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Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

 (thumb) Madame Tussaud's wax museum is the fairly predictable tourist trap in the Peak Tower, the mall at the terminus of the tram ride at the top of the hill.  In addition to buying tickets at the museum, you can buy tickets at the foot of the hill when you guy your tram tickets.  Buying the combination pack will allow you to cut the long line [...]

lahore gawal mandi food street

 (thumb) Food street in Gawal Mandi, Lahore is a centre of Pakistani food. It is localted off the famous Laxmi Chowk of Lahore and it essentially consists of a number of streetside restaurants, juice and milk shops and sweet shops. The street is open to traffic at the day time but as the sun sets, the street is closed for traffic and tables are set on [...]

oman - a country for you and me.

One of the many beautiful forts that are still int (thumb) When I say Oman is a country for you and me, I mean that Oman is a country for us commonfolk. Except for the airfare to get here (which also depends on which part of the world you live in), you don\\\'t need big bucks to cover your basic necessities here. Shelter - living is affordable with a large number of hotels [...]

Beijing - Off the Beaten Track

Off the Beaten Track - Mountains in West Beijing (thumb) Beijing is massive. Most people stay well within the reach of the 5th Ring Road (unless it's a day trip to Badaling or the Ming Tombs). As a result, they're missing out on the real "great outdoors" -- on the outskirts of Beijing.And we're talking about the bits of Beijing that sometimes don't even make [...]

Travelling in Peru with my pregnant wife

The classic View of Machu Picchu (thumb) I’ve been dreaming of a trip in Peru since I was a kid and eventually I’ve succeeded in organizing it in summer 2007 with my wife but……just a couple of weeks before our departure  we discovered we were expecting a baby!! After the obvious surprise and happiness about [...]

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