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Travel Lemming reveals its 50 Best Places to travel in 2025

December 4, 202486 Views

Also warns against "AI Slop" replacing travel blogs The blog's annual bucket list highlights "recommendations from actual humans," encouraging travelers to "reject AI travel planners" in 2025. Travel Lemming, an online travel guide with 10 million readers, today revealed its list of the 50 best places to travel in 2025. The annual list of places to travel is selected by Travel Lemming's team of dozens of travel bloggers. "Our team of real live human travelers loved visiting these 50 places, and we think you will too," the article explains. This year's list directly challenges the rise of AI travel itinerary tools, warning that Silicon Valley wants to "use AI slop to replace not only travel blogs like ours, but also the thing that makes travel truly great: the human experien...

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As temperatures turn frigid, saunas provide warmth and community

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December 3, 202484 Views

Ed Kranz set up his mobile sauna next to a frozen beach at Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan, Minnesota, on a bone-chilling Sunday morning during a weekend cold snap. Ed and his wife Colleen own Saunable, “a wood-fired sauna experience on wheels.” After about 8 to 12 minutes of sweating in the Kranz’s 185 degrees Fahrenheit (85 degrees Celsius) sauna, a group moseyed outside into a 15-degrees Fahrenheit (9 degrees Celsius) Minnesota afternoon. They sat around a fire in bathing suits to gradually lower their body temperatures before repeating the process three or four more times. One brave soul submerged himself into a hole in the frozen lake for a post-sauna cold plunge. The group was not alone. As temperatures drop into the teens, Minnesotans are embracing sauna culture for ...

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Hong Kong launches panda sculpture tour

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December 3, 2024104 Views

City hopes the bear craze boosts tourism Thousands of giant panda sculptures will greet residents and tourists starting Saturday in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local theme park. The 2,500 exhibits were showcased in a launch ceremony of PANDA GO! FEST HK, the city’s largest panda-themed exhibition, at Hong Kong’s airport on Monday. They will be publicly displayed at the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui, a popular shopping district, this weekend before setting their footprint at three other locations this month. One designated spot is Ocean Park, home to the twin cubs, their parents and two other pandas gifted by Beijing this year. The design of six of the sculptures, made of recycled rubber barrels and resins among other ma...

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A Japanese artist finds solace and global fans with intricate leaf-cutting

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December 2, 2024107 Views

A frog holding a taro-leaf umbrella. A parade of frolicking animals. An Ukiyo-e style Mount Fuji. Giant waves. A Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito carves these delicate designs on fallen leaves, giving life back to them. The world of Lito’s delicate art, which he began in 2020 and posts on social media almost daily, has won fans from around the world. The leaf art has also given him solace after earlier struggles with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and a purpose in life — the joy of making people happy with his art. He enjoys working at night. From a pile of leaves treated with a wrinkle-free chemical, he picks one and places it on a cutting board. First, he outlines the design on the leaf with a pen in his right hand. Then he takes a design k...

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Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world’s rarest whale

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December 2, 202490 Views

An ‘extraordinary’ study taking place at Dunedin in New Zealand It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery. “I can’t tell you how extraordinary it is,” said a joyful Anton van Helden, senior marine science adviser for New Zealand’s conservation agency, who gave the spade-toothed whale its name to distinguish it from other beaked species. “For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet...

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Heavy snow blankets parts of the US during busy holiday travel weekend

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December 1, 202488 Views

The first big snowfall of the season blanketed towns along Lake Erie on Saturday in the middle of the hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend, and numbing cold and heavy snow were forecast to persist into next week and cause hazards in the Great Lakes, Plains and Midwest regions. The heavy snow led to a state of emergency declaration in parts of New York and a disaster declaration in Pennsylvania, with officials warning of dangerous conditions for Thanksgiving travelers trying to return home. “Travel will be extremely difficult and hazardous this weekend, especially in areas where multiple feet of snow may accumulate very quickly,” the National Weather Service said. Part of I-90 in Pennsylvania was closed, as were westbound lanes of the New York Thruway heading toward Penn...

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Another bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian families quit West Bank

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December 1, 2024168 Views

For a second year running, there is no Christmas cheer in Bethlehem, with tourists shunning the Palestinian city and many residents seeking a way out as the Gaza war grinds on. Bethlehem's Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity is largely deserted and souvenir shops are shuttered. Once again, there are no plans to put up the traditional light-festooned Christmas Tree in the ancient settlement that is venerated by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus and now sits in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Orthodox priest Issa Thaljieh walks in the Church of the Nativity as no tourists are seen, in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 25, 2024. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma "During these difficult times that our Palestinian cities are going through, especially in ...

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New Greek metro is archaeological window on the past

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December 1, 2024120 Views

A metro system in Greece's second city Thessaloniki officially opened on Saturday, its stations displaying the same ancient artifacts that nearly derailed the project's completion. During construction, which began in 2006, workers discovered a Byzantine-era market, a Roman cemetery and other treasures of the city's long and varied history. The finds stalled the metro's progress and raised questions about how the city would modernise while protecting its rich past. The answer was to blend the two by displaying the uncovered artefacts for modern-day commuters to enjoy. People view antiquities at Agias Sofias metro station A view of a subway station in Thessaloniki, Greece "This is not just a public works project, which is incredibly important for the city. It is also a mus...

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Kerala to be made safest tourism destination for women

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December 1, 2024113 Views

Vibrant start to global women conference on gender inclusive & responsible tourism The Kerala government will draft a special policy to make the tourism sector completely women-friendly aimed at making Kerala the safest tourism destination in the world, Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas said on Saturday. In the run-up to this mission, an audit report has been prepared on the prevailing women-friendly environment in the state's tourism sector. It is being presented at the Global Women Conference on Gender Inclusive and Responsible Tourism, the Minister revealed after inaugurating the three-day event at Mankulam near Munnar in this hill district. “International experts are participating in the conference. We will be taking further steps based on the important discussions taki...

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Santa’s annual train visit delivers hope and magic to one corner of coal country

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November 30, 2024129 Views

Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival. Not in a sleigh on their rooftops, but on a train. The Santa Train marks its 82nd running this year, bringing presents and joy to small towns along a 110-mile portion of the CSX rail line tucked into remote coal-country river valleys. Many of the children who line the tracks and wait for Santa on the Saturday before Thanksgiving are the third, fourth or fifth generation to do so. “I look for it every year. I count the days down,” said Sandra Owens, of Haysi, Virginia, who held a pink pillowcase with a message in black ink, “Thank you CSX and volunteers for the Santa Train. 82.” Owens moved to Kentucky from Delaware 55 years ago when she got married and experienced h...