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As Hanoi gears up to celebrate its 1000th anniversary in 2010, city planners are trying to ensure that the city’s fine architectural heritage is not compromised by haphazard development.. |
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There’s an unusually large amount of gold in Japan's east coast city of Kanazawa |
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The Middle East, in particular Saudi Arabia, is hot. Saudi is one of the hardest places in the world to visit. The country does not accept tourists and in fact has no such thing as a tourist visa, much less a tourist office. But things are changing says Karen Halabi.
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Now it has finally opened, the Thermae Bath Spa Complex aims to re-establish Bath’s rightful place as Britain’s pre-eminent spa destination.
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Karen Halabi visits a once divided city to report on how reunification, as well as a huge reconstruction program which turned Berlin into the largest construction site in Europe, have seen it become Germany’s most exciting tourist attraction. |
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A former leper colony now makes a most attractive getaway from Carnarvon, on Australia's mid-west coast, discovers Fiona Harper |
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Whilst the British may disparage ‘Oxbridge’ as the home of an ivory tower elite, England’s two venerable university cities are quite different places.
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These days all that’s left of the Wall is a short 100-metre section which stands curiously alone in a suburban street just off Potsdamer Platz, metres from Checkpoint Charlie. Open-topped tourist buses file by and tourists crane from their upper decks to take videos and snaps of this last remaining remnant. |
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Soak up the waters in Budapest, a city famous for its health and thermal spas, and the only place in Europe you’ll find Turkish baths, says Karen Halabi. |
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Having sailed along the coast of Arnhem Land, traversing the Gulf of Carpentaria and into one of the most remote towns on the Australian coast, Fiona Harper hungrily anticipates a return to civilisation, dropping anchor at Seisia on Cape York, Queensland.
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Where better to start exploring London’s past than the banks of the Thames, for centuries the main artery of the greatest mercantile city the world had ever known? |
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At Echuca, where the Campaspe and the Goulburn run into the mighty Murray, floods –and drought – were always been a way of life for Australia's largest inland river port. |
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Country England has never been so good. |
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They say the best holidays are those with an element of romance. They also say that sometimes the best romances are those that end with the holiday, leaving nothing but happy memories. That's the kind of romance you get when you fall for sea lions, discovers Fiona Harper. |
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Over 25 years on from the war between Britain and Argentina that claimed nearly a thousand lives, the Falkland Islands town of Stanley - the world's smallest and most remote capital - is once again an important port. |
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Following the collapse of Communism in 1990, Hungary was faced with the task of finding a new identity for itself. Unlike some other former eastern bloc countries, Hungary has "capitalised" on its Communist past. |
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You don't have to go searching for Dylan Thomas in Old South Wales. Quite the contrary - Dylan Thomas will come looking for YOU. |
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On the "Fortress Trail" in the Sultanate of Oman |
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Newcastle, "capital" of north-east England, has for the fourth consecutive year been nominated as the country’s favourite city-break destination |
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Harpers Ferry village, today so peaceful, was in the 1800s the touch-stone for events that launched the American Civil War. |
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Hundreds of rudimentary huts dotted throughout Victoria's majestic alpine areas have provided shelter and succour for generations of cattlemen and casual visitors alike. |
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Australia’s “other” polar hero still remains something of a mystery to his hero-worshipping countrymen. |
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Australia's legendary "Black Outlaw" |
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Stepping into the workshop at the Wooden Boat Centre, waterside on the Huon River at Franklin in southern Tasmania, Fiona Harper inhales the sweet aroma of Huon Pine permeating the air. |
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Jute, once the mainstay of Dundee's economy, is staging a surprising comeback in some surprising places. |
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Thailand's Andaman Coast, three years after the tsunami |
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When stacked up against regional tourism powerhouses like Japan and China, Korea is often not considered a contender. Yet on closer inspection, any visitor will discover a rich, historic culture quite distinct from its neighbours. |
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A booming city which was once a tin miners’ camp; Kuala Lumpur mingles Malay, Chinese, Indian and other cultural strains in a 21st century metropolis sometimes futuristic. |
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Libya reveals its astonishing secrets |
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This story runs to around 1000 words and explains what goes on inside the world’s strangest houses, how to find them, and what else there is to see in the vicinity. |
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A sweep through the rich textures and enticing history of the Portuguese capital, the first true world city, from a base of sumptuous luxury atop one of its seven hills above the Tagus River. |
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Relive the romance and grandeur of the mighty German airships - and their spectacular fall from grace. |
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India dances to a different beat throughout the Malabar, a culturally rich and scenically diverse region of northern Kerala. |
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There's much to explore in the Russian capital, deservedly one of the world's great cities, declares Philip Game. |
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China's "Holiest of Holies", the sacred Mount Wutai (Wutaishan) has just received UNESCO World Heritage listing |
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Karen Halabi discovers that sun, sea, sand and ancient buildings are why Hollywood is in a sweaty love affair with Malta. With a bit of art direction it can be ancient Rome, Africa or Asia. |
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Birthplace of the revolutionary movement that tore Mozambique apart in the 70s and 80s, the northwest of this country is a spectacular landscape of twisted rock forms - the background to one of Africa's most colourful rail trips. The trip by road to the coast concludes a fascinating journey of discovery |
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Modernity doesn't mean abandoning tradition, in the Sultanate of Oman |
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A journey through the surprising Mediterranean country of Syria |
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Cruising the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Bruny Island reveals a few of her secrets to those who linger long enough to look beyond the wildlife and the laidback lifestyle.
Fiona Harper takes time out in southern Tasmania. |
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The English port city reinvents itself. |
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Bojnice Castle in Slovakia looks like it’s straight out of the pages of a Hungarian fairytale. |
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Glenn A Baker settles into his room at the fabled Vila Bled and enjoys the view all the way to Italy |
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Although much has changed in South Africa since the breakdown of apartheid, I'll wager most of Soweto is pretty much as it's always been - a hot, motley, dusty settlement for struggling black Africans. |
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Ghosts and opium dens are just a part of the colourful history of Maryborough, Queensland |
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In Henan and Shanxi provinces, China's rich Buddhist heritage is once more delighting and astonishing the world |
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The west coast village of Tiendanique, in New Caledonia, is the birthplace and home village of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, architect of Kanak independence. |
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The chieftain of Kundu Hite (Skull Island) in the Solomon Islands is last in a long line of headhunters |
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The old imperial city of Hué, in Central Vietnam, seems to have sprung direct from a colour designer’s palette. |
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The Ainu people of Hokkaido (Japan) want not just recognition but land rights and hunting rights too |
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Startling contrasts in the former Portuguese enclave just across the water from Hong Kong in the Pearl River estuary - casinos, lavish hotels and Grand Prix excitement on one hand and languid, family-based villages with famous traditional junk building yards on the other. |
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An avant garde heart behind the stern exterior of Zurich's historic Widder Hotel. |
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Ever since the Middle Ages, Nile cruises have been de rigeur – but never so stylish as they are now.
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Trieste: the end of an empire, or two |
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Visitors to Valencia this year for the America's Cup will find more than just oranges in this chic Mediterranean city of just 800,000 people.
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To see Venice at its best go in winter. Few places can claim to be more beautiful in winter than in summer, but Venice is an exception. Cloaked in mist and fog she wears her wintry cloak like a grand dame dressed for the opera. |
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The masks of Carnevale personify Venice, a fantasy city whose real life is hidden behind a tourist veneer and hardly ever revealed to strangers. |
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On the outskirts of Newhaven, Phillip Island, stands an unlikely visitor attraction, housed within a starkly industrial aircraft hangar. |
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Wrangel Island is an enigmatic landmass trapped in the fringes of the permanent Arctic ice pack. Born out of legend and maintained by tales of hardship, endurance and tragedy its apparently austere appearance hides a UNESCO World Heritage-listed, self-contained island ecosystem. |
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