Enjoy Christmas Vacation in US

When the winter reaches its peak, Christmas comes with its celebrations, happiness and sanctity. The Holy Spirit may fill your home with delight and prosperity. Since October end you can notice the stores and stalls filled with plastic Santas and the endless jingle bell commercials.

Majority of Us people celebrate Christmas with the gift exchanges, greetings and family visits. So get ready to exchange presents, eat another turkey and listen to some carols. Here we compile some best Christmas vacation spots in US that will surely help you to decide your best bet.

Las Vegas

If you are planning your Christmas in Las Vegas you can enjoy the fantastic city while having great fun. Visiting Las Vegas during holiday season will offer you a great time along with the casinos, mega-Christmas trees and amazing Las Vegas Christmas shows. Make sure you got a big pocket during your Las Vegas Christmas Vacation. Everything including buffet, shops, casinos, bars and restaurants has special pricing that is almost double their regular price. The special Christmas events in Las Vegas includes Special features in Bellagio's Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Spectacular display of Ethel M Chocolate factory and Cactus Garden, Sopping in Las Vegas world™s best malls etc.

San Antonio-Texas

San Antonio is the city which dresses itself in lights to celebrate the Holiday Season. The place will provide you amazing holly-jolly escape for several reasons. The best thing you should experience during Christmas is The river walk, that slides on thousands of lights and the parks dress up with Christmas trees. From piñatas and mariachis to riverboats and twinkling trees, Texas will offer you an unforgettable Christmas holyday! They have this special renovation called "La Gran Posada," in the first Christmas Eve as an annual spiritual and spirited procession.

North Pole- Alaska

North Pole Alska is known as the place where the where the spirit of Christmas lives year round! During your drive through Alaska you can notice Christmas decorations, street names, and light poles that mirror the real mood of celebrations. You should not forget to shop at Santa Claus Lane and Santa Claus House, where you can find unique gifts to delight family and friends back home.

Source - travel.siliconindia.com

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Planet Earth's Best Unearthly Landscapes

It's been over four decades since we first landed on the moon and yet, the hope of space tourism remains as far-flung as ever. Perfect space oddity isn't it? Just as well, then, that getting that out-of-this-world feeling without parting with the planet is simpler to execute than a Vulcan salute!
So, all you celestial plebes, moonwalkers and stellar travelers - get ready for lift off, as we take you to some of our favourite outer-space hotspots right here on earth.

Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon), Chile

When Buzz Aldrin was talking about the moon's glorious desolation, h might just have been referring to Chile's Valle de la Luna. Outlandish astral landforms gnarled by eons of untamed conditions throng the horizon; austere sandbanks and far-flung volcanoes amp up the surreality. For utmost brunt, stopover during sunset when the vale is suffused in an unearthly purple, pink and gold glow

Volcanic Iceland

Speckled with vivid and striking steam vents, sparkling mud pots, odd rock patterns and lava fields, Iceland is a sci-film in the offing. The ascetically beautiful and gloriously strange landscapes around Myvatn will make you question what planet you're on.

Southeastern Utah, USA

You are closer to mars than you think while in Canyon lands and Arches National Parks in southeastern Utah. These places seriously give the red planet a run for its money with their their jagged archways, conduits, needles, spires, craters, mesas and buttes. Touchdown during high summer for that extra blast of extraterrestrial power.

Lac Abbe, Djibouti

Seen from out here everything seems different. Time bends. Space is boundless. Gawking mesmerized upon Lac Abbe's natural smoldering 'chimneys' and cosmic, uncanny salt plains.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

This gigantic, flickering sea of salt will irk your musings for years to come. In reality, such is Salar de Uyuni's awe-inspiring, blinding-white otherworldliness; it possibly would just send you into interstellar overdrive.

Cappadocia, Turkey

With its beautiful fairy flues, gorges of tumbling cliffs, and labyrinthine secretive cities, Cappadocia is outer space as it might have been anticipated by Jim Henson: quaint, charming, pictorial and appealing.

Lanzarote, Canary Islands

Armstrong and Aldrin would feel right at home in the astonishing volcanic moonscape of central Lanzarote. The radiant jade waters of El Golfo Crater could even entice them to shrug off those unwieldy spacesuits and go for a swim.

Nazca Lines, Peru

One of Peru's most impressive, inspiring, striking and enigmatic sights, the mystifying Nazca Lines could without difficulty be erroneous for the doodling of primeval astronauts. Profound in barren desert, and merely evident from the air, these baffling lines will without doubt stir your imagination.

Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India

Acknowledged as 'Moonland', Ladakh is bound by peaks and encompassed of mountains. Human habitation is meager, and throughout the wild wintry weather, the district is only slightly easier to arrive at than the moon itself. The daunting, hostile Nubra Valley is its untamed astral spirit.

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Discovering The World

Africa is one of the most unspoilt, striking, dense and a haven for tourists. Africa greets you with open arms and hearts, with the widest, warmest and heartfelt smiles.

The warm land of Afrikaans offers unparalleled blend of lakes, landscapes, regal wildlife, local traditions and fascinating culture that lures you into the rhythm and soul of Africa.

Here are a few places that take you on an unforgettable journey and guarantee that you will have incredible stories to tell.

Aldabra, Seychelles:

The world's second largest Coral atoll, Aldabra is one of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, which is more than 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) from Mahe, the largest island of the Seychelles. With a total area of 60 square miles (155.4 kms) and them being divided into four individual islands, the Aldabra Islands are closer to the coast of Africa. Known to humanity for centuries, these islands whose name has an Arabic origin, brings along a mystery as to why it has not been able to sustain even a small human settlement.

Due to the obscurity of access and the atoll's isolation, Aldabra is virtually unscathed by humans and as a result preserves some 152,000 giant tortoises, the world's largest population of this reptile. The atoll is also acknowledged for the Coconut crab, the world's largest land crab, and hammerhead sharks, manta rays, barracuda and as a breeding ground for green turtles and hawksbill turtles which present an unforgettable view to the onlookers.

Chefchaouen, Morocco:

Chefchaouen was once part of the hippy trail from Marrakech to the Rif Mountains. With a name as exotic as this, it is no wonder why people find the place captivating. Lucky for the hippies, the place has lived up to the aura it so easily creates. The blue-hued city with the majestic Rif Mountains as a background and a charming medina, Chefchaouen may be outshined by the more well-known Marrakech or Tangiers, but it has developed a status of its own as an artisan's city. In Chefchaouen, you might be offered "Kif", a mind altering substance; and if you are into it, you might end up staying for more than one session of "Kif on the Rif".

Cape Town, South Africa:

Sand, surf and sunsets- Cape town and especially its silver beaches is a sun worshipper's playground. The stunning white sand beaches of Cape Town add to the Mother City's universal acclaim. From the chic shores of Clifton and Camps Bay to the warmer swimming waters of False Bay - if you are one of those who love surfing and the sand, Cape will have a town that's just perfect for you. While you are in Cape Town include a trip to the Table Mountain, a tour to Robben Island and the nearby Cape Winelands in your itinerary.

Do not miss visiting the home that African Penguins have made for themselves at Boulder Beach in Simon's Town, Llandudno, a surfers' paradise and Sandy Bay, where not even a swimming costume is required.

Kruger National Park:

Unspoiled and untamed environment of Kruger National Park stirs deep emotions enabling you see and experience wildness of Africa just as you imagined it. The Kruger National Park which is as big as Israel or Wales is the largest game reserve in South Africa and one of the world's biggest wildlife sanctuaries. You will find something intensely magical about spending a night under the African Stars next to a happily crackling fire.

The Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Timbavati Game Reserve, Kruger Private Concessions, Thornybush Game Reserve, Manyeleti Game Reserve, Kapama Private Game Reserve, Kruger Surrounds and Panorama Route are a few destinations in Kruger National Parks that should be visited to experience ultimate wildlife safaris.

Victoria Falls:

There is no other experience similar to getting a thorough soaking from the powerful and roaring Victoria Falls that lies in between Zambia and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa. Just over a mile wide and 335 feet high, its spray which shoots 1000 feet into the air is so impressive from the look-out points that it makes you feel like you are in middle of a bucketing rainstorm. The sprays of Victoria Falls can be seen from 30 miles away which is why it is given the name Mosi-oa-Tunya (Smoke That Thunders).

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