Lake Sabrina CA - Rarely do you find a place of such beauty. Located at 9,100 feet its an alpine lake surrounded by aspen covered slopes - a granite island sits in the lake framed by the other end of the lake and the high Sierra peaks. You can hike around this lake and if you have some time and want to do some high country backpacking and camping you can hike up to a plethora of other less populated lakes all the way up to 12,000 feet. It is … [Read more...]
Learning Spanish in Xela, Guatemala
A large chunk of Guatemala's tourism revenue comes from teaching Spanish to travellers. It's not like it's the only Spanish-speaking country on the continent, but a number of factors make it a number one choice. To start with, the Gutemaltekas speak slowly and clearly. Anyone who has been to Cuba will appreciate the importance of this - you aren't going to learn Spanish if you don't understand a single word muttered through lazy lips at … [Read more...]
America’s Cup 2007 in Valencia
An article is due on the practicalities of attending the 32nd America's Cup in Valencia, which will draw huge international crowds this summer of 2007. Here is the vital info and insider tips. All of the action will take place in the America's Cup Port, a magnificently designed complex built specifically for this occasion by the local government of Valencia. The central ultre-modern Veles I Vents building, a sort of command tower for the press … [Read more...]
Chicago Tourism: National Tourism Foundation
Chicago is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. The city has the honor of being the major center of transportation, industry, politics, culture, finance, medicine and higher education. The "Second City," the "Windy City," "Chi-town," and the "City of the Big Shoulders" are the informal names of Chicago. Chicago, like much of the Midwest, has a climate with a wide range of weather conditions. The city experiences four … [Read more...]
Isleton Crawdad Cajun & Blues Festival California – May 2007
Isleton Crawdad Cajun & Blues Festival California - The Crawdad Festival, an annual event held since 1986, is a real party! This is the largest single event consumption of crawdads outside of the godfather state of Crawfish, which of course is Louisiana. Literally tens of thousands of people converge on this very small town which has a population of under 1000 people (California's Delta Region - east of the San Francisco Bay Area). Over 24,000 … [Read more...]
Dave’s Travel Corner, Spring 2007 Newsletter
Dear Traveler, Travel is our passion! We are a Travel Content provider and this is our newsletter. Read on to discover what is new at our site. Our visitor and page view count is growing every month - last month we had over 345,000 visitors to the site and we reached 1 million page views! We have a solid page rank with Google and our content shows up in many search engines. The weather channel used a few of our photos in a recent … [Read more...]
The British Aura of London is Capped by Stratford Shakespearean Festival
As well, like London, Britain's capital, the town is intersected by the River Thames and as is the case in most of the towns in England it is filled with green spaces consisting of pleasant parks and thousands of trees. They offer year round opportunities for outdoor leisure activities and have earned the city the nickname 'Forest City'. Located in southwest Ontario-roughly halfway between Toronto and the U.S. border, London, a city of some … [Read more...]
Hermanus, Cape Town, South Africa
Hermanus, Cape Town, South Africa Hermanus is a delightfully pretty seaside town, only an hour and half from Cape Town, which is sandwiched between the coastline of Walker Bay and a high mountain range afew kms inland. Regarded by WWF as being one of the world's best locations to watch Whales it holds the annual Whale Festival at the end of September, which attracts over 100,000 eager Whale watchers. Southern Right Whales, Humpbacks and … [Read more...]
Pike’s Market, Seattle – April 2007
Pike's Market Seattle - The famous Pike's Market is well worth a visit when you are in Seattle. Its centrally located just up from the waterfront. Pikes Market is home to the famous Pike's Fish Throw, the world's very first Starbucks Coffee Shop, and excellent produce. It is one of America's premiere farmer's markets. Spend an afternoon wandering among the produce stalls or outside along the fine selection of street shops. For more information … [Read more...]
Valencia – The City That Has It All
Western Europe is such an ultimate travel destination that anything worth seeing has already been triple-packed. It is practically impossible to find a place that has major attractions yet has retained its innocence. And, out of all countries, Spain - the place where annual tourist head count overtakes that of its residents - is a very unlikely candidate for such location. Valencia leaves you perplexed. When you see the vastness of its … [Read more...]
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