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		<title>Camping, back to the nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filling your long vacation or holiday might be difficult if you don&#8217;t have any idea where to go. Then why not try to go back to the nature. Occasionally try to enjoy camping tours. You will find the sensation of an incredible new adventure and adrenaline rush with your family.
Although some camping area, might have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Filling your long vacation or holiday might be difficult if you don&#8217;t have any idea where to go. Then why not try to go back to the nature. Occasionally try to enjoy camping tours. You will find the sensation of an incredible new adventure and adrenaline rush with your family.</p>
<p>Although some camping area, might have their own parking lots, but why not try more adventures with driving your own truck wheel and explore the wild of the jungle with your truck. Make sure you have equipped it with some <a href="http://www.americanvan.com/van-and-truck-accessories" target="_blank">Truck Accessories</a> that might help your truck adapt with the nature.<br />
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Imagine the activities such as set up tents, cooking on the stove stones, looking for traces, and made ​​a bonfire. Nostalgic memory as long as a member of the scout can now be enjoyed with all of your family, its also a good event to know more about each of your family and closing your own relationship. </p>
<p>However, for those who are not accustomed to and do not have the experience of sleeping in a tent, some camping area also provides hostel, with logged cabin.</p>
<p>With camping, of course you don&#8217;t want to miss tracking on the jungle, its build new experience, although some consider it very exhausting, but its worth the experience. Camping activities might help you to understand the function of plants and jungle and its our responsibilities to kept them alive.</p>
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		<title>Sichuan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sichuan is one of province in China which also famous as tourist magnet. Located in southwest of China, capital of Chengdu, is a province rich in historic sites.
For tourist coming from Asia, the word Sichuan might be familiar in their ears, Yes, because some of Chinese food using Sichuan province in their names. Sichuan cuisine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sichuan is one of province in China which also famous as tourist magnet. Located in southwest of China, capital of Chengdu, is a province rich in historic sites.</p>
<p>For tourist coming from Asia, the word Sichuan might be familiar in their ears, Yes, because some of Chinese food using Sichuan province in their names. Sichuan cuisine are famous with its spicy food, instead of those spicy food there are others tourist sites in Sichuan which are quite popular such as below:<br />
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1. Chengdu Panda Habitat.<br />
These place is the largest panda breeding places in China, located in Chengdu, Sichuan. Here we could see different kinds of pandas, and are also hybrid of these pandas.</p>
<p>2. Leshan Buddha<br />
Are also called the highest sitting Buddha statue in the world, located on the banks of the river Leshan.<br />
Because of its highest, Leshan Giant Buddha is included in one of the Unesco World Heritage Site.</p>
<p>3. Mount Emei.<br />
In here there is a Buddhist temple, located in a location fairly high, about 3000 meters above sea level. To get into this place (Mount Emei), you have to jump in the cable car, it will take you to the top more easily, of course if you like adventure, then climbing or tracking would be another option you could get. These place also included in the UNESCO world heritage sites. Like many temples / temple in China, here again we can see hundreds or even thousands of locks, which hung all the way up toward the temple. Padlock in China.</p>
<p>Visit Sichuan and spent your <a href="http://www.travelsphere.co.uk/destinations/asia/eastern-asia/china/" target="_blank">China holidays</a> and experience one of the world heritage site combine with the culture and its cuisine.</p>
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		<title>Relax on the beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working hard, play hard, that words often being said by professional worker whom almost don&#8217;t have time just for relaxing. Working hard, I think every person have different definition on working, but play hard is not that vary, most of it is about entertainment.
Entertainment for single persons, might be going to entertainment center, pub, bar, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Working hard, play hard, that words often being said by professional worker whom almost don&#8217;t have time just for relaxing. Working hard, I think every person have different definition on working, but play hard is not that vary, most of it is about entertainment.</p>
<p>Entertainment for single persons, might be going to entertainment center, pub, bar, etc., but for couple or married persons, those kind of thing might not be able to share with their family, then the option goes on family vacation. Most of persons choose to the beach, when deciding, why? because beaches are easy to access, and usually near to cities, so that they still able to feel city luxury as well.<br />
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Relaxing on the beach house, might be difficult thing to reserve, especially during peak seasons, so its recommended to book it first. With journey and adventure motivation, check out <a href="http://www.seasidemexico.com" target="_blank">rocky point beach house</a>. Its located on Mexico, enjoy the luxury of relax on the beach house.</p>
<p>The great thing about beach house are you still able to have city facility, and off course with different kind of view, a beautiful ones. Don&#8217;t worry about food, near the beaches you&#8217;ll be able to find seafood restaurant, and for family activities, you could do several things on the beach.</p>
<p>Parents might like to sunbath, while children like to build castle of sands, if you like some challenging activities, try snorkeling, riding banana boat, or other kind of beach attraction. For luxury access, some hotel or resorts usually offer facilities such as massaging, pool, etc.</p>
<p>Have fun on the beach.</p>
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		<title>Echoes of the Ancients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing in the Sicilian sun with your feet washed by the waves of the Tyrrhenian Sea, it’s easy to forget that there’s more to the tri-corner island than beauty. The beaches are magnificent—turquoise waters stretching out to the horizon, soft sand, gentle waves and some of the clearest water in the world. In the distance, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.virtualtraverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sicily.jpg"><img src="http://www.virtualtraverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sicily-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="sicily" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-33" /></a>Standing in the Sicilian sun with your feet washed by the waves of the Tyrrhenian Sea, it’s easy to forget that there’s more to the tri-corner island than beauty. The beaches are magnificent—turquoise waters stretching out to the horizon, soft sand, gentle waves and some of the clearest water in the world. In the distance, on the rockier portions of the coast, volcanic rock juts out of the sea, its dark color and jagged edge adding drama to the vista. </p>
<p>Inland, the hills rise up and greet the sun, patched with golden fields of grain, vibrant citrus orchards, and the vineyards that produce Sicily’s fragrant nero d’avola wines. The skies are blue, the weather is warm, and somewhere, a few steps down a narrow street, someone is rolling fresh pasta to tempt you back from the shore. <span id="more-31"></span></p>
<p>There’s no mistaking Sicily for part of mainland Italy. Though Sicily has been officially part of Italy for nearly 150 years, it has also been ruled in turn by Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Normans, and the island has kept the flavors of each passing wave of conquerors. Only a few blocks beyond the monuments to Vittorio Emanuele II outside the train station in Palermo are palaces and churches with the domes, mosaics, and geometric loveliness of medieval Arab architecture. </p>
<p>Baroque details line graceful, decaying buildings that shade sprawling markets and tanned children playing soccer in the streets. Most visitors come to Sicily for the weather: the climate is warm year-round, and in the summer months the sunshine is constant and temperatures hover around 86 degrees Fahrenheit. But in Sicily, history, culture, and natural wonders are layered on so thick that the trouble is in choosing the adventure, not finding it. </p>
<p>One adventure worth having, though, is a voyage to the Aeolian Islands off the north coast. The ancient Greeks and Romans called these islands the home of the winds, and their breezes offer some relief from the constant beat of the sun. One boasts the forge of the fire god himself: Vulcano, a volcanic island reachable by ferry or hydrofoil with sulfur baths and dark umber beaches. </p>
<p>Here, the intrepid and long-winded can climb to the top of the sleeping volcano that spewed forth much of the island and peer into the crater once said to be the entrance to Hades. Though it hasn’t erupted in a century, Vulcano’s main crater is far from extinct, its peak smoking with sulfur from multiple exhaust holes and the giant divot of its mouth still muddy-looking and dangerous. </p>
<p>The rock that surrounds the crater is as brittle and sharp as ceramic. Signs warn that hikers should spend no more than a few minutes at the top, lest the fumes intoxicate or poison them. Still, with the wind blowing freely on the sweat spent making it up, the feeling and the view are well worth the scorching hour-long climb.</p>
<p>While the ancient Greeks assigned their gods’ homes on the outer islands, though, they worshiped them on Sicily itself. And after experiencing Vulcano’s primordial power, you can remind yourself of the force of human culture in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento. Here a complex of Greek temples was hewn from the native red sandstone and erected on a ridge overlooking the countryside, with the hazy cerulean smudge of the Mediterranean visible below the swell of the fields. Modern Agrigento rises to one side, and majestic sandstone forms cascade down the slope, linked by a pale road the Romans called the Sacred Way. </p>
<p>Each temple has its own appeal. The temple to Hera offers the best view and perhaps the most picturesque profile, perched atop the high point on the temples’ ridge. The sanctuary to Concordia is nearly intact despite the twenty-odd centuries since its construction, and dark shadows hide its inner depths even at the height of the day. </p>
<p>The temple of Zeus, meanwhile, is massive and almost completely destroyed, its ruins now poetically crumbling courtyards and staircases among the aloes and olive trees. The temple of Heracles demands humility, one row of its massive columns still standing and each one three times as wide around as the arm span of the average man. Together, the complex inspires awe—after two millennia, its structures are not only standing, but ethereally beautiful and seemingly indestructible. </p>
<p>Sicily’s mysteries are too many and too varied to explore in one short trip. But like the striking beauty of the island itself and the cultural marks so many have made on it, the memory of them will surely endure.<br />
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		<title>Be a Wildlife Volunteer in South America</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ecuador in South America is home to a bewildering array of wildlife. Fifteen percent of the world’s bird species are endemic to Ecuador. There are also 138 species of amphibian and 106 species of reptile.</p>
<p>From Lions to spider monkeys to endangered species like the Giant Armadillo, the wildlife in Ecuador is in fact so diverse that the World Conservation Monitoring Center lists it as one of seventeen Megadiverse countries in the world where the majority of Earth’s wildlife is to be found.</p>
<p>As a <A HREF="http://www.lead-adventures.com" target="_blank">South America volunteer </a> on an Ecuador wildlife protection program you have the opportunity to get up close and personal with this extreme biodiversity.<br />
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Lead Adventures operate four rescue and education projects designed to safeguard the country’s wildlife from the effects of illegal animal trade and maltreatment.</p>
<p>You can help feed and clean animals as diverse as Galapagos Turtles and sloths; you can volunteer help on endangered species breeding programs; you can assist with the intake of new animals confiscated by the Ecuadorian authorities, and help with their rehabilitation and rehoming or re-release into the wild. It is a South America volunteer adventure you’re unlikely to forget!</p>
<p>Animal abuse in Ecuador remains a massive challenge. Laws and attitudes are changing slowly, but help is still very much needed. If you’re an animal lover with a lust for travel, what could be more inspiring than a trip to Ecuador on a two-week wildlife volunteer program? It’ll take your breath away!</p>
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