<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Flavour of vacation &#187; clearest</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.virtualtraverse.com/tag/clearest/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.virtualtraverse.com</link>
	<description>www.virtualtraverse.com</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:07:10 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Exotic Hawaii</title>
		<link>http://www.virtualtraverse.com/exotic-hawaii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.virtualtraverse.com/exotic-hawaii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aloha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beautiful beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clear water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clearest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[departure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exotic places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golf field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haleakala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawaii thanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawaii volcano national park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heavenly Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honolulu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospitality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kauai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilauea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lanikai Beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luxury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molokini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national wildlife refuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nearby beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradise hawaii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polynesian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polynesian cultural center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Start]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer seasons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surfing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[touch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veteran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volcano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volcano national park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waikiki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waimea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waimea canyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white sands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world war ii]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.virtualtraverse.com/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Aloha, that word is quite familiar in your ear when you got yourself in small island of paradise, Hawaii. Thanks to publication and advertising from television and newspaper, not to mention many great movies taking place in here, Hawaii have became one of the most exotic places on earth.
Honolulu, might be the busiest departure during [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aloha, that word is quite familiar in your ear when you got yourself in small island of paradise, Hawaii. Thanks to publication and advertising from television and newspaper, not to mention many great movies taking place in here, Hawaii have became one of the most exotic places on earth.</p>
<p>Honolulu, might be the busiest departure during summer seasons, most of the tourists are coming from Japan, from teenager into older (you could see that they dominating the tourists other than other countries). While from domestic, North American also became one of the major tourist contribution, most of them are elder or veteran who wants to nostalgia their times when serving as soldier during world war II.<br />
<span id="more-88"></span><br />
Okay, what was the most major attraction or places in Hawaii, find it below:<br />
1. Lanikai Beach<br />
Lanikai Beach translated in English as Heavenly Sea, which could be categorized as one beautiful beach on Earth, white sands and clear water, also the hospitality of the locals complete it.</p>
<p>2. Hillo<br />
Hillo is a city nearby beach, museum, classic theater, golf field, and downtown shopping is the major attraction in here.</p>
<p>3. Hawaii Volcano National Park<br />
Hawaii Volcano National Park is the most visited place on Hawaii, in here you&#8217;ll find beautiful landscape for photography, also climbing start.</p>
<p>4. Kilauea National Wildlife Refuge<br />
If you like to see wildlife in Hawaii, then this is the place.</p>
<p>5. Molokini<br />
The best snorkeling places in Hawaii, also the clearest water on Hawaii.</p>
<p>6. Waimea Canyon<br />
Like a canyon, although couldn&#8217;t be compare with the great grand canyon, Waimea canyon also found its exotic.</p>
<p>7. Waikiki<br />
If you like a city view which offers cities luxury with touch of Hawaii, then this is the place.</p>
<p>8. Kauai Garden<br />
Kauai is an island which have green view dominating, fresh air and green view.</p>
<p>9. Haleakala<br />
Haleakala is one of the biggest volcano on earth, although its not active. </p>
<p>10. Polynesian Cultural Center<br />
If you like culture attraction, this is the place, all the traditional dancing and others could be found here.</p>
<p>If you like to visit Hawaii, I recommend you to book a hotel during low seasons, you could get better prices, and also lots of option. Surfing the internet and evaluate the hotels reviews, is a <a href="http://www.morehotels4less.com" target="_blank">best way to get cheap hotel rates</a> and the good one as well.</p>
<p>Happy holiday and Aloha.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.virtualtraverse.com/exotic-hawaii/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Echoes of the Ancients</title>
		<link>http://www.virtualtraverse.com/echoes-of-the-ancients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.virtualtraverse.com/echoes-of-the-ancients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure worth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aeolian islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agrigento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient greeks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baroque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cascade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cerulean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citrus orchards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clearest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concordia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countryside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exhaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fahrenheit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flavors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fragrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh pasta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gentle waves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greeks and romans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hasn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[height]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydrofoil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intoxicate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intrepid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jagged edge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mainland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medieval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediterranean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millennia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nero d avola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Normans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[north]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palermo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[part]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pasta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[picturesque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playing soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rockier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[row]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacred Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sandstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sicilian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sicilian sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sicily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smudge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soccer in the streets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soft sand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[someone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[span]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sulfur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sunshine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[train]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trouble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turquoise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turquoise waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tyrrhenian sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[umber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vittorio emanuele ii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volcanic rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volcano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voyage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vulcano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zeus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.virtualtraverse.com/?p=31</guid>
		<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 />
<a href="http://www.pacificadvance.com" target="_blank">payday advance</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.virtualtraverse.com/echoes-of-the-ancients/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

