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Three men on bikes on dream ride through ...Sudan
Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (EST)
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 After racing through spectacular desert, sleeping under the stars and enjoying boundless hospitality, three Westerners on a motorbike odyssey say they are convinced that Sudan is Africa's next tourist paradise just waiting to be discovered.
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Malta's '60s-era buses keep chugging along
Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 (EST)
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 In Malta, some things never change.
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New camera dispels darkness around pharaoh's 'solar' boat
Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 (EST)
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 Egypt on Saturday revealed a unique way of viewing a wooden boat entombed 4,500 years ago next to Giza's Great Pyramid where exposure to the atmosphere had threatened its destruction.
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New youth hostel opens in Paris
Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 (EST)
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 Young tourists passing through Paris have a new place to stay following the opening of the first youth hostel in the city for more than 15 years.
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Germany: all tanked up on adrenalin in Soviet-era toys for boys
Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 (EST)
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 Every year some 10,000 thrill-seekers from all over the world pass through the so-called "Tank Driving School" in Beerfelde, a tiny town between Berlin and the Polish border.
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Rome bans picnics in clean-up of historic centre
Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008 (EST)
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 The city of Rome on Saturday began a ban on picnics in areas surrounding its numerous historic monuments in an effort to prevent degradation of the so-called "eternal" city.
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Thai tourists cancel Cambodia trips over security fears
Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008 (EST)
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 About a thousand Thais have canceled visits to Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat ruins since an ownership dispute erupted between the two neighbors over another temple, a tourism chief said Saturday.
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Gadget brings back Berlin Wall for tourists
Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008 (EST)
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 Visitors to the German capital disappointed to find little of the Berlin Wall left can now have it reappear before their eyes with a gadget offering a self-guided tour.
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Heart of London set for Tokyo-style makeover
Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008 (EST)
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 Oxford Circus, the heart of London's West End shopping and entertainment district, is to undergo a Tokyo-style makeover with a new "scramble crossing" layout, Westminster City Council said Thursday.
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French UNESCO site: Charity begins at home
Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 (EST)
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 Prosper Merimee is best known as the author of the novella Carmen, on which Bizet based his opera, but the townspeople of La Charite-sur-Loire have their own reason to be grateful to him.
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