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Air Tahiti Nui is offering free companion airfare to travelers who have previously visited Tahiti (and can prove it). The first flight costs $1,368 from Los Angeles or $1,668 from New York, not including taxes and fees.
Proof of a previous trip to Tahiti includes either a copy of a passport page displaying a visa entry stamp and the passport number or a photo of the paying traveler at a recognizable landmark in French Polynesia, such as an overwater bungalow.
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The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen will be 95 years of age on the 23 August 2008. The statue, by the Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen, was presented to the city by the Carlsberg Brewery on August 23 1913. The tragic heroine of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale gazes wistfully in search of her Prince. a tale of enduring but doomed love.
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Sodwana Shootout
You will be forgiven for thinking that the Shootout at Sodwana Bay is yet another cowboy style cash-in-transit heist gone wrong in this country with its voracious appetite for exotic crime. In fact it is nothing of the sort. The Shootout is an annual gathering of national and international SCUBA diver photographers and videographers at one of Southern Africa’s finest coral reef sites, Sodwana Bay in the Maputaland region. This beautiful, sweeping bay on the northern borders of the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Area, itself a World Heritage Site, is home to one of the most exquisite stretches of coastal waters north of the country’s shipping capital of Durban.
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I was intrigued by the mention of the elegant city of Arequipa in Peru when reading Pauline Frommer's Top Ten Budget Destinations of Summer 2008 I decided to find out a bit more.
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Not You Again!
Some things change, and some things don’t. Robert Mugabe, after almost five weeks of political hiatus, remains in power, while galloping inflation – touted now at about 200 000% – necessitated the issue of another new banknote, the third issue in a year. This time it was a Z$500 million bill, up 400 million from the last. Currently the rate of exchange is Z$52 million to £1 sterling. A letter I recently received from a friend in Harare told me that a brief trip to the supermarket to purchase 2 onions, 4 bread rolls, 1 packet of coffee, 2 litres of milk and a cucumber came to a total of Z$1.25 billion, which would have been Z$1.25 trillion had the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe not recently removed several zeros from the local currency. You may ask me how does a man who presides over such unimaginable economic lunacy survive in power, and the truth is I haven’t got a clue.
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Whenever Madonna takes the stage, you know you’re in for a memorable show. Judging from early reviews, her current “Sticky & Sweet Tour” is no exception. She’s wowing the European audiences with this tour, which is in support of her new #1 cd Hard Candy.
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Smoke on the Water
Malawi used to be famous for two things: some of the best bud on the planet, and the lake. These days it is famous for Madonna, which is better, because Madonna carries more weight than the bud and the lake combined, so now is without doubt the time to say a few words on Malawi for the sake of our curious readers.
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An Empty Place at the Table
At one time the vulture was one of the most ubiquitous species of the African plains, the harbinger of death, the clean up man of the veld, but most visible these days, it seems, only when it is not there.
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An African Oddity
Swaziland certainly is an oddity. It is a tiny landlocked country that is viable as an independent nation only in the loosest sense of the word. It is also one of the few remaining absolute monarchies in the world. Statistically notable for both its extreme rates of poverty and having one of the single largest concentrations of aids sufferers globally, Swaziland is ruled by a fickle, anachronistic, self serving, preening and pampered multiple polygamist who goes by the name of King Mswati III. Bordered to the west by fiercely republican South Africa, and to the east by thoroughly revolutionary Mozambique, it is hard sometimes to determined exactly where Swaziland fits in.
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