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Fiji Map

editor — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:28:00 +0000

Fiji is an example of how dependent some destinations are on air transportation. Several airlines once used the Nandi airport enroute to and from Australia, New Zealand, North and South America and some Pacific Islands. Fiji’s tourist business grew rapidly and with it the number of hotel rooms. Tour packages could easily be assembled with Fiji as a few-days stopover, or as part of the package tour of the South Pacific. The airlines scheduling Fiji as a stopover also promoted the little country. Prices were comparatively cheap. Some 200.000 visitors came in 1981, 60 percent from Australia and New Zealand,

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India Map

editor — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:10:57 +0000

Travelers to India have long been able to ride elephants, hunt tigers with a camera and live in former maharajah palaces. Now for about $100 a day they can ride a princely train, the Palace on Wheels. Every carriage was built for a maharajah and has been polished and painted white. The train runs from New Delhi carrying thirty-two attendants turbaned cooks, waiters, porters, assistant porters and an engine crew. A dozen armed guards ride in the carriages at either end. Marigold garlands worn around the passengers’ necks are changed several times a day. A sixty-eight-seat bus is ready for

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