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As Korea’s newest UNESCO World Heritage site, Yangdong Village is no kitsch folk village of recently built traditional homes cobbled together to give domestic and foreign tourists a taste of old Korea. Gyeongju’s Yangdong Village Located deep in the countryside northeast of the ancient Korean capital of Gyeongju, it’s a place that takes pride in [...]

Kona Village Resort, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is the winner of the Luxist Awards’ Readers’ Choice Award for Best Luxury Family Vacation. The pristine resort features serene lagoons surrounded by lush, tropical landscaping as well as dramatic, surreal, black lava cliffs that plunge to meet the ocean. Kona Village Resort Guests stay in [...]

Sometimes a guy just has to get away from the places he is traveling and go back to square one. For me, that means heading back to Cornwall and renting a holiday villa by the seaside. Sure, it might sound boring and old hat to a lot of people, but I can’t think of any [...]

Traveling by car increases global temperatures more than by plane, but only in the long run, according to new findings released by the American Chemical Society on Wednesday. The study, published in the August issue of Environmental Science & Technology, said that in the long run, the global temperature increase from a car trip will [...]

Three Pacific sites have been awarded World Heritage status by the cultural arm of the United Nations, UNESCO. Those sites are Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Kiribati’ s Phoenix Islands and Hawaii’s Papahanaumokuakea. Bikini was the site of U.S. nuclear bomb testing in the 1940s and 1950s. UNESCO said the tests had major consequences [...]

For the first time since its renovation as a luxury resort in 2005, turtles have hatched in the wild at Baros Maldives. This happened on the morning of Wednesday 21 July 2010 when guests were surprised to see tiny Hawksbill turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand beside Deluxe Villa 117, which is in a quiet [...]

The World Heritage Committee meeting in Brasilia has inscribed sites in Saudi Arabia, Australia, India, Islamic Republic of Iran and, for the first time, a site in the Marshall Islands, as well as the Republic of Korea on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The latest sites inscribed include (in order of inscription): Image courtesy of [...]