Travel

In the beginning, there was only one way to travel… on foot. Through the years, people have developed easier and faster ways to get around. From using animals to carry or pull us, to space travel, the innovations have been plenty. There are as many types of travel as there are reasons for traveling. People go to space to discover new life forms, to another country to discover a new way of life, or to work or school as part of their daily life.

The word travel conjures up magical images of far away places. In reality, it can be as simple as getting from one place to another. Some of the more popular types of personal travel include: business travel, adventure travel, humanitarian travel, ecotourism, and family travel, to name a few. In addition, many people journey vicariously through others by reading travel blogs. They say ‘getting there is half the fun”, but sometimes how you get there is the main attraction. This is especially true with cruise and train travel. All different lifestyles and incomes enjoy traveling. It is human nature to get out and explore the world around us.

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• Golf Vacation Packages For The Golf Lover

  
  Naked News — Authority: 174
  Golf vacation packages can be a golf lovers dream come true. These packages offer a way to travel and relax, while getting in a few rounds of golf at the same time. There are so many different golf vacation packages available it will be easy to find one that meets your needs and suits your tastes.
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• Big Five Packages to Galapagos Islands

  
  Jetsettersblog — Authority: 159
  Big Five Tours & Expeditions is offering new packages for the Galapagos that make use of new luxury hotels in the islands, which have made it possible to offer land-based programs to the islands. New Big Five packages feature Galapagos Safari Camp, which has eight luxury safari tents on a hill on a farm in the ...
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• Singita Pamushana Game-Viewing Cruises

  
  Jetsettersblog — Authority: 159
  Singita Pamushana in southeastern Zimbabwe introduced birding and game-viewing cruise excursions aboard its new luxury range 3G aluminum pontoon boat. The lodge is one of only a few in Africa with access to a private dam and the ability to offer a cruising experience. Powered by a quiet four-stroke engine, it allows ...
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• Austin-Lehman Adventures Adds Hike and Bike Programs

  
  Jetsettersblog — Authority: 159
  Austin-Lehman Adventures, traditionally a multi-sport adventure tour provider, is introducing for 2010 a mixed portfolio of domestic and international vacations with new single sport itineraries featuring hiking or biking as the primary activity. The new hike and bike destinations in ALA’s 2010 catalog include U.S. ...
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• From our correspondent: Lincoln

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Discover the best of the cathedral citys massive, German-style Christmas market with the Lincolnshire Echo features writer Why visit... December is a special time in Lincoln. For the past 27 years the 2,000-year-old city has hosted a traditional, German-style market, which has grown from a few stalls in 1982 to ...
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• Five literary places to stay

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Book in to the atmospheric houses and homes that inspired Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Shakespeare and Hemingway Samuel Taylor Coleridge Greta Hall, nr Keswick, Cumbria Be inspired by the stunning grandeur of the Lake District landscape, as viewed from the windows of this Grade I-listed building near Keswick, just ...
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• Ode to Rome, a city of passionate pilgrimage... and roses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
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• Paul Oakenfolds top Las Vegas nightspots

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
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• From tree to tapas: a crash course in all things olive

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
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• In brief

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
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• InterCity dreaming is more than just nostalgia

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
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• Silent witness in the Sinai

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Join a strange safari in the desert hunting, not rare animals, but an equally endangered prize – absolute silence Several times each night I wake up. My first thought is usually that I am getting too old to sleep out, even in a proper sleeping bag and with a long padded Bedouin cushion between me and the ground. ...
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• Travel tips - guardian.co.uk

  
  Koh Samui Blog, Koh Samui Fun, Travel Stories — Authority: 157
  guardian.co.uk Travel tips guardian.co.uk Photograph: Walter Bibikow/ Walter Bibikow/JAI/Corbis Q: My partner and I are looking to travel for two or so weeks round the end of August. ...
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• Holding the course pays off for Amadeus APAC - 4Hoteliers

  
  Koh Samui Blog, Koh Samui Fun, Travel Stories — Authority: 157
  Holding the course pays off for Amadeus APAC 4Hoteliers ... Amadeus increased its staff force in the region by 15% to 1400 employees and opened two new offices - in kohsamui , Thailand and Yangon, Myanmar. ...
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  Carbon Nanotube development has slowly but surely become one of themost promising pieces of technology over the past few years, and for agood reason. Honda, along with Perdue University and the University ofLouisville, has given us yet another reason to look forward to the newtechnology.
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• $169 & up — Puerto Rico Beach Resort w/Breakfast and Credit – published by Travelzoo

  
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• Tips On Finding Cheap Family Holidays : Travel Blog

  
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