About.com's got Guides, or writers, posted worldwide with all the best dope on where to go and what to do just about everywhere, and every now and then we pool our planetwide travel tips for travel blog carnivals packed with global gallivanting ideas. Check out a summary of and links to all 21 (keep scrolling) of our About.com Travel Blog Carnivals:
Chinese New Year Worldwide: Year of the Rabbit
© Kathleen Crislip
Chinese New Year celebrations worldwide serve up some sensational scenes: supremely serious fireworks and outstandingly cool parades will be the situations as the Year of the Rabbit rings in 'round the world on February 3, and Sara Naumann, checking in from her Shanghai home, has found where to find Chinese New Year celebrations somewhere near where you'll be on the lunar new year...
St. Patrick's Day Parades Worldwide
© About.com and Bernd Biege
Did you know that Birmingham, UK, has the third largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the world? Me neither. Or that St. Patrick's Day parades did not originate in, um, Ireland? Find fascinating facts like these plus the primest places for the pageantry and non-pomp of St. Patrick's Day parades around the planet with this blog carnival roundup of relevant tips from About.com's travel Guides (and see where the serious St. Patty's Day parties will be, too)...
Travel Blog Carnival: Romantic Travel
© About.com & and Susan Breslow Sardone
About.com's globally positioned Travel Guides have a pleasurable plethora of international intimacy-inspiring ideas for Valentine's Day and Susan Breslow Sardone, romantic (of course) travel expert, has assembled all the lovey dovey destinations and deals for wonderful worldwide romantic travel -- check it out, even if just for some fantastic fantasies...
Travel Blog Carnival: Odd Accommodations
© Jane McLean and About.com
Oddball accommodations are one of the spices of travel life, and in our where-to-stay stew as student travelers and backpackers, we tend to toss in exotic stuff such as very hot hot hostels, haunted hostels, regular ol' hostels (but in prisons, lighthouses, railroad stations and castles), culturally enriching Couchsurfing, and "slow travel" homestays -- and with helpful hints from an About.com travel blog carnival on wierd and whacky accommodations, we can now add unique ingredients like huts on the Arctic ice, African treehouses and Italian caves. About.com's Guide to Canada, Jane McLean, has rounded up a host of interesting hotels, homes, yurts, pods, and more for your recipe file on fun lodging...
Holiday Blog Carnival: Christmas Markets
© Ferne Arfin and About.com
Christmas markets are a wonderful holiday tradition dating from the 14th century and originating in Germany, which is still home to the world's best (and, of course, oldest) European Christmas markets; the festive fun, shopping, caroling and consumption can be found in communities across Europe and even the USA today, and kicks off around the end of November...
Travel Blog Carnival: Fall Foliage Journeys
© Terri Mapes and About.com
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...
Travel Blog Carnival: Oktoberfest Around the World
© About.com and Birge Amondson
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...
"National Park Adventures:" An Adventure Travel Blog Carnival
© About.com and Lois Friedland
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...
Culinary Travel Blog Carnival: The 36 Best Summer Treats from Everywhere
© About.com and Alison Wellner
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...
Travel Blog Carnival: Trains Worldwide
© About.com and Susan Breslow
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...
