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Travel and Tours :Italy Travel Video of Herculaneum

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Travel Tourist :Italy Travel: Trip to Italy, Travel Packages, Italy Sightseeing, Escorted & Group Tours

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Italy Travel: Trip to Italy, Travel Packages, Italy Sightseeing, Escorted & Group Tours

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Italy Travel: Trip to Italy, Travel Packages, Italy Sightseeing, Escorted & Group Tours

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Travel Tourism :Black Friday Italy Travel Specials

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BLACK FRIDAY ITALY TRAVEL DEALS ONLY UNTIL 10:30 PM, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25TH, 2011http://www.italy4real.com/black_friday_italy_travel

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BLACK FRIDAY ITALY TRAVEL DEALS ONLY UNTIL 10:30 PM, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25TH, 2011http://www.italy4real.com/black_friday_italy_travel

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Travel Tourist :Italy Travel Holiday Traditions in Italy

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Track Santa this year and learn about the holiday season in Italy. http://www.italy4real.com/track_santa_holiday_in_italyThe holiday season in Italy is a big deal! As you can imagine, the Italians really love their Christmas. Italians celebrate the holiday between December 24th and

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Track Santa this year and learn about the holiday season in Italy. http://www.italy4real.com/track_santa_holiday_in_italyThe holiday season in Italy is a big deal! As you can imagine, the Italians really love their Christmas. Italians celebrate the holiday between December 24th and January 6th They also celebrate “Saturnalia” which is a winter solstice festival that goes until New Years Day when the Roman New Year known as “Calends” begins.For visitors to Italy during this time of the year, there are so many wonderful things to see and experience many weeks before Christmas Day. Festivities throughout the country begin in late November and continue into January.Some of the more notable celebrations in Italy are…In ROME during the holiday season there is a large Christmas market, nativity display and many large Christmas trees lit throughout the city. The biggest event is in Saint Peters Square in Vatican City where the midnight mass is given by the Pope inside St. Peters Basilica. On Christmas day at noon the Pope comes out onto his balcony to give his Christmas message.In NAPLES there is a huge celebration featuring Nativity Cribs and amazing nativity displays. In the homes of the Bay of Naples, families celebrate Christmas Eve with seven fish recipes. Eat up!In TORNIO they celebrate Christmas with professional lighting artists that travel to Torino from all over Europe to put up over 10 miles of lights!In MONTE INGINO they have a tree that won The World’s Tallest Christmas Tree in 1991. Each year they have a tree that is over 650 meters tall and has nearly 1000 lights. The star on top of the tree can be see from over 25 miles away! Haunkkah is celebrated in Italy as well. In Rome they have a wonderful part of the city near Campo dei Fiori. The area is a thriving Jewish community that celebrates the holiday with large, cantle lit Menorrah that is lit every night during the holiday period in Rome. Tracking Santa Starts Each December 24th at 12 Noon PST. Here is the link: NORAD SANTA TRACKER (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/)

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Travel and Tours :Tombstone Mountain in Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon

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Tombstone Mountain in Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon

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Travel Tours :A small cafe in Siena, Italy

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A small cafe in Siena, Italy

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Travel Tourist :Scottevest: Official Travel Clothing Provider of Everything Everywhere

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I’m pleased to kick off the new year by announcing that Scottevest is the official travel clothing provider of Everything Everywhere. I’ve been wearing Scottevest gear every single day for over a year now. If you’ve seen me at any point in 2011, the odds are you

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I’m pleased to kick off the new year by announcing that Scottevest is the official travel clothing provider of Everything Everywhere.

I’ve been wearing Scottevest gear every single day for over a year now. If you’ve seen me at any point in 2011, the odds are you saw me wearing my black Fleece 5.0 jacket. It is literally the only jacket I will wear when going through an airport. I can quickly and easily dump all the metal in my pockets into my jacket and be through security in no time.

I’ve very fussy about who I work with. I get bombarded every day with requests from companies to mention or use their products. For me working with Scottevest was an easy decision:

We have several interesting things planned for the next few months including giveaways, meetups, swag for the travel photography tour and more.

Welcome aboard Scottevest!

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Travel Tours :This Week In Travel – Episode 104

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This week’s guest is Robert Reid of Lonely Planet. Subscribe on iTunes | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download the iPhone app | Download This week’s news Flier charged with in-flight groping could be caned 20 best U.S. airports for tech travelers Top 10 US

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This week’s guest is Robert Reid of Lonely Planet.

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Travel and Tours :Elephant at the Hartbeespoort Dam Elephant Sanctuary, South Africa

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Elephant at the Hartbeespoort Dam Elephant Sanctuary, South Africa

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Travel and Tours :Photo Essay – Canary Islands

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In 2011 I had the pleasure of visiting the Canary Islands. Located off the coast of Africa, the volcanic chain of islands are a Spanish province and have a history that goes back to the colonization of the Americas. I was able to explore 5 of the islands in the Canaries: Gran Canarias,

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In 2011 I had the pleasure of visiting the Canary Islands. Located off the coast of Africa, the volcanic chain of islands are a Spanish province and have a history that goes back to the colonization of the Americas. I was able to explore 5 of the islands in the Canaries: Gran Canarias, Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Gomera, and La Palma. Each island’s unique geography gives it a character distinct from its neighbors. These images capture some of the culture and diversity I found on the Canary Islands.

La Graciosa is a small island off of Lanzarote. One of the interesting features of the island is a small natural land bridge near the coast.

In the village of Teguise on the island of Lanzarote, the doors can only be green or brown.

If you visit Timanfaya National Park, you can take a ride on a camel. The metal cage over their mouth is to prevent passengers from being bitten.

The island of Lanzarote is covered with lava. It is extremely dry, very windy and there is little in the way of natural plant life on the surface. Nonetheless, there is agriculture. In vineyards on Lanzarote, each grape plant is protected by a semicircular wall to protect the plant from the wind.

By law, all of the houses on Lanzarote have to be white. This makes for very a very dramatic contrast between buildings and the volcanic soil.

The city of Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canarias is one of the two capitals of the Canary Islands.

The cathedral in the city of Las Palamas

The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Many of the churches in the Canary Islands were built around the same time period as Spain colonization of the New World. Many of the architectural styles are similar to what you will find in former Spanish colonies.

The island of La Gomera is home to the most extensive terracing I’ve seen anywhere in the world outside of the Philippines. The terraces can be found almost everywhere around the island. Due to changes in weather patterns in the early 20th Century, most of the terraces have been abandoned and are slowing blending back into the landscape.

El Tiede is the highest point in Spain and is the centerpiece of the El Tiede National Park, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The island of La Palma is home to one of the largest collection of telescopes in the world, including the world’s largest telescope: the Gran Telescopio Canarias.

You can see why La Palma is considered such a great place for astronomical observations. I took the image on the southern tip of the island near sea level. Viewing conditions higher up are even better.

There has been a great deal of cross cultural pollination between the Canary Islands and the Americas. One tradition which came to the Canary Islands from Cuba was cigar making. This cigar factory is located on the island of La Palma.

In the middle of La Palma is Caldera de Taburiente National Park, which is the center of a volcano. The is the image as it appears looking down from the top of the volcano.

Inside Caldera de Taburiente National Park is very serene as it is surrounded by rock walls that keep out the wind.

One of the unique features of La Palma is the cascade of clouds which goes over the mountains on the middle of the island. You can go from totally sunny to being immersed in clouds in a matter of minutes.

Sea Salt evaporation pools on La Palma.

Sunset on La Palma.

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