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Discover Dazzling Winter Evenings at Hong Kong's New Light Festival

, Local Events

For a city whose nighttime skyline overlooking Victoria Harbour is already a global icon of urban lighting and signage, a light festival might seem...

Why You Need To Go Hiking In North America

North America, Adventure

North America’s national parks and national monuments offer a treasure trove of wonders just waiting to be discovered on your next hiking adventure...

Once-in-a-Lifetime North American Adventures

North America, Outdoor Activities

Hop on a horse, strap on a pair of skis or climb aboard a chopper to experience an unreal adventure in the USA or Canada. These are the once-in-a-l...

This Ship Has a Magic Carpet - And 8 Other Things You'll Love About the New Celebrity EDGE

River or Ocean Cruises

The Celebrity EDGE has launched and is turning heads at every port. Its standout sleek, urban resort styling and game-changing technology have...

6 Tips to Survive - and Enjoy - an 'Obli-cation'

Before your trip

When your 'vacation' is really an obligation, you're taking an 'obli-cation'. You've taken these trips: cross-country to the in-laws' for the ...

Where's the Best Place to be on National Cake Day?

Austria, Dining

If it isn't on your calendar already, get out a red pen and mark November 26. That's National Cake Day, and although we don't need any excuses...

This City Gets Another Designer Parking Garage - Yes, 'Park-itecture' is a Thing

Miami, Florida, Sightseeing

Architecture is the calling-card of a city. Some destinations are made famous by cathedrals or castles, towers or temples, statues or skyscrapers… ...

5 Fun Facts Plus 1 Travel-Inspired Tequila Recipe

Culture & History

Tequila has grown up. No longer a frat house or a blurry vacation cliché, Mexico's national spirit has returned in recent years to its roots, with ...

Video Cruise Review: Tulips and Much More on an Avalon Spring Netherlands River Cruise

Netherlands, River or Ocean Cruises

If you're a flower lover, a Tulip Time spring cruise in the Netherlands is already on your bucket list. If you're not a particular flower love...

Video: A Canadian Veteran of DDay Explains Why You Should Visit the Juno Beach Centre

Normandy, France, Culture & History

There are fewer and fewer veterans of the DDay Landing Beaches to tell their stories, but Canada's Juno Beach Centre introduced us to Jim Parks, wh...

Video: What Happens on a Visit to the Juno Beach Centre?

Culture & History

The Juno Beach Centre is Canada's WW2 DDay Landing Beach war memorial and museum, right on the site where Canadians joined British, American, Frenc...

Fact or Fiction? 3 Things You Need to Know About 'Dracula's Castle'

Sightseeing

Before every travel destination had a ghost tour and haunted hotels, there was Dracula's Castle.Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel...

3 'Starter' Greek Islands

Greece, Sightseeing

  'Greece' evokes two pictures in most people's imagination: the ancient cradle of Western civilization, democracy, philosophy, l...

5 Stars and Social Consciousness; A Paris Hotel Creates the Future of Luxury Cuisine

Hotels

The first luxury hotel to win 5 Michelin stars is putting its money where its guests' mouths are. And committing to the cause of tomorrow's fo...

5 Fun Facts Plus 1 Travel-Inspired Tequila Recipe

Tequila, Mexico, Culture & History

Tequila has grown up. No longer a frat house or a blurry vacation cliché, Mexico's national spirit has returned in recent years to its roots, ...

Video: Where to Travel to Find the World's 2nd Largest Oktoberfest

Canada, Local Events

Munich's annual extravaganza of beer halls, buxom girls in dirndls, pretzels and the best of the 'wurst' (pun intended!) actually gets underway in ...

This is the Only Place You Can See Cirque du Soleil at Sea

River or Ocean Cruises

Cirque du Soleil has been charting new entertainment territory since it began and it's changed what we think of as 'circus' shows.You may have been...

5 Places to Go Island Hopping in Tahiti

Sea & Sand

The very word 'Tahiti' evokes the mystique of one of the most remote and romantic island destinations in the world. An island hopping escape to eve...

You Can Dive into Cousteau Legacy at this Luxury Eco-Resort in Fiji

Fiji, Adventure

Pristine Fijian ecosystem at land and sea, romantic and evocative South Pacific vistas and lifestyle… no wonder a trip to one of the world's top ex...

Yes he did! 'Luke Skywalker' Opens New Skywalk at One of the World's Most Symbolic Lookouts

, Sightseeing

And he even used a light saber. The actor famous for his role as one of space's greatest heroes didn't need to use the Force to launch the new...

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