie Westerns, they evoke a kind of romantic, Old West magic, akin to real-life theme parks. Which in some cases they have become, tarted up for tourists and/or as movie sets; others have been pr

Cape Verde is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean that thanks to its climate, beaches and landscapes is becoming a first-rate tourist destination.

Boavista is the largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago, originally colonised by Portugal off the coast of Senegal. It is one of the Windward Islands, with never-ending virgin beaches which are an infinite succession of white sand dunes, with coconut and palm trees to make a perfect postcard. This is the perfect island if you want to indulge in

                     THE WESTIN EUROPA & REGINA: A HIDDEN GEM

                  By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

          Our first day in Venice. Walking down Calla Larga XXII Marzo, plate glass windows announcing the familiar names: Bergdorf Goodman, Ralph Lauren, Anne Klein, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Moncler, and Louis Vuitton. Is this what we came to Venice for?

With a sense of uncertainly, we proceed towards Piazza San Marco, turn in the direction of the Grand Canal. Before us is a

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Yet another European city tracing its roots back to a settlement of the Roman Empire, the Flanders (Dutch Belgium) city of Antwerpen (Anvers in French) started coming into its own in the late 15th century, and by the 16th had come to be Europe’s richest urb.

Today after rebuilding following devastation in World War II, it’s still a commercial powerhouse – Belgium’s biggest port (and Europe’s third largest), astride the River Scheldt, Antwerp is an economic force to be reckoned with es

If you visit Vienna for the first time and are keen to get under its skin you face a challenge: a mountain of 'must-sees' that over the centuries have cemented the rock solid stereotype of the enchanting city of music, cakes and emperors. Should you indulge in it? Or should you smash it by replacing cliched sights with trendy places?

As a native Viennese and frequent traveller back to my hometown, I have had fun doing both: indulging in and smashing Vienna stereotypes. Here is how you can create

Hawaii is famous for its many beautiful beaches and relaxed atmosphere. It has always been one of the world’s favorite destinations for water sports lovers. The islands there boast of some of the best stands up paddle board locations in the world.

There are so many great paddle board locations to choose from in Hawaii, but here are my favorite spots for paddleboarding;

Ala Moana, Oahu

Ala Moana is one of the top spot for surfers especially for beginners because it has a protected bay and flat wate

Hotel Danieli: Stunning, Striking Five Star Hotel By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer Walking down the Riva Degli Schiavoni from Piazza San Marco, we recognize it immediately: the pink stucco facade with marble sills standing flat against the promenade, looking out to the beautiful blue lagoon. We enter the building through a wooden revolving door. Before us is the lobby: marble floors and columns, a four-storied courtyard marked by arches in the Byzantine Gothic style embracing staircases

Dubai is the thaumaturgic microcosm which en-capsulates in itself the cultures from almost all corners of the world. Dubai enamors the globetrotters with its alchemy of receptivity and exhilaration. It is a gilt-edge civilization that radiates the world’s tallest building, Palm Jumeirah and the world’s fastest roller coaster. For the bourgeois, it is the A-OK place to spend their Dirhams. After dusk, Dubai seems to be a true empyrean offering excursionists a gratifying experience. Much of the ni

A perfect destination for your family holiday escape

Traveling with your family is the best experience you could have. Everyone needs a break from time to time and being far away from home, in an exotic destination where you can relax, have fun and experience a new world with different customs is the best way in which you can achieve this. Even though you may not have planned an amazing trip for yourself and your family for the moment, this does not mean that you could not establish a last-minute

The Aragon region of Spain is filled with castles, cathedrals, monasteries, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites dotting the Pyrenees foothills, desert plains, fertile deltas, and the bustling city of Zaragoza. In addition to being a major cultural and agricultural powerhouse, Aragon's vineyards are renowned not only for their Tempranillo but for their venerated Garnacha's increasing popularity.

This is the land where Garnacha cultivation began in Roman times yet was under siege by market forces unti

by Cristóbal Ramírez

In the olden days (and even days not so olden), doctors used to prescribe travel to certain climates to patients to cure all manner of ailments. On Lanzarote in the 21st century, Spain has  come up with a volcanic equivalent, also calling out to lovers of beaches and surfing in a way that elsewhere in Europe and the hemisphere is hard-pressed to match. Nature-lovers, too – the entirety of the fourth largest of the Canary Islands (846 square kilometres/327 square miles) has be