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Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha
Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and print a currency converter table for your next trip.
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Cambodia Snippet by Busby
Busby tells us some brief travel facts about Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Cambodia in general from her recent trip there. She says: “Phnom Penh is not a very safe place after the sunset. The staple diet of rice, chicken and the greens is a bit of a joke. The ‘green bits’ are often boiled…
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Discount Staying in Jaipur, India
Any Globetrotters reading this e-newsletter is entitled to a 20% discount staying at the Jaipur Inn, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. To claim your discount, contact: jaipurin@sancharnet.in
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So You Think You’re Well Travelled?
Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on capital cities. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! What is the capital city of the following countries: 1. Austria 2. Ethiopia 3. Mauritius 4. Swaziland 5. Vanuatu For the answers, see at the end of the e-newsletter.
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Travels from Dar-es-Salaam by Becky Stickland
Becky is a volunteer worker for Trade Aid and is working in Mikindani, Southern Tanzania. This story is a true account of how she experienced a narrow escape and could have been seriously injured in a bus accident travelling from Dar-es-Salaam to Mtwara in southern Tanzania – be warned! The bus looked typically African; old,…
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TrekAmerica Discount
TrekAmerica has offered Globetrotters readers of this e-newsletter a 10% Discount on all of their tours. TrekAmerica offers a range of over 60 adventure camping, lodging and walking tours in small groups (13 passengers maximum) in Canada, the USA (incl. Alaska) and Mexico. In 2004 we will also be offering family tours and various specialty…
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Travel Quiz: Los Angeles
The winner of last month’s Frommer’s Guidebook on Spain Moon guide is: Azusa Nakamura congratulations! This month, win a Rough Guide guidebook on Los Angeles. See www.roughguides.com for info on Rough Guides. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research: try google.com or Ask Jeeves, if you need help with…
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Amina Lawal: Court Quashes Death Sentence
The Globetrotters e-newsletter has been following the case of Amina Lawal, the Nigerian woman who was convicted and sentenced to death by stoning in March 2002 after giving birth to a baby girl more than nine months after divorcing. We are pleased to say that she has had her death sentenced reversed. The 31-year-old, has…
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Top 5 Things to Do in a Lifetime
The BBC recently showed a programme outlining the results of a viewer’s poll stating the top 50 things they thought everyone should do in their life. The top 5 things were as follows: Swim with dolphins Dive the Great Barrier Reef or Coral Reefs Fly on Concorde Whale watching Dive with sharks What would your…
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Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled?
1. Austria: Vienna 2. Ethiopia: Adis Abbaba 3. Mauritius: Port Louis 4. Swaziland: Mbabane 5. Vanuatu: Port Vila 0 out of 5 – you need to get out more! 1-3 – not bad 4 – very good! You are a Globetrotter! 5 – are you sure you didn’t sneak a look?
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