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Canada’s Top Tourist Draws

Posted on 25. Feb, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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What is Canada’s most popular tourist attraction? The answer is at hand. ForbesTraveler.com recently compiled a list of the top 25 tourist draws in the Great White North based on number of annual visitors. Forbes Traveler focussed its research on sites of historical or cultural interest; natural phenomena and landmarks. And though some places with [...]

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Balkan Surprise

Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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There are countries in the world that never enter the average North American’s mind unless they happen to surface in the news because of some political upheaval, outbreak of violence or a natural tragedy. Slovenia and Croatia are two of those places. Some may recall that these young republics were caught up in the series of ethnic [...]

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Island of Mystery

Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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On Easter Day in 1722, a Dutch expedition under the command of Jacob Roggeveen sighted a low, flat Pacific Island, found it inhabited and went ashore. The sailors were amazed by the statues they found there, hundreds of huge heads made from volcanic stone. The equally amazed islanders brought the Dutch sailors bananas and chickens. [...]

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The View from Above

Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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While surfing the Net the other day I ran across some amazing photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a Frenchman who travels the globe shooting the earth from helicopters, airplanes and hot-air balloons. The stunning burnt-orange image shown here depicts Algerian sand dunes after a rain. Of course, you may already be familiar with Arthus-Bertrand since he [...]