http://www.travelvista.net World Travel, Travel Guide, Family Travel Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:37:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whether you’re an experienced diver or wanting to acquire the art, Akumal provides the perfect ecological setting to view amazing specimens of natural beauty underwater. Akumal is a tourist resort located 62 miles south of Cancun, between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, with a tiny native population of 1,198. The name ... http://www.travelvista.net/scuba-diving-akumal-mexico/ There exist a large number of volcanoes worldwide, but all are not hazardous as such. A few of them only cause panic with their affection to dance with devastation at their own wish. Volcanoes become destructive when they emit hot magma tied with ash and gases. Degree of such destruction ... http://www.travelvista.net/5-deadliest-volcanoes/ In the pictures, you will see property worth millions of dollars. If you observe, you will see that no matter which angle it is photographed, it always looks great. This is Gazprom, a palace built in the XVIII century style. The building style and the set up complement each other ... http://www.travelvista.net/palace-built-impress/ The ancient history buries a golden account of prehistoric civilizations that mark the evolution of the human race. While the archaeologists have bought us very close to the life that subsisted million of years ago, there are some hidden edifices unexplored but cited in the primeval literature by the eminent ... http://www.travelvista.net/hidden-dimensions-ancient-civilizations/ The kudzu vine, also known as "the plant that ate the South," was brought from eastern Asia in 1876 and can grow more than 6.5 feet a week. Its starchy roots plunge deep into the soil, and just a fragment of the plant remaining in the ground is enough to ... http://www.travelvista.net/abandoned-houses-covered-vegetation/ Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya — Rose is 17 months old. She weighs 15 pounds and looks the size of an American 5-month-old. She cannot sit up, walk or speak. She has the toothpick limbs and saucer eyes of the malnourished and the dull skin of dehydration. In another corner is Caroline, ... http://www.travelvista.net/in-kenya-reason-for-hope/ When the BBC Newsnight presenter visited Moldova, the poorest nation in Europe, to meet some of its few remaining Jews, she was stunned by how desperate their lives were. Here she reveals that, but for the courage of her persecuted grandparents, she could have been among them... OK, I admit it. ... http://www.travelvista.net/moldova-transistria-and-lenin/ Oosawano town in Toyama Prefecture Toyama city, is the political and economic hub of the prefecture, and the gateway to the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The area is very famous for its eastern medicine, particularly the "Han-Gon-Han", mixture made from the extract of the musk bag of a deer, herbs and ... http://www.travelvista.net/forest-village-of-buddha-statues/ A Rock Art Site was discovered in Western Gilf Kebir in January 2003. This has become very popular among rock art enthusiasts as the paintings and engravings are well done and well preserved. It is a large semi circular shelter and is larger than Wadi Sora. Although it may take ... http://www.travelvista.net/rock-art-in-the-western-gilf-kebir/ Egypt's antiquities chief announced he will formally demand that a 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti displayed at Berlin's Neues Museum for 85 years be returned to its homeland. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, found that the bust—one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt—was smuggled out ... http://www.travelvista.net/egypt-alleges-germany-stole-nefertiti-bust-demands-return/