Blogs Posts in Destination Guide category; 152 blog posts

Angel Island reopens with an asterisk

At least six weeks after the Cosco Busan oil spill struck San Francisco Bay, the popular beaches at Angel Island will reopen on Saturday.The reopening is with an asterisk. State officials are warning visitors there still may be tar balls of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

IslandSity

Rarotonga is a lush, beautiful place, fringed with beaches and crowned with mountains at its centre. Two concentric roads ring the island, and most of its attractions are on or near one of them. Situated on the western coast, Άrorang [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

Esmeraldas

The Spanish made their first Ecuadorian landfall on this broad, sandy bank flanked by a sparkling river and surrounded by low green hills. Esmeraldas has been an influential port town throughout history but its modern incarnation is not p [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

Lundy

Lundy Island is a small, very beautiful island in the Bristol Channel, some twenty kilometres west of the Devon coast. The island of Lundy, although only only five kilometres long and two kilometres across at its widest point, is sited on [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

Islomania

Islomania is a craze for or a strong attraction to islands. The condition was first identified by British writer Lawrence Durrell in his book Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953):"Somewhere among the notebooks of Gideon I once fo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

Channel Islands

Close to the French Normandy coast, these five British islands seem to express how a certain sort of Briton would like France to be: cobbled streets opening into little squares, pretty pastel ports and yacht-packed marinas, cafe-terraces, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2007 | Comments : 0

Ko Phi Phi

Consisting of two islands, Phi-Phi Leh and Phi-Phi Don, Ko Phi-Phi is the Thailand of holiday dreams and tourist brochures. The emerald waters and remarkable sea- and bird-life are sublime, but rampant over-development of Phi-Phi Don thre [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Bahamas

The Bahamas has successfully promoted itself as a destination for US jetsetters, and a lot of it is Americanised. Yet there are still opportunities among its 700 islands and 2500 cays to disappear into a mangrove forest, explore a coral [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Cleveland

Drawing from its roots as an industrious, working man's town, Cleveland has worked hard in recent years to prove it rocks. But even as the city wipes the sweat from its brow, it might need more than the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

St. Martin's Island

St. Martin's Island is a small island in the northeast part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh. It is about 8 km west of the northwest coa [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2007 | Comments : 0

County Mayo

County Mayo (Irish: Contae Mhaigh Eo, lit. the plain of the yew trees) is a county in the province of Connacht, located on the west coast of Ireland. The county town of Mayo is Castlebar. Mayo is bordered to the south by Galway, to the east [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

Ambergris Caye

Ambergris Caye, pronounced "am-BER-gris", is the largest island of Belize located northeast of the country in the Caribbean Sea. Though administered as part of the Belize District, the closest point on the mainland is part of the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Ko Lanta

Long relegated to the back seat by tourist draws like Phi-Phi and Pha-Ngan, Ko Lanta first became popular with backpackers looking for something a bit different. And while it now has loads of accommodation for pockets of all depths, Ko La [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

US Virgin Islands

If people are going to persist with an American dream, they may as well wake up to some of this. Though the US flag and Postal trucks prevail, the commonalities pretty much stop there. The laid-back vibe and some of the most magnificent c [...]

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