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Travel Wonders of the World
http://www.travel-wonders.blogspot.com
- Author: Travel Wonders
- Listed in: Travel Destinations
- Tags: travel Photography wildlife natural beauty ancient sites travel wonders
- Added on: Mar 17th, 2008
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
The Travel-Wonders blog features photos, stories, top tens and reviews of the travel wonders of the world. The articles cover wildlife, ancient sites, sacred locations, places of stunning natural beauty, beautiful villages, stunning scenery and great museums and galleries in places such as Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and Antarctica. These are places that you should consider visiting too. The author has traveled independently for over 25 years to every continent and over 80 countries on the globe.
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The Great Congo River Journey (DR Congo)
This trip was undertaken in 1991 when the country was called Zaïre, the river was called the Zaïre River (and even the currency was the Zaïre). Today it is called the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and the river has returned to its more f...
A City of More than Sex and Drugs? (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
A towering black man walks furtively behind me and surreptitiously whispers “hashish” in a rasping voice so deep, that another half octave lower would have ensured that only the local dogs heard the offer. Without having shaken off the effects o...
Flight of the Condor (Colca Canyon, Peru)
From the beautiful Spanish colonial city of Arequipa, the mini-tour promises a short journey to a canyon twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and with magnificent condors in full flight. I tend to dislike tours but some locations are much easier to see ...
Pretty as a Picture or Leaving an Impression (Giverny, France)
Dramatically changing by the seasons, the tranquil symmetric Water Garden is as much a travel wonder today as it was when being recorded on canvas by Claude Monet’s artistic brushstrokes around 100 years ago. The Japanese bridge elegantly arches ov...
The Troll's Way (Geirangerfjord, Norway)
Everytime I think of the travel wonder of Trollstigen, one of Norway’s and Europe’s greatest drives (literally the Troll’s Ladder), I am reminded of a great story I can recall being told in bed as a young child.It is the story of Three Billy Go...
