by Orson Johnson

It’s the heart of Europe; it’s Queen of the Danube; it’s Paris of Hungary; it’s your Budapest. Made up of two chief portions; the hills of Buda on the Western part of the Danube, and the flat Pest on the Eastern part of the river, Budapest is the most popular, royal, and inspiring city for you in the Central Europe.

Budapest is your destination for majestic museums, gorgeous galleries, terrific theaters, opulent opera houses, beautiful beaches, parks, spas, shopping malls, churches, islands, caves, palaces, etc.

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by Shelley Moore

It was a single conversation over coffee one rainy morning that changed our fate.
We’d heard of Panama from books and documentaries mainly focusing on the Panama Canal but more recently Panama had come up amongst friends who had visited during their VISA runs from Costa Rica.
After living in Costa Rica for six months we both knew it was not what we were looking for and had been tossing around the idea of going to neighboring Nicaragua to see what it had to offer.

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By: Kris Koonar

People who visit San Francisco can go for a seven-hour cruise to the state capital through the Bay Area and up the Sacramento River. The river beat leaves the Fishermans Wharf of San Francisco on every Saturday from April to July and September to November. The demand for this cruise has increased so much that operators are planning to run it through the entire summer. The boats follow the route followed by the Forty-Niners during the California Gold Rush as well. In those days it took at least a week in reaching Sacramento but today people can return to San Francisco the same day.
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By: Manoj Gursahani

For me, arriving at Bali was a travellers’ delight. Nothing could beat travel fatigue better than the friendly, smiling Balinese faces at the Customs and Immigrations at the Denpasar airport and the ’ Visa on arrival’ stamped on my passport for 10 USD in 15 minutes flat!

I had heard that Bali was an island of temples, dances, and age-old rituals; with over 95 per cent of the 3 million people practice a form of Hinduism. But nothing prepared me for the spot-on recital of ‘Gayatri Mantra’ by my taxi driver, followed by a song from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in the same breath. I was amazed by the Bollywood craze in this Far East city, so much so, that I was instantly labelled ‘from Shah Rukh Khan’s country’ by every taxi driver and local I met!
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