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G Adventures Announces New Destinations For 2013
Adventure travel company G Adventures has announced that starting in January of next year it will begin offering options to visit 12 new countries and expand its popular Local Living tours to more destinations as well. These additions to the G Adventures catalog will provide ...A Traveler in the Foreign Service: Help us get away with murder
For Bashkim, a 25-year-old Albanian-American dishwasher, the trouble all started after he started having an affair with his boss's wife. When his boss heard the rumors, he immediately confronted his wife.
Luljeta claimed that Bashkim, who was nearly 20 years younger ...Albania's National Museum faces up to Communist past
A new wing of Albania's National Museum in Tirana opened yesterday that's dedicated to the abuses of its former Communist government.
Under the harsh rule of Enver Hoxha, shown here in a photo courtesy Forrásjelölés Hasonló, some 100,000 ...Frommer's reveals top destinations for 2012
What destination are you dreaming of for 2012? The staff at Frommer's have just unveiled their list of top travel destinations for the coming year. Included in the list is a little something for everyone: large metropolises, secluded beach towns, colorful riverside ...Roman shipwreck found off Albanian coast
An underwater archaeological survey has turned up a Roman shipwreck off the coast of Albania.
As the above video shows, the remains of the ship are now little more than a heap of amphorae, the characteristic pots the Romans used to transport wine. The team hasn't had a ...
Walking the streets of Tirana
Everyone has their own intimate reasons for traveling, be they discovering new places or simply leaving behind old ones. For me however, it's about finding yourself somewhere that you previously couldn't have imagined. The clichéd word for this type of travel is ...Five ways to get more European stamps in your passport
Lake Ohrid, Macedonia.
Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that European passport stamps have become harder and harder to get. The expansion of the Schengen zone has reduced the number of times tourists are compelled to show their passports to immigration officials. For ...Photo of the Day (11.26.10)
If you pay any attention to those year-end forecasting features in travel publications--and you should, as your loyal Gadling writers are currently assembling a favorites/forecasting list of our own--then surely you will have recently come across a few mentions of ...Trade Mocked
You were a cheerleader, you dated a cheerleader, or you hated the cheerleaders. As I recall, that's how high school worked.
Thanks to travel PR, that same primeval paradigm lives on long after graduation. That miniskirts-shouting-slogans thing still works, whether you're ...New glaciers discovered in European mountains
British geographers from the University of Manchester have discovered four previously unknown glaciers while on a recent expedition to the "cursed" Prokletije mountains of Albania. The discovery was published in the December issue of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, ..."Taken" (the movie) and travel safety
Upon the suggestion of a family friend, my parents treated me to a $1 movie to see "Taken," the new movie with Liam Neeson. My dad had told me his friend thought it would be relevant to my travels abroad, but after reading the synopsis, I kind of scoffed at the idea that the ...
Gadling TAKE FIVE-- June 28 - July 4
In the traveler's world it's been a bit of drama this week. Plus, there have been lessons in traveling with a wider perspective and an open heart.
On the drama end:
Iva reported on passengers in China refusing to get off a plane because the flight was canceled.
In ...Letter from Albania: Tirana's impressive recovery
The first time I met Besnik Lame, he sat down at my table where I was having a drink and made a few rather awkward confessions. "You see, I have some overweight," he said. "And so, I sweat a lot. It is a problem." At that moment, two ribbons of water trundled down the side ...Letter from Albania: What's being done to improve the environment
Heading south, I passed the town of Orikum and the road soon climbed steeply into the Llogara Pass, one of those places that makes you feel very small and alone. The road clung to a mountainside so steep that when I craned my neck up I couldn't see it top out. On my left ...Letter from Albania: The brutal custom of blood feuds (Part 2)
When Agim Loci was 23, a good friend of his tried to rape a girl in their hometown of Fruhe Kruje. The girl's two brothers thwarted the attack at the last moment. But the matter did not stop there: The girl's family wanted revenge. Loci did something surprising: He took his ...Letter from Albania: The brutal custom of blood feuds (Part 1)
Agim Loci flashed a smile, and then a revolver, the barrel of which I'd noticed peeking out from beneath his red shirt. "In case of problems," he said. We sat drinking coffee in the Tirana International Hotel. Loci was on and off his cell phone, having already brandished a ...Letter from Albania: Enver Hoxha's legacy, and the question of tourism
They were everywhere: gray domes surrounded by green grass, either in rows or scattershot across the landscape. Viewed from high mountain roads they had the appearance of large rocks; up close, traveling under ones that hugged hillsides, they looked like huge boulders that ...Letter from Albania: Into one of Europe's last dark corners
The car rounded a bend heading south, a bit outside Fier, and there he was in the middle of the road: dressed in a red shirt, a white crusher on his head. He had no legs, just two stumps that poked out of his jeans. The road looked baked in the sun. He lunged at passing ...United Nations report: Balkans the safest region in Europe
When I arrived in Montenegro three months ago, one of the things that struck me first was how safe things felt. What was I expecting? Well, not a lot of armed thugs or anything. But I'd traveled enough in the former communist corners of Europe -- including past trips into ...Traveling where the dollar is strong
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If you're earning a salary in US currency and are unlucky enough to spend it traveling internationally, you know the pain of the depreciating dollar. The rest of the world has become frighteningly expensive as the dollar continues its slide. My recent trip to North Korea, ...
