Located on the scenic grounds of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research is not one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city, but perhaps it should be. Not only is it beautiful, it also has an educational …

Height: 105 feet
Drop: 80 feet
Maximum Speed: 50 miles per hour
Duration: 2 minutes
Batman the Ride at Six Flags Great Adventure is a steel inverted roller coaster and among one of the theme park’s favorites and most popular, it was actually the first of its kind. Just like Bizarro, Batman the Ride …

When I was in high school, I fell in love with the Brazilian samba even if I had no clue at all what the words meant. I just love its soothing rhythm, the mellow and calm voice of Joao Gilberto. One of the songs I really loved up …

In Eastern Massachusetts is the perfect blend of New England charm and scenic beach relaxation. It’s a little known place called Cape Cod. Okay, so not so little known, but nonetheless, charming as all get out!
From the time I was a kid, I’ve been visiting Cape Cod for …

I went to visit my aunt in Chicago, Illinois for the first time two years ago. They toured me and my husband around downtown Chicago. They told us that the tour is never complete without going up The Sears Tower. It has been the tallest building in North America …

Salem, located in Massachusetts, is really a fun and nice travel destination to be at. I went with my boyfriend to Salem before and I was really excited during that time since TV channel in Singapore had been airing the soap opera \”Days of Our Lives\” during those …

Birds? It is one of the creatures I love. Unfortunately, our zoos exhibits only limited number of bird species, so when I got an opportunity to visit Singapore, I made sure that Jurong Birdpark should be one of my iterinary.
Jurong Birdpark is in Jurong Hill Singapore, so …

Pedraza is one of my favorite villages in Spain. Not only is it an incredibly authentic (not touristy) medieval village complete with a huge stone gateway that once held the prison, it also offers excellent shopping, dining, and lodging. Pedraza is perhaps two hours by car from Madrid, but …

My boyfriend and I, both in our mid twenties, recently visited Washington DC. During our quest to find interesting things to do on our vacation, we came across the International Spy Museum. Both of us have an interest in spy technology so we thought this would be …

I am a major travel junkie ,I am always looking for different places to go and things to do.One morning while channel surfing ,I came across this travelogue on Redding/Mt.Shastha. I was looking for something low key to do for the long week end so TH and I …

Marin County is a pretty nice place to go and enjoy yourself, and why not if you are on vacation what’s the point of not going to an awesome place where you can enjoy yourself? One thing that I seemed that this was a great place to be when …

The showpiece of Calgary’s mass transportation system is the CTrain, which covers nearly 45 kilometers of track, spanning 37 different stations. The downtown core of the CTrain is free so if you live in the downtown area, you don’t have to pay anything to take the train.
For most people, …

I have been going to Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven FL ever since I was a kid. Back then it was just Cypress Gardens. Today it’s called Cypress Gardens Adventure Park. It went through a rough period where it was sold and then bought several times. And …

As I actually live on the Costa Blanca, I have visited many so called attractions offered to holiday makers to this region. As an animal lover, I felt drawn to the Safari Park at Vergel, near Denia.
The Safari itself opens at 10am and is open every day. It …

Intra is a beautiful little town in Piemonte, on the north side of the Lago Maggiore. It is a really beautiful little town with a lot of little shops, bars and restaurants. The best times to visit this place is around Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Mardi Gras, and lastly the …

Allardt is a small town in Tennessee that is located off of highway 52. They don’t have a single red light in the town because it is that small. They do have a grocery store and two gas stations, a school, a church and post office. There is a …

The Skowhegan State Fair in Skowhegan, Maine is billed as the oldest continuously running state fair in the nation. The fairgrounds are large and have events scheduled at them year-round, but the fair itself takes place in early August and runs for just over a week.
What can you expect? …

If you are a lover of history, architecture, goblins and gools then you must visit Salem, MA and take this wonderful trolley tour. The trolley itself is well kept and safe for both young and old. It was a bright sunny day when I took the tour …

My aunt lives in Massachusetts, so I’ve been out there a number of times. The entire state is rich with History, what with it being the place that the Mayflower landed and all.
But, Plimoth Plantation stands out as one of the best, most historically educational and interesting experiences …

Asheville, North Carolina sits perched on top of a hill top which is part of the Great Smoky Mountain foothills. Its many rolling hills are covered in rhodendrum offering a beautiful view that is full of life and colorful blossoms in the spring and greenery in the winter. …

In the World Showcase of Epcot in Walt Disney World, FL, you can visit the United Kingdom in all it’s charm. I always used to be disappointed a bit with the United Kingdom Pavilion, but that’s because I had never really taken my time and explored it and …

This is an interesting website that publishes Travel glitches, such as pricing glitches, etc. Example if there is a hotel room showing at a ridiculously low price on a travel booking website it will be listed there. There are three different categories listed
1. Rate mistakes and …

I just got back around 2 months back from Penang, Malaysia. Or also known as Pulau Pinang. The majority race there are mainly Chinese and Indians, and then followed by Malaysian Malays. I think there’s nothing much going on around in Penang and I wish that …

The second set of free tickets I redeemed through TAP’s Victoria Program were for return flights to and from Faro, which was the easiest way to reach the Alrgarve region. Faro, the capital is a major city in Portugal and is a bustling, modern city.
My husband booked a car …

I would like to review the city of Munich in Germany. I have had the chance to go to this beautiful and gorgeous place some time last year and I was with my parents and siblings at that time of visit. The only con there would be …

Upon recently touring this home, I would say that if your daughter is currently a Girl Scout, you must visit. Your daughter will enjoy the tour and she will learn so much about the founder of the Girl Scouts.
This home is in a historic district of Savannah, …

South Mountain State Park is a very special place to me. Some of my friends thought I was crazy, when I decided to go for a week long backpacking trip with three kids alone with no prior experience in backpacking. I however did not see the problem. I looked …

A terrific site to visit while exploring Tangier Morocco is the Old American Legation Museum. You will find it within a corner section of the Medina and within the south portion.
The precise address is 8 Rue d’ Amerique and if you’d like information on it prior to a visit …

On my vacation in the UK I spent a week in Scotland, and much time in the amazing city of Edinburgh. Having seen the Edinburgh Vaults featured on several “ghost hunter” type shows, namely Most Haunted and Ghost Adventures, I was excited at the prospect of getting …

Sunny View is a small town it does not even have a red light. This town consist of two grocery store /gas stations, a restaurant and an elementary school. So as you should be able to tell it is rather small. However it is a nice area to …

I had been to Tioman island couple of years back. It is in Malaysia. We had gone in a group of 9 people. I stay in singapore. It is 2 hrs journey by sea from singapore. We travelled by cruise. We really enjoyed the travel by cruise. We stayed …

I took the members of my son’s boy scout troop camping in the gulley down from where we live at in Tennessee the other day. We did not have enough tents for all the boys so I brought two of my own tents. There were dome tents that are …

Every year our family travels to at least one amusement park. You might say we are roller coaster fanatics. We have been to 21 different amusement parks in the last 10 years. Several parks we have been to 30 or more times. One such park is Carowinds in North …

My first stay in Marathon Key was nothing short of amazing! I had been through there before, just riding through on our way to Key West and then heading back toward the mainland on a day trip, but this was the first actual time that my husband and …

One day in February 2012, I visited a kind of museum housed in one of the four pylons of Sydney Harbour Bridge. I thought that it was a small one. I was quite surprised that the museum is sufficiently large to accommodate a number of departments within one single …

When we spent some vacation time in the Scarborough area of Maine, we decided after it was suggested to go to Funtown and Splashtown in neighboring Saco, Maine. The first day we did Funtown. I did a review of that already so be sure to look it up. …

Honestly I wish that I could give this a good review, but I’m afraid that I can’t.
The first time that I went to Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror Nights, it really was something to remember. It was the year that they had “The Director”. It was spectacular! As …

Traveling to Disney World is one of my family’s greatest pastimes, so I try to get my son to most of the special events that take place there during the year. While he doesn’t really enjoy looking at flowers and plants, my husband and I love them. We have …

paradise island which i’m reffering to is Perhentian Island. Located roughly 21km(13.12miles) offshore of Kuala Besut, Terengganu.
Weather, tropical or would rather call it summer all year long.
When it comes to financial budgets, the priciest hotel would cost up to about RM250(US$71.10) till RM350(US$100) per night.
Food is good, loads …

Khutse was my first taste of the Kalahari Desert. I went there for a long weekend (Friday- Sunday) in July 2008. To get to this place from Gaborone, you have to drive for about 4 hours (leisurely pace with moderate speeds as there are lots of places which …

To make my travelling experiences trouble free, I took care to get all the necessary travel essentials in place before I set out to embark on the journey. For getting the right type of travel essential I never missed an opportunity to pick anything I found useful for my …

I was on business and after that I spend 3 more days on vacation, because I fell in love with downtown Calgary. The location of the Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport was perfect for that, because it’s in about 10 minutes distance from the airport and from the center of …

On our way back from the North Sea coast last May 6, 2010, we took the N4 which would take us to Bastogne. Instead of taking the E25 which is the highway connecting Belgium and Luxembourg, we took the national road. We usually do this detour to Bastogne but …

Paris, the capital of France, is a beautiful, romantic city with so much to see and do. Take along comfortable, strong shoes as you will do a lot of walking as you explore this city. The city’s metro system is convenient to use but it can be quite dirty …

There are lots of nice places that I have been to, which is associated with Sydney Harbour. I certainly love Sydney and here are some of detailed places that are associated with Sydney Harbour that I find them pretty interesting.
I had been to a lot of times in …

The Shanghai aquarium is located in Lujiazui across the Huangpu river in Pudong. Although it seems in a rather strange location �seemingly worlds away from the rest of Shanghai- it is a great place to visit if you love marine life. Unlike the disappointing and rather depressing …

During a recent trip to Bermuda some of my favorite places to visit were the forts. Of these, my favorite by far was Fort Hamilton. Much of it was built underground in the late 1800s. What impressed me most was that it seemed so peaceful and serene compared to …

One of the times that we visited the Outer Banks, we decided to go stay on Ocracoke Island. Ocracoke has a lighthouse which is alright with me! No, seriously, I love lighthouses and visit them and photograph them as often as I can.
Ocracoke is an attraction in …

Contigo West is a company that makes a mug which is designed to be ultra portable since it weighs just 11 ounces which means that you can bring it anywhere you can go. It is 8 inches high which makes it easy to store and it holds 20 ounces. …

Raghavendra Temple is one of the famous temples in Visakhapatnam. It is very close to the sand hills in visakhapatnam. This is the temple of Sri Raghavendra, a saint. Here devotees worship Sree Raghavendra’s Samadhi(tomb)rather than his statue. Thursday is the favorite day of this God and special poojas …