Travel: 2010

Grenada Travel Guide

Grenada OVERVIEW

No sooner had the Hurricane Ivan ripped the island paradise of Grenada in 2004 than the cruise liners struggled to fill ships with numbers they had gotten used to.

Japan OVERVIEW

The Japanese call it Nippon, artists portray it as the land of the rising sun, sociolinguists see it as full of cross-cultural pitfalls for ignorant tourists, and all posh divas can't help but wonder how the geishas manage in their sky-high platform shoes.

United Arab Emirates OVERVIEW

One of the smallest, richest, safest, scariest, most beautiful, intolerant, entertaining and conservative places in the world.

Europe OVERVIEW

One may try to squeeze Europe in a nutshell but it's all in vain.

Burkina Faso OVERVIEW

Burkina Faso is one of those lesser known countries that travel agents don't normally beat the drum for, and holidaymakers hardly ever inquire about.

Caribbean OVERVIEW

Come in, have a seat.

Chad OVERVIEW

There are quite a couple of reasons explaining why not many visitors make it to Chad.

Djibouti OVERVIEW

Keeping off border disputes, the small African country of Djibouti is an oasis of neutrality, enjoying a relatively stable and peaceful atmosphere.

Saint Kitts and Nevis OVERVIEW

So you're going to St Kitts and Nevis but don't know which to stay on. If you're up to a little bit of island hopping, an "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" sort of thing will do as the frequent ferry service enables you to change location as quickly as you change your mind about what you feel like doing.

Reunion OVERVIEW

The French know what they are doing keeping its Overseas Department island somewhat off mass tourism.

Ivory Coast OVERVIEW

Judging by the location (sub-Saharan) and its neighbors (Mali, Ghana or Liberia, to mention just a few) one can't help but expect everything except for ivory whiteness.

Mayotte OVERVIEW

Following a very tolerant form of Islam, Mayotte adopts a live-and-let-live take on social mores, but its political status makes it far from

laissez faire

when it comes to prices.

Malawi OVERVIEW

OK so here we go. Imagine a sizzling hot African day when every single move and step you take only make things hotter and all you dream about is a cooling shade and water to plunge into and let your fins grow.

Sierra Leone OVERVIEW

Decade-long civil turmoil of wars and rebels, not infrequently involving the underage, made Sierra Leone hit headlines with blood stains.

Eritrea OVERVIEW

How about some multi-taste flavor on your African intinerary? Eritrea is sure to treat you to some.

New Zealand OVERVIEW

There's no accounting for tastes, they say, but, we beg your pardon, this

is

one of the most stunning places on Earth.

Cambodia OVERVIEW

Cambodia has been plunged in a sea of misery for the last half-millennium.

Solomon Islands OVERVIEW

In the early 1900s you would rather steer away off the Salomon Islands than venture setting foot to them and having a bit of exploration.

Bangladesh OVERVIEW

Flat as a pancake and dissected by wide flooding rivers, Bangladesh is not a love at first sight and a tourist haunt like the vibrant India or the spiritual Nepal.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands OVERVIEW

Harsh, inhospitable, and sitting at the end of the world, South Georgia rewards with experiences which more than fully make up for any inconvenience caused by its remote location.

Azerbaijan OVERVIEW

Nestled smack-dab between Europe and Asia, where the western influences nudge their way along the former Silk Road into the country's ancient core, Azerbaijan is essentially a series of dichotomies which, as it shows, are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Armenia OVERVIEW

Specialists in religious studies and those looking for some spiritual enlightenment will find Armenia a truly eye-opening and informative place to visit.

Samoa OVERVIEW

The Garden of Eden must have looked like the idyllic Samoa, at least this is the ambience you experience once you unpack your cases and start tramping into the amazing interior.

United States Minor Outlying Islands OVERVIEW

A weird creation it is, albeit pristine and unruffled.

Tuvalu OVERVIEW

A South Sea paradise of palm-fringed coral islands barely surfacing the ocean waters, peaceful life somewhere among thatched cottages and a totally laidback pace defined by coconuts dropping to the ground and waves crashing against the sandy shores, Tuvalu is the world's fourth-smallest country with just 26 square kilometers and the most isolated independent nation.

Vanuatu OVERVIEW

Vanuatu stretches for almost a 1000 kilometers dotting the Pacific Ocean with 83 islands.

Christmas Island OVERVIEW

Why would a place be named Christmas Island if the only associable thing is the snow white feather of the endemic

sula sula

, gracefully called red-footed boobies (sic!)? Passing this tiny speck of land on 25 December 1643, Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary decided to dub it accordingly, but years had passed before the first extensive exploration determined the island's future a phosphate extraction site.

British Indian Ocean Territory OVERVIEW

Never heard of BIOT and Diego Garcia? Rest easy as few could call you ignorant on that point, let alone for not knowing that the former is short for British Indian Ocean Territory and the latter is not an Argentinian soap star.

Bhutan OVERVIEW

Nestling high in the Himalaya, somewhere between the giant China and India, there is a country steadfastly guarding its integrity, culture and traditions.

China OVERVIEW

Forget stereotypes and plunge into a whirl of oriental adventure.

Brunei OVERVIEW

Welcome to the pint-sized but well-heeled sultanate in the corner of Borneo, where the GDP stands at 18 thousand dollars and bottled water is more expensive than gasoline.

Wallis and Futuna OVERVIEW

Each with a fair share of rabbits in the hat, Wallis and Futuna would most obviously vie for your attention .

Tonga OVERVIEW

Here's a bit of etymology before we have Tonga under Opentravel's guide miscroscope.

Tokelau OVERVIEW

Far, far away, half the way between Hawaii and New Zealand there is a tiny group of Polynesian atolls called Tokelau.

Pitcairn OVERVIEW

If you don't have the faintest idea where on earth Pitcairn Islands might be located, don't worry.

Papua New Guinea OVERVIEW

Papua New Guinea is a land of unparalleled diversity and a promise of an unforgettable holiday.

Palau OVERVIEW

No fish feels out of water in Palau.

Fiji OVERVIEW

Close your eyes and imagine a holiday Eden.

Cook Islands OVERVIEW

Should you ever fantasize about sun-bleached, time-forgotten idyllic places swaying with seductive dancing and caressing with gentle wave swoosh and ocean breeze, Opentravel knows where to navigate.

Bouvet Island OVERVIEW

Should you ever be fed up with the civilized world and willing to be left alone and virtually cut off, steer towards the Bouvet Island.

Australia OVERVIEW

OK. It's true that the British exiled thousands of convicts here (and then set them free, alas!), and it's also the truest of truths that it's home to 1500 species of spiders and that each year one or two people are devoured by crocodiles.

American Samoa OVERVIEW

American Samoa has been a dependent state of the USA since 1899.

Zimbabwe OVERVIEW

Not an easy and glossy-brochure destination, Zimbabwe frequently acts as a tourist repellent scaring off potential visitors with its ongoing social and political unrest.

Zambia OVERVIEW

Spectators turn speechless and only gasp in awe as the mighty Zambezi River sends 2 million gallons of tumultuous water down a 300 feet high vertical wall and gushes the spray back up in the air to form a thick cloud of enigma hovering above the world's largest curtain of falling water.

Western Sahara OVERVIEW

If hardcore trips catch your fancy, Western Sahara is a promise of harsh conditions, formal obstacles, and hazy political status.

Tunisia OVERVIEW

When Hannibal was mastering his martial skills and learning to mount war elephants in Carthage, he conceived of North Africa as an insuperable empire.

Northern Mariana Islands OVERVIEW

Sitting on the edge of the world's greatest chasm, the 11 kilometer-deep Mariana Trench, is a sparsely-peopled family of 14 islands shortly known as CNMI.

Norfolk Island OVERVIEW

When was the last time you raised your finger at the police and they waved back at you grinning from ear to ear? Never? Then come to Norfolk Island and learn all about the famous 'Norfolk Wave', which is anything from a regular wag through to a raised index finger from the steering wheel that the drivers here use to greet each other without fail.

Niue OVERVIEW

One of the most far-flung places and tiniest nations on earth, Niue doesn't readily come tripping off the tongue of even the most been-around travelers.

New Caledonia OVERVIEW

Kanaky, as the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants dub New Caledonia, is a one-of-a-kind experience.

Nauru OVERVIEW

Unlike most Pacific islands cherishing a dream-like holiday destination status, Nauru is a land ravaged by decades of mining industry.