Have an extraordinary holiday with Vietnam and Cambodia tours

You should think about Vietnam and Cambodia as the chance to do the undoable. The new landscapes and take on life in East Asia allows you to live life in an entirely different way, if just for a couple of weeks. Taking the chance to eat, dress and talk like a local from...

Colombian Galeras volcano erupted on Saturday

New Delhi: The south-west Colombian Galeras volcano erupted on Saturday, forcing authorities to declare a red alert and urge an evacuation of people living in the vicinity of the volcano. A Red Cross...

India's tourism havens and Drug traffkiling hot spot

New Delhi: India's popular tourism havens and drug traffkiling hot spot state like Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan have emerged as the "hot spots" for cocaine, ecstasy and LSD besides other synthetic drugs....

Times Square Shooting: Police Offer Kills Armed Man

There has been a fatal shooting in Times Square, New York City. A plainclothes police officer shot and killed an armed man on Thursday morning.  The officer was reporting to panhandler harassment reports from street vendors when the situation suddenly turned violent, and...

Epileptic NYC Truck Driver Convicted of Murdering Tourists

Auvryn Scarlett was driving a recycling truck on a busy street in New York when he suffered from an epileptic seizure. He steered on to a sidewalk, killing two British tourists, Jacklyn Timmins, 47 and Andrew Hardie, 48 who were celebrating Valentine's Day in the Big Apple. A...

Kenya's famous elephants die of drought, poaching

In the last 12 years, this year has been the worst for the famous elephants in the north of Kenya, Nairobi. Over 100 elephants have been killed caused by poaching and drought-related hunger. Iain Douglas-Hamilton a...

Hudson River Air Collision: More Bodies Found, Relatives React

More updates are surfacing about the tragic mid-air collision between a tour helicopter and a small plane over the Hudson River yesterday. All nine people aboard the two vehicles are presumed to be dead. Rescue...

Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others

" MANILA (Updated 3 p.m.)-- Two French tourists were among at least 10 people killed when heavy rains collapsed an earthen dike and fed landslides and floods that deluged towns and villages in the northern...

Tourist Holidays being spoiled by Master Card

It has been impossible for tourists and ex-pats to access there bank accounts at home in United Kingdom for a week now. Where as its been advised that tourist should not carry to much cash and its best to use...

At 41000 feet, no clouds to spoil the view

"At 41000 feet, no clouds to spoil the view" "On board Eclipse Flight: In keeping with the moment and the prospect of viewing a solar eclipse from somewhere above the clouds, the excitement is total....

Tourist bus crash on I-80 near Reno: one person dead

A tourist bus has crashed on the Interstate 80 near Floriston, Reno: one person has been killed and dozens have been injured. I-80 is closed in both directions until about 1pm this afternoon. Details are still...

Sri Lanka to issue wasp protection jackets for tourists UPDATES

UPDATE 2:"Aug 15, Colombo: Visitors to the world famous Sigiriya rock fortress came under another wasp attack this morning at the top of the rock, the police said. Nearly 22 visitors were injured in the wasp attack and have been admitted to the Sigiriya Hospital....

Lanka bid to woo Bahraini tourists

Minister Faisner Musthapha's trip to Bahrain to "attract tourists" to Sri lanka came a few days after the UAE Foreign Ministry warned its citizens not to travel to Sri lanka unless it was for "urgent matters." " SRI Lanka's Deputy Tourism Minister Faiszer Musthapha is to...

Sri Lankans Ponder Life After Wartime

This war has almost ended.The hard part will next bereconciliation. "Winning the war in one thing, analysts say, but bringing unity to Sri Lanka is another. Unity in Sri Lanka means closing the divide between the...

Thailand expects Vietnam tourists to return

Thai tourism officials said yesterday they expected the number of Vietnamese visitors to remain high, despite the recent temporary closure of the country's airport." Speaking at a press briefing in HCM City, Pichai Raktasinha, director of HCM City's Tourism Authority of...

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