Petén Region at Guatemala located in Latin America. More than 1000 years ago it was center for Traditional Maya civilization with high population and huge fabulous cities. But, the grand civilizations collapsed in year 900 reasons are not known exactly. Presently Petén Region is considered as the best tourist place and people from all over [...]
Sun City – Africa’s Kingdom of Pleasure
South Africa under the regrettable Nationalist Party government was quite puritanical and gambling was frowned upon. It was also split up into a number of semi-autonomous regions called Bantustans where rules were lax. Not unlike what has happened in the United States, casinos sprung up in the native-ruled homelands as well as in Swaziland and [...]
Neolithic Britain – Stonehenge to Scara Brae
Britain has been inhabited for a long time. About 6000 years ago, the nomadic hunter-gatherersof the British Isles were exposed to new ideas arriving from the rest of Europe and the dawn of the Neolithic Revolution. Nomads began to adopt agriculture and settled down to life in one place. The hunter-gatherer lifestyle gradually disappeared. To [...]
Madagascar – Boababs, Lemurs and Tsingy
What an amazing country Madagascar is! The fourth largest island in the world – slightly smaller than Texas, two and a half times the size of Britain – is home to almost 20 million humans and 150,000 life forms found nowhere else on earth. One of the strangest is the upside-down tree known as the [...]
Cornwall – St Ives, Penzance and Port Isaac
“As I was going to St. Ives” is a popular nursery rhyme and logic problem. “The Pirates of Penzance” is a popular operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. Port Isaac is better known as Portwenn, home to Doc Martin. The only thing these three towns have in common is that they are all lie in Cornwall, [...]
Cabo Blanco – Costa Rica’s oldest park
At the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica lie the 3,000 acres of the Cabo Blanco Absolute Natural Reserve. It wasn’t always like that. In the 1960smost of the land here had been depleted of the natural forest and replaced by farm and pasture land. Fortunately Olof (Nicolas) Wessberg and Karen Mogensen settled [...]
Shipping Your Suvenirs? How Much Does Courier Service Cost?
A number of factors decide the answer to our question today– how much does it cost to ship your souvenirs back home if the package is a tiny bit larger than you anticipated? The cost of the courier service depends on the item you want to send, how far you want it to go, when [...]