Travel Blog Carnival: New Seven Wonders of Nature
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Could you narrow down the world's wazillion natural wonders to just seven simply superb sights? Cast a vote in the New7Wonders of Nature popularity contest by July 7 to pick the seven perfect places; get some help with your opinion on what's wonderful, or just enjoy checking out the scenes that there are to be seen globally (and amass awesome ideas for amazing future sightseeing), with a...
Weird and Wacky Festivals Worldwide Blog Carnival
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I'm loving the latest blog carnival here at About.com: Weird and Wacky Travel Experiences, a global compilation of crazy carnivals, fantastic festivals, and unconventional (to me) conventions (like the exceedingly interesting Pushkar Camel Fair in India, which is...
Blog Carnival: Unesco World Heritage Sites
© Martha Bakerjian and About.com
From the long beloved by travelers like the Taj Mahal to the less well loved but equally lovely like Iguazu Falls, UNESCO's world heritage sites, a designation dealt out to spots with truly cool cultural or natural heritage, now number 890 (16 added last month). Have a fantastic fantasy about visiting them all, starting with
Global St. Patrick's Day Partying
© About.com and Bernd Biege
From our man in Ireland, Bernd Biege, comes a global roundup of St. Patrick's Day parties worldwide where one can wet one's whistle with a wee dram of whiskey or (of course) green beer in pubs and during parades from Dublin's famously rowdy Temple Bar area to Boston
Ancient Sites Blog Carnival
© About.com and Suzanne Barbezat
How, where and what on the world's most awe-inspiring ancient sites are all pulled together in this awesomely inspirational Ancient Sites blog carnival from around About.com's travel world, which includes corners as far flung as Angkor Wat, Petra (think Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade) and the Great Zimbabwe Ruins; all in all, this is a very cool accumulation of antiquity travel tips and pix...
A Blog Carnival for Carnival-Carnaval-Mardi Gras
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So, you know about Mardi Gras in New Orleans... do you know that's just the over-the-top tip of the cool, crazy carnival happenings worldwide? Too true! Fat Tuesday (aka Mardi Gras, carnaval, carnevale, or karnaval) is a last fun fling before the official beginning of 40 days of what could be seen as the deprivations of Lent, and carnival's thus a time to traditionally live a little (or a lot!), especially for the final, fattest Tuesday festival...
Celebrating Chinese New Year With a Worldwide Blog Carnival
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The Chinese New Year is an excellent occasion for a travel blog carnival at About.com: the Year of the Ox will be heartily rung in 'round the world on January 25, and you can find out where to find the fun, including pageantry, parades, and some supremely serious fireworks, somewhere near where you'll be on the lunar new year...
Adrenalin-Charged Blog Carnival
© About.com and Lois Friedland
Time for another travel blog carnival at About.com, and this one's got some fantastically fun finds for fearless adventurers -- and a few are even free! Look into some awesome adventures you might like, like surfing and rapelling in Puerto Rico, hiking Thailand's Hang Nak Trail, go-to Goa adventure galore, or a...
Creepy Places Blog Carnival
No sooner did we note that About.com's Eastern European writer had sleuthed out some especially sinister spots in a cool creepy places piece than we notice she's gone for all the bats in the belfry and assembled a blog carnival of strange stuff from across About.com this week. Included in the montage are the locally monstrous (like ghostly tours of formerly ghastly scenes such as the old West Virginia penitentiary) and the macabre across the pond (walks into the weird and tours of the terrible in some of the most haunted cities in Europe -- think drawing, quartering and castle curses). Learn about the mystical and mysterious (like the real...Blog Carnival: Practical Travel Tips
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This blog carnival's totally packed with travel tips from some true travel pros -- the Travel Guides around the About.com world. Check it out for some enlightening info on everything from packing to passports...
