About.com Travel Blog Carnivals

About.com Travel Blog Carnivals

Fall's a fantastic time to travel -- though rates heading toward winter lows in colder climes provide dynamite deal-finding opportunities, it's still warm enough even in the coolest spots for hikes through fallen leaves under canopies of color. So, where to go for the best fall foliage? You'll be one of the crowd in perennially popular leaf-peeping places like...

Oktoberfest has been happening for 200 years in Germany, but beer's been being consumed worldwide for a looong time -- and Oktoberfest's time frame provides folks worldwide with the perfect time to sing, sample sausage and swill suds with abandon, just like the 6,000,000 souls at the Oktoberfest in Munich will be doing September 19th-October 4th. Some of that global action, from Brazil's Blumenau to Birmingham's Bavarian-style Oktoberfest, is...

I'm all about national parks -- they absolutely rule my adventure roost because when it comes to cordoning off a special space for the most crazy cool canyons, couloirs, tree canopies and ways to get to where the wild things are, who would know better than the country involved where to preserve those places for your adventurous viewing and doing pleasure? Thus I'm loving "National Park Adventures:" An Adventure Travel Blog Carnival" from About.com's worldwide travel Guides, who know where those set-aside special spaces are and can...

Summertime's a fine time for dining, wining and culinary adventure: some of the season's most delicious dishes worldwide are featured for your salivating pleasure in a great blog carnival from About.com's Guides this week: "The 36 Best Summer Treats from Everywhere." We're big fans of fearless food sampling: we can't more highly recommend trying the local fare to exclusivity when traveling, and this sampling of sensational dishes is a good way to get in the mood for culinary travel adventurousness. Venture far afield with...

If your train familiarity is limited to Amtrak, you know that though the ride (really, really) rules, Amtrak's routes can be lacking; this blog carnival featuring train trips, tips, trivia, pix, and routes from About.com Guides 'round the world is a good way to get that trains in other countries, especially Europe, are frequently the finest way to fly, with fantastic routes that get you where you want to go and stations that are often (seriously) steps from a hostel door. And if convenience and cost matter less in rail-riding motivation than getting off the beaten tracks or experiencing awesome scenery, you can also see lots o' tremendously terrific train trips, like the...

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...

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...

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

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

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...