
Lake Louise: Jewel of Canadian Rockies
The spectacular Lake Louise is situated just over 500 kilometers from Edmonton, Alberta, within minutes from the British Columbia border. A five hour drive…
Read MoreThe spectacular Lake Louise is situated just over 500 kilometers from Edmonton, Alberta, within minutes from the British Columbia border. A five hour drive…
Read MoreIn continuation to my previous write –up, City of Gardens & Canals – SUZHOU (China). Morning we checked out from the hotel Sofital –…
Read MoreI was enough fortunate to visit China just one month before Olympics 2008. One can see the level of preparation & enthusiasm of Chinese…
Read MoreThe AI option is worth it if you really want to party and get sloshed. A beer will cost around $6 and bottled water will cost around $3. The onlu currency they accept is USD and you will have to tip the staff on USD as well. Most resorts have at least 3-4 different options and it can get a little boring to have food from the same restaurant if you are on Half Board or Full Board.
Read MoreMadurai, Thursday, July 2 I and my in-laws both wanted to visit Rameshwaram (one of the 4 dhams mentioned in Hindu mythology) from last so…
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Read MoreFinally, the moment arrived, I was all eyes. We took countless pictures and even tried to climb the steps of the Pyramid; it was a moment of unbridled joy.
Read MoreA gull came up and held steady, white all over with black-tipped wings, quivering a little in the changing wind. A woman came running to the window breaking a piece of simit, and offered it up. After a long consideration of her the gull took it, swooping in an angle from above, encountering difficulty while snatching the bread. Why couldn’t he drop lower and come in horizontal? Several people rushed to join the lady, stretching out to the bird, who took his time to accept each offer, his beak failing him sometimes, on which occasions he fell and went in a smart reverse and picked the crumb off the water.
Read MoreWhile there, I immersed myself to soak in the culture of the land of the pharaohs. They may have lived 7500 years ago but their memories are still strong in present-day Egypt. They believed and led their subjects to believe that they represented the gods on earth. The Egyptians were precocious and did create one of the earliest civilizations on the earth. From those times, they grew cotton and invented paper, and codified many things about life and death.
Read MoreI bought warm chestnuts from a steaming cart in the empty Aya Sofya Square and walked over to the benches before the Blue Mosque,…
Read MoreI stayed in Hotel Savoia and Savoia in Nervi. Just outside the gate of my hotel and some stairs down there was a railway…
Read MoreI have lived in Asia now some 21 years, arriving here in the early 1970’s as a young American sailor stationed in the Philippines…
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