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Your travel guide to offbeat places and unusual destinations world-wide, with a fresh look at old favorites

Two Ways to Find Feature Articles

We got tired of scrolling down whole screenfuls of articles so we've created a new page, Travel in the USA with all the wonderful sights and experiences found in the United States of America. Then, we added a map to the Feature Articles (which is now the World Travel page). Click on the part of the world you'd like to explore and you are whisked away. Or, you can scroll down and do a bit of sight-seeing along the way.

Travel Gear

We're starting a new section on OffbeatTravel.com. Travel Gear will focus on reviews of the travel products that we come across along the road.
Our first review is of WinTV-HVR 950Q by Hauppauge Manufacturing for people who travel and don't want to miss their favorite shows. Read Ed Cardona's review at WinTV-Hauppauge

Where We're Showing Up

We just found this link to our article Museums of Tolerance in KyotoJournal.org and their Ten Thousand Things -- Multicultural Webfinds. The "Offbeat Travel" website lists this south Osaka museum with several other museums throughout the world dedicated to peace and tolerance, including the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Current Features

	Temples of the Nile River Cruise by Neala Schwartzberg. The stately Nile flows through Egypt as it has for centuries upon centuries. Life along its banks and in the mud-brick houses seems to have changed little. As I visit the temples the dot the land along the river, a sense of temporal dislocation happens again and again. Read more ...
	Hells Canyon and the Snake River: Call of the Wild (In Comfort) by Bobbie Green. Eagerly we stepped into the jet boat, looking forward to our adventure upstream on the free-flowing Snake River. Fortunately for us, when congress designated this area a National Recreation Area in 1975 they also allowed for power boats to be used, leaving this area accessible to those of us not able to hike or paddle a boat in. Read more ...
	Stay Cool in the Shenandoah Mountains: Cool caves, the town that time forgot, gorgeous vistas, and a perfect B & B by Karen Hamlin. Somewhere in the fabric of space, there is a town that time forgot. So, if you want to go back to the good ol’ days, follow Route 66 to Front Royal, Virginia, sleeping at the base of the Shenandoah Mountains, by the northern entrance to Skyline Drive. Read more ...
	Discovering Fiji Islands: Bula, Bula (Hello and Welcome) Hospitality by Chris Millikan. Romantic tales of tropic isles floating in pristine waters lured us far away to Fiji…joining the ranks of Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson. Exploring Fiji’s best, we madly scrambled in-and-out of tiny domestic planes and on-and-off launches and island-hopped through an ambitious itinerary. Read more ...
	Brenham and Washington County, Texas: History, Horses, Flowers and More by Neala Schwartzberg. I’m sitting in the theater of the Star of the Republic Museum at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site watching Texas history unfold. There will be gorgeous flowers, wonderful B & Bs, a presidential library, impossibly cute horses and much more, and I've experienced it all. Read more ...
	River Murray: Cruising in Australia by Keith Kellett. The River Murray is sometimes described as Australia’s Mississippi. It’s rather an inaccurate description, because nowhere near as much traffic was generated as it was on its American counterpart. But, in 1986, the Mississippi really came to the Murray when the Murray Princess was built. Read more ...
	Five Reasons to Visit Ubud in Beautiful Bali by Lyn Lyon. Ubud is set in the lush green hills of rich rice-terraced country and is the cultural centre, the artistic heart of Bali. Read more ...

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In our web-wanderings we found this on http://blog.viscape.com/2008/07/travel-trends-2008/:

We asked her [Viscape.com travel writer, Karin Palmquist], “What’s the biggest change you’ve seen in the travel and tourism business in the last 5-10 years?” Her response: “I think people might be abandoning traditional destinations in favor of more off-beat ones, and the traditional destinations are hurting. It’s getting increasingly hard to find places where you won’t run in to other tourists.”

Neala
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Welcome to OffbeatTravel

Two Ways to Find Feature Articles

Travel Gear

Where We're Showing Up

Current Features

Temples of the Nile River Cruise

Hells Canyon and the Snake River: Call of the Wild (In Comfort)

Stay Cool in the Shenandoah Mountains: Cool caves, the town that time forgot, gorgeous vistas, and a perfect B & B

Discovering Fiji Islands: Bula, Bula (Hello and Welcome) Hospitality

Brenham and Washington County, Texas: History, Horses, Flowers and More

River Murray: Cruising in Australia

Five Reasons to Visit Ubud in Beautiful Bali

Join the offbeat travel revolution, read OffbeatTravel.com.

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