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Worth the Ride: Train'Shares Offers Luxury Train Travel
Train'Shares Inc is offering guests the same luxury travel and private rail cars that used to be reserved for only the wealthiest of Americans. The trips aren’t cheap, but you'll feel like a robber baron in your own private car! |
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Forgotten Graves and Minoan Zombies: Crete's Phourni Cemetery
The Phourni cemetery remained in use for over 1000 years, from about 2400 BCE to 1200 BCE when the Minoan civilization had nearly died away. The cemetery even contains later Mycenaean tombs... |
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Turkmenistan: Tinhorm Tyranny is a Hoot
I suggest money not be wasted going to Turkmenistan, though the country is an admitted hoot. With the mandatory guide any visit is expensive; it’s easier and less expensive to visit Las Vegas...
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Transnistria: The Country That Doesn't Exist
The reason most people have never heard of Transnistria is because, despite having its own constitution, army and currency, it isn’t recognized by any other sovereign nation and technically doesn’t exist...
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Kapama Lodge, South Africa: Predators and Prey
Some days blend into one another, but the five days we spent on safari in South Africa remain vivid and indelible. We lived at Kapama Lodge in the game preserve that borders Kruger National Park... |
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India's Kanha National Park: In Quest of the Tigerators and Preytors and Prey
I saw Gaurs, cheetals, peacocks and even wild boars, but there was no sign of the elusive tiger. Alger and the park ranger got quite excited as they saw the pug marks of a tiger and they tried to track it...
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Luang Prabang, Laos: A Slice of Heaven?
Luang Prabang is a small, ancient city tucked away in northern Laos. Longboats run the rivers, mountains paint the distant landscape, and the slow pace of life will envelop even the most harried traveler...
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A Family Fun Blast-off in Huntsville, Alabama
What is lying just down the road from where you live? What unexplored places are just a few gallons of gas away but you’ve never set foot in them? For me the main one has been Huntsville, Alabama...
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Tehuacalco, Mexico: Where Yope Giants Once Walkedators and Preytors and Prey
Located a short distance from the state of Guerrero’s capital city of Chilpancingo, Tehuacalco peaked between 650 and 1100 A.D. as the ceremonial center of the Yope and their surrounding region...
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Biking from Tibet to Nepal: The Longest Descent in the World
From Lhasa, we left carrying with us on our bicycles everything we would need to survive in this high altitude desert. We started on a sunny day in October, and headed west towards Nepal...
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