Simply put, travelling abroad is one of the most enriching endeavours any person could undertake. The adventures savoured and…

KIE’s Travel Trade Show Expands This Year to Include Airlines Partners representing Latin America and Mexico, as Agency Rapidly Expands to Destinations beyond Japan.

New York, NY … June 23^rd, 2014 … KIE/Kintetsu International held its 5^th Annual KIE Travel Showcase, Thursday, June 19^th, at the beautifully renovated Park Central hotel. Due to the overwhelming response from participating…

In summer I decided to do some trekking with my friend. But I did not want to go to the place with lots of people there. We sought much, read many blogs and forums to find a proper place. Some places were too far, some were reserves with special restrictions, some too populous and etc. At last we made up our mind to ask for help to a travel company. We made up our mind to use the service of …

If the time to change your backpack and adventurous trips are gone and now you have to carry children` stuff with you while traveling but you are eagerly awaiting for summer vacation, you cannot miss Costa Rica! In fact, we will mention you a few ideas of places that will make your children to dream and want to repeat the experience of a Family Vacation in Costa…

Just the other day I had the chance to get an all-too-brief taste of Norway’s second city before boarding a weeklong Hurtigruten cruise up the coast, and OMG what a right little gem I found Bergen to be. Well, if you can call a city of 266,000 “little” – but honestly, how the locals describe it really does feel totally true: essentially,you could think of it as the world’s…

With the beach facing west, the winds coming from behind pushed us away from shore until the beach was a distant white line. I was surprised that my sailing instructor had let us float that far out, so I said something about the first-ever sailing lesson at a…

Story and photos by Mary Gallagher



Next time you see one of those special airfare sales to LAX or are there on business seriously think about visiting lovely Redondo Beach for a few days. Just a 7-10 minute cab ride from the airport opens a whole world of relaxation and fun and a number of beach side hotels. Best of all you won’t even need a car.



Redondo Beach with its population of fewer than 70,000, its Redondo Beach Pier, International…

Turkey tours service offering private Turkey tours 2014, 2015, 2016 and discount escorted small group tour packages to Istanbul, …

Iguazú Falls are located in Iguazú National Park, in the extreme north east of Argentina and bordering Brazil. Surrounding the beautiful waterfalls at Iguazú are tales of ambition and power, fruits of the imaginations of travelers who have ventured within them. Before the falls can be seen,…

I recently got back from a family vacation to a place we’d never been before: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. When I say a family vacation, I don’t just mean my husband, son and I. Oh, no. Every so often my extended family swarms together to go to some exotic place for a celebration. The last one that included my father was in 2005, to Italy, for my parents’ 50th wedding…

TOUR ITINERARY OF KATHMANDU VALLEY (4 NIGHTS/ 5 DAYS)

Day 01 Arrival in Kathmandu Arrival at Kathmandu International Airport. Meet, assist and transfer to hotel. Overnight at Hotel Marshyangdi or similar in Kathmandu (3 star hotel).

Day 02 Kathmandu Morning: After breakfast in the hotel, start sightseeing at Swoyambhu and Patan…

The crowds, commercialism and nightly competition for beds is driving many trekkers away from the more famous Everest Base Camp Trek into. the arms of the lovely Gokyo Lake. This two week spectacular climb almost as high as the Everest Base Camp and offers similarly jew-dropping Everest views. But the trails are less crowded the lodge qtieter and the villages along the trail have a Reason to exist over and above serving adhl bhat to legio of hungry trekkers.

The Trails follows the…

A television programme dealing with the some of the thousand-odd islands around the British Isles caught my attention. Brief visits were made to many of my favourite islands, including one to my very favourite, the little-known but fascinating Piel.

Piel lies off the Cumbrian coast, at the mouth of the Walney Channel, near Barrow in Furness. It isn’t a large…

Rajasthan may be hot; temperature may go up to 47 degrees in day time, sun rays may be strong enough to tan you skin, but despite all, the inherent royal beauty of this desert land has achieved the status of ‘paradise’ by tourists from India and abroad. The stories of royal Rajput warriors are carved on the walls of historic forts and palaces that throng over the entire state. Decades have passed by, but the rich vibrant culture of Rajasthan still pervades all through and people cross…

Is one of the shortest treks designed up to Poon Hill which lies into the foothill of the Annapurna massif. Poon Hill is located just 400m. above Ghorepani and offers a brilliant view of the Himalayan giants…

TOUR ITINERARY OF (KATHMANDU+NAGARKOT+POKHARA - 7 NIGHTS/ 8 DAYS)  …

The slow-moving sloths of Costa Rica are streaking into the limelight with their own weeklong online special program. Starting June 20, 2014, Animal Planet and Animalist will stream daily footage from the…

Having started my career in the travel industry right after I returned from a yearlong backpacking excursion, I learned at a young age how to live with locals and experience familiarity wherever I traveled.

And now, over the past few years there has been a shift in travel values.…