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MindBodySoul | Travel
Ten destinations in reach of your fuel budget
With gasoline prices topping $1.50 per litre, it’s suddenly gotten a lot less desirable to go on one of those long summer drives to Tijuana or Toronto. But that doesn’t mean you have to stay in the Lower Mainland all summer.
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Smoking out Cuba's cigar trade
By Sarah Artis
Roberto is your stereotypical Cuban. The machete on his belt and his cool attitude toward the government's control of his tobacco production flaunt his machismo.
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South Pacific freighter jettisons formality
By Tom Koppel
Ocean swells broke on the exposed jetty at the South Pacific island of Hiva Oa about 1,200 kilometres northeast of Tahiti. Cascades of water surged over brawny, bare-chested French-Polynesian sailors. They struggled to steady a 10-metre wooden whaleboat, full of nervous passengers, that heaved violently, grinding its gunwales against the pier. Shouting “Vite! Vite!” (“Quickly! Quickly!”), the sailors lifted my wife and me like toys, and relayed us down into the crowded boat.
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X marks the spot of Vancouver's hidden gems
Cachers hide a weatherproof box containing goodies and a logbook. They then post the stash's coordinates on the Web, as well as a few clues to help searchers find it, and a write-up that gives some information about the destination.
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Malaysia mixes piety with modern tastes
By Lucas Aykroyd
Standing in the shadow of the Petronas Towers is a religious experience. That's not just a gushing tribute to Kuala Lumpur's most iconic landmark.
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The perils of preservation in Panama rain forest
By Claire Morris
Time stands still in this village. Or does it? Parara Puru might be sheltered by the Panamanian rain forest, accessible only by dugout canoe from the RÃo Chagres, but the women who greet us as we climb the slope from the jetty wear cloth imported from Taiwan wrapped around their waists.
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Space odyssey is a real trip
By Doug Sarti
Viewing a shuttle launch and touring NASA facilities takes you back in time.
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In Slovenia, things change yet stay the same
Clear blue Lake Bled, home to a town of the same name, has been linked to myths and Slovenian legends for centuries.
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D.C. as freedom theme park
It's hard to avoid politics when you're talking about Washington, D.C. This struck me again and again in a recent visit to the nation's capital to attend Book Expo America.
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Mexico's more than la playa
By Ian Caddell
Puerto Vallarta is not only one of the closer Mexican beach towns to Vancouver, it's also just a four-hour drive from a town that offers an abundance of colonial history and has the look of old Europe: Guadalajara.
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Out in surreal El Salvador
By Guy Babineau
Fashion shows never start when they're supposed to, and this one is no exception. We're on Latin American time, and south of the Rio Grande, 11 p.m. is apparently the new 9 p.m.
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Heli-bent for exploring the wild B.C. outback
In the mid-1960s CMH founder Hans Gmoser hit upon the scheme of flying skiers into the mountains using helicopters. He opened his first lodge in 1968 and a new sport, heli-skiing, was born.
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Les girls follow les escargots at French fest
By Angela Murrills
Dense as bottle brushes, the eyelashes of the half-dozen chorus girls are visible from where I sit, 15 metres away, at one of two dozen long tables in the tented U-shaped eating area set up around the square.
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Foreign theatres mean sexy ads, KFC, pirates
By Carolyn Ali
You might think that watching a Hollywood blockbuster is the same experience whether you're in Canada or Katmandu, but there are always quirky surprises in store when moviegoing abroad.
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Jack the Ripper tour travels back in crime
Standing here, shivering, with a dark and singular purpose, I'm awaiting the arrival of Donald Rumbelow, London's infamous Ripper expert, to walk me back to the shadowy East End of London in the fall of 1888.
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Underwater scenery saves Philippine getaway
With more than 7,000 islands, the Philippines has miles of white sand and clear, sparkling blue water.
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Atiu rises from cannibal past to idyllic calm
The first skull takes my breath away. In a dank cave, my flashlight catches its toothy grimace, limbs neatly beside it.
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Western travellers look upon faces of poverty
By Carolyn Ali
We've just finished dinner in Delhi, a feast of curries washed down by a few Kingfisher beers, all for a fraction of what we'd pay in Canada.
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Beach grass starves Oregon sand dunes
By James Dolan
The closest thing to the Sahara you'll find in the Pacific Northwest is the Oregon Dunes, a strip of super-fine sand, four kilometres wide, 64 kilometres long, 150 metres high in places, running the length of one of the most picturesque seascapes on the entire coast.
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Seattle's catacombs tunnel into a fiery past
By Catherine Tse
No matter how familiar you are with the streets of Seattle, you might not know what lies beneath them.
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Chilcotin rodeo racers live on skill and nerve
By Andrew Findlay
Four horses stir the ground and toss their heads as a breeze blows bunch grass in golden waves across the hillside.
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Camping around, yurt-style
By Carolyn Ali
Some people love camping and will happily trade their warm bed for a sleeping bag on the ground.
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Sheepdogs show their smarts at Aussie show
By Peter Neville-Hadley
High above the Royal Adelaide Show in the commentary box, the ringmaster looks down on the sheepdog trials with a slightly jaundiced eye.
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Chipping through Reno's veneer of vice
By Shawn Conner
With a decline in gambling revenues, the Nevada city wants its downtown arts district to bring back locals and tourists.
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Chilly Greenland heats up
By Tom Koppel
Jill Christie, the Canadian naturalist who was driving our Zodiac inflatable, cut the outboard, leaving us drifting silently. Around us towered gigantic ramparts of ice, up to 100 metres high.
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