Category: newsletter
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Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha
Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter – get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet – create and print a…
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Manas – Wildlife Heaven by MKS Pasha
Against the backdrop of the Eastern Himalayas lies a grass and jungle habitat of unparalleled beauty. Tigers, Asian elephants, golden langurs, one-horned rhinoceros and Bengal Florican share this wilderness with…
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Iraqi Treasures Stolen
More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, 10,000 artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq are still missing and archaeological sites across Iraq have been plundered.…
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F-16 Cause Reindeer to Collapse
The Danish Air Force admitted last month that it paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared…
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Crocodile Attacks in N Australia
About a dozen people have been killed by salt-water crocodiles in Australia in the past 20 years. Now divers in northern Australia are calling for development of crocodile warning devices…
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Eleven Reasons to get Married in Scotland by Charlie Taylor
Scotland has been a favourite holiday destination for many years and now it has a growing reputation as a favourite destination for couples from around the world to tie the…
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Exploding Python Ate Alligator
Alligators have clashed with non native pythons before in Everglades National Park. A 13 ft long python tried to swallow a 6 ft alligator whole and then exploded. Scientists have…
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Record Numbers of travellers
At September's World Tourism Day, the the United Nations Today said that more and more people can afford to travel. In 1950 it was 20 million, last year 760 million,…
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Non-stop Bangkok flight
Thai Airways, Thailand's national carrier, has announced that it will fly non stop from Bangkok to Los Angeles as of Dec. 1. The flight used to stop in Osaka, Japan…
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Greg McKenzie's Motorbike Travels On Ruta 40 in Argentina
Trip duration: 56 days Trip miles to date: 5,632 Miles since last update: 472 Having completed over 5,600 miles in the previous 5 weeks, these past two weeks have been…