January 19, 2012
WikiTour have created an exciting and new ‘world wide’ travel guide. Articles are written and edited by readers from around the globe – making this website an up-to-date and reliable source for travellers. What is WikiTour? WikiTour has been launched as an editable website to create a free, and up-to-date, and reputable worldwide travel ...
December 16, 2011
Norway’s ‘Red King’ crabs are like creatures from the deep lagoon, measuring up to 1.8 m, 6ft across with fearsome spiky shells and bulbous eyes on stalks. They are also very tasty indeed. Their freakish proportions may look like something out of a Sci Fi comic but they are the result of an ...
November 23, 2011
The British Museum was the first collection of Anitiquies assembled for public enjoyment. It all began because of one avid collector, who amassed a treasure-house of objects. Sir Hans Sloane was an inveterate collector, as well as a physician and scientist. Born in Ireland in 1660 he showed an early interest in botany and studied ...
October 21, 2011
While meteor strikes may be the stuff of Hollywood disaster movies to most of us, they do happen. In fact they have already changed the course of history – if you want to see the evidence then head off to Vredefort Dome. Formed over 2,000 million years ago,’Vredefort Dome’ in South Africa is the oldest, ...
October 17, 2011
A dazzling variety of seafood is on the menu in the Maldives – especially if you dine with the fishes in a stunning and intimate restaurant located underneath the ocean. You can’t get away from the sea on the Maldives, a string of over 1,000 tropical islands in the Indian Ocean. It’s already a haven ...
September 16, 2011
It’s official! – the London Eye is the world’s most popular tourist attraction. It is also the city’s most iconic structure. Not bad foe a design dreamed up at a kitchen table. The London Eye has gone into the record books as the world’s tallest observation wheel, the highest vantage point in London, and according ...
September 15, 2011
For sheer distance you can’t beat the Pan-American Highway linking PrudhoeBay, Alaska with Ushuaia in the far south of Argentina on an epic 29,800-mile (48,000-km) route. Purists may argue that the Pan-American doesn’t qualify as a single highway, since on the North American side it’s a network of roads that use different names -but this ...
September 5, 2011
A most spectacular feat of engineeering – Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Tarn River valley in Southern France. It was designed to ease holiday traffic, and has become a tourist attraction in itself. Le Viaduc de Millau has become opened in 2004. It was designed by architects Foster and Partners and structual ...
August 13, 2011
America’s national symbol is a magnificent bird to watch in flight, but your best sighting is at Alaska’s Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve where an annual gathering offers a spectacular photo opportuinity. The bald eagle has been a symbol in the US for centuries .To Native Americans -they were sacred and during the War ...
August 11, 2011
Like something from a children’s Disney book, these dolphins are truly a startling pink-candy colour! There are 2 species and both are considered extremely rare. The Amazon river dolphin (or Boto) is a freshwater dolphin that inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco basins. If you are luck enough – you may spot then in Vanezuela, Columbia, ...