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Ravello, in the South of Naples, is one of the most beautiful places in Italy with the Amalfi Coast and steep rocky cliffs dropping to the edge of the deep blue sea, represents an exquisite and unmatchable landscape. Panoramic beauty of the place: Ravello is an adventure in itself and the town remains almost untouched to the crowd of tourists. It seems like the hairpin bends that drop off into ravines of most exotic panorama. The sight gives the town a view like hovering above the gulf of Salerno and makes the place look like heaven.

The Maine State Aquarium is the aquarium that showcases sea life around Boothbay and beyond. The pride of the Aquarium is a collection of extraordinary lobsters of all sizes and colors. It is located on the water in beautiful West Boothbay Harbor, Maine and is operated by the Maine Department of Marine Resources. It is an educational facility that was built in 1993 along with the state’s new fisheries research station. The interior floor plan, support systems and exhibits were completed in 1995. It has main gallery which resembles the rocky coast of Maine.

Madagascar: is an island country located off Mozambique, Africa.The unique lemurs, reptilian turle and tortoises, and colorful birds available in this particular part of the world; is what makes Madagascar a great place to visit for nature lovers. According to some, the Madagascar island is a world apart or rather known as alternate world. Just like the Brazil’s Mata Atlantica, the Madagascar island is also known as a biological diversity hotspot. Currently, the island hosts about roughly 12000 plant species.

If you are a music lover, and wish to mingle yourself with singers or do some singing yourself then visit to the choral festivals taking place this summer is a must. Whether experienced from within the chorus or from the audience outside, there is a universal appeal to the unique sound of music made by groups of people using their own voices. You can hear classic and modern choral works directed by the conductors, in settings ranging from a lavish California performance hall to a hockey rink in Massachusetts.

Since today is anti tobacco day, it is a good idea to book you stays in totally smoke free hotels. Hotel Magician gets you a choice of over 3,100 smoke-free hotels for visitors to choose. Image credit Hotels have long had Smoking and Non-Smoking rooms, but there has been such a decrease in demand for the smoking rooms that hotels are starting to get rid of the smoking rooms altogether. This lowers cleaning costs and eliminates complaints from non-smokers. Hotel Magician lists hotels in Europe, Australia, and a surprising 17 hotels in Thailand that have gone completely smoke-free.

From thirty thousand feet in the air when the KLM airbus was passing over the Lake Baikal, I wondered how it is down there. Baikal is a place of Wonder. It’s a place where you get mountains, forests, cheerful and hospitable people and some wild roaring rivers. But, even before I get into the details, [...]

Kurt Repanshek launched the National Parks weblog back in August 2005. This has become a great medium to share news, views and thoughts on National Parks. Although Repanshek claims the blog not to be a travel log, the blog is still a sort of travel log. Recently, the NPT website got revamped. The latest website [...]

The Sydney Opera House Forbes Traveler website has voted Sydney’s iconic Opera House as one of the world’s top tourist attractions. It is the only attraction in the Southern Hemisphere with more than four million annual visitors. Times Square in New York topped the list with an estimated 35 million visitors while Trafalgar Square (No. [...]

Every year World Travel Awards fever hits the travel community around the world, building to the crescendo of the annual Awards Presentation. It’s the premier global event which aims to promote excellence in the travel and tourism industry. Thousands of travel professionals cast their favorites on the web and anxiously wait to learn who will [...]

The next space race is on, and this time it’s for the masses. I shouldn’t have used the word ‘masses’ as the mesmerizing voyage is meant for those uber-rich only who can afford $200,000 per seat to enrich themselves with that zero-gravity weightlessness. But, space travel is not that painless as it might be prone [...]