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Archive for May, 2010
Indian Visa Requirements to Travel the Grand Trunk Road
May 23rd, 2010
The Grand Trunk Road is one of India's oldest, longest and most important highways. Here's how Rudyard Kipling described it in his novel Kim:
"Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims -and potters - all the world going and coming. It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn like a log after a flood. And truly the Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India's traffic for fifteen hundred miles - such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world."
Winding 2,500 kilometers from Bangladesh, through India and into Pakistan, the road passes a variety of interesting destinations of cultural, historic and religious significance, including the Taj Mahal and the city of Varanasi, where Hindi
Egyptian Visa Requirements to Visit the Valley of the Whales
May 22nd, 2010
65 million years ago, the Mediterranean sea was larger, and its coastline was located much further south than it is today. These warm waters and ancient mangrove forests were ruled by Basilosaurus, giant 60-foot-long sea mammals that were the ancestors of today's whales and dolphins.
The sea retreated, and eventually the ocean floor turned into the Egyptian desert. However, the skeletons of many of the great beasts were preserved as fossils. In the Valley of the Whales, this week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site, you can walk on what was once an ancient seabed, and see the fossilized remains of Flipper's oldest relatives (h/t Bootsnall.) The fossils are the earliest known record of the whale family- some of them even still have the remnants of legs!
The Valley of the Whales
Travel Visa Requirements To Follow in the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
May 21st, 2010
From 336 to 323 BC, the Macedonian army, led by Alexander the Great, blazed through the Middle East as Alexander strove to conquer Darius, the king of Persia. Although Alexander's reign was short, his impact on history was tremendous. Now, reporter Theodore May is retracing the path the army took, on foot.
Currently in Lebanon, he is blogging about his journey here. For real-time updates, you can also check out his Twitter feed here.
Of course, travel visas weren't really an issue back when Alexander the Great traveled this route. Even if they had been, I seriously doubt he would have cared. You, however, are not Alexander the Great, and you don't have the entire Macedonian army at your back. If you want to undertake a similar journey, researching travel visa requirements is an
Bolivian Visa Requirements for Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
May 16th, 2010
This week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in the Bolivian Amazon. Consisting of 5,880 square miles of protected land, the park encompasses several distinct and important ecosystems, including evergreen amazon rainforests, palm forests, cerrado, swamps, savannas, gallery forests, and semi-deciduous dry forests.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site notes that "The park boasts an evolutionary history dating back over a billion years to the Precambrian period. An estimated 4,000 species of flora as well as over 600 bird species and viable populations of many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate species live in the park."
Innumerable different types of animals make their home in the park, including parrots, monkeys, giant armadillos and fearsome jaguars. The pa
Get a Thai Visa to See the Floating Market of Damnoen Saduak
May 15th, 2010
When you visit another country, even mundane activities like shopping are transformed into interesting new experiences. As Gadling.com notes, shopping is also a great way to interact with local people and experience the culture of the place you are visiting.
If you are visiting Bangkok, one of the coolest shopping experiences is actually located outside the city itself, in the floating market of Damnoen Saduak. From around 8am to 11am each day, the canals of Damnoen Saduak are packed full of the boats of both shoppers and vendors. This is a great place to buy food of all types, as you can see from the video above.
Most of the produce comes from small farms located alongside the canals-about as fresh as you can get! Still, even if you don't buy anything, it's worth a trip just to take
