2009 September travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The whole atmosphere of this wonderful island is redolent of the Viking Age - ruins and runestones, cairns, medieval churches, windmills and trolls. According to some historians the original home of the Goths, Gotland lies 90 km east of the mainland and is Sweden‘s largest island, covering in area of 3,140 sq km. The island is known for its natural beauty – a craggy limestone and share landscape with rugged shores, mainly given over the farmland. Photo by: Umberto Luparelli
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Nova Scotia‘s Cape Breton has an untamed beauty that makes for some of the most impressive scenery in North America. The island is a wonderful mixture of rocky shores, rolling pasture, barren headlands, woodland, mountains and plateaux. Comprehension of the people of Cape Breton Island is not possible without knowledge of its earliest shelters. Cape Bretons today reflect the resolve of those pioneers. The Island has shaped them just as they struggled to shape the island. Photo by: Thatsanotherdory
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Quadra Island lies between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia and is the largest and most populous of the Discovery Islands. A short ferry ride from Cambell River takes you through whale- and dolphin-rich waters to this island of ancient temperate rainforest. Photo by: jenisthebest
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In the heart of Poole Harbour, opposite the town of Poole in Dorset, lies Brownsea Island. The Brownsea is wholly owned by the National Trust, and may be visited by the public. All of the Brownsea is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and northern end is leased to the Dorset Wildlife Trust as a Nature Reserve. Photo by: pixel_boy
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Just off the coast of Northumberland, (England) lies a group of some 20 tidal islands. Divided into groups they are also known as ‘Farnes‘. Apart from a few seasonal bird wardens, they are uninhabited, rugged and bleak, the smallest islands are just bare, rocky peaks, while the largest support vegetation on peaty soil. Photo by: hsacdirk
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The Svalbard Archipelago lies north than Alaska and is northernmost part of the kingdom of Norway, lying about half way to North Pole. There are three large islands in the Svalbard Archipelago – Spitzbergen, Nordaustlandet and Edgeoya and the Gulf Stream current sink close to them. The islands are rugged and desolate, with around 60 per cent of the land covered with glaciation. Photo by: Paul Zizka
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The village of Bozhentsi is an Architecture and Ethnographic Reserve, situated at a distance of 28 km west of Tryavna along the road to Dryanovo,  and -16 km from the town of Gabrovo (Bulgaria).
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The medieval Fortress Vida(Baba Vida) is situated on a big curve of the river Danube in the northeast part of the town Vidin. It is one of the most remarkable monuments of medieval architecture of residence in Bulgaria. The complex includes a museum and a theater stage. The fortress is richly lit at night!
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Just to the north of the Gulf of Thailand is situated the small rocky island of Ko Si Chang. The island may be is not the best of the Thai islands, but it has two huge advantages. It is little known, even by Thais, and it is the closest place you can reach from Bangkok if you need sea and sand for a few days. A 45-minute ferry journey from the coastal town of Sri Racha brings you to the island’s one small town dominated by a brightly painted Chinese temple, reached by a long flight of steep steps. Photo by: spacehelmetboy
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Ha Long Bay, 170 km from Hanoi, blends earth, sea and sky into one of the world’s most iconic beauty spots. Cat Ba, the biggest of a mini archipelago of 366 islands, typifies the breathtaking rock relief and bizarre rock formations of the Ha Long World National Heritage Reserve: 2,000 large and small islands with cliffs towering a sheer 50-100 m from the shallow sea. Photo by: Fulco
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