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Christmas carols, traditional ballet, concerts, art tours and exhibits, and the magnificent annual Parade of Lights are all coming to town this holiday season in San José, Costa Rica.

The vibrant capital city is looking very festive these days in preparation for Christmas, New Year’s, and the kick-off to the summer “fiesta” season for 2013. Stores have already put up holiday decorations and Christmas gift displays since October.

The holiday season moves into full gala mode on December 1, when Cost

Do you like to work out in your hotel’s gym when you’re away? If you happen to be staying in Denmark’s Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, keeping fit while traveling will help generate the hotel’s electricity and earn you meal vouchers in their restaurant. The flagship eco-hotel is the first hotel in Denmark to generate all of its power from renewable sources – solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling pumps, and stationary bicycles connected to generators which provide the hotel’s electricity.

Known as the most famous and beautiful churches in Vietnam, Phat Diem Stone Cathedral was designed with special architecture, combining architecture of Vietnamese religious buildings to Western church architecture style.

Phat Diem Stone Cathedral, lies 28 km East of Ninh Binh city, was constructed from 1875 to 1899. And as its name suggests, it was completely built of stone and wood that are readily available in the mountain area of Ninh Binh. The preparation phase, mainly extracting materials fr

In an example of great partnering, Family Travel Forum (FTF) and the Society of American of Travel Writers
teamed up to work with and announce the lucky bloggers who earned the 2012 Teen Travel Writing Scholarships, awarded by both of these respected  professional travel content organizations.

The fierce competition attracted more than 6,300 students ages 13-18, educated in US or American-International schools or home-schooled, all of whom applied for the merit scholarships. 

This is the  sixt

I travel a lot which means I'm away from home and it also means that I think about home safety and security.  I have a few things that I do but I'm always on the prowl for tips and useful information on keeping my home safe.  I live in a condominium and recently received a notice under my door that our building had two break ins.  Both break-ins occurred when the home owners were out of town.  This means that someone must have known they weren't home.  You couldn't get any closer to home than th

Any Olympic athlete or professional athlete, or high school or
university athlete, or even a child on a sports team for that matter, has a coach. Actors have coaches. Singers and dancers have coaches or trainers. Over the past decades, executives and businesspersons have joined the ranks of seeking coaching for success.

In today’s modern world, there is Business Coaching, Financial Coaching, Executive Coaching, Career Coaching, Expat & Global Coaching for those living and working in another cultur

WHEN OFF THE JOB: TRAVEL AND LEISURE In order to see the world, we need time away from our jobs. That we can all agree upon, whether we call it holiday, vacation, quality time, or something else. But how we handle that free time of travel and leisure, and how much of it we have avaliable differs wildly, a new survey shows.

Net travel agency Expedia’s study “Vacation Deprivation“, in which over 8,000 people in 22 countries have answered questions about their holidays, how they want to spend it and

WHUR and Advantage will host a Private Chartered Party Plane to Aruba from Washington, DC for the 2013 Soul Beach Music Fest in Aruba. This will be a non-stop flight and a package that includes, air, transfers, hotel accommodations at the Westin and tickets to the concerts. Join us by signing up at http://www.advantage-intl.com/GroupTravel.htm.

The Traveling Eye will be joining WHUR Radio on a top excursion to France April 18 - 26, 2013. The program includes flights from IAD in Washingto, DC, 7 nights deluxe accommodations, tours and meals in Paris, Bordeaux, Cognac and Champagne and many extras. Go to www.TheTravelingEye.com and click the "Join us on Upcoming Trips". or look at www.Advantage-intl.com.

The Traveling Eye is a weekly travel Show all about Travel. In addition, we film our shows and travels for play on the internet and on BlackAtlas.com . The Traveling Eye is always looking for Travel News, Subjects, stories and destinations. We broadcast in studio as well as LIVE from destinations around the World.

We are lining up stories and locationsfor new shows. We feature Travel News, Travel Tips, locations and shows fro. In addition, we invite our listeners and followers to travel with us t

This is The Traveling Eye  I'm Bonnie DeShong and I've been on the air and in radio for 25 years.  I love sharing news, music and entertainment with my audience and I've always had a second love for travel.  I'm Ja'Vonne Harley and I've worked in the travel industry for 20 years.  I've traveled and taken thousands of people to many countries around the world and I've always had a second love for radio.  Together we created The Traveling Eye, a one hour talk radio feature all about travel.   Our

The Traveling Eye will look at Destination Weddings and discuss what you need to plan for and what to do when things go wrong. Join them for the discussion, Friday at 12 noon ET at www.WVON.com or 1690 AM in Chicago and on Sirius/XM on Saturday at 12 noon ET and Tuesday - Thursday next week at channel #141 HUR Voices. www.TheTravelingEye.com.

The Traveling Eye will look at Timeshares and their use as a vacation choice with the head of TUG, The Timeshare Users Group. The show will air again on Thursday at 9am ET on Siriuys/XM Channel #141 HUR Voice.

I saw this at the Asian Civilization Museum in Singapore:

I sat there for a few moments, thinking about what this meant. Why do people like me, travelers, choose to be so far away from the people they love, first and foremost, our families? It seems like a cruel way to pay back those who helped raise us, helped us become the people we are today.

I rarely meet other travelers who keep in touch with their family as well as I do. Part of that is natural - I'm closer to my parents than most peopl

Now take your focus out to a global view, and you have a clear picture of what is happening in the Amazon Rainforest.

The Amazon is the largest contiguous tropical forest in the world, and releases 20% of the world’s life-giving oxygen. Today in 2012, due to mostly slash-and-burn deforestation, nearly one-fifth of the Amazon’s forest has been cleared (Amazon Conservation Team).

Often described by scientists as the “Earth’s lungs” (albeit in reverse), tropical rainforests take in vast quantities o

Goa, which is known to be the hub for tourism in India, has a rich history. It was a former Portuguese Colony and it shows in the culture and architecture of the city. Each year around 2.5 million tourists visit the region to enjoy the history and the beaches of Goa. Panaji is the state capital of Goa and is one of the most famous cities in India. The state is quite different from other areas of India.

People and Cities
The population of Goa consists of a mixture of Hindus and Roman Catholics. A

Chittagong is a fairly big, spread out town, and the largest international seaport in the country. Like Dhaka the streets are filled with masses of rickshaws, though the city puts in a little more effort to keep its streets and sidewalks clean.

The city of Chittagong is a major tourist attraction in Bangladesh. Its green hills and forests, its broad sandy beaches and its fine cool climate always attract the holiday-markers. Described by the Chinese traveler poet, Huen Tsang (7th century AD) as "a