The flag of any country is not just a piece of cloth that symbolizes their country. It is much more than that. A flag is the epitome of their independence, their values and their culture. It bears historical significance and has a place of pride and respect in the hearts of the countrymen. Every flag ...
No one goes on an adventure tour with the thought that he won't make it back alive. The whole point is to push the envelope and live to tell the tale. It's unclear what Markus Groh thought when he signed up for a late February dive that could put him face-to-face with killer sharks spanning 18 feet in ...
Flights to Jamaica are already available from London and Manchester, but from May 2008 a new route is opening up from Birmingham, meaning that many more British travellers can enjoy everything that sunny, smiling Jamaica has to offer.
Let’s begin with the people. As the country’s motto so ...
Barack Hussein Obama (Senator Obama’s father) was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Alego, Kenya. He met and married an American woman, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, while they were both attending the University of Hawaii. Their son, also named Barack Hussein Obama was born on 4 August 1961 ...
Friends may shake their heads in disbelief if told this winter holiday you’d prefer to shimmy up a frozen waterfall rather than sip cocktails at sunset in an island paradise.
Even if the only ice you’d ever seen was in a fridge you can learn to climb vertical walls of it in just one day; ...
The Waitomo Caves, 200km from Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand have been attracting visitors to masses of glow worms and incredible limestone formations since the late 1800’s.
That is still the case but the caves have moved on offering much more daring activities, like an exciting 100 ...
Graded as difficult the Cascade Saddle Route starts at Raspberry Creek car park, 54 km from Wanaka in Mt Aspiring National Park, New Zealand’s third largest park.
With scenery rivalling the Milford Track, Mt Aspiring National Park is home to one of New Zealand’s Great Walks, the Routeburn ...
Some 90,000 runners, two million cheering spectators, and some 300 million more TV viewers around the world make the annual New York City Marathon the world's biggest and most important road race, on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007.
The race attracts many world-class professional athletes, who are competing for ...
On our arrival in Louis Trichard, we were welcomed by Marius Gilfillan from Carousel Lodge who accompanied us into the SAFCOR forestry area from where the famous Hanglip (previously called Hangklip) could be viewed. We visited the Hanglip Picnic site and Motane forest where all the trees are marked for ...
But what gave me pause was floating on my back through a cavern so tight that I’d have to tilt my head back so that my nose was nearly against the ceiling so I could breathe. The thought of lying in a cold, dark river with rock closing in: that seemed a bit too much like shutting the coffin lid. ...
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