How to Book a Cruise-at up to 75% off

When it comes to cruises, there is something for everyone: from classic destinations like the Caribbean, Mexico and Alaska, to global destinations like the Mediterranean, Hawaii, or more “exotic” locales such as Africa, Antarctica, or the Galapagos Islands. With the convenience of a modern cruise, the world literally awaits you…However, in these difficult economic times, there is something that can make even the most spectacular cruise even better: up to 75% off its price! There is one service that is committed to helping you save—big—on cruises around the globe. Founded 25+ years ago, Vacations To Go has saved millions of dollars on discount cruises for thousands of travelers just like you. That’s because a quarter of a century ago, Vacations To Go innovated a way for the cruise lines to sell unsold cabins close to
departure at huge last-minute discounts without affecting the overall market. Rather than offering “sale” prices to the public and upsetting full-fare customers buying in advance, cruise lines allowed Vacations To Go to market unsold cabins to their confidential, exclusive client list at huge savings. Vacations To Go has now provided hundreds of thousands of their members with great cruise vacations at huge savings—often as much as 75% off! The company partners with the world’s largest cruise lines and receives high praise for its outstanding customer service. Getting on this confidential list is easy. All you have to do is register on their website—at no charge— to become a member. At that point Vacations To Go will

IMMEDIATELY begin offering you all of these great discounts! After you’ve registered, you’ll have instant access to great features like the “90-Day Ticker," a comprehensive listing of last-minute deals by all the world’s best lines. Here, customers typically save anywhere from 50% to a whopping 75% off the everyday rate. Additionally, Vacations To Go’s "Find A Bargain" displays an incredible array of discounts, including 2-for-1 early bird discounts and even lower rates for people age 55+, active and retired military, airline employees, teachers, firefighters, police and past cruise passengers. Vacations To Go offers the widest selection of cruises at the best price. So, whether you are a cruise novice or veteran—sign up for the free mailing list and start your next adventure today. Source: SmarterLifestyles

Read More........→September 28, 2013

The amazing Antarctica

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Antarctica, the Earth's southernmost place, is the best continent for natural beauty. For the most part, Antarctica is just frozen and lifeless, but the perimeter of Antarctica is where you can find all the wildlife, especially on its peninsula. [huanqiu.com] Source: China.org.cn

Read More........→September 07, 2012

To the Antarctic for a holiday

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By Maria Domnitskaya, Members of a scientific expedition to the South Pole believe that the Eastern part of the region might once again become a sub-tropical zone in the future, meaning that the population of the world may consider it a suitable place for a holiday. After studying the geological layers of the Antarctic, scientists working in the unified programme for the study of world oceans found evidence that 53 million years ago, palms and plant species related to the modern baobab and Australian nuts grew in the area. At that time, the temperatures in the region were 10 degrees Celsius in winter, and 25 degrees in summer.The ice age of 34 million years ago destroyed most of the soil for planting, which could have provided a clue to the ancient climatic changes. All that remained was in the form of kilometers of ice, but scientists have been able to literally dig to the required layer, drilling a 4-kilometer well under the seabed at the Wilkes Land. Apart from dust and different plants, the scientists also discovered tiny mono-cell organisms. Molecular changes directly relating to temperatures of the soil, which surrounded the organisms were found in the structures of their cells. According to James Bindle of Glasgow University, one of the researchers, the coast of the Antarctic then looked like the modern-day north-east coastline of Australia. Tags: resorts, climate, Antarctic, Russia, World, Sci-Tech, Opinion & Analysis, Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.

Read More........→August 17, 2012

Antarctica

ABOUT 35-million years ago, South America sheered off from the "super-continent" that became Antarctica, leaving the land mass at the mercy of swirling seas that isolated it from the warmth of the north and let it fall into deep freeze. The world’s coldest, most inaccessible continent, Antarctica has fired human imagination since, arguably, the young Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, was among a ship’s crew that was the first to winter in Antarctica, their ship having become trapped in the ice offshore in 1898. Amundsen, of course, returned to Antarctica in 1911, and that December led the first successful expedition to the South Pole. Now, Antarctica is mostly a huge and very cold science laboratory. For most people, it’s a mysterious place, and Gabrielle Walker’s book is almost a biography of the cold continent. She has woven a compelling story, detailed and candid. From "water bears" (known to science as "tardigrades") — organisms that grow to a millimetre long and described as "the toughest creatures on earth" despite being, incongruously, "stubby and cute with four pairs of fat little legs, a vole-like snout and the complexion of a Gummy Bear" — via the more obvious penguins, skuas and sea lions to Martian and lunar meteorites and the mathematical manipulations of astrophysicists, this is unadulterated scientific fun. What makes the book special, though, is that Walker has also clearly depicted the scientists and their support staff, probing for what lies beneath their having come to Antarctica. Despite the very real romance the continent holds, many of the scientists who work there are irritated when people romanticise this unyielding swathe of ice and rock, especially by those who have not been there. "Yes, yes, it’s an extreme place and all that, but we’re doing science, and that’s all that matters," they argue. Criss-crossing Antarctica, Walker appears to have spent a very long time building portraits of the personalities behind the science and the support work. She digs gently, but relentlessly, for the answer to why these people brave the loneliness and isolation of Antarctica, and especially the bone-snapping iciness of the winter, when darkness lasts for half the year. The winter drives everyone a tad nutty, it seems, and one of the most fascinating of the book’s sections looks at what motivates "wintering" in Antarctica — apart, of course, from the science, some of which cannot be done in the summer. "You can’t fight Antarctica, you can only hope it doesn’t kill you," one veteran tells her. Antarctica has not always been icy. It was once a steamy place of lush, dinosaur-dotted forests, and to this it may return. Walker says she finds comfort in this; it’s proof the continent is bigger, older and tougher than the human race. "The sun is naturally warming as it ages, and some distant day, perhaps millions of years in the future, the white continent will turn green again, no matter what we do," she writes. Antarctica, however, is also the canary in the coal mine of anthropogenic global warming. Some of the scientific work done on the continent shows a direct link between the proportion of carbon dioxide in the air and global warming (even without "help" from humans). In 1995, for the first time in 10000 years, a huge ice shelf (1500km²) shuddered into the sea, spawning icebergs. A second, much larger, shelf (3250km²) was lost in 2002. Scientists were awed. While there is more to this than a simple rise in carbon dioxide, whatever causes it — and you will have to read the book if you want to know the ins and outs — "it’s the greenhouse gases that provide the oomph … the ice core showed how temperature and greenhouse gases marched in exact lockstep". The clincher is that the rise in greenhouse gases, Antarctic science has proved, has "never in 400000 years begun to imagine the levels we have reached today". This is the fourth science book by Walker and I’m off to find the other three. Title: Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent, Author: Gabrielle Walker, Publisher: Bloomsbury. Source: BusinessDay

Read More........→June 29, 2012