There’s nothing like a good walk when you’re traveling to let you unwind and get to know a place. Of course, there are walks and then there are walks. Or, rather, hikes. Here is a…
Hiking Around the World: 10 Awesome Trails
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This Week in Travel and Health
This was a week in which many people geared up for holiday travel plans, booking flights and accommodations, and maybe doing a little shopping for that new bathing suit or ski outfit. As people contemplate…
An Earth Day Getaway – Adventures in Ecotourism
Earth Day – the day set aside to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s environment, is less than three weeks away – April 22nd. There are plenty of ways to honor the occasion; community…
This Week in Travel and Health
As much as we all love traveling and exploring the globe, sometimes it doesn’t always go quite as smoothly as we’d like. And these past few days have given us some prime examples of the…
The 7 Healthiest Cities In The World
Last week, we wrote about the best places in the world to retire, based upon International Living’s recently released 2012 Retirement Index. The Index takes into account a variety of variables, and is obviously skewed…
The Global Freshwater Shortage
On October 18th the Pacific Institute, a non government organization based in Oakland, California that focuses on global water issues, released the 7th edition of The World’s Water, perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of global…
Volcanic Ash Cloud Continues to Imperil Travelers in South America, Australia and New Zealand
Ten days of intermittent erupting by Chile’s Puyehue volcano has created an ash cloud stretching 6,000 miles through the atmosphere to Australia and New Zealand. The latest news reports carry accounts of cancelled flights throughout…
Travel Bulletin Australia: Devastating floods spreading with the wet season just beginning
Widespread flooding in Queensland is now affecting an area about the size of California, Nevada and Oregon combined. For you geography aficionados, that is about the same as France and Germany or just over half of…
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