Happiness for traveling feet
Travelers spend big money on upgraded airline tickets and medium money on upgraded luggage. Yet, for only a few extra dollars (or pounds or euros or yen or somoni) an upgraded experience can be had on an arguably more significant piece of travel gear: socks. Travel (save for ...
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Berlin’s highly cool, highly affordable Hüttenpalast
When you visit Berlin will you stay in an artsy boutique hotel? In a low cost hostel? In a trailer park? The wonderfully cool thing about The Hüttenpalast is that the accommodations are all three of those—at once! At Spot Cool Stuff we've reviewed more than our share of unusual ...
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Don’t worship and drive at this Thailand temple
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And if you are a Buddhist monk and life gives you empty beer bottles . . . build a temple out of them. That was the philosophy of a group of Thai monks in the early 1980s who looked at the ...
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The Tentsile tent-hammock hybrid
They call it a "portable suspended habitation unit." It functions like a hybrid between a tent and a hammock. We think of it as a portable treehouse apartment. It's the Tentsile. Suspend one between trees and the Tentsile provides a cocoon-like sleeping and living area above the forest ...
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Where Batman would sleep in Turkey
Cappadocia is one of the coolest, and most fascinating, travel destinations in Turkey. Up until two million years ago the region was literally a sea of lava over 150 meters (500 feet) deep. After the volcanoes that surround Cappadocia stopped erupting that sea of lava turned to rock—relatively ...
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The InterContinental Bora Bora Resort and Thalasso Spa is eco-friendly too
Previously, we published a review comparison of Bora Bora's best luxury resorts, listing the pros and cons of each. Among the pros for the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort and Thalasso Spa: It has the best views from inside a room of any resort on Bora Bora. In fact, the ...
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