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Trending On CnK: Top 20 Posts From 2012
We’ve been there, done that and we’ve posted it on Facebook. Here’s looking at 2012′s top trending images from our Facebook page. Enjoy! Roger Federer and Andre Agassi have a go at it on the world’s highest tennis court at Burj Al Arab, Dubai. Yacht Island is a super-luxury yacht that’s still in its concept [...]
Volunteer Opportunities in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
There are loads of great volunteering opportunities around the Great Barrier Reef that will leave you with wonderful holiday memories, as well as that positive feeling volunteering gives you. By Lauren Esplin Here’s a taste of the best volunteering activities the Great Barrier Reef has to offer: Assist coral research with dives around [...]
Travelling Through Kolkatta
Sandeep Walvekar makes a short trip through the cultural capital of India and discovers a whole range of travel options in Kolkata Kolkata’s trams, a legacy of the British, were first introduced in 1873. Horse-drawn trams began commercial operations in 1881, and steam trams made an appearance in 1882. Kolkata’s electric trams were rolled [...]
Ms Adventure: Fearless Female Explorers From The 20th Century
History, we suspect, was written by a man. There are, literally, thousands of books about gritty, bearded men setting off on long voyages. A quick glance at the ‘Explorers section’ of the local library, or history textbook, will confirm this. But hiding innocuously between books about Marco Polo and Magellan, are stories of equally gritty [...]
Travel Calendar 2012
Culture vulture? History lover? Photography enthusiast? Theme traveller? Hena Das takes inspiration from Lonely Planet’s Ten Best Things To Do in 2012 and chalks up a travel calendar for the year. When: January Where: The South Pole What: Sub-Zero expedition trails Forget Siberia, this is the greatest sub-zero adventure ever! January 17, 2012 celebrated the [...]
7 Romantic Getaways For Beach Lovers
With 7600 kilometres of coastline, there is no real dearth of sun, sand and surf in India. Smriti Lamech offers up 7 beaches for a romantic rendezvous. What is it about the beach that beckons couples in love? The peace, the roar of the sea and clean sands. Of course the more beautiful a beach, [...]
Top 10 Travel Trends Of 2011
Beach holiday? Been there, done that. Shopping holiday? Terribly passé! Medical tourism? Hah, not me! So what were travel-revolutionaries doing in 2011? Leaving smoking hot trails through the travel industry, is what! Diana Kotwal gives a recap of what was hot, where it was hot and why 2012 is still not too late to get [...]
Lost Cities Of The World
Discover history’s lost and found. Join Jonathan Dias as he globe trots around the planet in search of civilisations that were once lost in oblivion, but fortunately rediscovered and named UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Some remarkably intact, others brought down by invaders or whisked away by the forces of nature, each of these cities and [...]
Natural Sculptures: Stalactites & Stalagmites
Numerous legends exist about stalactites and stalagmites, the fascinating results of water dripping and deposits collecting over years. Hena Das talks about some famous, some not-so-famous sites and the stories behind them. “Mites go up and the Tights (tites) come down” and “Stalagmites with a ‘g’ grow from the ground, while stalactites with a ‘c’ [...]
11 Baths We’d Love To Take A Flight To
Think a hot tub filled with bathing salts and bubbles is passé? So do we! Jonathan Dias goes in search of 11 bathing spots worth taking a flight out to. And boy, do we agree! A bath is never just a bath. Each country has its own history and its own tradition that gives a [...]
Offbeat Adventures
Best Places To Go Backpacking In Canada
Canada is an underrated country often forgotten by travellers when planning their world trip. Nevertheless, I thought me and my hefty back-pack would give it a gamble and without a doubt it paid off. There was no denying Canada’s wonderful, diverse landscape in which I had the privilege to travel across, complete with some of [...]
