National Rail Travel from Chengdu to Chongqing !
National Rail Travel from Chengdu to Chongqing. Read our previous posting “Panda Bear keeper for a day!” I was somewhat anxious about our scheduled train ride from Chengdu to Chongqing aboard a China National Rail high speed train. Our guide had warned us that there would be a lot of stairs and there was no…
Battielal and the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve!
Battielal was our naturalist guide for our game drives through the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur, a town located about 100 miles southeast of Jaipur, reached by way of a four-hour hair-raising, constantly bumpy but most interesting drive. Until 1971, the year Indira Gandhi brought about a constitutional amendment which took away most of…
Greece : the cradle of western civilization!
Greece COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD No 70 : Greece, the cradle of western civilization! The land of the magnificent blue skies and blue waters! See our previous Countries of the World posting at Ghana : land of the Gates of No Return ! Greece has so much to offer to a visiting tourist! The…
The Best of Viking River Cruises – Part I
In May, we had the distinct pleasure of being guests on board the Viking Tor Longship for a Viking River Cruise down the Danube river from Nuremberg to Budapest. We have cruising experience dating back to the mid-1980’s, but this was our first river cruise in Europe. Since river cruising has become a very…
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