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India: 5 Best Places to See Snowfall in Himachal Pradesh
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Rajasthan: Pushkar – Spirituality, Religious Enthusiasm, and Magic
जब बात आस्था की हो तो हिंदू धर्म में 33 करोड़ देवी-देवता हैं जिनकी हम अपनी मान्यताओं के अनुसार पूजा करते हैं। लेकिन हिन्दू शास्त्रों में 3 देवों को सबसे प्रमुख देव बताया गया है। ” ब्रह्म, विष्णु, महेश ” जिसमें भगवान ब्रह्मा पुरी सृष्टि के सृजन कर्ता यानी रचना करने वाले देव माने जाते हैं, भगवान विष्णु पालक कर्ता और भगवान महेश विलय करने वाले देवता माने जाते हैं। लेकिन क्या आपको मालूम है कि भगवान विष्णु और महेश यानी शिव शंकर की प्रसिद्ध स्थल और मंदिर कई जगहों पर मिल जाएंगे लेकिन ब्रह्मा की नहीं। सोचने वाली बात है ना कि सृष्टि के रचयिता की एक भी मंदिर…
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La Gruyère! The charming small medieval town in Switzerland (La Gruyere in Pictures)
La Gruyère is a small romantic medieval town in the Canton of Friborg of Switzerland, known for its ancient castle, the HR Giger Museum and the best Swiss cheese and chocolate. The old part of the city was turned into a market square, all along with fascinating buildings and shops that retain their historic facades. Stroll down the street in Gruyères with a nostalgic feeling as it is a journey from the past to the future. At the entrance of the village, that is, at the beginning of the street, you are surrounded by houses dating back to the 15th centuries. Another landmark of the village of Gruyeres is the…
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Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac
Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac Unsplash/Juan Di Nella, CC BY Jessica Gildersleeve, University of Southern Queensland Summer is the time for holidays and travel. But as we weakly wave goodbye (we hope) to the horrors of 2020, international travel is off the table and even domestic travel is still restricted. A book is still your most faithful companion on summer journeys, even if that trip is limited to the journey between the kitchen and a sun lounge in the backyard. Curated here is a mix tape of great literary road trips. There is one oldie but goodie, some 21st-century hits and…
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Vaccines may soon make travel possible again. But how quickly will it return — and will it be forever changed?
Vaccines may soon make travel possible again. But how quickly will it return — and will it be forever changed? RUNGROJ YONGRIT/EPA Joseph M. Cheer, Wakayama University; Colin Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, and Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu The COVID-19 pandemic brought the global tourism industry to a screeching halt in 2020. With vaccines starting to be rolled out, there is hope international travel can resume soon, but exactly when — and how — is the million-dollar question. Before COVID-19, there was much concern about whether tourism had grown too big for our planet. There were calls to scale back tourism, make it more environmentally sustainable and help over-touristed…
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Kasol -A quaint little village in Himachal Pradesh
हिमाचल के घाटियों में कुल्लू और मनाली के अलावा कई ऐसे गांव बसे हैं जिनकी ख़ूबसूरती के बारे में लोगों को शायद नहीं मालूम। उनमें से ही एक खूबसूरत गांव है ” कसोल ” (Kasol) कुल्लू से लगभग 40 किलोमीटर की दूरी पर पर्वती नदी के किनारे बसा कसोल एडवेंचर प्रेमियों और ट्रेकिंग करने वाली लोगों के लिए काफी खास जगह है। चारों तरफ से घने लम्बे पेड़ और पहाड़ों के बीच से बहती पार्वती नदी अपनी खूबसूरती के लिए विदेशी पर्यटकों के बीच भी काफी मशहूर है। कसोल में ट्रेकिंग के अलावा इसके आस पास घूमने के लिए पार्वती वैली, खीर गंगा, तोष गांव,मलाना, मणिकर्ण जैसी कई और मशहूर…
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Fewer tourists meant less money for wildlife during the pandemic – but there’s an alternative
Fewer tourists meant less money for wildlife during the pandemic – but there’s an alternative Joseph Hamm, University of Leeds “Nature is healing” read social media posts at the outset of the pandemic, as birdsong replaced the drone of traffic during lockdown. But for wildlife conservation in Africa, the reality was very different. Anti-poaching operations in protected areas were paused or restricted to limit the spread of the virus, leaving populations of threatened species like the African lion vulnerable. Now these areas are confronting COVID-19’s economic fallout, and research suggests that illegal hunting, mining, deforestation, and bushmeat consumption all tend to increase during downturns. Safari tours and other forms of…
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Can virtual tourism save local businesses in tourist destinations?
Can virtual tourism save local businesses in tourist destinations? Virtual reality goggles. taboer-roeder/flickr, CC BY-ND Muhammad Muhajir Aminy, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Mataram Imagine you can visit the beautiful tropical island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia from the comfort of your couch through your laptop or smartphone. Tourists can stay at home while listening to travel agents’ voices explaining localities and looking at places they visit virtually through gadgets. With the COVID-19 pandemic severely affecting the global tourism industry, virtual tourism – the use of virtual reality for tourism activities – has helped travel agents survive the crisis but, unfortunately, not so much for local businesses in tourism destinations. A…
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Lucerne (Heart of Switzerland) in Pictures
Lucerne is a magnificent little city in the center of Switzerland, across the lake from Altdorf, where legend has it William Tell shot an apple off of his child’s head. Lucerne is a beautiful city to visit, and is an excellent base from which to investigate popular Swiss destinations, for example, the mountains Rigi, Pilatus, Titlis and the Rütli glade.
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Picturesque: Jauljibi-Madkote Road under Mighty Himalayan Range through a Waterfall
Adventure at best: the River, the Rugged Road, The Water Fall

























