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A cruise through the karsts of Halong Bay near Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam is an eerie one indeed. Strange rock formations crop up through the fog and haze, ghosts really, of some dismal times recalling French Navy boats that patrolled the waters in the earlier… Read full post »

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It’s barely a week to the opening of Expo 2010 in Shanghai and the city is holding its breath. While this global tradition that dates back to 1851 and put the Eiffel Tower in Paris promises to be the biggest World Expo to date in… Read full post »

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The rural/industrial countryside flies by at 125 km an hour on this fast train from Nanjing to Shanghai. The trip should take just over two hours – a good buy for $20 these days. The cars are clean, the seats even have international computer outlets. It&r… Read full post »

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It looks like something right out of 1960s America – only with color, one color that is. Red.

Bangkok is awash in red shirts, red banners, red flags, even red plastic clapping hands and no one is really sure why, except the ones dowsed in color… Read full post »

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It could be a set out of What Dreams May Come, as Robin Williams wanders the sewers of Hell. Or it could be a bullet on a page of Ten Temples You Should See Before You Die. This apparition rises from the fruit fields on the road… Read full post »

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Perhaps it’s something in the water – or in the rum. Barbados, a dot on the map between the Caribbean and the Atlantic just above Grenada, is known for more than sun, soak and sand. It’s known for its ability to make babies.

True, romance abounds in… Read full post »

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Deep in the land of statesmen, founding fathers and plantation gentry is a place Thomas Jefferson might have skipped but honeymooners might consider otherwise. If Virginia is for lovers, then Keswick Hall at Monticello is an interesting amalgam o… Read full post »

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Even if you’re not getting married in Tahiti you can still invite the folks, the cousins, even the neighbors for a celebratory stay in French Polynesia’s latest resort manse: the two Presidential Overwater Bungalows that opened recently at Hilton B… Read full post »

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For travelers who want a taste of the wild while contributing to the welfare of the jungle and its inhabitants, Four Seasons Tented Camp, Golden Triangle in Thailand provides a bonding memory that brings in the element of “never forgetting.”

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If Cupid were a number in black or red, the bettors would bust the house on Valentine’s Day. The number of marriages on February 14 tends to rise by 600 percent, producing long lines at City Hall and putting the Elvi around the city into… Read full post »

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People head to Calistoga for its waters – hot and mineral-heavy straight from the roiling pulp beneath the mighty San Andreas. But people head to Calistoga Ranch Resort for the high-ticket R&R.

While the town of Calistoga is locked into the turn of the (last) cent… Read full post »

The top ten travel scams of 2010 are the same top ten travel scams of 2009. There is nothing new under the sun in the travel fraud department – only new players, new places and new ways of playing. Whether the advice comes from the wisdom of trained perps, jaded police… Read full post »

La Fée Vert, sweet simple absinthe, has a new place in Las Vegas – a place where you can taste it, drown it, burn it and … yes, smoke it. For a price.

Sage is an astonishing new dinner spot by heartland homeboy, Shawn McClain,… Read full post »

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What’s your bag worth? Approximately $1.76 billion if you are a “big-5” airline like US Airways, American, UAL, Delta or Continental. During the second quarter of last year, while the nation’s legions were fleeing the great fleecing of America… Read full post »

Grab your $24 a pound brew and get out there! Kailua-Kona and the Kohala Coast, a resort corridor running nearly 40 miles long, is both affordable these days and intriguing. The resorts sport names like Fairmont Orchid, the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, and the Mauna Lani Bungalows, Villages a… Read full post »

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It feels like the ends of the earth and, indeed, it almost is on this promontory overlooking the Southern Ocean. The place is Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island 10 miles south of the Australian mainland and miles from anything that smacks of urban commotion. Even… Read full post »

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It feels like the ends of the earth and, indeed, it almost is on this promontory overlooking the Southern Ocean. The place is Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island 10 miles south of the Australian mainland and miles from anything that smacks of urban commotion. Even… Read full post »

You might not be able to decide which is more magical: the specter of a rosy dawn over the Thar Desert, ghostly castles of chiseled sandstone rising from the cliffs in the distance; or the bustle of Asia’s biggest camel market in Pushkar where an ancient world meets… Read full post »

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It’s still two for the road for couples considering one last fling with solitude through a new travel trend that is coming into its own: Babymoons.

For couples that have already had their honeymoon and are headed into “familymoon” country, a last hurr… Read full post »

Welcome to the Year of t he Tiger.  It may be Valentine’s Day but for many in the world’s most populo us country the year celebrates the s hort-tempered and suspicious, yet adventurous, sensitive and risk-taki ng proclivities of those whose lives and years are marked by thi… Read full post »

In a spot not so far from some of the world’s busiest freeways leading from America’s second largest city to the gray stretches of the Inland Empire and sprawls of Orange County -- is something of an oasis, literally.

Glen Ivy Hot Springs sits at the nape… Read full post »

 While making your top ten to-do list for 2010, consider this top ten tried and applied travel guide from WhereDaily.com for an improved trip experience.

Pack Lite. Try to pack like you are starting a diet. Cut out the extra fat; lose the sugar.  An ideal method is to go… Read full post »

Looking for Christmas in Vegas? A little faux snow, some ice skating in your tees and shorts, a dose of hot chocolate while you watch the little ones swim or a saucy sitting with a sexy Santa? If you can’t find it in Las Vegas, you can’t find it at all.… Read full post »

The Spa at Encore, Steve Wynn’s can-you-top-this pampering palace of the moment, is missing something: Chaos. This spa is all Buddha and no bustle from the time you arrive at spa lobby to the minute you bid adieu to your delicious dalliance into inner peace.

It’s not easy to locate… Read full post »

In India, it is the “science of life” that is practiced through ancient healing ways. The healing touch, the gently applied oils and scents, the absorbing of delectable aromas within a meditative steam or soaking session would not be considered pampering per se, but a way of life a… Read full post »