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Middle East | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. The religious heritage of Jerusalem is one that few cities can rival. Jerusalem is a city in which religious highlights arrive in density. Crammed inside its square-kilometre-surface (0.4 square miles) are some 220 historic monuments, including a series of highly important sites. UNESCO listed it in 1981. Millions of people visit every year. The White Desert is the jewel in Egypt’s tourism crown, but relies on volunteers to stay free of rubbish. Weird mushroomy rock pinnacles domina...
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Food and drink | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. Morocco has long been the most popular destination for tourists looking to visit North Africa, as one of the most beautiful and stable nations in the region. Many flock to Morocco for the pristine beaches and the fascinating cultural history, but just as enticing is the range of flavoursome street food that has come to define destinations such as Marrakech. Åland Islands The Perfect Climate. It is the trademark dish of the Spanish cuisine, but what characterises good paella? Whateve...
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Luxury | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. Costa Rica is renowned for its ecotourism, but how does one enjoy it in luxury? No artificial ingredients’ goes the slogan of Costa Rica’s tourism campaign. Since the 1990s the Central American country has promoted sustainable tourism and invited travellers to its exotic terrain. It has worked. Ecotourism is now one of its fiscal cornerstones. Tierra del Fuego The End Of The World. Boasting imposing mountains, otherworldly glaciers and some of the most diverse and spectacular landsc...
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Latin America | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. The city of Tikal was a crucial economic hub for the Mayan civilisation, but mystery surrounds its demise. Why Mayans fled Tikal, academics still don’t know. The city, located in northern Guatemala, enjoyed great economic prosperity from 800 A.D. until 950 A.D. That is when its long and illustrious history ceased. Experts have cited droughts and political instability. But like with much else on the site, nothing can be said for sure. In southern Argentina, the Perito Moreno glacier ...
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Business | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. Pacific islands recently hosted a summit designed to increase global efforts against Co2 emissions. Now they hope nations will keep their promises. EU parliamentarians have voted to limit food crop-based biofuels. That could be good news for developing countries. Businesses seeking sustainable solutions could do worse than book in at Green and Away Europe’s only tented conference facility. The aviation industry is often portrayed as the chief offender of rising carbon emissions, wit...
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Australasia | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. The world’s largest sand island is more than just a giant beach. On Victoria’s southern coast, giant limestone stacks have been sculptured by waves. Nobody knows for how long they will survive. In a large shallow embayment on the Australian west coast lies one of the oldest life forms on Earth. On a beach in New Zealand, large spherical stones lie quietly in the sand, some of them 60 million years old. How did they get there? Sympathy for the devil. Home of the Hobbits. Films turned...
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Northern America | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. The old trade route along the Nā Pali coast recently deteriorated, but brave workers are restoring its pride. The scenery befits movies such as King Kong and Jurassic Park. On Kaua’i, the fourth largest island of the Hawaii archipelago, deep naked valleys and rugged mountainsides blend with canyons and wild waterfalls to create a landscape close to utopian. Imagining giant gorillas and dinosaurs here is hardly difficult. In fact, the island featured in both movies. Land of the giants.
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Archive | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. Made of stone: Setenil de las Bodegas. A place to chill: Ice hotels in Nordic Europe. Becoming Eco-Gozo: An island’s ecology mission. Troubled waters: Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay. Still standing: The Philippine rice terraces. Forest of peaks: The Wulingyuan Scenic Area. The rocks that move: Death Valley. The mirror: The earth’s largest flat of salt. The last survivors: Seychelles’s giant tortoises. Licence to thrill: Botswana’s eco-certification. Green revolution: Sharm el-Sheikh. The per...
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Asia | eco traveller
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World of Taste Event. Corridors of snow tower 20 metres above the highway along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The street of the Virupaksha Temple was a lively commercial centre until conservationists shut down the stalls. Was it a good decision? Not long ago, the street of the walled Virupaksha Temple buzzed with stalls and livestock. Megalithic 15th-century arcades called mandapas. Flanked the 720-metre-long avenue where local people ran trade off tourists. They called it the ‘bazaar’. The construct...