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Mexico's holiday magic for the year ahead
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In a world that seems nowadays to be perpetually tossed on a stormy sea of political and financial instability, predictions should perhaps come with a disclaimer.
It was a year ago that TravelMail forecast what the world of travel would look like in 2011 and both the Middle East and Greece ...DETAILS |
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Carnival Cruise Lines celebrates New Year with sales push
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Carnival Cruise Lines has unveiled a new advertising campaign that takes a fun, light-hearted approach to promoting the quality and value of ‘Fun Ship’ cruising versus traditional land-based vacations.
Created by the line’s advertising agency, Boston-based Arnold Worldwide, ...DETAILS |
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Diamond city where hotels are palaces and glitz abounds
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Partying is a pastime in India. On my first evening at Falaknuma palace in Hyderabad, I ask the waiter what the drum beating is all about – the city is twinkling, flashing, jingling, rattling away below. ‘A wedding,’ he says, ‘there’s always a wedding. But we ...DETAILS |
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India takes on a new dimension when you travel by train
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A lemony dawn is breaking in New Delhi. Platform 2 is throbbing with charming Indian efficiency.
We are waiting to board the Maharajas' Express for a six-day adventure through Royal India, taking in Agra, Ranthambore, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and Vadodara before disembarking in ...DETAILS |
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The Great Omani Outdoors
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Are you into outdoor activities? Do you like to go hiking, camping or perhaps bird watching? Now that the cooler season has arrived, it is a great opportunity to head to Oman and enjoy the multitude of different outdoor activities the Sultanate has to offer.
The mountains in Oman might deceive ...DETAILS |
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Awesome scenery and the bear necessities in Ontario
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A schoolboy error, I grant you. I’d wandered off the trail searching for a little, ahem, privacy and wasn’t quite sure which was the right way back.
Suddenly, I was lost in a forest as dense as a grinning London looter.
The glorious isolation and beauty of Algonquin State Park, ...DETAILS |
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Anyone fancy a trip to Albania
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There are suddenly a lot of surveys telling us that next year will be the 'Year of Albania' or 'the Cape Verde islands will be where it’s at in 2012'.
With the greatest respect to Albania and the Cape Verde Islands (or 'Cape Verred' as William Grundy refers to his proposed honeymoon ...DETAILS |
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Montreal's new snow village a hot attraction in 2012
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Montreal is to get its very own snow village made entirely out of ice and snow.
The village, which will be located in Jean-Drapeau park, will open to the public on 6 January 2012 and will feature a 30-room hotel, an ice restaurant and bar along with replicas of well-known Montreal buildings, ...DETAILS |
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A glimpse of the future in scintillating Shanghai
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Five AM, and it's dark outside.But here in the Yongfu Buddhist temple every surface is burnished and blazing with jewel-bright colour. The rhythmic chanting of a dozen shaven-headed monks swells the air and reverberates in the 13 ft-high golden Buddha looming above me, as if he, too, is greeting ...DETAILS |
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Charming, captivating Puerto Rico
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Thanks to Hunter S Thompson, I approach Puerto Rico with trepidation.
The gonzo journalist was here 50 years ago and The Rum Diary, the novel he wrote based on his experience, makes for grim reading as the protagonist, Paul Kemp, discovers an unbearably hot island that is overrun with dogs and ...DETAILS |
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