Good availability of £1 Ryanair flights to book
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I’ve just been on the Ryanair site to check availability of £1 flights in their latest one million £1 ticket promotion. I had a quick search for flights from Edinburgh, my local Ryanair hub, departing around the 29th of September for stays between 3 – 7 nights. I was able to find several [...]

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Rock and Blues Showcase

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The Blues Underground, 10 Lois Lane under the China Steps, Nanaimo, is having it?s first Adult Rock and Blues Showcase at 7 pm on Saturday, July 18, 2009.

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New dates added for museum sleepovers for kids

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The American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday announced additional dates for its popular “A Night at the Museum” sleepover program, which allows kids the chance to sleep under the big blue whale and trek the halls by flashlight.The cost[...]

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Subscriber Competition: Win one of 5 copies of
Lost on Planet China

post from itravelnet.com Travel Blog on 15 July 2009 08:12:00 AM. © itravelnet.com Travel Blog

I have 5 copies to giveaway of Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, by J. Maarten Troost.

What is it about? Amazon describes the book as follows:

Maarten Troost is a laowai (foreigner) in the Middle Kingdom, ill-equipped with a sliver of Mandarin, questing to discover the "essential Chineseness" of an ancient and often mystifying land.

Featuring visits to Mao's George Hamiltonian corpse and a rural market offering Siberian Tiger paw, cobra hearts, and scorpion kebabs (in the food section), Lost on Planet China is a funny and engrossing trip across a nation that increasingly demands the world's attention.

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JC Nagar Main Road (Munireddypalya)

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A typical neighbourhood photo studio in Benglur.Digital photography hasn't killed neighbourhood[...]

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Mysterious Edinburgh & Harry Potter

post from Travel selections on 15 July 2009 05:29:00 AM. © Travel selections

By Michael Drewell
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. It is beside the Ben Nevis mountain and Loch Ness .With beautiful scenery and wet climate, it is judged to be one of the most beautiful city in Britain and there is a special name for it ?Northern Switzerland?. The Edinburgh castle is the mark of Edinburgh city. It attracts many visitors because of the special enchantment. With the birth of Harry Potter, more mysterious feeling was added to this famous castle.

You will feel it is the middle ages of Europe when you are walking on the street of Edinburgh, and you will pay much respect to this city because Edinburgh is the witness of the history filled by iron and blood. There are many stories between England and Scotland, and you can find many cannons, circumvallation, battle memorials and museums. Edinburgh is built on the highest place of urban area. You can see all sights of this area by it.

Edinburgh castle was used as service stronghold, palace, and national prison until the sixth century, and then it was used as royal fortress from the sixth century to middle-ages. With the built up of Holy Rood Palace, Edinburgh was replaced, but it is still fond by Scotland royalty. Royal Mile is a famous street of Edinburgh where there are many royal building. The sculpture of St. Giles' Cathedral is just like a Scotland crown whose colorful glass and exquisite woodcarving are all amazing. At the end of the street is the Palace of Holy Roodhouse where the Scottish Queen Mary had lived before.

Edinburgh is the focus of the world in August to September every year. There are many performances such as music, opera, drama and dance. The Edinburgh arts festival was founded in 1947 as after a devastating war, an optimistic expression was needed to the European to restore their life. Every year, artists from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia, Georgia, Lebanon, Turkey, Palestine, Israel and Iran come there together with particular challenges on their own domains and they bring a lot of happiness to visitors.

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Bali Develop Lake Buyan in Buleleng

post from Indonesia Vacations on 15 July 2009 05:06:09 AM. © Indonesia Vacations

Bali Develop Lake Buyan in Buleleng

?Ecotourism Heaven? is the next Buleleng regency?s project to develop Lake Buyan in Buleleng. Putu Bagiada, the Buleleng regent, and PT. Anantara Investors said that both of the parties in Bali were ready for invest money to developing The Lake Buyan into a ?Buyan Ecotourism Heaven?.

Lake Buyan in Buleleng, located in the Sukasada district, is one of the triplet lake situated within a massive caldera. These triplet lake are separated by a vast wild forest. Lake Tamblingan is on its west, while lake Baratan is on its east.

Lake Baratan has been developed into a tourist destination. Near to the largest botanical garden in Bali called Eka Karya, it becomes a favorite weekend getaway for the residents of Bali?s southern urban cities. Lake Baratan is also famous with its Ulun Danu, one of the most important water temples on the island.

Unfortunately, these triplet lakes have been getting shallower over the years due to sedimentation caused by the villas? construction in the areas that take away water absorption space. The result is causing mud to be carried away into the lakes and the lakes become shallower. The local agricultural practices, which use chemical fertilizers, have also been blamed for ruining the quality of the lake?s water.

Liliah Sukoco, as the Anantara commissioner, said that if Anantara were to be given the mandate to develop Lake Buyan, its main concern was to maintain the area?s natural beauty. It was also confirmed by Putu Bagiada. He said that ?We want to restore this area to its original grandeur, with its original culture and look.

Liliah mentioned that Antara plans to develop the 60-hectare area in and around Lake Buyan in Buleleng. It could absorb up to 1000 workers and also to dredge the land under the lake bed to allow it to absorb more water and soil.

However, these are still in the proposal. If the proposal is agreed by government, then the whole plans can be preceded.

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Traveling to Lampung and Palembang

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Traveling to Lampung and Palembang

Lampung

Although Bali is still the most desired tourism destination for domestic and foreign tourist, there are many other tourism destination offering amazing and unforgetable experiences. Some of them are Traveling to Lampung and Palembang.

Lampung is located on the hill with an ocean panorama in the Sumatra Island. It will be the appropiate destination for people from Jakarta who look for a relaxing weekend. Lampung is a city with uncrowded highways, so that you will not be tired when you're traveling there.

Lampung has a long history before it is as what we see now. Lampung used to be a part of Palembang region. Later on 1905 - 1942, it was developed as a colonial region by the Dutch government. The history continued until Lampung became the capital of the province. The capital was the integration of two old town called Teluk Belitung and Tanjung Karang. Transportation and accomodation available in this city is good enough, including the buses, train, and shopping centers.

There's a commomerade monument of Mt. Krakatau eruption located in Dipangga Park at Teluk Belitung. This monument is made of sea sign weighed about half of ton. This sign was thorwn away because of the tsunami wave caused by the Mt. Krakatau eruption in 1883.

Lampung holds many potentials that many bussinessmen interested to spread their wings to this province. For example. Garuda airlines opens new rutes for domestic and regional destinations. Garuda will support these new rutes with brand new Boeing 737 NG airlines. S0me of the tourism objects in Lampung are Pasir Putih and Kalianda Beach.

Pasir Putih

Kalianda beach

Pasir Putih is located at 16km to the south of Bandar Lampung city. With the view of Lampung golf, you can spend a great vacation there. While Kalianda is a beach at 30km away of Bakauheni harbour. For those who seek for a relaxed and peaceful place, Kalianda beach is the right destination. Kalianda is also a peaceful town with the view of Lampung gulf and Mt. Rajabasa. With the developed tourism potentials, your vacation is likely to be the unforgetable one.

Lampung also offers the tourist a variety of souvenirs. For those who love traditional handycraft, there are beautiful wall decorations and waved cloth that can be bought for the loved ones. Or if you love culiner, you can buy variety of delicious snacks to be taken home. If you happen to visit Lampung on around November to February, you will find many local people selling durian along the street witha quite cheap price.

Palembang

Palembang as the capital of south Sumatra province has a closely related history with Lampung. One piece of history that connected Lampung and Palembang is the developing train is history in Sumatra Island.

Eventhough the train in Sumatra is not as old as in Java, that had been built since 1864, the train in Sumatra held on importance role during the Dutch invansion. Unlike the train in Java, that's used for material transportation such as harvest and mining materials.

Hindie - Dutch Government started to get interested in building the trail's train since November 1905. The goverenment relocated 115 families from Karang Anyar, Kebumen, Purworedjo (Central Java( to Gedong Tataan, Lampung. Then the new region was named Bagelen.

Some of the tourism objects that you can visit in South Sumatra Province is Mt. Dempo that's located in Lahat region. It is the highest mountain in South Sumatra. It takes about 6 hours to go to Mt. Dempo from Palembang. Another object in Palembang is Ranau Lake that's located in Valleys, and it becomes one of the tourism icon there. And don't forget to try Pempek (popular traditional food in Palembang) when you're visiting Palembang.

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Some pictures of Ranau Lake

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Vacation to Sindangbarang (The Cultural Village)

Vacation to Sindangbarang
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Are you bored spending your weekend in Jakarta? Why don't you try to go Vacation to Sindangbarang?. Sindangbarang Cultural Village located in Bogor can be a choice to consider. In this cultural village, the tourist can live in the traditional Sundanese houses in the eastside of Mt. Salak. This cultural cillage is located in Pasir Eurih village in Bogor region.

There are 28 houses situated on 8.600m2 area of village. These buildings used to be the houses of the tribe chiefs in the traditional Sundanese era.

The guests can stay and interact with the village's residents. They can see and learn the daily lives of local people. The renting money are used by the residents to preserve their environment.

According to the statistic data issued by government cultural institution in Bogor, there are 78 cultural sites in Sindangbarang. Some of them are Jalatunda water source, bagenda Park, Punden Majusi, Menhir, Dolmen, and so on.

These are cultural sites located in the sacred village, rice fields or garden. It is likely that some other sites had been damaged or lost. Sindangbarang was the 20th cultural village in West Java.

According to the Vacation to Sindangbarang Cultural Village chief named Achmad Mikami Sumawijaya, the village's cultural tradition had been lost for 32 years. Now, this cultural tradition becomes an attraction to the tourist. That's way cultural tradition such as Seren Taun is now held on a regular basis.

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Five Reasons Why Tourist Love To Goes To Bali

Five Reasons Why The Tourist Love
To Goes To Bali

Picture of Tanah Lot, Bali

Goes to Bali then you will get unforgettable experiences. Bali Island is the second tourist spot after Hawaii. Bali became more popular after the bombing in Bali. The bombing tragedies happened on the year of 2002. It was terrible and I can't forget it. Bali was suffer during the tragedy. Now after some years, Bali recovered and many international tourist now coming back to Bali. Even they are building the securities to make the tourist feel safe and secure during their facation. Goes to bali, you will get very great international facilities, the Hotels, Airport, popular café and nightclubs now is keeping with detector. They are keep trying to improve the Information, and technology communication such as internet connection, and they promote to goes to bali and make Bali more popular than ever. The international tourists goes to bali depend of the season. European and American tourist prefer to come on June to July, but Asian tourist are more interested to come on August. Most of domestic tourist are interested to come on September until December.

Hari Raya Nyepi is a big religion day for Balinese so that Bali will be closed to visitor out side. There will be no light, car passing , or store opened. In this Nyepi Day, Balinese stay at home, they are not eating, and turn off the light. The International Airport in Bali is Ngurah Ray Airport is also closed, there will no departure and no arriving passengers.

There are some reasons to goes to Bali, they are..

1. The culture is still Pure
Balinese still follow Hinduism strong. They really devote their life for their religion (Hindust) . When going around there, you'll see so many buildings called pura, it looks like temple. The tradition of Balinese life from their birth until death. They fstill do the ceremony. You will see Ngaben, Kuningan, Galungan, Nyepi, and some else ceremony at Bali.

The Balinese artist creates some dances which is of soul of art. They also make statue which is created reflect of the Hinduism. You will see the Kecak dance and Barongsai dance performances from small village or studio until 5 stars Hotel.
Balinese are never interfered by the others culture, although so many tourist goes to bali, they never stopped.

Picture of Barong Dance

2. Balinese people are very friendly
Balinese are very popular with their smiling face. Balinese are always friendly and welcome to the tourist. Even if you are white you will not feel like strangers.

3. The Craft are Excellent
Many Balinese are tend to be artist. Most of them like to paint, some like to carving and make very beautiful craft. I suggest you ton visit Antonio Blanco Museum, the is a painter who is married to a Balinese woman. You can go to his market center which is called Sukowati Art . There you will always guide by craft seller. But becareful with the craft seller, sometime they like to beg or push you to buy the crafts.

4. So many be beautiful places that you would like to visit
In Bali, you will never have time to rest. There are so many interesting places, that you would regret if you not visit. The scenery are very natural, goes to Nusa dua beach you can see International cruise ship to go to diving and snorkling or do water sports. You can also go to bedugul, and Tanpak siring. Kuta Beach Bali is most popular one and legian street have many international facilities. I love Tanah lot temple, you can see the amazing sunset there.

Picture of the sunset in Tanah Lot, Bali

Kuta Beach Bali

Picture of Kuta Beach, Bali

5. It is very safe now
Bali and Indonesian police has been trying hard to improve their security. After the Bali bombing tragedies the Stars hotel and café provide detector facilities.

So goes to bali now, and have fun!

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