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Skywalking in Russia (via Edukalife) Skywalking is the latest photography fad in Russia, where thrill-seeking climbers seek o ...

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How Safe Is Pakistan? (via PBS News Hour) By: Daniel Sagalyn Barbed wire outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan’s ca ...

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Stories about Japan: • Japan's long way back after the tsunami • Bond movie shot on Japanese secret island • Tsukiji, Tok ...

TRAVEL DATING ONLINE MISSTRAVEL REVIEWS arely has a dating website been launched with as much fanfare as was the case with M ...

TOKYO, JAPAN. f you have one week to spend in Tokyo, you've got a problem. If you have a lifetime, you might be OK. As many have ...

HOW TO TRAVEL FOR FREE 5 STRATEGIES he subject of free travels has lured more than one travel blogger and backpacker to google fo ...

HONG KONG QUICK GUIDE here sometimes are books that make you want to travel places. One such story – having been filmed in part s ...

Travel and Adventure: The Kenai Peninsula: Where Alaskans go for vacation (via Observer-Dispatch) Alaska is so vast that tryi ...

GUIDE Stockholm archipelago's Top-Five islands STOCKHOLM ARCHIPELAGO TRAVEL GUIDE s summer approaches, recreational skippers fr ...

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Despite tension, NKorea lets in tourists, athletes (via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Despite Nort ...

Six wounded in Boston Marathon blasts: media (via AFP) At least six people were wounded when two large explosions struck near ...

Updated hings didn't go as expected when a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 on Saturday attempted to land in Bali on Saturday with over 10 ...

STOCKHOLM RESTAURANTS avid the chef had worked fancy restaurants for years around the Swedish capital of Stockholm. But in 2011, ...

Lake Natron, Tanzania (via Edukalife) Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, an ...

LIVING ON WATER FLOATING HOMES OF STOCKHOLM tockholm was built on islands, and water is always present around the Swedish capital ...

he Obama administration in Washington has upgraded the threat of a acute crisis in the region, though military experts doubt North ...

N. Korea urges foreigners in South to evacuate (via AFP) North Korea said Tuesday the Korean peninsula was headed for "thermo ...

China to open disputed islands to tourism: official (via AFP) China is to open disputed South China Sea islands up to tourism ...

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fter having spent several hours on hard sofas at an airport, waiting for a delayed flight, the passenger decided it was time to do ...

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LATEST TRAVEL WARNINGS he Traveling Reporter routinely scans the news flow for travel warnings. While this is far from a complete ...

Philippines bets on joining gaming elite with mega casino (via AFP) President Benigno Aquino opened a giant $1.2 billion casino ...

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BBC to sell Lonely Planet at £80 mn loss (via AFP) The BBC's commercial arm is selling the Lonely Planet travel guide busines ...

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war correspondent's worst nightmare - kidnapped behind enemy lines. That's what happened to NBC's Richard Engel while on assignme ...

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Can Nicaragua protect the waters it won? (via The Christian Science Monitor) Fishermen in San Andrés may choose drug smugglin ...

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LONGER LINES AT US BORDERS. Drastic cuts mean long lines for US travelers (via AFP) Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP/FilePeople ...

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The deserted Hashima Island, Japan, where Bond's Skyfall was shot. TRAVEL BLOGS WE LIKE SEADESTINATION.COM ometimes the easie ...

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TOKYO — TSUKIJI FISH MARKET t is just after five o'clock in the morning and the sun hasn't yet risen over Tokyo. Streets and aven ...

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Russian tourists boost Spain's tourism sector (via AFP) Big-spending Russian tourists are flocking to Spain's beaches and fam ...

at about sleeping in an old Mercedes Benz? Or in an old airplane cabin? Why not in a tree house? Unusualhotelsoftheworld.com has t ...

country that is every now and then hit by earthquakes must have hot springs to take warm baths in, you might reason, and it turns ...

MYANMAR AWAKENING fter decades of political suppression under Burma's military regime, a new era dawns over the country's tou ...

Argentina's wine industry savors progress, still struggles (via AFP) Argentina has built up a world-class wine industry, luri ...

THE BOUNTY'S FINAL VOYAGE The magazine Online has published a great story, written by Kathryn Miles, about the fate of the fa ...

Thousands of dolphins swarm into ‘super mega-pod’ off San Diego coast (via Raw Story ) It’s an incredibly rare si ...

6 Rapists Arrested in Mexico (via NewsLook) Authorities in Mexico have arrested six men who confessed to the rape of six ...

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ACAPULCO, MEXICO n the early morning hours on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, according to press reports, five masked and armed men stormed ...

  FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE TRIUMPH   The Carnival Triumph gets towed to port by three tugs. ...

CARNIVAL TRIUMPH BREAKDOWN More details are surfacing about the "terrible" conditions aboard the disabled cruise ship Carniva ...

Disabled cruise ship with 4,200 aboard to head for US port (via AFP) A cruise ship packed with 4,200 travelers was adrift ...

CARNIVAL TRIUMPH FIASCO. Conditions aboard the stranded cruise ship Carnival Triumph, left without propulsion in the Gulf of Mexic ...

VATICAN TOURISM s the Pope made headlines Monday announcing his resignation by the end of February, the Vatican struggled with an ...

Mexico police question eight in rape of six tourists (via AFP) Mexican investigators questio ...

WORLD'S ZANIEST U-TURN MOVIE. See how this driver tries to make an U-turn in a tiny car on this narrow street in Naples, Italy – a ...

ometimes we go over the river for water when we set our travel destinations. The Inca ruins of Peru may be well worth seeing, ...

Port Authority announces 'large majority' of flights canceled tonight (via NJ.com) The Port Authority of New York and New J ...

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WASHINGTON DC cold, gloomy, windy, snowy day in January, two frozen tourists with too thin clothes, having just arrived from ...

WEATHER TRAVEL WARNING: NEMO BLIZZARD (Updated Saturday 3 PM) 700,000 are reported to be without power and at least five peop ...

American Airlines/US Airways merger new mega-airline is underway, as American Airlines parent AMR and US Airways are finalizing ...

Dreamliner no-fly forces ANA to cancel 681 more flights (via AFP) Japan's All Nippon Airways ...

AIRLINE FLIGHT SERVICES. ales campaigns isn't the only means by which airlines compete for customers. A hot trend these days, o ...

Destination: Fiji (via LAX Magazine) Fiji actually consists of 332 islands of which only 110 ...

MIAMI BEACH/ORLANDO, FLORIDA. Liked by Traveling Reporter! he Sunshine state has something to offer any time of the year. I ...

Travel officials work to drive tourists back to post-Sandy Jersey Shore (via NJ.com) At a tr ...

China's mass annual New Year migration begins (via AFP) The world's largest annual migration ...

Cuba internet: Wired, but not connected (via GlobalPost) Analysis: Why the island’s inte ...

  TRAVEL GUIDE: From Alicante to Málaga in 10 days Traveling Reporter likes! • Download our free PDF guide on this trip! ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA. s NASA and the part of Florida known as the 'Space Coast' is trying to reshape its selfimage after ...

AIR TICKET SALES. Several European and Asian airlines run sales campaigns in January and February, all trying to beat competitors ...

Have passport, will travel under new Cuban law (via AFP) They didn't jump for joy, but they ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. Within 48 hours we'll be on a plane with destination Miami, Florida. I can't begin to tell how much I look forw ...

CUBA TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS. Cuban president Raul Castro is easing travel restrictions for Cubans, throwing overboard the former rule ...

VICTORIA FALLS, ZAMBIA/ZIMBABWE.  bridge crosses the Zambezi River right on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Heavy with tr ...

A NEW TRAVELING REPORTER. I'm proud to announce the first major redesign of the Traveling Reporter in almost a year, since the sit ...

SURVEY. The Traveling Reporter usually does not publish press releases. But this one we found interesting, a list surveying the to ...

El Capitan mountain, Yosemite valley. Travel Photo Thursday: Yosemite in Winter (via Tales Told From The Road) If you’v ...

    AIRLINE SAFETY. Fire broke out on an empty Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet, parked at a gate in Boston on Monday ...

Standing on relatively solid ground in the midst of the European debt crisis is Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel gearing up ...

  FROM SATELLITE. The world's great rivers have attracted populations, seen sprawling civilizations rise and fall, and pro ...

  Seconds later, the plane breaks in two. CURIOSITY PLANE CRASH. For research purposes, scientists have crashed an air ...

  LAS VEGAS. After the gambling is done, you'll need some comfort. That's why USA Today's Travel section has listed Las Ve ...

TRAVEL FOOD BLOGS. Food is a reason as good as any to travel somewhere. Or anywhere. Probably because if this fact, there are load ...

Plan B for business in Beirut to avoid bust (via AFP) As civil war rages in neighbouring Syr ...

  ANALYSIS: NEW TRAVEL TRENDS 2013. With a new year ahead, travel planning gets a fresh start. Some say the world has ...

  BEST TRAVELS 2013. Inevitably this time of the year, lists are published pinpointing the upcoming year's best travel ...

  Slim design makes it possible to fit the Hitachi MX3 in your back pocket. TEST: Hitachi Touro Mobile MX3 review. Eve ...

  With these two photos from Mexico and Peru I'm participating the People Pics Competition: View over Colca Canyon, ...

Sweden ice hotel: work of art for the here-and-now (via AFP) In a small Arctic town in Sweden, a construction crew bundled ...

Airline profits improve to $8.4 billion in 2013, mainly due to cost cuts and restructuring measures taken to compensate for stalli ...

  NEW YEARS EVE 2012 DESTINATIONS. Hurry up to polish your new year's promises, stock up on champagne and buy the ...

Travel Photo Thursday: Making Pictures “Pop” with Photoshop (via Tales Told From The Road) In last week’s “Travel Photo Thu ...

Fun in Cancun – Spring Break is coming up. SPRING BREAK DEALS. Just as summer starts gearing down, it's time to start planning ...

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SNOW STORM: SWEDEN FLIGHTS CANCELED (UDPATEED 11 AM Thursday): Air traffic in Sweden was struggling with heavy delays Wednesday as ...

  NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: SNOW CHAOS — From Sweden, Ukraine and Russia to the United States and Canada, weather forecasters a ...

  Demonstrations that turned into violence were reported from Egypt. Photo: BBC EGYPT: VIOLENT PROTESTS IN CAIRO, ALEX ...

TSUKIJI FISH MARKET TO CLOSE — The famous Tsukiji fish market, the world’s largest fish market and a must-see slice of T ...

  STOCKHOLM FOOD CRUISE. In Sweden, Christmas food is not only an affair for the last days of December. Bound by long ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. At last, a new travel adventure is underway this winter – Florida! I've been to the Sunshine State several time ...

→ RELATED Read the Traveling Reporter's story from Thursday about Syria being cut off from Internet here. Clashes around ...

Syrian government shut down Internet Thursday. SYRIA: INTERNET, MOBILE BLACKOUT — The Syrian government shut down the Internet ...

  It's not the Alps, but it can certainly be worthwhile to head up in the northern part of Sweden for a fun day or two of ...

  Ceiling detail of Sagrada Familia. Photo: seattlestravels.com SEATTLESTRAVELS.COM. It's one of the world's finest ar ...

Among the recent travel warnings the Reporter has singled out the following: MEXICO: The US State Department has updated its pr ...

TRAVEL WARNINGS UPDATE Live blog – follow the Traveling Reporter's travel warnings update. Traveling Reporter's warnings ...

  Crisis-hit Scandinavian carrier SAS was struggling for survival Monday morning. SAS AIRLINE CRISIS (UPDATED). Crisis ...

  WHEN OFF THE JOB: TRAVEL AND LEISURE In order to see the world, we need time away from our jobs. That we can all agr ...

  Download Traveling Reporter's guide for the Yasawas islands, Fiji. Scan QR code to read in your smartphone!YASAWAS ...

  SAS in crisis continues to slash jobs and cut costs, it said Monday.   AIRLINE JOBS: SAS CUTS MORE TO SURVIVE. ...

  Check out our travel guide to Southern Spain — 8 pages with directions, photos & maps! SOUTHERN SPAIN TRAVEL GUI ...

  Download our Teotihuacan travel guide as a nicely edited PDF file! Scan QR code to read story in your smartphone! ...

  Lélé Vietnamese restaurant, Copenhagen. All photos: Traveling Reporter Liked by Traveling Reporter! COPENHAGEN R ...

  Download our story from The Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, Australia, as a PDF file! Scan the QR code with your smartp ...

  Obama's tweet declaring "Four more years" in the White House. OBAMA WINS ELECTION (Updated). After a close run, key ...

See America by Train (via Clean Me) See America by Train By John Pitt All aboard! The USA ha ...

Luxury Irish hotel sells for half 2007 price (via AFP) A luxury Irish hotel made famous in ...

  A surveillance camera shows the New York City subway being flooded. Sandy Update: Travels in the northeastern part ...

  The LaGuardia was flooded by hurricane Sandy. NEW YORK CITY AIRPORTS. One of three of New York City's three major ai ...

  Ship stranded on the U.S. east coast after Sandy. Cars in NYC drowned by Sandy flooding. HURRICANE SANDY UPD ...

The HMS Bounty, which sank Monday off North Carolina in the hurricane Sandy. HURRICANE SANDY UPDATE. Tall ship HMS Bounty sank ...

  LIVE TV: The Telegraph MORE LIVE COVERAGE HERE Video: Washington Post WEBCAM: Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge web ...

  TV Tracking Sandy, the Superstorm ...

  VIDEO Boats used as Sandy floods streets (Updated) HURRICANE SANDY — 10,000 FLIGHTS CANCELLED. Hurricane Sandy is ...

    James Bond's latest round of travels includes Istanbul, Turkey. More to read: • CNN: Istanbul tra ...

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GUEST TRAVEL BLOG POST Nikole Souza One of the most important things I've learned in my 21 short years of life is that travel e ...

  Liked by Traveling Reporter! TEOTIUACAN QUICK GUIDE. Its origin some 2,200 years ago is shrouded in the depths of hi ...

  Reader's Choice of the best hotels, cities, airlines and more from Condé Nast. CNTRAVELER.COM Condé Nast Traveler ma ...

PHILIPPINES. Muslim rebels in the Philippine Milf guerrilla and the Philippine government overcame decades of bitter hostility and ...

  EDITOR'S BLOG. On Sunday, Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner made history with his free fall to from an altitude ...

ADVENTURE. Austrian sky adventurer Felix Baumgartner set new world record, after achieving the highest free jump in history from ...

  SOLO TRAVELS. It has been debated for ages: Are you better off traveling alone, increasing your possibility to meet ...

  Seattlestravels.com. SEATTLESTRAVELS.COM We've reported about Seattle's Travels's blog before, with this post, and d ...

  A border crossing between Syria and Turkey.   TURKEY TRAVEL WARNING. Warnings are coming in regarding the so ...

  Liked by Traveling Reporter! CAIRNS AUSTRALIA TRAVEL GUIDE. It is not much of a city – but the ocean has the more to ...

Ex-Nepal rebel chief launches guerrilla tourist trail (via AFP) The one-time leader of Nep ...

  Is this a dangerous place? Iran thinks so. Elsewhere, Canada is considered safe. RECENT TRAVEL WARNINGS. The US Stat ...

  A camel rider at the Egyptian pyramids. EGYPT TRAVELS. Tourism in Egypt stands for a large part of the country's eco ...

  World's fastest man having breakfast in a Sydney hotel with his buddies. Photo: jetflyboy/hotelchatter.com HOTELCHAT ...

  Yukon, Canada. Photo: Katie Lambert/Matadornetwork.com. MATADORNETWORK.COM. Wilderness, forests, friendly people – a ...

A supposedly burger-hungry Benghazi Libyan fighter. Photo: Mike Elkin/Roadsandkingdoms.com ROADSANDKINGDOMS.COM is something m ...

HIMALAYAN AVALANCHE. Nepal deaths revive fears over Himalayan safety (via AFP) A surge i ...

  Buenos Aires is not all about steaks. Photo: Viventura.com   VIVENTURA.COM. Argentina is the land of juicy m ...

  Cycle yourself to a great dinner. Photo: National Geographic INTELLIGENTTRAVEL.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM. Arguably the ...

Surreal views atop the volcano. Photo: Seattle Dredge/seattlestravels.com SEATTLETRAVELS.COM. This is one of my favorite blogs ...

  Paris's Dejean market is known as "Little Africa". Photograph: Alamy/Guardian VINGTPARISMAGAZINE.COM. Africa is grea ...

  Rio steps up drive to clean up city's biggest slum (via AFP) Brazilian authorities ...

  Marieta Island’s hidden Beach, Mexico. CIERRATUATHA.WORDPRESS.COM. This underground beach, Marieta Island’s hidden B ...

  Photos by curtwphank.tumblr.com CURTWPHANK.TUMBLR.COM. These pictures, posted by curtwphank on Tumblr, are worth a f ...

      The editor. EDITOR'S BLOG. Internet is all about sharing stuff back and forth, they say, ...

  Iguanas in Equador. Photo: 2backpacker.com 2BACKPACKERS.COM. Sometimes you don't have to venture into the wilderness ...

  San Marino castle. Photo: 501places.com 501 PLACES. BBC producer and traveler Andy Jarosz has been to San Marino, a ...

  How much to tip? Tripandtravelblog.com has the answer. TRAVEL BLOG WATCH. It is the eternal travel question: How muc ...

    View over Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's largest favela that was taken back by the police in November 2011. ...

    Liked by Traveling Reporter! ROCINHA, RIO DE JANEIRO. t was a magnificent PR coup. Even before night ...

TRAVEL WARNING. US State Department officials have upgraded their ongoing caution about the travel risks in Pakistan, explicitly a ...

Hezbollah warns US over film as toll rises (via AFP) Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah warned ...

GIANT CRUISE SHIP. The Celebrity Reflection, Celebrity Cruises’ fifth ship in its Solstice class of vessels, has left the Meye ...

  Welcome to Coasts and Mountains – a travel magazine from TravelingReporter.com Coasts and Mountains — a new, free, onlin ...

Canada shuts embassies in Cairo, Tripoli, Khartoum (via AFP) Canada closed its embassies i ...

RISK FOR AL-QAEDA ATTACKS. Qaeda calls for fresh attacks, US pulls some embassy staff (via AFP) ...

GUATEMALA ERUPTION. A terrifying eruption of one of the world’s most active volcanoes, Fuego (Volcano of Fire) tapered off Fri ...

Anti-islam movie protesters burn a US flag. EDITOR'S BLOG. A few years back, I had decided to travel through the Middl ...

Violence explodes as Muslims protest anti-Islam film (via AFP) Furious protesters targeted s ...

MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE. Reports of violence and riots kept coming Friday as large parts of the Muslim world reacted against a movie ...

  Liked by Traveling Reporter!   TULUM QUICK GUIDE. A horizon, a hammock, the sound of waves, a good book an ...

This story about Malaysia travels is brought to you by the blog Flashpacking in your forties. Malaysia: ...

  Chesler Park, Canyonlands national park, Utah. U.S. NATIONAL PARKS GUIDE. The Guardian has the all-over guide for vi ...

  This layout shows where the new World Trade Center buildings are being erected, around the site of the old twin towers ...

On the dark side, tourists haunt Peru's oldest cemetery (via AFP) It was cold and dark, and ...

Lebanon smoking ban takes effect, sparking anger (via AFP) A smoking ban in all closed publi ...

Vacation danger: Is cruise ship liable for perils on shore excursions? (via The Christian Science Monitor) ...

Children on a road in Cambodia. Photo: Traveling Reporter Scott Neeson left Hollywood to save children r ...

  From England to South Africa in an old Porsche. DRIVING ADVENTURE. Ben Coombs and Laura Redding from the UK wanted a ...

  Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson. JOURNALISM. (UPDATED) The Ethiopian government on Monday gave pardon to two Swedi ...

  Yangtze Bridge, Nanjing, China. Photo: Traveling Reporter CHINA RAILWAYS. The Chinese Ministry of Railways has rolle ...

Lufthansa flights back to normal after deal (via AFP) Lufthansa services were mainly back to ...

Lufthansa grounds half of flights as strike begins (via AFP) German airline Lufthansa cancel ...

Colombia peace talks to open in Oslo next month (via AFP) Peace talks between Colombia's gov ...

    EDITOR'S BLOG. It's been settled, we're off for a weekend to Copenhagen in October. I've been there ma ...

Flights cancelled as Lufthansa crew strike again (via AFP) Cabin staff at German airline Luf ...

Lufthansa cabin crew to hold fresh strike Tuesday (via AFP) Cabin staff at German airline Lu ...

Malaysia: Visiting Wild Orang Utan in Borneo (via flashpacking in your forties) Visiting the ...

TRAVEL WARNING (UPDATED). A 7.6-magnitude undersea quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, August 31, t ...

  Lufthansa cabin crew in strike, Friday August 31, 2012. LUFTHANSA STRIKE. Lufthansa passengers face widespread fligh ...

TREKKING. These five ensure fantastic views, free exercise, absolute freedom and a generally nice way to get together. When you st ...

TRAVEL WARNINGS. The Traveling Reporter has again scanned the web for the latest travel warnings. Following a kidnapping of two ...

  The plane on Shiphol. Photo: Telegraaf BREAKING NEWS (UPDATED). What appears to have been a 'miscommunication' betwe ...

12 best weekend getaways. Excerpt from U.S. News TRAVEL IDEAS. The U.S. News has put together a list of what the magazine cons ...

Syria VP Makes Appearance (via NewsLook) Video News by NewsLook var nl_rand = "wTvXNMwCP ...

Bahrain's Gulf Air to resume flights to Iraq, Iran (via AFP) Bahrain's national carrier Gu ...

AN EVEN BETTER TRAVEL SITE. We are proud to announce the result of a few week's development of TravelingReporter.com and its featu ...

GREAT TRAVEL PICS. This great rock formation in Navajo Nation, San Juan County, New Mexico, did we find on Pinterest, as well as a ...

  QUICK GUIDE BORACAY, PHILIPPINES BORACAY ISLAND QUICK GUIDE. As I get on the plane from Manila to Boracay, the Phil ...

  A part of the River Nile that used to be deemed unsafe has been opened to cruises. NILE CRUISES. A portion of the Ni ...

ON THE ROAD. Roads are fascinating. Here is a great collection of inspiring roads and paths, borrowed from 9gags.com. Click the im ...

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EDITOR'S BLOG. As Nasa's space vehicle Curiosity lands on Mars, the agency's first serious mission to the planet since ...

Biggest Modernisation of British Rail Since Victorian Era (via Clean Technica)   The UK’s go ...

Indian rail is world's largest 'open toilet' (via AFP) A top Indian minister has proposed pr ...

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Gourmet Eataly defies crisis to open vast food hall in Rome (via AFP) A derelict terminal in ...

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GREEK CRISIS. (Updated) Greece has a new government with conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras as Prime Minister. ...

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FATAL AIRLINE CRASH. The death toll count was reported to be between 153 and 163 people on Monday, as the victim's families an ...

FANCY HOTELS. You can make an art form out of almost everything, and the hotel site The Most Perfect View has done it with hot ...

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MIDDLE EAST UPRISING. Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday, found guilty of orde ...

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ADVENTURES. The Adventurists, the charity organization that raises money by arranging adventures, is announcing the September ...

DREAM DESTINATIONS. Short on plans for your next holiday? Here are 24 ideas that are set to catch the interest of most travelers. ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. Rebel members of the Free Syrian Army now say they are gearing up for attacks on Syrian government, after a g ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. Big experiences don't have to come with a big price tag. Kayaking is one of those. I went ahead the other week ...

BUSINESS TRAVELS. By 2013, business travel spending in China is expected to rise to US$245 billion, meaning that China will be ...

UNUSAL LODGING. A new hotel koncept, developed by archtecture firm HKS, will let you live in a bubble, called "pod", high up i ...

AIRLINE FAILURE. Skyways, the Swedish regional airline which flies to about 35 Swedish and European destinations, files for bankru ...

DRUG WARS & TOURISM. In the latest issue of Forbes, and elsewhere, Mexico is running an ad campaign to attract tourists. A ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. Deadly violence between Sunnis and Alawites has spread from Syria over the border to Lebanon. During the night be ...

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TRAVEL FOR FREE. It has been all over the internet the last few days, the story about how 35 year old Michael Wigge traveled 2 ...

  EDITOR'S PICKS. Europe hosts some of the world's greatest travel destinations. It happens that people from Asia or A ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. Form around 980 millions last year, we are estimated to become 1 billion tourists this year. It is hard to judge ho ...

GLAMOUR LODGING. Paramount, the Hollywood movie studio, is entering the hotel business by lending its name to a group of inves ...

FRANCE. On his first day in office, France's new president ran into unexpected trouble as his aircraft was reportedly hit by light ...

DEBT CRISIS. Greece is to hold new elections after discussions to form a new government failed on Tuesday, PASOK leader Venizelos ...

U.S. TRAVELS. 86 percent of travelers in the United States are planning leisure trips this summer, up from 81 percent that tra ...

MEXICAN DRUG TERROR. While Spring Breakers from the U.S. show no sign of staying away from booze and fun in Mexico despite the ...

TRAVEL PHOTOS. It has been known as the world's perhaps largest volcano, ready to create havoc whenever it decides to go banan ...

AIR FARES. Higher airfares and still sky-high gasoline prices are driving up the cost of the summer trip, the Naperville Sun repo ...

NAMIBIA TRAVEL GUIDE. Considering an African safari? There are almost as many safari operators as there are animals to wat ...

ADVENTURE. They seem to challenge the laws of nature, overcome the worst of obstacles – and, sometimes, make it to goal in the ...

  PORTUGESE TRAVELS. Strikes by Portuguese air traffic controllers are expected to disrupt international and domestic ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. The odor of death spread over the Syrian capital on Thursday as two car bombs exploded in the morning rush ho ...

AIR FUEL ECONOMY. Boeing is near a final version of its 737 MAX fuel-efficient wing, that is said to reduce fuel consumption b ...

UPDATED. A Russian airliner with 46 people on board disappeared from radar screens and crasched on Wednesday as it was participati ...

FLIGHTS. Berlin's new major airport, the Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport, scheduled to open this summer, has been hit ...

GREECE. Lower air fares and attractive rates at Greek destinations make for a moderate growth in Greek tourism during 2012, am ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. In the latest diplomatic attempt to stop the relentless killing in Syria, a group of U.N. monitors are on the gro ...

TRAVEL PARTNERS  he social travel website Miss Travel made headlines around the world when it was launched in April, 2012. The id ...

AIRLINES. On May first, Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its premier landing at the Gardemoen in Oslo, Norway. In a unique mo ...

GO OR NOT. Ranging from the Arctic to Syria, Pakistan and the Ivory Coast, here are the latest travel warnings issued by governmen ...

CRUISES. For Titanic fans who regret they never got the chance to set foot on the decks of the ill-fated ship, a new opportuni ...

WEDDING TRAVELS. Online travel adviser Cheapflights has come up with a list of its top 10 travel destinations to celebrate wed ...

U.S. DESTINATIONS. Spring is a great time to take a vacation to a variety of places around the U.S. If you and your friends ...

TRAVEL. A new  web service, called Miss Travel, combines the interests of broke and beautiful people who want to travel. The idea: ...

AIRLINES. Delta, second-biggest airline in the US, said it will reduce flying as much as 3 percent during the quarter that end ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. We continuously develop Traveling Reporter. From now on, you'll also find us on Facebook, where you can lik ...

AIRLINES. British Airways parent International Airlines Group (IAG) has completed the purchase of bmi from Lufthansa, Breakingtrav ...

BEST HOTELS. The Condé Nast Traveler magazine has published its 16th New Hotels Hot List, this year covering 121 hotels in 49 ...

BIZ TRAVEL. World business travel increased during February, according to the International Air Transport Association, IATA. T ...

PHONES. Here are the 10 apps you can't travel without, at least according to the Sydney Morning Herald which has performed the ...

SHARK ATTACK. Two sharks, one of which was 4 to 5 meters long according to witnesses, ripped a young surfer 'apart' in an attack o ...

MIDDLE EAST TOURISM. Political violence in Syria and tension between Turkey and Israel have had a negative on tourism in Turke ...

ENGLISH FOOTBALL. Virgin Trains has issued a warning to Liverpool football fans "that there are no realistic options for retur ...

END OF A SPACE ERA. Space shuttle Discovery was moved atop a Boeing 747 ti its final parking space at a museum. Read the story her ...

COUP IN MALI. Modibo Sidibé, Mali's former prime minister, and several other politicians were arrested during nighttime betwee ...

AIRLINE TICKET PRICES. Recent fare analysis by the Airlines Reporting Corporation seems to challenge the conventional wisdom tha ...

AMERICA. President Obama's message about cooperation within the Americas, which should have been at the center of attention at ...

  EDITOR'S BLOG. A search for "Titanic" on Google generates over 70 million hits. That says something about the intere ...

  TITANIC LITERATURE. Hundreds, if not thousands, of books have been written since 1912 on the sinking of the Ti ...

NORTH KOREA. Hours after North Korea's criticized launch of a long distance rocket, that failed shortly after takeoff, a new m ...

TITANIC TOURISM. For a battered cruising industry, with the Costa Concordia crash in fresh memory, the 100 year anniversary of ...

Military took control of a central district in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, western Africa, in an apparent coup in th ...

Spread skirmishes were reported on Thursday as UN envoy Kofi Annan's plan for peace in Syria kicked into effect and the deadline ...

ARTS. Dhaka, Bangladesh, is about to open its first ever art fair, the Daily Star reports. The event, a collaboration by Art Found ...

Tsunami warnings that were issued for the Indian Ocean on Wednesday had mostly been cancelled three hours after the expected wave ...

GREECE. Ferry services to Greek islands and nearby Italy were halted Tuesday by a 48-hour strike that is expected to hit celebrati ...

US ELECTION: Republican candidate Rick Santorum drops out of the presidential race, leaving Mitt Romney more or less as sole r ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. Finally. For those of us who worship summer, this is heaven. Fine weather, a virgin Swedish archipelago and a c ...

  SYRIAN CONFLICT.With hours to go on Monday before Kofi Annan's cease-fire agreement that was said to kick into effec ...

PICTURES. Check these unique pictures from inside one of the world's most closed countries, North Korea. → To the photo album ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. Hopes for a cease-fire in Syria this week is diminishing, despite reports of an earlier promise by the Syrian ...

A Navy F/A-18D fighter slams into apartments in Virginia Beach, setting buildings aflame. No deaths and only a few injuries ar ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. Days after the cease-fire agreement, military forces under control of the Syrian government continued attacks ...

PEACEFUL DESTINATIONS. Syrian conflict, Iranian nuclear threat, druglords who overtake cities. The world is full of conflicts ...

US POLITICS. With the fate of his health care reform in the hands of the US Supreme Court, president Obama is trying out new s ...

HOTELS. Chances are you can still secure a room during the London Olympic Games – but it won't be cheap. "You can still get ...

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SLIPPERY NORWEGIAN ROADS. Here is the scary news clip that will have you think twice before driving with lousy tires on icy wi ...

ROMANCE. Getting bored in your relationship? Then this is the list for you: The World's most romantic travel destinations. ...

AUTO SHOW. If you are bored with getting stuck in traffic, head to New York this week. As the city's auto show opens up its do ...

TRAVEL WARNING. Several EU countries have extended their warnings on Mali, as the situation there show signs of getting worse. A ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. The Syrian government, under president Assad, has promised to stop firing and to withdraw from the populated ...

CRUISES. Passengers of a cruise ship, The Azamara Quest, on fire endured tense moments when smoke crept through their doors duri ...

BURMA TOURISM. (Updated) As the military seems to ease its grip on power in Burma, or Myanmar, letting opposition leader Aung ...

SPRING TRAVELS. A winter fades away in the north and springtime approaches, a whole set of travel possibilities present themse ...

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SPAIN. Travelers to and from Spain are affected on Thursday by the Spanish general strike, according to media reports. → Are you ...

TRAVELS. The debt crisis in many European countries makes it possible to find good deals and to save money – MSNBC has investigate ...

Smartphones and surf pads provide endless possibilities for travelers. So many that keeping track of them would be a full-time ...

CRUISING INDUSTRY. The year hasn't begun well for the cruise industry. As pictures of the half-sunken Costa Concordia off an I ...

RIO DE JANEIRO. When traveling on a budget, there are many things you usually avoid, in a cash-saving effort. You don't head t ...

TOURISM. Singapore expects tourist arrivals to grow by as little as 2.3 percent this year as a slowing global economy limits t ...

MALI. Soldiers have made a coup in Mali and apparently taken control of the country, after storming Mali's state television Th ...

SOMALIA. A British hostage, Judith Tebbutt, 56, has been freed in Somalia, six months after she was seized and her husband kil ...

AIRLINES. Debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines will suspend all international flights from this weekend and prune its Indian service ...

Airline organization IATA warns that several airlines will be forced to file for bankruptcy if the oil price reaches $150 doll ...

Khmer king Suryavarman II had the great temple Angkor Wat in today's Cambodia built  in the early 12th century. 900 years later, ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. Three people described by Syrian media as "terrorists" and one soldier from government forces were killed on Mond ...

TOURISM. Paris, Amsterdam and Stockholm – those are Europe's three hottest tourism hotspots, according at a new ranking by str ...

RUSSIA. President Vladimir Putin's lavish promises of higher wages and benefits for soldiers, doctors and teachers were a key elem ...

TRAVEL WARNING. Increased risk of kidnappings has lead the US Department of State to issue a travel warning on Mali, more spec ...

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SOUTH AMERICA. Three weeks aren't much when it comes to discover a new continent. I've traveled much, but this was my first jo ...

AIRLINES. Turkish Airlines will start routes to Somalia's chaotic and war-torn capital Mogadishu, according to media reports. Moga ...

OCEANS. Earth's last frontier is about to be explored firsthand after more than half a century. In the next several days, James Ca ...

IRAN. European Union is stepping up its efforts to enforce sanctions against Iran. As AP reports, Iran was largely cut off from gl ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. Efforts by the U.N.-Arab League special Syrian envoy, former U.N. secretary Kofi Annan, to mediate an end to the ...

Finally, president Nicholas Sarkozy seems to have some flow in his struggle to keep on to power. For the first time in this campai ...

Readers of The Guardian have sent in their best travel tips of Italy - a long row of cultural highlights for you who are conte ...

The airline industry has a good chance to be profitable over the next 20 years as demand for air travel grows worldwide. And good ...

Hotel Pukara, Puno, Peru If you visit Peru's high altitude regions during the rainy season, finding a room will not be a proble ...

SYRIAN CONFLICT. For weeks, Syrian tanks have bombarded opposition areas in Homs and the Red Cross has tried for about a week to g ...

CARRY-ON BAGS. As travelers bags are getting bigger, airlines take action to open for even more carry-on luggage on board. Several ...

The world's biggest fair for travel products, 2012 Travel Goods Show in Las Vegas, has opened its doors to an audience sucking for ...

Need inspiration for your trip in the USA? National Geographic has put together the list over America's "Lost" National Parks - a ...

The National Greographic has announced the 2012 People's Choice Adventurers of the Year. Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa ha ...

Mexico City is about to get rid of one of its most iconic symbols, AP reports. Officials said Friday that the last of the old-styl ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. The city of Puno, at the western banks of lake Titicaca, Peru, is not known for its many sights on land. Sights on ...

The Adventurists, the charity-based explorer organization, has announced a new version of the Ice Run, a hardcore motorbike rally ...

NORTHERN EUROPE AIRLINES COMPETITION: It is a battle to win the most passengers – at the lowest cost. And, preferably, without hav ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. Looming over Arequipa, Peru, where we are now, sits volcano El Misti with its about 5,800 meter in altitude. Althou ...

Cell phone carrier AT&T came under so much criticism for its idea to put limits on its "unlimited data" subscriber plan that the c ...

ETHIOPIA. The Swedish State Department has put out a more detailed warning regardning Ethiopia in eastern Africa, and more specifi ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. After five nights in Rio - it should have been six, had it not been for Air France - I will be leaving this mega-ci ...

WINTER SPORTS. Alaska holds the world's best skiing, according to an extensive review made by National Geographic covering the pri ...

Rio hostels Ipanema: The Rio Dolphin Inn, Cobacabana/Ipanema Featuring only a couple of rooms, this little hostel is right in t ...

A cruise ship has caught fire off Seychelles islands, and the ship is adrift as its engines are not working. The fire has been put ...

Armed bandits have robbed 22 foreign tourists who were traveling by bus near the coastal city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexican secu ...

    PARIS TRAVEL TIPS Being stuck at an airport is bad. But being stuck in itself doesn’t have to be that big ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. There are things, quite expensive things, that really don't fit into a budget travel, but that need to be invested ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 shook southwestern Siberia on Sunday afternoon, AP reports. There were no immediate reports ...

RIO DE JANEIRO. It's one beautiful sight after another - the city seems to overdose over and over again on scenic settings. Not le ...

US TRAVEL. Gasoline prices may be increasing and the debt crisis a heavy burden on the economy. But as for travel and transpor ...

The eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial mar ...

Varanasi. Sun sets over river Ganges. VARANASI GUIDE here is not just one India. A giant in size, culture and population, a v ...

TV: Interesting and dramatic story on CNN, about the hard work in places like Homs carried out by the political opposition to Assa ...

ARLANDA AIRPORT. As the rest of the country wakes up to the news that the new Swedish Royal baby is about tonget delivered att hos ...

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has decided to resigned, CNN reports, after speculation that he might mount a leadership ch ...

500 people were injured and over 40 died in a train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday. It was a commuter train fully ...

The strike at Germany's Frankfurt airport has been cancelled as unions and employers reach agreement, news wires report on Wednesd ...

As the world's conflicts continue to boil, reporters and photographers around the globe put themselves in ever-more dangerous ...

The strike at Frankfurt's airport will continue through Friday, at least. The strikes that began last week have already led to th ...

EURO CRISIS: Following 13 hours of discussions that went far into Tuesday morning, Eurozone finance ministers and the IMF coul ...

ALPINE DANGERS: The risk of getting caught in an avalanche is high in the Alps these days, as thousands of holiday makers make ...

US ELECTION: Moral conservative Rick Santorum is putting a new political agenda on the table, as he increase his lead against ...

Tension appears to be at the boiling point between Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard and the former PM, Kevin Rudd. Rudd, n ...

Real estate prices fell in 47 of China's 70 largest cities during January compared to the prior month, Bloomberg News reports. Pri ...

The ongoing strike at the Frankfurt airport will be extended through early Wednesday, union officials said. Representatives of the ...

Bank of Ireland is back with black figures. The troubled bank records a net profit for 2011 despite continued heavy losses from de ...

India's top aviation watchdog is ordering troubled Kingfisher Airline to explain dozens of canceled flights as the carrier battles ...

PHOTO STORY: In the Namibian desert sits Rössing, one of the world's largest uranium mines. The scale of the place is enormous. Th ...

Henry Tang was running for the highest office in the former British colony. But as he found himself involved in a scandal ...

Bored to death waiting for a flight, it's good to have some reading material. Even better then, if you happen to have your Ipad re ...

Japanese camera maker Nikon has launched a new series of cameras, the Nikon 1 system, featuring two cameras, the J1 and the V1 ...

Tough weather, weather warnings and cold temperatures have sent hotel prices tumbling in Europe in January–February, Ftnnews r ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran on a ground earlier in 2012 and partially sunk, has tested negative for dr ...

The 2012 versionof the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro again rocked the city and its millions of inhabitants and foreign visitors in Fe ...

India's Kingfisher airline is trying to downplay speculation that it is cutting down services because of financial difficultie ...

Inspiration: There is a whole world waiting for you – which might feel frustrating at times. For how do you gather, sort, and pick ...

Airbus: Tom Enders, the CEO of Airbus, has ordered an internal investigation into how the company allowed wing cracks to devel ...

Euro crisis:A prolonged crisis in the Euro zone would cause severe harm to the United States, with a possible loss of $88 bi ...

EDITOR'S BLOG. In a few days, I'm off for this year's winter holiday: South America. I'm really excited because I've never set my ...

MEXICO DRUG WAR WARNING. The US State Department has issued a travel warning for journeys to some parts of Mexico, as the war on n ...

The Chinese government moves towards more expansion of the economy as it decides to boost bank lending, The Wall Street Journal re ...

The plan was to bomb the US Congress building in Washington DC. A Moroccan man who allegedly believed he was working with al-Qaida ...

PHOTO STORY: There are safaris all over Africa. Hard pressed to pick one, and sitting at home looking on various safari web sites, ...

Check out this site for information about where the Swedish State Department doesn't want you to go. ...

TV: Gunfire breaks out in crowded square Syria's president Assad says the ongoing turmoil in the country is part of a plan ...

Rising gas prices in the U.S. are posing a risk of possible downturn again for the economy, advisers to president Obama have p ...