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September 03, 2019
K-Pop and Kimchi: Tokyo's 'Little Seoul' shrugs off spat
September 03, 2019
French mayor urges action against Mont-Blanc 'wackos'
September 01, 2019
Recycling rubble to save mountains, rivers and beaches
September 01, 2019
What lies beneath: Singapore plans a subterranean future
August 27, 2019
Scientists reproduce coral in lab, offering hope for reefs
August 27, 2019
Lovers of Tuscany's 'paradise' beach have factory to thank
August 27, 2019
Indonesia to close giant lizard island leaving guides, villagers in the lurch
GIROLATA, FRANCE - "It's nature's magical design," says a tourist guide, waxing poetic as he comments on the impressive red cliffs plunging into a turquoise sea at the Scandola nature reserve on France's Corsica island."Amazing!" exclaims Irena Snydrova, a Czech tourist visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site with her family, along with groups from Italy, Spain and France.Their boat sidles up to the Steps of Paradise, rocks shaped into a stairway some 15 meters long, then glides on to Bad Luck Pass, a former pirates' redoubt.The ages have sculpted the volcanic cliffs into myriad shapes that beguile the visitor, who might imagine a kissing couple here, a horse's head there, Napoleon's two-cornered hat further on...The park, created in 1975, is an...
August 25, 2019
'Red lights' as over-tourism threatens Corsican nature reserve
ABIDJAN - The seaside resort offers visitors a cool drink or tasty meal, a dip in a pool, a karaoke session or an overnight stay, all with a view.Nothing much new there, you may say -- creature comforts like this are pretty much standard in tropical hotels.The big difference, though, is that this mini resort is also a moveable island that floats on plastic bottles.Riding on the laguna in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's economic hub, the unusual complex floats on a platform made from 700,000 discarded bottles and other buoyant debris.Its inventor, Frenchman Eric Becker, says his creation can help greener, more mobile tourism -- something less harmful to seas and coastlines than traditional fixed, concrete resorts.His "Ile Flottante" -- French for "Floating Island" --...
August 25, 2019
Ivory Coast's 'Floating Island' points to greener tourism
August 20, 2019
Ghana cashes in on slave heritage tourism
