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Finca Luna Nueva is offering a 6 day course in the method of Earth Bag construction.  Classes begin on 10/17 and end after lunch on 10/22.  Details, including prices, are listed below.  Come and spend 6 glorious days in our rainforest among the sloths, toucans, hummingbirds, and butterflies; enjoy healthy organic meals, and swim in our ozonated swimming pool or unwind in our solar hot tub, and learn how to build an eco-friendly, inexpensive dwelling.  Mother Earth will love you!

 

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Finca Luna Nueva annoounces its Winter Yoga & Meditation Retreat 8-day

February 18th – 25th, 2012

Enjoy morning and afternoon yoga with Timothy Burgin, with plenty of timeYoga in Costa Rica to relax and explore the beautiful Rainforest, get a relaxing spa treatment, or go on an amazing adventure excursion.

Winter is a time of deep stillness and inner reflection. We can use winter’s introspective energy to gain clarity and insight to achieve spiritual growth and understanding. Willpower and determination are required

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Fall Away With an All-Girl Getaway

by Heather Cassell

Published: Ocotber 3, 2011

Women are grabbing the last few hours of Indian summer before the holidays hit with three fun in the sun weekend getaways.


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Bliss guests enjoy the pool. .
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Movement Productions.

This weekend marks the third annual Bliss Weekend in Palm Springs, Calif. Puerto Rico, usually known as the "Isle of Enchangement," will temporarily be transformed into the "Isle of Lesbos" twice this year, first with Valhalla (October 20 - 23) and a mont
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Historical Heritage Sites India

India is a country of rich historical heritage with different customs and colorful cultures. India is famous all over the world for its majestic gallant beauty and many architectural religious and historical monuments. It has its exotic beaches, impressive natural landscape and unrivaled beauty of its wild life of plant and animals. There are temples and monument thousands of years old from different civilizations all over India

You can visit India and relish its great heritage tours with your fa

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The Taj mahal in India

Built during the 22 years by Shah Jehan as mousolum for the beloved wife Mumtaz ul Zamani is better known as Mumtaz Mahal. An architecture in the name of love into one beautiful building in the world.

After the mean, the building that is referred to as the Taj Mahal India Located in Agra, India Uttar Paradesh area. Exactly in the border river Yamuna. Development involving 20,000 workers, most experts architects, artists, craft experts, a number of expert calligraphers, carver, stone experts from

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TripAdvisor “Makes Nice” With Hotels

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TripAdvisor “Makes Nice” With Hotels

At least that’s what most observers think.

Or they believe the move is a reaction to Google's increasingly strong forays into the travel space.

The relationship between hoteliers and TripAdvisor has not been a happy one.

Successful hotel managers or innkeepers like Dick Pabich of the popular Salem Inn  in Salem, Massachusetts, have been burned by false and exaggeratedly negative reviews on TripAdvisor all too many times. “It really drives us crazy,” he says.  “
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World's Top "Party" Destinations

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 Athens, Greece

Think Athens is an old, dusty, unmaintained,  just another dirty city. A  European capital with no reason to reason to spend an extensive stay,  unless you’re a history buff or  in transit to the Greek Islands, think again. Ask anyone in the world, who enjoys a vibrant nightlife, and I guarantee you that they will say, “Athens Rocks.”   Even in hard economic times, the Greeks know how to party.  Athens is on par with any other city on the planet and a  “party capital” full of en

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Avail Cheap Flights to Las Vegas Today Fare Buzz

The dynamic Las Vegas is the party capital of the world and the perfect destination for people looking to unwind and party late night. Book cheap air tickets to Las Vegas to live it up.
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Las Vegas is a dynamic and thriving city that is also referred to as the gambling capital of the world. To make traveling to this city even more thrilling, cheap tickets to Las Vegas entice tourists to this place from all over the world.

Las Vegas is situated in Southern Nevada in the eastern border of California a
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Slovenia's traditional culture

Slovenia (http://tours-tv.com/ru/slovenia) will be celebrating its 18th birthday on June 25th 2009 after the country declared independence from Yugoslavia on June 25th 1991. Slovenia is still a hidden gem within central Europe with many exciting and varied travel opportunities.The compact country allows holidaymakers to experience a whole range of landscapes and activities just a short distance from each other, including city highlights, a beach break, outdoors activities around the mountains an

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Golden Triangle Packages India

Golden Traingle Holidays offers many major tourist destinations to the world. From the deserts of Rajasthan to the mountain of Himalayas, India offers a vast range of flora and fauna to tourist. One of the most popular tourist spots in India is Rajasthan. Situated in the north western state of India, Rajasthan has a glorious past of brace hearts that fought with valor for their honor. The magnificent red sand stone forts and buildings are the reminiscent of the glorious past of the region. The d

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ETOA WorkShop or WTM London 2011

Dear Colleague,

How are you? Hope you had great business in 2011.

If you will attend the ETOA Workshop or WTM London, we can meet with you to talk about this new system in a more detailed way.

Please visit us at WTM London between 7th and 10th November 2011, our stand number is EM 803
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These days, we are excited about our international web-page that we recently finalized working on. With this new web-page, we can d

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Kayak Tourism in Vietnam

According to the Central Intelligence Agency's 2011 World Fact Book, Vietnam ranks seventh in the world in terms of navigable rivers, canals and inland bodies of water. When you compare the size of most of the countries above it on the list, which includes the United States, Russia and China, you realize how much water Vietnam has per square mile. All this water means plenty of kayaking opportunities, but there are just a handful of established kayak tourism points in Vietnam.

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A typhoon had blown in during the day. White rain clouds lay like a boiling sea in the valleys, creating the illusion that the twisting mountain pass was an ocean road. As our vehicle turned a blind corner we came across a gaggle of motorcyclists, caped against the rain and gawping over the edge.

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A Red Dao mother and child

A lorry had gone over while overtaking another lorry, trusting to a hard shoulder that had gone soft in the rain. Through the clouds we saw that the plummeting vehicle had ploug
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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010: True Stories from Around the World
Edited by Stephanie Elizondo Grist; Travelers' Tales, 352 pages; paperback, $17.95

Reviewed by Heather Cassell

Published: Ocotber 5, 2011

 

Get ready. Pack your bags. You are about to embark on 27 adventures that will take you all over the world, inspire your wanderlust, and journey into your own heart in the Best Women's Travel Writing, edited by award-winning writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest.

Succulent and ri

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The Brooklyn Museum in New York has begun the process of returning precolombian pieces to Costa Rica, after a 77 year stay in the New York Museum.  The pieces were collected by a Brooklyn businessman, Minor Keith, as he worked in the railroad and fruit industries in Costa Rica and he donated them to his hometown museum in 1934.  The pieces will be displayed in Costa Rica's National Museum and will help shed light on the mysterious precolombian days of the country. 

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The Worldwide Rafting Championship 2011 is just around the corner. International teams have been arriving since last week and are already training at the renowned Pacuare River.

agradecimiento-300x179.jpg?width=300For the third time, Costa Rica will be hosting this important event; the first was back in 1991 for the first World Rafting Championship, then again in 1998. The International Rafting Federation (IRF), main body of the sport chose Pacuare River commemorating the first championship that took place 20 years ago and also to

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