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Chile & Easter Island

Chile & Easter Island

From salty desert top to glacier-crowded bottom, Chile is a gobsmacking reminder of nature's beauty and power. This narrow trickle of a country is jammed with enough geysers, mountains, beaches, forests and volcanoes to keep adventure nut [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands are crawling with a fun-loving mix of deal-cutting bankers with briefcases and cell phones, scuba divers in neon-hued wetsuits and English folk checking the cricket scores over a tipple. The islands vibrate with colour: [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Dutch aren't bogged in their clichés, even though bikes, dykes, windmills and blazing flower fields are pretty much the norm outside the major cities. Do as the locals do - grab a bike and explore. It's a very big small country [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2007 | Comments : 0

Scottish Highlands

Scottish Highlands

Rugged, remote, romantic and rare - Scotland's famous Highlands and Islands make up one of Europe's last great wilderness areas. Return to an era when Sunday was sacred, explore a Stone Age village, spend time with the local wildlife or m [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Galway

Galway

Lined by stone shopfronts, Galway's (Gaillimh) narrow cobblestone streets fill with a frenzy of street performers who enchant passers by. The administrative capital of County Galway, the city is also a departure point for the wild, windsw [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Poland

Poland

For centuries, Poland has been a bridge between the East and West. Set in the heart of Europe, Poland is a multifaceted country where the capital and medieval towns are trawled by contemporary city slickers, and where horse-drawn carts ne [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands

Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands

The smallest country in the rugged Andean highlands, Ecuador has an array of vibrant indigenous cultures, well-preserved colonial architecture, otherworldly volcanic landscapes, dense rainforest and sublime islands - all in a nation no bi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Islands

The Pitcairn Islands are not on any international air routes and getting there is strictly for the determined, but that can be precisely the attraction in a world increasingly at our fingertips. Once there, check out ancient Polynesian ro [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2007 | Comments : 0

Scotland

Scotland

Honed by long competition with its English neighbours, buoyant Scotland has survived encroachment, brass-monkey weather and invasion by stand-up comedians. Its people are feisty, opinionated and fiercely loyal. The countryside is a wild, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2007 | Comments : 0

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Dutch aren't bogged in their clichés, even though bikes, dykes, windmills and blazing flower fields are pretty much the norm outside the major cities. Do as the locals do - grab a bike and explore. It's a very big small country [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok has dominated Thailand's urban hierarchy as well as its political, commercial and cultural life since the late 18th century. Distinctly modern and Westernised, Bangkok is still a sleepy Thai village with a louder soundtrack of tra [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Cook Islands

Cook Islands

Wafer-thin cays and farflung atolls, white-sand beaches and lush green volcanic mountains, a slow pace, friendly people, dancing - what's not to like about the Cook Islands? If that's not enough, they also have excellent hiking, snorkelli [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2007 | Comments : 0
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