Hidden Gems

... diminished! So we decided upon a plan were we tour our own great country; see, report and discuss the UK's own gems both hidden and renowned, venturing high and low in town and county.Using East Durham as a base! Recommendations of places to visit are ...

... MongKok. There's gigantic houses, many of them with holes in them - apparently for architectural reasons - it simply looks good - and a hidden waterfall just below the residential area. Got a very nice view from there and it's serene and very quite. If ...

After wonderful visits with our families, we spent several days exploring the fun and varied climbing around Flagstaff with our friend, Keith. While the rest of the deserts of Utah, Nevada and Arizona have been heating up to extreme temperatures (too hot ...

"I cant afford to stay here, this is the Hilton for crying out loud! My budget is already completely broken. Not only that, but I have been travelling for hours and look like a real bum!" These were my first thoughts as my lift dropped me off in ...

Started off the day walking around town to get our bearings and found some great markets full of food and clothes. The ice cream men were doing a roaring trade and a big ice cream wafer sandwich only cost S$1. Cheap as chips! Stumbled upon the famous ...

Guatemala was a short flight from Miami, we left fairly early from Miami arriving in Guatemala around midday. We were surprised at how big and developed Guatemala city was (we were expecting something similar to Jamaica). We jumped on our pre-booked ...

20 June is a national holiday of Eritrea - known as Martyr's Day (Don't ask me who). This gave me an opportunity to get away from maddening routine of commuting, working and pretending to work. I had thought of a place to go and was leafing through a ...

... " the portions were huge and the flavors and preparation as authentic as the food courts in Hong Kong. The food court is a hidden gem, located just a few streets from the Asian haven of Buford Highway. We will be trying the other stands (particulary the ...

... over your head and the cobblestones feel cool to the touch. We followed a Lonely Planet walk that promised few crowds and seven obscure gems in just 30 minutes. An hour and a half later we'd made it past four, the tombs of ancient Romans, a beautiful, ...

... I had to go back and start looking again and reading the reviews of other travelers and make sure that there were minimal hidden costs before I would book it. Unfortunately there do not seem to be laws around the world that force all hoteliers to publish ...

... up to you to find an interesting way to offer the hidden gems you find. If you show them in a not so exciting manner your hidden gems will remain just that, hidden. They will be passed over for a more colourful and exciting blog that shows boring Big Ben ...

...   We relied heavily on Maui Revealed which is an amazing guide book because it really tells you where to find the "hidden gems".  We read somewhere that locals hate this book, presumably because now they have to deal with annoying tourists in ...

... flight, and the same tourist pass with Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, etc.... Now, so far, I'd say that I've only found a few 'hidden gems' over the course of my trip. Among them Hampi (India), Cha'am (Thailand), and Copocabana (Bolivia). My friends, ...

... leaving Tropic Days, Helen the Liverpoodlian girl that works here had given us maps and marked on all the must-do's and some more hidden gems that not many people know about.  I can honestly say I have never driven on roads or past scenery like it, ...

... classic: Austin 3:16 It never ceases to amaze me how a city changes once you begin exploring, get your bearings, and find the hidden gems that make it what it is. My sense of direction and memory in the context has become extremely sharp. Mwanza is ...

... very lucky to be able to see the sights that we have. The phrase that has to sum up New Zealand's beauty and numerous hidden gems that we found was created by Tom one evening whilst eating an epic stir fry looking out across a stunning bay just north of ...

... ; I get back to the road and stop at Kaitaia, and get going again the next day exploring the karikari penninsula, finding more hidden gems, and downwards on the West coast of the country, after the longest drive in the world, due to nowhere to stay when I ...

... in the wake of the hurricanes' destruction all that has changed. The formerly Cancun-bound crowd has discovered the previously moderately hidden gems of Playa del Carmen, Puerto Morelos and Tulum, all within an hour's drive south of Cancun. Once limited ...