Travel
Sunday, 29 January 2012
IN 1876 FRENCH poet Arthur Rimbaud joined the Dutch colonial army, sailed to the Indonesian island of Java and then deserted and fled into the jungle. No one knows what happened next.More than 130 years later, an American author followed in the...
KUALA LUMPUR recently opened a new tourist attraction a fully air-conditioned pedestrian walkway linking the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) and Bukit Bintang, two major retail and tourism spots in the Malaysian capital.Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak...
Sunday, 22 January 2012
TUNISIA, Egypt and Japan are working hard to lure back visitors who steered clear of their countries last year due to civil unrest and an earthquake, officials said at a world tourism fair.Popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt ousted long-term rulers...
Sunday, 15 January 2012
"OK, Suri, I've got four days in Mulu; what do you suggest?" I asked the receptionist at Park HQ. Brimming with enthusiasm, she planned out my visit."And don't miss the bats, flying out of Deer Cave," she advised, "and watch out for tarsiers on the...
Sunday, 8 January 2012
THE sky blackened and rain deluged from above; thumping down hard on the roof of my Nissan. The road became a torrent. Water sprayed from the wheels of passing cars and pummelled the windscreen. Waves rippled out from cars heading towards Miri....
Sunday, 1 January 2012
BEHIND a locked glass door lies the 17th floor of Copenhagen's Bella Sky hotel: the Bella Donna floor is off-limits to men so women will feel safe and pampered, even though it's in violation of gender equality laws."I'm not allowed to enter. I...
Sunday, 25 December 2011
A RECORD 50 million tourists will have visited New York City by the end of 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced recently, up about 1.5 million from last year despite a slowing global economy.The Big Apple is the most popular tourist destination...
Sunday, 18 December 2011
EGYPT expects to earn about US$9 billion ($11.77 billion) from tourism in 2011, down by about a third on a year earlier after many visitors were deterred by an uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in February and unrest that followed, a senior...
Sunday, 20 November 2011
AIRLINES have already begun charging for food, drinks, seat assignments and baggage. Now one is demanding that passengers cough up extra cash for fuel.Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded Thursday in Amritsar, India,...
A PILOT accidentally locked himself in the bathroom on a flight to New York City and touched off a brief hijacking terror scare.The incident underscored the fears about air travel that linger more than a decade after 9/11.The captain of Delta Flight...
Sunday, 13 November 2011
IT'S a rainy November day on Jeju Island and the leaves have turned yellow and red. The top of Aloreum, on Olle trail route No 1, is difficult to make out. Fog drifts over it like mist at the base of a waterfall. One of Olle's most famous spots,...
Sunday, 6 November 2011
THE Mount Malindang Natural Range Park in the Philippines and the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve in Singapore have been declared as new Asean Heritage Parks.The declaration was made during the 13th Informal Asean Ministerial Meeting on the Environment...
Sunday, 30 October 2011
FOR 67-year-old Mad Desa Ahmad, no distance is insurmountable so long as he has his trusty old bicycle.The retired Water Supply Department employee of Seberang Perai, Penang, is prepared to pedal more than 100km to sell abandoned nests of the Baya...
Sunday, 23 October 2011
MALAYSIA has emerged as the biggest tourism market in the Asean region for India-bound traffic.This assessment was given by Rajesh Talwar, director of Singapore-based IndiaTourism, India's official tourism promotion agency, in an interview with...
FEISTY forest-dwellers in winged helmets, with a fondness for roast boar, strong wine and Roman-bashing. That is the pen portrait of the Gaul as summed up by the pint-sized comic hero Asterix — and it is wrong from start to finish.Drawing on...
Sunday, 16 October 2011
BRITONS are now including internet passwords in wills to ensure their online music, photographs, videos and other digital data are not lost when they die, a British study showed.Around 11 per cent of the 2,000 British people surveyed by the Centre...
ALASKA sees plenty of visitors, but few draw local paparazzi like the guests that fly south every October: trumpeter and tundra swans.Hundreds of swan pairs, some with gray juveniles, stop at lakes and ponds on their annual fall migration, drawing...
Sunday, 9 October 2011
ELABORATELY- DECORATED horse-drawn carriages are a symbol of the Indian city of Mumbai, have starred in several Bollywood films and become a tourist attraction in their own right.But their days could be numbered because of allegations of widespread...
ARCHEOLOGISTS overseeing the upkeep of the Taj Mahal denied on Friday a press report that said the iconic structure could collapse in as little as two years because of its weakened foundations.The white marble mausoleum, known as the "monument...
Sunday, 2 October 2011
ONCE a location of choice for directors shooting World War II classics and big 1980s adventure films, Sri Lanka is hoping to make a comeback on the movie trail as it emerges from civil war.Since the island's bloody conflict ended in May 2009, the...
