Australia Travel Guide
Posted by admin on Dec 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Australia is a land of contrasts – topographical, cultural, physical, meterological and visual. About 40,000 years ago, the Aborigines were the first to settle. They lived as hunters and gatherers for this entire time, living with a close link to nature, although backburning and other poor agricultural techniques have since been realised to have caused significant deforestation, salinification of the soil and elimination...
Holiday Travel Tips & Tricks
Posted by admin on Dec 11, 2009 | 6 Comments
It’s that time again. Time to pack the suitcase with tragic snowman sweaters. Time to rifle through the medicine cabinet to find that old bottle of Xanax. Time to stock up on weapons-grade Purell. Yep. It’s time to travel for the holidays.
At USA Travel Guide, we don’t peddle false hope. Even the best laid plans can go asunder in the face of crippling weather and the unpredictable masses. However, there are some...
The City of London
Posted by admin on Dec 04, 2009 | 1 Comment
London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom.a A major settlement for two millennia, its history goes back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London’s core, the ancient City of London, the ’square mile’, retains its mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the nineteenth century, the name “London” has also referred to the metropolis developed around it. Today,...
Puerto Rico Beaches
Posted by admin on Nov 27, 2009 | 5 Comments
Puerto Rico beaches are without a doubt one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
The truth is the truth and many experts in beaches around the world will attest to that.
Let me start going around the island on a clockwise direction and describe some of the best Beaches.
We’ll start in Old San Juan.
Imagine living in a city, where your backyard is a tropical beach. San Juan residents are that lucky. As you move...
Life in Puerto Rico
Posted by admin on Nov 27, 2009 | 4 Comments
Puerto Rico is located in the northeastern Caribbean, 60 miles east of the Dominican Republic, and 40 miles west of the US Virgin Islands. The Island is 100 miles long by 35 miles wide. The interiors are mountainous and the coastal areas are flat. Puerto Rico differs from many other communities in which you may have lived. The main difference includes the culture, the Spanish language and the unparalleled weather.
While...
South Africa’s World Cup wine tour
Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
On the back of wine exports that continue to defy the global downturn, Wines of South Africa plans to bring a group of foreign journalists to cover the football World Cup and visit the country’s winelands in June 2010.
Wines of South Africa (Wosa) CEO Su Birch says many European importers are also planning to bring their own customers on incentive programmes for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
“There has been enormous...
Cape Town Beaches, Western Cape
Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Mother City has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world and something to offer everyone. It is no surprise that South Africa was one of the first countries outside of Europe to earn blue flag status for some of her beaches – there are three on offer in and around Cape Town.
The blend of 2 oceans (the Atlantic Oceanand the Indian Ocean) and hence 2 different styles of beach, divided by a 1000m high...
South Africa Birdlife Gallery
Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
South Africa ranks as one of the top birding destinations in the world. An incomparable combination of variety of birds, first class South African hotels andaccommodation facilities, an excellent network of internal airline routes and a multitude of South African car hire companies (including the large internationals) and a supportive avi-tourism industry makes South Africa one of the most desirable birding destinations...
Table Mountain, Cape Town
Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
Since the first person laid eyes on Table Mountain, it has exerted its powerful and charismatic pull, enchanting and drawing any and all who fall under its spell.
The way to the top has never been easy, and for many centuries only a handful of bold and enterprising people could say that they had climbed it.
By the late 1870’s, several of Cape Towns more prominent (and possibly less fit) citizens had suggested the...
Where to Stay in the Kruger Park
Posted by admin on Nov 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In terms of the range of accommodation offered within Kruger, no national park in the world quite lives up to the same level of service. The Kruger National Park has a large number of rest camps, bushveld camps and lodges and even some overnight hides, all run by South African National Parks Board. But it is the luxurious privately-run game lodges that steal the show when staying in the Kruger National Park, as a trip...
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