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A dramatic skyline with glittering sky-scrapers rising above bustling streets packed with purposeful people, Atlanta, capital of Georgia, is a thriving city throbbing with entertainment, shopping malls and cultural attractions. On holiday in Atlanta it is impossible to ignore the past, its museums encapsulating the horrors of the Civil War and the hope generated bymore [...]
The commercial centre of the Texas panhandle, the city of Amarillo is also where tourists flock on holiday to experience the legendary life of the Wild West, rodeos and livestock auctions attracting cowboys and cowgirls in full regalia, set on working up a thirst in the dust to slake later in the saloon. Amarillo ismore [...]
The historic pioneering town of Australia’s “Outback”, Alice Springs started out as little more than a waterhole and a telegraph station. Then the railways and airways reached it and today the town is a busy, modern hub-bub of tourists who come on holiday to take excursions to Uluru (Ayers Rock), the daunting Simpson Desert, andmore [...]
Famous for its annual hot air balloon fiesta, Albuquerque, spread across the desert plains of New Mexico, can be appreciated on the ground too, at any time of year. The core is an historic Old Town, where museums, galleries and shopping centres fill the space where Spanish colonists first put down roots in 1706. Formore [...]
A holiday in Adelaide is relaxing and pleasant, the capital of South Australia having a Mediterranean flavour with its riverside gardens, open air cafes and intriguing art galleries. The central city, laid out on a convenient grid, is easy to explore. Among the main attractions is a multi-arts Aboriginal culture centre and a vintage trammore [...]
The vast country of India spawned the world’s oldest civilization and two of its greatest religions, Buddhism and Hinduism. Today a holiday in India is sometimes frightening, with the poverty and pollution that pervades the teeming cities, and often sublime, when one gazes at sights like the graceful Taj Mahal or soaks up the sunmore [...]
The main attraction for those who holiday in Cambodia are the enigmatic temples of Angkor, but there is plenty more to beguile and fascinate travellers in this unspoilt south east Asian country. Travel in Cambodia, which is still recovering its equilibrium after Pol Pot’s reign of terror, is not easy, but the rewards are greatmore [...]
The territory known as Hong Kong occupies a region on the coast of mainland China that for decades was under the control of Britain but is now a “special administrative region” given over to the People’s Republic of China. The densely populated enclave covers hundreds of islands and mainland suburbs, connected by a top classmore [...]
Formerly a province of the Soviet Union, the now independent state of Georgia, situated in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas, now warmly welcomes tourists and has a great deal to offer for a great holiday. Its Mediterranean style capital, Tbilisi, with a thriving café culture and some fine galleries and museums,more [...]
It takes more than one holiday in China (unless it is a very long one!) to experience all the aspects of this vast and diverse country, which teems with billions of people and is bursting with awesome sights. From the legendary “Silk Road” and the remote monasteries in the highlands of Tibet to the bewilderingmore [...]