Search Results for 'Pacific'
Mar14
Published by iv in Fishing, Fitness&Gym, Hiking, Kayaking, Oceania, Photos, Resorts, Romantic, Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Spa, Surfing, Swimming

Napili Kai Beach Resort is a deluxe resort situated on 10 beachfront acres on beautiful Napili Bay in West Maui, Hawaii. Children’s activities are also free, making this a good place for families.
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Mar01
Published by misha in Adventure, Central America, Costa Rica, Eating, Fishing, Hiking, Photos, Relaxing, Sightseeings, Swimming, Travel Stories, Villas, Walking

There are countless eco-lodges in Costa Rica. Few, however, live up to the environmental credentials as well as La Cusinga on the country’s Pacific Coast. All of the lodge’s cabins and furniture have been made using wood grown on-site in a sustainable plantation, electricity is provided by hydro and solar power, and food served there is harvested locally or caught fresh from the ocean. The place offers a supreme level of comfort and cooking, allowing you to relax in a glorious natural setting without feeling too guilty about the environmental impact of your actions. Photo by: velotech
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Feb26
Published by misha in Adventure, Central America, Cultural, Eating, Hotels, Mexico, Photos, Relaxing, Romantic, Sightseeings, Swimming, Travel Stories, Villas

If you are looking for the perfect Eco retreat this has to be your place. The Hotelito Desconocido is a heaven for nature lovers on the midst of a huge bird and turtle reserve in the wetlands, between the sierra Madre Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. There is a touch of magic in the air, as guests are rowed from the main hotel’s lodge across the estuary to their beachside huts, where cacti poke out of the sand.
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Jan12
Published by misha in Adventure, Argentina, Chile, Events, Photos, Racing, South America, Travel gear

The 2010 Dakar is on the territories of Argentina and Chile and promises to each kind of driver a sequence adapted to their qualities. The long stay in the Atacama Desert will be the exciting point of a 9000 kilometres loop through the continent. But the global balance of the course with varied difficulties force all to be consistent and careful to the end. The days will be long and not only in road section. The most skillful competitors will find an opportunity to build on a position from which they will be able to capitalize.
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Dec14
Published by misha in Adventure, Costa Rica, Hiking, Hotels, Parks, Photos, Relaxing, Resorts, Romantic, Sightseeings, Swimming, Travel Stories

If you have fantasies of living like the characters in Lost, this rainforest resort near Quepos, Costa Rica may be just the ticket. Sited on the edge of the Manuel Antonio National Park, the Costa Verde Resort features an incredible hotel suite set inside a 1965 Boeing 727 airplane. In its present life the airplane transported globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines, and today performs as a two bedroom suite perched on the edge of the rainforest overlooking the beach and ocean.
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Dec11
Published by misha in Adventure, Chile, Cruise, Fishing, Kayaking, Photos, Sailing, Ships, Sightseeings, South America, Travel Stories

At the southern tip of Chile, islands and icebergs feather around the tip of the mainland, and channels and stairs carve routes from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Along Chile‘s west or Pacific coast, the fjords are as deep and dramatic as their northern counterparts, but with the addition of near total isolation, ice-blue icebergs, and only a handful of native people. Photo by: Marylou Badeaux
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Dec07
Published by misha in Adventure, Chillin, Extreme, Photos, Relaxing, Sightseeings, Swimming, Travel Stories, United States of America

The only official way of visiting Honopu Beach is by swimming. Inaccessible by land and impossibly magical, this treasure of a beach has ensured the scenery of many films, among them King Kong, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and South Pacific. Two deep, golden beaches guarded by steep mountain rock and the charming milky-blue waters of the South Pacific are connected by extremely large stone arch in the rock face, before which a waterfall cascades like a curtain. Photo by: tascx
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Dec07
Published by misha in Canada, Eating, Hiking, History, Hotels, North America, Parks, Photos, Relaxing, Restaurants, Sightseeings, Travel Stories

Form by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late nineteenth century, this fantastic hotel on the shore of Lake Louise is just on two hours drive west of Calgary in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The place is also famous among the locals as the Diamond in the Wilderness. This pioneering hotel started as a humble log cabin in 1890, providing accommodation for fifty clients. Photo by: sminky_pinky100 (Busy In & Out)
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Dec03
Published by iv in Adventure, Cultural, Oceania, Relaxing, Scuba Diving, Surfing, Swimming, Travel gear, Walking

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia. Tuvalu consists of nine small islands scattered over 500,000 sq mi of the western Pacific, just south of the equator. The islands include Niulakita, Nukulaelae, Funafuti, Nukufetau, Vaitupu, Nui, Niutao, Nanumaga (Nanumanga), and Nanumea. The capital and largest city is Fongafale, on Funafuti Funafuti.
Area: 9.9 sq mi (25.6 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 9,700. Tuvalu is a constitutional monarchy with one legislative house; its chief of state is the British monarch represented by the governor-general, and the head of government is the prime minister.
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Nov25
Published by misha in Adventure, Cruise, Eating, Extreme, Hiking, North America, Parks, Photos, Relaxing, Restaurants, Sightseeings, Travel gear, Travel Stories, United States of America

Matanuska Glacier is 100 miles far away from Anchorage, Alaska, at valley emerged as Mat-Su, which encompasses about 24,000 square miles of wilderness. The only sound there is an occasional rush of cool wind sweeping down from the towering Chugach Mountains. The temperature in Matanuska Glacier soaring to 75 degrees, and you walking on ice.
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