Archive for February, 2007

Feb15

Emerald Island (Part 1)

If somewhere also there is a fantastic emerald country, it is, certainly, Ireland. It is difficult to say, who exactly has painted it in emerald color (whether great and awful Goodwin, whether local house painters in a green special clothes, whether the nature-mother, whether all together), but only other tones in the Irish palette are [...]

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Feb14

Road of death

Any road can be unsafe to a certain extent. But some roads are really very dangerous. An old road in Bolivian province Yungas (North Yungas Road) is considered as the most dangerous road in the world and is known as “Road of death”.
Annually the road “takes” lives of 100-200 people. According to one of the [...]

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Feb13

Malta and the United Arab Emirates will provide new visa regimes

Since autumn 2007 a new procedure entry visas registration for Malta is to be implemented. Such changes are caused by Malta’s membership in EU and preparation of all Maltese external correspondence in accordance with the Schengen standards. Now visa regime for Malta will be more complicated: copies of passports of tourists will be forwarded to [...]

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Feb12

The best hotels of the world will take care not only of adult clients, but also about their youngest visitors

Recently, a system of new hotels’ “stars’ estimation” has been introduced. Nowadays, such questions as how much the hotel cares of the smallest visitors; whether it possesses all necessary services for their high-grade rest are becoming more and more important.  However, the category of hotels’ stars is defined not by the presence “necessary” services, but [...]

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Feb10

St. Valentine’s tourist tours

Many tour operators suggest “sweet” couples to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day in a special way and offer them romantic tours to Rome, Milan or Paris at a discount. The cost of romantic trips is 30-40 % cheaper from the usual tourist tour. Besides, February is a time of student’s vacations, so, budgetary tours to the [...]

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Feb9

Tourist routes will be opened in vaults of the Prague underground

The interesting idea of reception of the additional income has occurred to heads of the Prague underground.
The majority of modern mega cities inhabitants use periodically the underground. However one more life is hidden from the eyes of passengers behind facades of underground stations and the walls of tunnels. Secrets of inaccessible (for passengers) underground world [...]

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Feb8

Your state of health onboard of the plane

For many travelers air flight is uneasy test. The stress during rise and landings, psychological discomfort, motion disease, the drafts, dried up air - all this is a unpleasant prelude to rest or traveling everyday lives. And even if you are skilled “bird”, our advice how to keep good state of health onboard, will be [...]

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Feb7

«Transplantation tourism» frightens legal experts

In China the present boom of transplantation is eager to be started. More and more foreigners come to China to receive donor bodies without the turn. However the western legal experts in the new report approve, that many Chinese become donors not at the will. According to these data, bodies the killed prisoners of local [...]

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Feb6

Budgetary hotels have appeared after budgetary airlines

So-called low-cost companies offering unusually low tariffs for the flights, for more then ten years occupy a significant niche in the market of passenger transportations. The Accor hotel chain, announcing, budgetary rest in the hotels, has decided to follow the lead of airlines.  
In particular, in the French hotels of a network under name Formule1 clients [...]

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Feb5

Britain meets the bird’s flu

The season, which has come in Asia with rains and cool weather, has provoked prompt distribution of the bird’s flu in extensive territories from Egypt up to Japan. Now Indonesia is on the first place among the Asian countries by quantity of victims from disease by the bird’s flu. In the meantime the rains, going in [...]

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