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- Egyptian Visa Requirements to Visit the Valley of the Whales
- Travel Visa Requirements To Follow in the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
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Panama Visa Requirements For An Evening in Panama City
May 25th, 2010
Panama City is Panama's capital and largest city. As you might expect, there's no shortage of ways to spend your time there. In fact, you may find yourself with too many activities to choose from.
To get the most out of any visit to a new city, it's best to ask a local. Recently, Time magazine asked 3 famous native Panamanians for their recommendations. For example, according to New York Yankee's pitcher Mariano Rivera, the best time to visit the Panama Canal is from late afternoon until sunset, while the best seafood restaurants are located on the Calzada de Amador.
Architect Spiros Vamvas recommends an itinerary that starts with whiskey sours at the Bristol Hotel and ends with dinner and dancing at Habana Panama. Naturally, jazz pianist and composer Danilo Perez recommends visiting
Bolivian Visa Requirements to Visit Salar de Uyuni
May 23rd, 2010
Located in Bolivia, the Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world. Stretching for 4,086 square miles, the landform is virtually flat, save for a few "islands" created by the tops of old volcanoes.
As the name suggests, the surface of the salt flat is made entirely of a crust of salt. Underneath the salt is a pool of brine, containing possibly the world's largest reserves of lithium.
The Salar de Uyuni has to be seen to be believed. Describing the a trip to the Salar de Uyuni for BootsnAll, Christian Celind writes “A picture is worth a thousand words” doesn’t even apply here. How do you explain an optical illusion in words?"
You might think that a salt flat this big would be barren, utterly devoid of life. For the most part, you'd be correct, but some of the isl
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 It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn like a log after a flood.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
