Posts Tagged ‘Travel’

I traveled to Egypt for the first time and enjoyed it a lot. I did not know what to expect and arrived in Cairo with some trepidation about a culture, religion and way of life I didn’t understand. I admit arriving with a touch of ignorance and a small tinge of fear. Before leaving I found it hard to find good information about what to expect so I thought I’d share a couple of the things that I would have liked to know before I got (more…)

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Sometimes, new technology makes like more complicated. Think: the highly programmable coffee-espresso machine that collects dust in your kitchen pantry.

Other times, new technology looks cool at first. And then quickly turns tedious. Think: laser pointers and clapping light switches.

And then once in a blue moon, along comes something new that is actually useful. In this category (more…)

By Nancy Sathre-Vogel from Family on Bikes.

This is part of a series of article in which travellers share what draws them to the road. If you enjoy Nancy’s article, subscribe to TravelBlogs and stay updated when new stories like it are posted.

The Vogels in Alaska, USA.

What could possess an otherwise perfectly sane family to take off to pedal bicycles 20,000 miles from one end of the earth to the other? (more…)

By Mark Shrime from Hope and Healing.

This is part of a series of article in which travellers share what draws them to the road. If you enjoy Mark’s article, subscribe to TravelBlogs and stay updated when new stories like it are posted.

Waiting for the rain. Timbuktu, Mali. Photo by Luis Dafos.

All it took was a nun.

The flight from New York City to Paris and on to Benin was about as uneventful (more…)

By Greg from Greg Wesson’s Esoteric Globe.

Hot air balloon in Goreme, Turkey. Photo by kavanadb.

I was walking along the Regent’s Canal this weekend as a new resident of Islington in London and wondering how I got here.  Not, mind you, in a negative way.  Not like those who – ball-gag in their mouth and gun to their head – wonder “How did I get here?”   Rather, I was wondering in the happy, positive way of (more…)

By Craig Heimburger from TravelVice.

This is part of a series of article in which travellers share what draws them to the road. If you enjoy Craig’s article, subscribe to TravelBlogs and stay updated when new stories like it are posted.

Craig with his son Aidric in Bulgaria.

I was working full-time in Phoenix and doing evening classes for my MBA (paid for by the same consulting company that I’d later (more…)

By Ant Stone from Trail of Ants.

Lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Clair Hamilton.

I’ve never been very good at keeping in touch. I expect my Facebook status to skip hand in hand with my Twitter account around the fires of my Flickr pages and the result be that everyone knows just enough. When my laptop allows Skype into its inner quarters, I begin my conversations with “so sorry I haven’t been in touch…” and The (more…)

By Sarah Maxwell from Palabras de Portenos.

Tango dancers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Marlis Seelos.

Here I sit in the patio of a café in Buenos Aires’s small but vibrant Chinatown, dunking a biscotti into a cup of espresso, an indulgence enjoyed underneath the simple pleasure of a tree’s leafy shade. Life is good. The smells of cocina asiatica waft through the air, and the Spainese mix the cooks speak (more…)

Scuba course in Punta Cana, D.R.

We’ve been busy updating our travel photo sets over on Flickr – have a look if you’re not familiar with them. And it made me realize how many drop-dead stunning photos have been submitted by Viator travelers recently.

So we’ve selected some of the staff’s favorite tours and things to do in Viator, and posted a handful of our favorite traveler photos (more…)

On the hunt this year for foam and pot stores.

This time last year I posted a list of the top and bottom searches of 2007 that occurred on Viator.com, and in keeping with this new tradition, I’ve updated the list for 2008.

The Viator.com search box gained a ton of searches over 2007’s total – we had more than 1.35 million searches in 2008! Once again, the one-off crazy searches were in many (more…)