Travel
- 01 May 2012
Surface of Palau’s Jellyfish Lake
Below the surface of Palau’s Jellyfish Lake is an extraordinary yet fearful sight. On this Pacific island nation, 500 miles east of the Philippines, masses of jellyfish create floating, translucent walls, brushing past snorkeler’s arms and blundering into their bodies. Avoiding them is impossible.
- 05 February 2012
Journey into the Maya underworld
Belize’s forest-clad highlands sit atop Central America’s most extensive cave system, containing some of the largest subterranean passageways and chamber rooms in the western hemisphere. The caves were carved out of limestone by the Chiquibul River, and the watery darkness hosts a variety of resident troglobite cave creatures, as well as the occasional sub-aquatic spelunker. According to legend, the Chiquibul cave system was also the entrance to Xibalba, the macabre Maya underworld.
- 18 December 2011
Waterfall meditation
We’ve all seen it. It’s one of the most iconic images in Japan -- a white-robed holy man meditating beneath a freezing waterfall, deep in the mountains.
Truth be told, this is as exotic to modern Japanese people as it is to folk from elsewhere.
- 13 March 2012
First China-owned luxury cruise ship
Legendary Chinese admiral Zheng He (郑和) might well approve. A Wenzhou-based tycoon is launching mainland China's first cruise ship, and has his sights set on building up a world-class fleet.
- 05 February 2012
Cape Town's Table Mountain
For hundreds of millions of years it has dominated the coastal skyline of southern Africa, imposing a dramatic and domineering backdrop to an idyllic location.
- 27 October 2011
Kalamata basks in the sun
Throughout its history, Greece has been conquered by the Macedonians, the Romans, Persians and, in modern times, the Ottoman Empire and Nazi Germany.
But now there is a new and different battle being waged against the Greeks, and the enemy is not wielding swords or guns but the threat of bailouts and default. For many, it's a modern-day tragedy that even the Greek classical writer Euripides would have a hard time envisioning.
- 11 February 2012
Tourists visited January 2012 rose 15.7 percent to 85, 874
The number of tourists visited Sri Lanka during the month of January 2012 rose 15.7 percent to 85, 874
Arrivals from all the major markets have increased during the month, with the highest number of tourists coming from the Western Europe amounting to 36,497 tourists. This was growth of 11.9 percent year-on-year.
- 01 January 2012
Maldives bans hotel spas immediate effect
The tourism ministry instructed all resort hotels across the country's 1,192 tiny coral islands to shut their spas and health centres with immediate effect.
- 30 September 2011
Sri Lankan flight detained in Paris
A Sri Lankan airline (UL 564) was detained at the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris owing to ‘technical deviations’ almost a week ago, the airline said in a statement.
However SriLankan has assured all passengers who were booked on the said flight from Paris have been offered alternate onward flights.
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Travel Tips
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