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DUBAI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

editor — Fri, 26 May 2017 18:09:09 +0000

If you’re krazy about keeping up with Kim Kardashian West (right), look no further than one of the world’s biggest nightclub hubs. Dubai has become one of the top celeb hideaways – although, unluckily for them, celeb-spotting is now a popular pastime for locals. The city’s prestigious night scene is known to host the crème de la crème, as VIPs are invited to discover the famous Cavalli Club, indulge in the mesmerising experience of the Cirque Du Soir or travel to the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world (830m), to reach the exclusive Armani Privé

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Anniston Map

editor — Wed, 24 May 2017 18:30:17 +0000

Anniston Army Depot, Anniston Large quantities of nerve gases and mustard gas are stored at this facility deep in the piney woods of east-central Alabama. You don’t want to be downwind from this place in case of a leak, okay? Anniston Army Depot is located about 50 miles west of Birmingham and is named for the nearby city of Anniston. It was opened in 1941 as a repair and storage depot for tanks, other combat vehicles, and artillery equipment. In 1963, it became a storage facility for chemical weapons and is now transitioning to a chemical weapons disposal facility. Original

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Wildlife Travel Guide

editor — Mon, 22 May 2017 19:09:35 +0000

I was with Wayne Hartley – a Florida Manatee expert with the NGO, Save the Manatee Club – canoeing the 600 m of the Blue Spring stream in Florida. I had arranged the day with the club to get first-hand experience of these endearing creatures for my blog, Back from the Brink (Whittles, 2015). It was the sound of frequent nose blowing on the water’s surface that made the experience particularly surreal. It wasn’t a sound that I had expected to hear. But these loud exhalations and intakes of air were a reminder that the aquatic creatures lying on the

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Wildlife Travel To Alonissos

editor — Mon, 22 May 2017 19:05:08 +0000

The Sea Empress incident sealed its fate. With huge public concern and our opposition, BP dropped its plans. The Pembroke Power Station, unfortunately for its employees, was closed. But it was the right decision for the environment and for Wales and I remain proud of it. Out fixer hadn’t turned up. Here we were, my wife and I, standing on the quay at the little harbour on Alonissos, the most easterly inhabited Greek island in the Northern Sporades. A sublime spot; the little town of Patitiri – the main town on the island – tumbling down the hillside in front

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National Wildlife Travel

editor — Sun, 21 May 2017 20:35:37 +0000

You get a hint of what delights you might see long before you reach Schynige Platte on the little cog wheel railway that takes you up there from the village of Wilderswil, a suburb of Interlaken down in the valley way below. Opened in 1893, this little railway was electrified in 1914 and it takes just under an hour to get its passengers from 600 m at Wilderswil to nearly 2,000 m at the Schynige Platte station where the views are framed by a trio of famous Alpine peaks – the Jungfrau, Monch and Eiger, snow and ice-covered monoliths towering

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Arabian Safari

editor — Sun, 21 May 2017 20:25:10 +0000

Eric Bedin told me that most reintroductions have been in winter when temperatures are lower and there is more chance of some rain reinvigorating the few thorny shrubs, providing young growth for the grazing oryx. Where we were, though, no rain had been recorded for two years. When it does rain, bleached and tinder-dry shrubs quickly green up, and plants spring up from hidden underground bulbs and rhizomes, quickly flower and set seed again until the next shower passes that way, maybe a couple of years later. It was not a phenomenon that I saw any trace of. All the

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Wildlife Travel To Rub’al-Khali

editor — Sun, 21 May 2017 20:18:07 +0000

Ftnding the Unicorn Sitting, cross-legged as always, on the patterned, carmine red rugs in the Bedu tent, I was listening to the Arabic banter. Abdulrahman and Mubarak, dressed in their traditional long white thobes with red and white check ghutras (headscarves), were having a lively exchange about the virtues, or otherwise, of having a wife. It was time, Abdulrahman said, that young Mubarak should start thinking of marriage. Their laughter was infectious. Through the open, hearth-end of the tent a mesmerising, beacon-bright halfmoon hung in the inky-black night sky. Walid, the camp’s ever-smiling Pakistani cook, dressed for the long evenings

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Wildlife Travel To Azraq, Jordan

editor — Sun, 21 May 2017 20:00:35 +0000

Going Eco in Jordan There are not many good hotels in the world where you park your car 8 km away and then, before you even see the place let alone have a look at the rooms, squeeze into an ancient pickup truck for a half hour bumpy journey with a driver who speaks nothing but Arabic. But then, not many hotels are as unusual as the Feynan Ecolodge, around 50 km north of Petra in, Jordan. For a start it’s within the huge Dana Biosphere Reserve, a protected area of magnificent arid mountains, wind-roughed, pale sandstone cliffs, seasonal wadis

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The Samaria Gorge

editor — Sun, 21 May 2017 19:56:38 +0000

It was when we turned to walk in a different direction that I noticed the bird ‘tour group’. Perhaps 100-200 birds or more, standing several deep near the water’s edge, huddled closely together. Presumably they had finished feeding, gorged maybe on a plethora of frogs and toads. Line-ups of Great White Egrets and smaller Little Egrets, rather angelic in appearance in their snow-white suits like choir boys on parade. Stately Greater Flamingos and their pinker Lesser Flamingo cousins. Some smaller, black-headed – and black beaked – African Sacred Ibises. There were taller, darker herons; Black-headed Herons maybe and a few

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Wildlife Travel To US

editor — Sat, 20 May 2017 15:51:15 +0000

Unfortunately not all American hunters are as careful as Ron Nelsen. That fact came home to me on another US visit, this time to talk to experts about America’s tallest bird, the elegant Whooping Crane and to see the birds on their wintering grounds along the balmy saline marshes of the Texas coast. It was the other American bird I was writing a chapter about for Back from The Brink. Whooping Cranes – all-white beauties with red faces – were never as abundant as Wild Turkeys across the USA. Maybe there were 10,000 of them in total. Nevertheless, white settlers

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