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 | Foreign travel expenses shoot up 20% on falling rupee
The Times Of India, photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam
Tweet NEW DELHI: The depreciating value of the rupee has made outbound travel for Indians at least 15-20% more expensive. In India, domestic travel too is suffering because of an increase in airfares as Kingfisher and Air India reduce their inventory. | The summer break in India sees a huge number of Indians travelling internationally for an averag...
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 | Panama: a hot holiday destination?
The Guardian, photo: Creative Commons / Hollic
| It tops lists of hot destinations for 2012 and is sold as the ideal introduction to Latin America, but does it live up to the hype? Tranquilo Bay ecolodge private jetty, Panama. Photographs: Gemma Bowes | Chickens and scruffy children on bikes cross our path as we stroll along a sandy road past candy-coloured buildings beside a turquoise Caribbea...
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 | World Travel Awards: Costa Rica's Leading Golf Resorts
The Examiner, photo: Creative Commons / Mariordo
| Graham E. Cook established the World Travel Awards in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in all sectors of the travel and tourism industry. | The Wall Street Journal called the World Travel Awards the Oscars of the Travel business. It is now considered the most prestigious, comprehensi...
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» Tide rising on river cruising holidays
The Daily Telegraph Australia | RIVER cruising is booming in popularity among Australians, with travel companies rushing to add new ships to try to keep up with demand. | The number of Australians choosing river cruising holidays almost tripled over the past four years and grew b... |
» Natural joys of Charleville
The Daily Telegraph Australia | IF I were living on Mars right now, I'd be 38 years old and weigh 30kg. On the other hand, I'd be shrivelled to bits, so perhaps I'd better choose another planet. | What about Jupiter, where I'd have just had my sixth birthday, and w... |
» Jumping for joy over penguin picture
The Daily Telegraph Australia | IT took eight hours lying on the cold, hard ice in Antarctica to get the perfect shot, but for Penney Hayley the long wait was worth it. | The Western Australian photographer snapped this picture of a penguin shooting out of the ocean at Cape Denis... |
» Sipping from the Cowaramup cup
The Daily Telegraph Australia | I'VE heard of a Coke-drinking camel in north Queensland and beer-guzzling monkeys in Thailand but the story of Skippy the Moet-drinking kangaroo captures my imagination as we relax outside our villa at Merribrook Retreat in Cowaramup. | Appare... |
» Marvellous multicultural Malaysia
The Daily Telegraph Australia | DAVID Bowden suggests ways to explore this richly diverse land and dispel the notion it is stuffy and straitlaced. | -- Riverboat journey | Taman Negara, Malaysia's largest national park, is accessible by a leisurely, two-hour sampan journey along ... |
» China's version of Venice
The Daily Telegraph Australia | AWAY from the main square, the waterwheels and bubbling fountains, we follow the stream of people to Lijiang's Xinhua St or "bar street", as it's known by the locals. | I'm curious when my friend, Anthony, tells me that bar stre... |
» Aloha to Lanai in Hawaii
The Daily Telegraph Australia | THE Doctor certainly wouldn't know what he was in for were he to land his TARDIS on Lanai at any given time in history. | Early on, evil spirits were said to rule the tiny Hawaiian island before nearby Maui's banished Prince Kaulalaau found a ... |
» Why Mark Trevorrow loves San Fran
The Daily Telegraph Australia | FOR someone who loves the nightlife as much as Mark Trevorrow, there's no city on earth like San Francisco. | The television personality and comedian, best known for the character Bob Downe, has been visiting the American city twice a year for... |
» Lonely Planet's guide to Prague
The Daily Telegraph Australia | MORE than 20 years after the Velvet Revolution drew back the curtain on Prague's intoxicating maze of winding cobblestone alleyways, the Czech Republic's "city of 100 spires" thrills visitors. | With dramatic Gothic architecture... |
» Doc Holiday answers your queries
The Daily Telegraph Australia | THE Doc answers your questions on airline bags, Christmas in New York and skiing with solo travellers. | - MY 20-YEAR-OLD daughter and her friend will be spending Christmas Day in New York and would like your suggestions for the best place to go an... |
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