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Mali Visa Requirements to Visit the Cliff of Bandiagara
January 2nd, 2011
This week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site is a stunning, enormous escarpment in Mali. The Cliff of Bandiagara is the sanctuary of the Dogon tribe. Visiting this region, you can see their unique earth buildings and learn about their culture firsthand. The UNESCO website explains:
"The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places). Several age-old social traditions live on in the region (masks, feasts, rituals, and ceremonies involving ancestor worship)."
The Dogon people have an interesting history and many secretive traditions that are not supposed to be shared with outsiders. One of the problems with tourism, though, is that it can cheapen
Indian Visa Requirements to Stay on a Coffee Plantation
January 1st, 2011
Watch out, Italy and Jamaica - the Indian district of Coorg is attempting to become the next must-visit destination for coffee lovers! The New York Times reports that plantations in India's top coffee-growing region have been adding bed-and-breakfast-type lodging for guests to help offset the uncertainty of the coffee market.
In addition to drinking freshly roasted coffee from the plantations, tourists can also hike, climb nearby Mount Tadiandamol and visit the Nalaknad Palace. However, for coffee enthusiasts, the chief draw remains getting as close as possible to your favorite beverage. Some of the most respected brands of coffee in the world source their beans from this region, including Italy's Illy.
To enter India, US citizens need both a valid passport and an Indian visa. You wi
Get a Russian Visa for a Second Christmas
December 31st, 2010
Christmas always seems to go by too fast, doesn't it? If you'd like to extend the holiday season, consider applying for a Russian visa. As Gadling reported earlier today, Russia celebrates Christmas about 2 weeks later than the United States, on January 7th.
Gift-giving, however, happens tonight, as back when Russia was communist giving gifts on Christmas was officially frowned on.
How festive is the Christmas season in Russia? Contrary to what you might expect, it's actually quite festive, as Gadling's Meg Nesterov discovered:
"I arrived in Moscow last Friday (western Christmas Eve) to find the capital freezing but festive, with New Year's yolki (trees) decorated all over the city and various versions of Ded Moroz walking the streets, and now in St. Petersburg, locals are rushing
2011 Destinations: Get a Bangladesh Visa for a Frugal Adventure
December 30th, 2010
Since it's almost New Year's Eve, I thought it'd be a good idea to spend the next few days looking at different destinations that travel experts have recommended for 2011. First, let's take a look at Bangladesh, a country that is definitely under-utilized by tourists at the moment.
The folks over at Lonely Planet recently recommended Bangladesh as one of their top value destinations for 2011, so if you're not yet feeling the economic recovery, this Southeast Asian country might be a good choice for you. According to Lonely Planet, you can eat quite well for less than a dollar a meal and get a decent night's sleep in a hotel room for less than $10.
Bangladesh features a menu of activities worthy of even the most seasoned adventure traveler: hiking through dense jungles in one of the
Chinese Visa Requirements to Tour the Tea Horse Road
December 26th, 2010
The Silk Road may get all the glory, but there's another, lesser-known Chinese trade route that's no less interesting to explore. The "Tea-Horse Road" once carried tea from China to Tibet, where the Chinese traded it for tough Tibetan horses.
The original trail was incredibly difficult and rough, and yet Chinese tea porters made the journey with packs of tea on their backs that weighed more than they did. National Geographic travel writer Mark Jenkins recently traveled what remains of the Tea Horse road, and found some elderly Chinese porters who were willing to talk about their days hauling tea. The traditional tea porter song that they sang for him illustrates how hard the work was:
Seven steps up, you have to rest.
Eight steps down, you have to rest.
Eleven steps flat,
