News and Deals: May 17,...
World’s top 15 travel destinations CBS New Life in the U.S. in the debris of the Great Recession is slowly beginning to improve. Consumer confidence, while still sensitive to trouble signs (Greece, anyone?), is creeping up. One sure sign: More American are taking vacations....
News and Deals: May 14,...
South Africa Pushes For Sustainable Tourism Bernama South Africa needs to decide now where it wants to be in 2020 in terms of sustainable tourism, says Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk. Speaking at the opening of the annual Tourism Indaba (gathering) here over the weekend, he...
My Five Favorite Advent...
If the gods of adventure travel had their own Mt. Olympus, it would be found somewhere in New Zealand. The Kiwis have long taken pride in their ability to outdo the rest of the world when it comes to flinging themselves from various heights and these adventures are the highlight of any...
Thousands of Buddhas in...
Pak Ou Caves Laos Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited. See the original post: Thousands of Buddhas in the Pak Ou Caves,...Luxury Hotel App: The M...
Filed under: Hotels and Accommodations , Internet Tools , Luxury Travel Have you ever wished you could choose your hotel based on the view from the guestroom window? Now you can, with the The Most Perfect View . Launched last October, the booking site allows travelers to browse over 250...
Experiencing The Beauti...
Filed under: Europe , Italy I’d just been hit with a plastic bottle of water square on the back, but I was pretty sure it was nothing personal. But moments later, when I was pelted again, I started to wonder. Another minute passed and two thugs with tattoos on their thick necks...
Laos – Why I Went and...
When I put together the itinerary for our vacation in Asia, I had some difficult decisions to make. We knew we wanted to return to Bangkok; it’s one of our favorite cities and a few days in the Thai capital sounded perfect. But we also wanted to visit some new places and after a lot of...
Martian Landscape of th...
Garden of the Gods, Lanai, Hawaii Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited. More: Martian Landscape of the Garden of the Gods, Lanai,...When Cruise Ships Plug ...
Filed under: North America , Canada , Transportation , Cruises Having the ability to ” plug in ” to cleaner shore-based electric power , rather than burning diesel fuel when in port, allows cruise ships to eliminate a jumbo-sized carbon footprint . At a number of ports in the...