Custom Search
Canada is almost unimaginably vast. It stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the latitude of Rome to beyond the Magnetic North Pole. [read more]
Resting on the edge of the Arctic Circle and sitting atop one of the world's most volcanically active hotspots, Iceland is nowadays thought of for its... [read more]
Even before the construction of its famous canal, Panamá 's strategic location at the wasp waist of the Americas and at the meeting place of the Atlan... [read more]
MADONNA TO BOOST ISRAELI TOURISM The singer and husband GUY RITCHIE are devout followers of the Kabbalah, a mystical offshoot of Judaism and recently... [read more]
Egypt is the oldest tourist destination on earth. Ancient Greeks and Romans started the trend, coming to goggle at the cyclopean scale of the Pyramids... [read more]
AMSTERDAM is a beguiling capital, a compact mix of the provincial and the cosmopolitan. It has a welcoming attitude towards visitors and a uniquely yo... [read more]
MELBOURNE is Australia's second-largest city, with a population of around three million - about half a million less than Sydney. Rivalry between the t... [read more]
There's a lot more to NEW ORLEANS - the "Big Easy," the "city that care forgot" - than its tourist image as a nonstop party town. At once sordid and s... [read more]
Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latter-day El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on earth. At the start of the t... [read more]
SAN FRANCISCO proper occupies just 48 hilly square miles at the tip of a slender peninsula, almost perfectly centered along the California coast. Argu... [read more]
Turkey is a country with a multiple identity, poised uneasily between East and West. The only NATO member in the Middle East region, the country has r... [read more]
The dynamo behind the country's "economic miracle", MILAN is a city like no other in Italy. It's foggy in winter, muggy in summer, and is closer in ou... [read more]
Those wishing to visit Vietnam from today until 15 October 2004 should be aware of an entry requirement restriction, due to planning for the Asia Euro... [read more]
It's easy to get out of Rio city, something you'll probably want to do at some stage during your stay. There are good bus services to all the places m... [read more]
Brazilians often say they live in a continent rather than a country, and that's an excusable exaggeration. The landmass is bigger than the United Stat... [read more]
