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• Plan Your Affordable Vacation Plan Your Affordable Vacation in Australia

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    The Great Barrier Reef, Bondi Beach, the Opera House and the Outback.  There are so many natural and cultural wonders to be visited in Australia that tourism is booming for travel "down under".  If you have been planning your Australian vacation, we've got some great news for you. 

    Australia is experiencing a real growth in business, commerce and population.  It is great news for travellers who have always wanted to visit Australia as there are more flights available now than ever before, and more airlines competing with pricing and willing to take you there.  

    Depending where you are travelling from in North America, the flight to Australia is is about twenty hours.  Typically the airlines will stop in Vancouver Canada, then Japan and on to Australia.  Historically the cost has hovered around $2000 or more per person and part of the reason that travellers have hesitated in the past to fly to Australia is due to the length of the flight and also because of the cost.  But thanks to the increased demand for flights, it is possible to get cheap flights to Australia and book them conveniently online. 

    • Avoid direct flights.  While convenient (and available from some major cities on the west coast) they are the most costly. Direct flights can also be more exhausting for some travellers (can you commit to more than twenty hours on one flight?).  There are more comfortable and convenient options.

    • Most travellers will book stop-overs on their way to Australia.  Countries such as Dubai and Hong Kong are fabulous to visit on a one day stop over.  Not only does it give you the opportunity to rest from the flight but it also allows you to take in some of the exotic local flavour of other countries on your way.  It enriches your travel experience and will leave you refreshed and ready to take on the adventurous continent of Australia when you arrive.

    • Lastly if you are planning on travelling for a few weeks, explore the opportunity to  purchase an "around-the-world" ticket which leaves you free to visit other continents usually for the same price as a direct flight to Australia.   It literally opens a world of travel opportunity if you have the time and inclination to explore.

    When booking your travel to Australia (like other flights) the most economical rates will be for connecting flights that are also booked well in advance.  Since a trip to Australia is a more expensive vacation, plan at least two months ahead of time in order to get the best rates and choice availability for your flights.

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• Trail to Cascade Head in Orego Trail to Cascade Head in Oregon

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• Ancient Shanxi Province. Ancient Shanxi Province.

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    Most of ancient Chinese architectures are located in Shanxi Province where there are seventy percent of old buildings with simple but elegant styles which were all built in Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Last time, it’s really a meaningful experience of the culture of ancient Chinese buildings. What’s more, Another seventy percent of the buildings are situated in the southeast of Shanxi. 

    It was a nice day in the morning. We went to the our first destination Hongfu Temple by car. It’s said that an old man watched the temple with a few children in Jing Dynasty. Now it’s has been protected by the county as a historical site.    
     
    In spring, it’s very dry for less rainfall in Shanxi. The hillside beside the road was desolate. Seeing a little bit further, I found some of green leaves grew on the tree. Our motorcade got off the beltway to an unsurfaced narrow road where our cars bumped for a few minutes, with dust stirred up behind, and beside which are loess slopes.   

    Hongfu Temple is situated in a hidden alley. After three minutes’bumping on the way, a more than ten meters high and very wide loess wall came into our sight. Despite the dilapidated scene, the loess plateau looks very magnificent against our car BMW.        

    We entered the temple across the steps, where everything looked desolate, with a abandoned hall on the left side and a half-length statue standing on the hall. At the moment when we entered, we saw its paint faded and column inclined to a side. However, the sculptures on the ridge still show the art of the architectures in Jing Dynasty.          

    On the other hand, we left the temple and went along a meandering road to Taixin County to visit Foguang Temple.  

    It’s said that Foguang Temple was found many times later after a couple visited Shanxi for the fourth time. Because of that, the temple has occupied an important position in the architectural history of China. It’s the biggest wooden building built in the Tang Dynasty.  

    As the sun sets and wind blows, we were standing beside a stone engraved perhaps in Tang Dynasty with  inscriptions on it and began reading what’s written on it, feeling as if time had gone back to the past. I felt a sense of admiration while reading.   

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• Tips For Traveling To Paris Wi Tips For Traveling To Paris With Girlfriends

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    Last month I did something that I have only done once before: I took a vacation without my husband and children.  *GASP!*  I know, right?!  Who am I to be so bold and brazen, to travel across land and sea for several hours without them?  I tell you who – a very happy woman.

    Don’t get me wrong – I love traveling with my kids, showing them the world and having adventures together.  But as any mother knows, a vacation with your family is not really a vacation in the truest sense.   And while I love traveling with my husband, he doesn’t like to shop for shoes and he probably thinks that I talk too much.   A girlfriend trip was what I needed and what better place than Paris!

    I had been to Paris recently, once with my family and once with my husband, but I knew this trip with my friends would be different.   As we planned the trip via email, texts and a few face-to-face meetings, we were all excited, but also nervous.  Let’s be real: five women traveling together leaves a lot of room for drama and attitudes.    We were a varied bunch: married stay at home moms, professionals, singles and single moms.  Shenia, Christin, Natasha, Latoicha and me.  There would be five different personalities and five different expectations about how the trip should flow.  Since I had the most experience in Paris, I became the default planner.  I worried:  Would the women like the apartment that I had chosen?  Would they love Paris as much as I do?  Would we all get along?

    My worries were for naught.  Everyone loved everything about Paris and we all had the time of our lives.  The whole trip, as Shenia would say, was divine.

    Our divine blessing began with an uneventful flight and a cutie-pie driver (don’t worry husbands, he was only cute to the unmarried ladies) who was familiar with Atlanta.   He liked us and pitied us when we said that we had to haul all this luggage up 4 flights of stairs.  Instead of dropping us off at the curb, he was going to help us.  See, we knew that the elevator was being repaired when we rented the apartment, in fact we got a small price break for the inconvenience.   But yet, we packed like this – what in the world were we thinking?

    Read all about my trip to Paris with my girlfriends and see all the photos too at Funkidivagirl.com:  How To Take A Girlfriend Trip To Paris And Still Like Each Other In The End

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• Beautiful Xishuangbannan in Yu Beautiful Xishuangbannan in Yunan Province China.

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    Xishuangbanna, an autonomous prefecture of the Dai ethnic group which covers an area of 20 thousand square kilometers borders on Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam, located in the south of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China. It’s one of the well-known tourist cities in China where the Water-Sprinkling Festival is held each year in the middle of April, famous for natural landscapes of tropical rainforests and minority folk-customs. Many of tourists from around the world visit here every year, especially in the boom season of tourism. If you like, you can go visit Xishuangbannan anytime in a year, since the weather temperature there keeps averagely 16℃, and only 28℃ even when it’s very hot in summer. It’s a sunshine place where it never snow.       

     

     

    Rubbers, tea leaves, sugarcane, spices, tropical fruits and some other special local products are all produced in Xishuangbanna, and also there are some developed scenic spots, such as Primeval Forest Park, Wild Elephant Valley, Botanical Garden, tropical rainforests and so on. It is one of the scenic areas and also an important tourist development zone with abundant tourism resources. As you enter Xishuangbannan, you will feel as if you are in a green world where primeval forests, rubber plantation gardens and orchards all come into your sight.  

     

    The Peacock Lake which is surrounded by lakes around it looks as clean as a mirror, covering an area of 18700 square meters. It was developed as a park in 1977 where there are pavilions, exotic flowers, peacocks,pythons, foxes, wild boars, moneys, thrush birds, and some other endangered animals. And there is a waterside pavilion in the middle of the clean rippled lake, on which Pattra leaves, coconut trees, areca-nut trees and oil palm trees are all reflected. What’s more, visitors are allowed to enjoy scenery by boat on the lake.                   

     

    The Wild Elephant Valley of Xishuangbannan is situated in a natural preservation area in the north of Jinghong where there is a vast tropical rainforest that makes it possible for tropical plants to grow and wild animals like Asia elephants to live. There are only 300 Asia elephants in total now. They often haunt as a group at rivers, dense forests, or near people’s residences to hunt for food and water, or to take a walk. On the other hand, a number of tourists from the world are attracted by the landscapes of the tropical rainforest and wild Asia elephants.

     

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• Thanksgiving Color in Frederic Thanksgiving Color in Frederick

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    Autumn is still going on in Frederick, Maryland, the day after Thanksgiving.

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• Trying medicinal bathing with Trying medicinal bathing with the Dao people

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    Medicinal bathing is a local feature of the indigenous Red Dao in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. In Ta Phin Commune (Sa Pa District), tourists can spot many families drying herbs in their front yards.

    Legend has it that on the last day of the year the Dao boiled leaves from the forest for medicinal bathing before welcoming the new year in. As this practice proves both effective and salubrious, a majority of Kinh people have considered it a unique feature of Red Dao culture. Each barrel of water usually contains at least 10 types of herbs, even up to 120. Every bathroom has a wardrobe to keep personal belongings and visitors feel quite relaxed to bathe in the typical wooden tubs filled with hot water and the aromatic smell of different herbs.

     

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    There are two types of bathrooms: a single for one wishing to bathe alone and a double for couples to share.

    Stepping out from a steam-filled bathroom, Christine Smith—an American tourist—says; "I feel so relaxed, like being full of energy". Christine is no exception. Other Western tourists also feel the same about medical bathing in Sa Pa after a long trip through north-western provinces. Ly Ta May, 30, says bathing with medicinal herbs is a traditional practice of the Red Dao.

     

    “In our village, either in winter or summer, the whole family boils a big pot of medicinal herbs to fill wooden tubs for themselves to bathe in the hope of curing ailments such as knee, hand, and foot pain, muscle pain, headache, back pain, excess alcohol, fatigue, poor blood circulation, and skin diseases.

     

    “If women take to bathing with these herbs after giving birth, they will recover quickly and have a better blood circulation and beautiful skin”, she says.

     

    Getting medicinal herbs

    Red Dao people in Sa Pa are famous for curing bone, joint, and muscle pains, common cold and flu symptoms. Collecting medicinal herbs is no easy task, says Chao Man May from Ta Van Village. “Medicinal herbs grow along the streams or in the forest. If you want to pick them, you’d rather go deep into the forest”, she says.

    Like other Dao women, May has spent time teaching her young daughter about how to pick medicinal herbs where they often grow, and how to tell  the difference between the medicinal plants and poisonous varieties.
    “This is very important because some poisonous herbs look much like medicinal ones. Only after about five or six trips to the forest, can my daughter find the right herbs”, she says.

    She says the best time for picking medicinal herbs is in the early morning, as the dew preserves the essence of the sky and earth in them.

    The Dao only take the branches and leaves, leaving the roots intact for growth until the next time of pruning.

    The final step is to chop and dry the herbs in the sun so that they can be used for a long time. However, according to May, using fresh herbs is better than dried herbs.

    The Red Dao’s treatment secrets have been passed down from generation to generation. Today, some medicinal remedies are given in Sa Pa as a special tourist service

    Preparing water for medicinal bathing is time-consuming. It is boiled with both fresh and dried herbs in liquid form for people to soak up through the skin.

    Dr. Tran Van On from Ha Noi University of Pharmacy says: “Each remedy of the Red Dao usually consists of between 10-120 different kinds of herbs, depending on regular or irregular medication”.

    After many years of research, On has helped other Red Dao people process several kinds of herbs into pulverized substance for future use. The Red Dao’s medicinal bathing has become one of the northern mountainous province‘s attractions, even though it is still a mystery to foreign tourists who first set foot in Sapa.

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• Discovery Egypt Discovery Egypt

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    Discovery Egypt        Egypt (The Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة Gomhuriat Masr Al-Arabiah)  is a large country located in north-eastern Africa with its capital located in its largest city, Cairo.  Egypt also extends into Asia by virtue of holding the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is bordered by Israel to the north-east, by Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the east (across the Red Sea), by Sudan to the south and by Libya to the west. The country is bounded by the Mediterranean and Red Seas (to the north and east respectively) and geographically dominated both by the River Nile and its fertile well-watered valley, and by the Eastern and Western deserts. Cairo,  is the capital and largest city of Egypt. Cairo was founded by the Fatimid caliphs as a royal enclosure. It replaced Fustat as the seat of the government. It later came under the Mamluks, was ruled by the Ottomans 1517 to 1798,Cairo has a mix of historic towns and modern districts. This includes the Pyramids, the Hanging Church, Saladin's Citadel, the Virgin Mary's Tree, the Sphinx, and Heliopolis, Al-Azhar, the Mosque of Amr ibn al-A'as, Saqqara, the Cairo Tower, and the Old City. Cairo is nicknamed "The City of A Thousand Minarets". Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into two branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region. Vist Egypt  AND  Know More . Upper Egypt is on the Western side of the Nile River, which runs over 4,000 miles long.Upper Egypt was known asTa Shemau  which means "the land of reeds. It was divided into twenty-two districts called Nomes. The first Nome was roughly where modern Aswan is and the twenty-second was at modern Atfih(Aphroditopolis), just to the south of Cairo.The main city of predynastic Upper Egypt was Nekhen (Greek Hierakonpolis) whose patron deity was the vulture goddess Nekhbet. For most of pharaonic Egypt's history Thebes was the administrative center of Upper Egypt. After its devastation by the Assyrians its importance declined. Under the Ptolemies the city of Ptolemais took over the role of capital of Upper Egypt..Visit Egypt  AND  Know More .   The Western Desert Covers about 700,000 square kilometers (equivalent in size to Texas) and accounts for about two-thirds of Egypt's land area. This immense desert to the west of the It spans the area from the Mediterranean Sea south to the Sudanese border. The desert's Jilf al Kabir Plateau has an altitude of about 1,000 meters, an exception to the uninterrupted territory of basement rocks covered by layers of horizontally bedded sediments forming a massive plain or low plateau. The Great Sand Sea lies within the desert's plain and extends from the Siwa Oasis to Jilf al Kabir. Escarpments (ridges) and deep depressions (basins) exist in several parts of the Western Desert, and no rivers or streams drain into or out of the area .Visit Egypt. AND Know More.  Sharm el-Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's Southern Sinai province which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai. Sharm el-Sheikh is known as The City of Peace referring to the large number ofinternational peace conferences that have been held there.Visit Egypt AND  Know More  . Hurghada  is an Egyptian city and a tourist center on the Red Sea.The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea. Holiday villages and hotels provide aquatic sport facilities for sailboarders, yachtsmen, scuba divers and snorkelers.Visit Egypt .   Ancient Egypt There is evidence of rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in the desert oases. In the 10th millennium BC, a culture of hunter-gatherers and fishers replaced a grain-grinding culture. Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. Early tribal peoples migrated to the Nile River where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society. By about 6000 BC the Neolithic. Egyptravel team

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• Fall Street Fall Street

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    Fall in Madison Wisconsin. The leaves are in full color on the first day of October. Some streets are a canopy of color. This street is my favorite because each year it puts on a spectacular show, but it only lasts for a few days.

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• India Travel Package India Travel Package

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    India is a admirable country adored with snow-laden mountains, astonishing beaches, and sun kissed deserts, adventurous waterfalls and artful rivers. This alien adorableness is aggrandized by cultural and ancestry attractions that includes ancestry hotels and actual monuments.

    Each allotment of India is acclaimed for a different set of attractions. From the freezing algid valleys of Kashmir to the sun kissed beach dunes of Rajasthan; North India has about everything. North Indians are acclaimed for their accommodation and warm-hearted attitude. Visit the vale of Kashmir to attestant the astonishing angel orchards bloom in bounce and the dry Chinar leaves, akin agrarian fire, in the autumn. The chanting of Angelic Scriptures in ashrams of Uttaranchal, the apple acclaimed 'tehzeeb' of Lucknow and the brainwork on the banks of Ganges, makes this bout a lifetime opportunity.

    The ability of North India is a brew of assorted customs. These cultures are some of the oldest actual cultures in the world. These cover the ability of sultans, Mughals, Nawabs, Rajputs, and the 5000 year old Buddhist ability as well. India is home to the Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro civilizations; and four above apple religions, i.e. Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism. These angelic acreage adored with these accord admiring religions accept a agenda abounding of festivals. To adore the astonishing cultural activities of North India, one needs to yield a bout of this arena during the anniversary season, i.e. February and March. Tbe Surajkund crafts mela in Haryana and Dusshera anniversary in Kullu are above appearance of this region. The Khajuraho ball anniversary showcases the above forms of ball in India.

    The monuments and forts of Delhi advertise the different art and architectonics of Mughals and the Sultans. Some of the astonishing showpieces a part of the monuments and forts of Delhi are Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Qutab Minar, Jantar Mantar, India Gate, Gurdawara Bangla Sahib and Akshardham Temple. The Red Acropolis was body by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. This colossus bastion was body from 1639 to 1648 with red stone. The capital access to the acropolis is through Lahori Gate with some majestic abate barrio inside. These cover Diwan-i-Am (hall of accessible audience), Moti Masjid (pearl mosque), and Mumtaz Mahal. Addition allure is the Humayun's tomb, body by his widow; Hamida Begum Banu. The top arches and bifold tomb body with red sandstone is the finest archetype of Mughal architecture. Yet addition alluring cruise will be to Qutab Minar. This belfry is the tallest brick belfry in the world. It is 72.5 Meters alpine with 399 accomplish to top. Apart from this Central Asian architectural curiosity is a admirable cairn alleged Jantar Mantar. It is accepted as Delhi anchor and consists of fourteen geometric accessories acclimated for barometer time and forecasting weather. A part of the religious places of accent in Delhi are Gurdawara Bangla Sahib and Akshardham Temple.

    When it comes to allotment a North India bout package, the aboriginal affair for tourists to adjudge is the area of area they wish to biking in North India. Do we wish the blitz of city-limits activity in New Delhi or the accord of the acropolis stations in the Himalayas? The additional best to accomplish is the purpose of traveling. Is this a ancestors cruise or your honeymoon? The final application for your North India bout is the altitude and cost. The best ranges amid the arid calefaction of Rajasthan and air-conditioned breeze of Kashmir.

    Get all knowldge about India tour package just visit at holidaytripsinindia.

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• Glasgow in the Fall Glasgow in the Fall

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    This still life greeted me on the walk by the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

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• A Bridge over the River Clyde A Bridge over the River Clyde

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    This was October in Glasgow, Scotland.  I couldn't make a turn without shooting another picture.

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• Riverwalk along the River Clyd Riverwalk along the River Clyde

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    Glasgow, Scotland, in the Fall as experienced along the walkway by the River Clyde.

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• Riverwalk at the River Clyde Riverwalk at the River Clyde

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    Glasgow is gorgeous in October, the Riverwalk is particularly photogenic.

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• Glasgow's River Clyde Glasgow's River Clyde

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    Besides the picturesque bridges over the River Clyde, the October foliage makes for uncommon photos.

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• Fall Leaves with frost.jpg Fall Leaves with frost.jpg

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• Purple Pansey leaves in dew Purple Pansey leaves in dew

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• Salt River Canyon Gold Salt River Canyon Gold

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    Fall arrives late in the Sonoran Desert...this November shot captures sprinkles of golden cottonwoods in Central Arizona's dramatic Salt River Canyon.

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• Fall leaves in dew Fall leaves in dew

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• Oak Leaves in Washington State Oak Leaves in Washington State

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