2011 June travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Seaside Cabanas Hotel is perched on the beach on the beautiful Island of Caye Caulker, just 22 miles from Belize city. The hotel architecture blends Belizean and Mexican styles with the use of thatch, local woods and bright colours. The interiors are cool and modern with artwork from Belize and other parts of the Caribbean. Overall the atmosphere is fun, tropical and uniquely Caye Caulker. The hotel is proud to offer one of the few freshwater swimming pools on the island, as well as 16 air-conditioned rooms, a two-story bar with beautiful thatched palapa roof, a tour and travel service and a gift shop.  All of this is just a shells throw away from the world’s second largest barrier reef.
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Imagine yourself in one of the most beautiful and famous deep-sea diving paradises in the world. Situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Sharm el Sheikh is recognized as the jewel of the Red Sea Riviera in Egypt. With 365 days of sunshine, amazing sandy beaches and beautiful coral reefs the resort attracts large numbers of visitors every year. Sharm El Sheikh gave the Red Sea an international reputation as one of the world’s most extraordinary diving destinations. This is a paradise for adventure lovers with diving, water sports, safaris and outstanding nightlife. In fact, with a huge variety of water sports, horses and camel riding, desert safaris it is almost impossible for a visitor to ever suffer from boredom.
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Phu Quoc might be hailed as the next Phuket, but those looking to get far off the grid head to this undiscovered archipelago just 110 miles off Vietnam’s southeastern coast. A 45-minute flight from Ho Chi Minh City brings you to Con Son, the largest (and only inhabited) member of the 16-island chain. There, sheer granite cliffs border deserted beaches and crystal-blue water—imagine a tropical Amalfi Coast without the crowds. Up until now, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a decent place to stay, but the arrival of the Six Senses Con Dao villas from $685 has brought a welcome dose of luxury to the island.
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The couple, a German and a Swede, respectively, got degrees in biology (Krynitz) and forestry (Strotz), traveled, studied some more, taught, designed, and then, in 1993, bought a farm. And only naturally, very organically, did that farm develop into Urnatur Skogseremitage, an eco-reserve in green parlance, a summer camp for grown-ups in realspeak. Three hours southwest of Stockholm on small Lake Visjo, Urnatur is like a demonstration model for the live-smart movement and a destination for those who wish to not so much turn back the clock as to slow it way down.
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Fabriken Furillen, is a small eco hotel that opened in 2000 and expanded for the better part of the next decade. The brief flight from Stockholm descended into fog at little Visby Airport. Then the 45-minute drive to Furillen a wiper-whipping swim along narrow roads until it slowly lightened to a mist. Furillen is itself an islet in the Baltic Sea off the northeastern coast of Gotland. Unlike Faro, the island just to the north that Ingmar Bergman long called home, a ferry ride isn’t required to get there. Craggy limestone formations loomed to the side of the road like tipsy sentries. Just before dipping to sea level and reaching the causeway to Furillen, the road traversed odd, empty, unnatural pools—as if a giant had taken an ice cream scoop to the earth, the flavor of the day being cement.
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Located in the southern sierra of Ecuador at about 2500 m above sea level, Cuenca is the third largest city in the country. Founded in 1557, the city offers a rich diversity of art, history and colonial architecture. Considered as the country’s cultural heart and soul, in 1999, the city was included on UNESCO‘s list of World Heritage sites. Cuenca is the site of four universities, many museums, research and cultural organizations and many travel writers call Cuenca the “most European” of Latin American cities. With its large student population, the city also has a modem edge, with international restaurants, art galleries, cool cafes and welcoming bars all tucked into its colonial architecture. The architecture, parks, restaurants, museums, cafes and four free flowing rivers make it a destination in itself.
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Located alongside the Turia River, the Palau de la Musica is one of the most emblematic buildings of modern Valencia. Transparency is one of its main characteristics.  Designed by José Maria Barcia de Paredes – a creator of other concert halls such as the ones in Madrid, Granada and Cuenca, the Valencia Concert Hall was constructed in 1987. This concert hall is built like a giant greenhouse, employing the theme of transparency and live plants inside. Since its construction in 1984, it has considered as one of the best concert halls in Europe.
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Situated in Puerto Madero, the most recent neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Hotel Madero is virtuous 5 transactions from the municipality confectionery, with simplified reach to the river, past attractions, and amusement. Also nearby are Center de Dressing and Calle Florida. The rooms tally been fashioned in a modernistic name safekeeping in aim client pleasure as fit as coeval pleasance.

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Placed at real halfway of Palermo, this hotel is a staleness for all those who require to have this municipality’s somebody. Situated in Buenos Aires, Purobaires Hotel Boutique is confined to Mall Serrano, Congresso Nacional, and Obelisco. The Hotel enclosed by the someone restaurants, pubs, art galleries, tango places and boutiques from the most famous forge designers is an saint aboPlaced at real halfway of Palermo, this hotel is a staleness for all those who require to have this municipality’s somebody.  Situated in Buenos Aires, Purobaires Hotel Boutique is confined to Mall Serrano, Congresso Nacional, and Obelisco. The Hotel enclosed by the someone restaurants, pubs, art galleries, tango places and boutiques from the most famous forge designers is an saint abode to impose and savour Buenos Aires.
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The Sri Dalada Maligawa or Tooth Temple is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy – one of the largest cities in Sri Lanka. This temple is one of the most holy sites on the island in the same vein that the Basilica of Saint Peter of Vatican is to the Roman Catholic Church. Built between the years 1687 and 1707, the temple reputed to contain an actual tooth of the Buddha on his 2nd visit to Sri Lanka over 2000 years ago.
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