Category: Travel
EAST ASIA Following the regional definitions of the Pacific Area Travel Association East Asia comprises The People’s Republic of China, The Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, …
Dotting the South Pacific are hundreds of islands, many of them in clusters hundreds of miles distant from other clusters. Fiji and New Caledonia are such clusters. So is …
Much of the Middle East is in rapid transition, being jerked by the power of oil money from a feudal society into the modern world. Construction of hotels, office …
Since money is a small consideration in Saudi Arabia it is spent with abandon. The new airport in Riyadh, capital of the country, is one of the world’s largest. …
THE MIDDLE EAST The Middle East is variously defined. Egypt and Israel are sometimes included, sometimes not. In this blog Egypt has been treated as part of Africa. The …
THE PACIFIC BASIN Growth and travel within and to the Pacific Basin area rose three-and-a-half times in the 1969-1979 decade, well ahead of the world average. The Boeing company …
Guatemala borders Mexico and Belize is to the east. Guatemala’s 7.5 million population, about half of whom are pure Amerindian, make it the most populous of the Central American …
Honduras is best known to the tourist for its ruins of the great Mayan civilization, Copan, first discovered by an American in 1837. The capital, Tegucigalpa, population 267,000, is …