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Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM • worldhum.com
In Ccaccaccollo, Peru, weaving alpaca wool is a daily source of sustenance for its villagers. While the village men plow fields or work as porters, Ccaccaccollo’s women create products from alpaca fibers.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM • petergreenberg.com
Avid traveler Bonnie Lewkowicz had grown tired of being shut out of bargains on Hotels.com, just because she needed a wheelchair-accessible room. “It just didn’t seem fair that travelers with disabilities were unable to take advantage of the convenience and low-cost options of booking hotel rooms online,†recalls Lewkowicz. So she resolved to do something about it.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM • timesonline.co.uk
Ahead of the BBC’s 12-part series of Swallows and Amazons, planned for 2010, you can learn about the writer and the setting for the iconic children’s books. The books are based on the sailing adventures of four friends on holiday in the Lakes during the 1930s. If it’s too wet to venture out to Coniston, why not log onto www.golakes.co.uk to watch the story of Ransome and the area, so your genned up for when the sun comes out.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 09:38 AM • theprovince.com
Six guys head out for 10 days of wilderness camping and 250 kilometres of canoeing along Yukon’s mighty Wind River, a waterway so far north that they ended the trip 40 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 09:38 AM • theglobaltraveller.blogspot.com
Lesotho is the highest country in the world, with minimum elevation of 1400m (4600ft) and is completely surrounded by South Africa. The easiest way to visit Lesotho is by road from South Africa on the Guateng side. Sani Pass on the Kwazal-Natal side is a very difficult road. Buses run from Johannesburg and Bloemfontein to Maseru. There are also flights, but only on South African Airlines (a Star Alliance member) from Johannesburg to the airport outside Maseru.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 08:38 AM • ricksteves.com
Before the trip, my dad made the accurate estimation that we could travel on $60-80 US a day. We ended up making it on about 68 dollars a day, not including two flights and a train ride. In total, we each spent about $1,816.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 08:38 AM • timesonline.co.uk
For the past seven years as Parisians have closed up their apartments, cafés and restaurants for August and fled to seaside resorts the beach has made the reverse journey, coming to city in the form of Paris Plages and leaving one of its best-loved attractions to tourists and the mavericks who don’t join the exodus.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 07:38 AM • blogs.nationalgeographic.com
There’s that old question: If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, who would it be? I don’t like that question because it makes my head spin with all the possibilities. But recently the answer came to me in the form of a 66-year-old man sitting across the table. I was at the lodge he and his wife built almost forty years ago on the rugged southern shores of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 07:38 AM • gadling.com
Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania is an amazing place. The UNESCO World Heritage Site was formed when the caldera of a large volcano collapsed, creating a self contained ecosystem in the process, with dozens of species of animals living within the 2000 foot walls.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 06:38 AM • divinecaroline.com
I am absolutely, totally, drink-five-shots-of-vodka-and-say-my-prayers, terrified of flying. It’s not the flight itself I mind, really, only those few minutes of taking off when the aircraft is shuddering and bucking all around me. For the most part, I can settle into watching the in-flight movie, happily dosed with Valium, and forget that I am hurtling through the skies at unnatural speeds and altitudes.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 06:37 AM • msnbc.msn.com
So many cities in the U.S. now have gastronomic diversity and regionality rich in every department. There has never been a better time to dine out around the U.S. than right now.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 05:38 AM • travelandleisure.com
Whether they are small specialty stalls tucked into food markets or big epicurean halls, these six well-stocked kitchen stores are built for browsing—and planning your next feast.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 05:37 AM • timesonline.co.uk
What do you do if you get caught out by a shifty policeman? Or a dodgy taxi driver? Or a stripping pickpocket?
Submitted by skindness, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 04:38 AM • facebook.com
Acacia Adventure Holidays will be running a Big Five Flash Sale on Friday 14 August, lasting for exactly five hours. Featuring discounts of up to 55%, this is the ideal time to book an overland tour.
The sale, which will run from 12pm to 5pm, will incorporate all of the tour operator’s overland tours at a 25% discount – with a whopping 55% saving on the six-day African Insight. See link for terms and conditions.
Acacia Africa; 020 77064700; www.acacia-africa.com; info@acacia-africa.co
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 03:38 AM • upgradetravelbetter.com
Torn between going for a jog and planespotting? Why not combine both? Charlotte Douglas Airport is hosting a 5K run/walk on the runways and taxiways. Its Halloween morning October 31, 2009.Its a neat idea, though the idea of sucking in jet fuel and exhaust while your heart rate is up detracts somewhat from the pleasure.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 03:38 AM • tripso.com
Lord knows, it’s not for everyone. There’s a theory that people who are contemplating going camping or sailing should spend the weekend together in a bathroom. Tight quarters do not necessarily guarantee closeness – and I’m not referring to physical space. Having survived three camping trips, I quickly decided they weren’t my preferred vacation. But my partner loved them (and sailing) so I learned to adjust – well kind of.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 02:38 AM • nationalparkstraveler.com
Last month, the Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST), an award-winning magnet high school situated in the Fort Hancock Historic Area of Sandy Hook, held its 11th Annual and Final Cardboard Boat Armada in the Sandy Hook unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. It was a wonderful experience for the dozens of students who competed, but now it’s time to move on to a different competition theme. What will be next?
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 02:37 AM • hotelchatter.com
So it’s been twenty years since the Berlin wall came down, and that’s as good a reason as any to visit one of our all-time favorite cities, Berlin. To celebrate the anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, the Hotel Concorde Berlin has got an “Ich bin ein Berliner” package going through to December 28.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 01:38 AM • itravelnet.com
Mesjid Raya, the main mosque in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: August 13, 2009 at 01:38 AM • blogs.nationalgeographic.com
Teenagers act as if they’ve seen it all, and in many ways they have–most have been subjected to a 24-hour, hundred-channel television loop; they have viewed every viral YouTube video that titillates, shocks, saddens, tickles, or pulls heartstrings; they’ve done everything from fly jets to race cars to shoot bad guys in hyper-real videogames; they’ve seen the wonders of nature in HD-clarity on Planet Earth DVDs.
