Hotel Golden Odyssey

... sanctuary her Sikh body guards assassinated her. Knowing this history is going to make our visit to Amritsar even more fascinating. The Golden Temple Express is one of the nicest trains we've ridden on. The seats are comfortable and the staff just kept ...

... train station, named in honor of the Queen and Empress Victoria (new name Chatrapati Shivaj); it was opened on the date of her Golden Jubilee in 1887. This station gets a 1/2 million travelers each day and from the video you can get a feel for what it is ...

... BC the ancient Greek writer Homer told the story of the Trojan War and the subsequent wanderings of Odysseus in his book called "Odyssey". The summer of 2008 gave birth to another Greek odyssey, only this time Odysseus was nowhere to be found for this ...

... you it only makes you stronger. Mostly. Changing tact entirely from here I will make my way next to Rio De Janeiro, the beating heart of Brazil and the starting point of my South American odyssey.  Take care, I hope all is well at home!       ...

... steamy you couldn’t see a thing. On the way to Mammoth we got caught in a bear jam. On the road just south of the Golden Gate (Swan Lake area), there was a mother grizzly bear and 2 cubs on a hill near the road. Most people pulled off to the side ...

... north of Hemet is the small village of San Jacinto where the world headquarters of the Church of Scientology has built their Golden Era Film Studio, a church and is where Tom Cruise and John Travolta are frequent visitors. Members follow a non religious ...

... my face.  I took that as a sign and headed back to Glen Finnan.   Just before doing so I photographed the most amazing golden sunset over the islands.   It was fully dark by the time I got back to Glen Finnan but the sleeper coach which was ...

... is the Parthenon, a temple to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and the patron goddess of the city. Originally there was a huge golden and bronze statue of Athena on site, an impressive five stories in height with a polished spear in hand that reflected the ...

... of course).  The inside was beautiful: high arched ceilings and pretty yellow stained glass windows throughout, which cast a wonderful golden glow on the church as the afternoon sun hit them just perfectly.  Towards the pulpit there were a ...

... in 60 AD during Nero's reign. It was refounded and developed extensively in the 2nd and 3rd century, which led to the city's golden age. The city grew to 100,000 citizens and became one of the most prominent cities of trade, arts, and philosophy in the ...

... no opportunity to investigate this further.  Many of you may know him from his science fiction writings, particularly Space Odyssey 2001.  He was an amazing visionary who proposed, among many other things, a network of geostationary satellites ...

... . He told us we were welcome to come back anytime,the sooner the better. With hugs all around, we ventured forth to continue our odyssey. The flight was not sold out and in about two hours we landed in Xi’an. The first thing that surprised us when ...

... incredible for their ages. Our guide, Sopan, a local uni student, then took us on to commence our great Angkor odyssey.  As everyone who has been there has said, the temples are simply amazing.  All day we trekked throughout the ...

... .  We walked the entire 360 degrees around the gallery, enjoying amazing views of the city before hiking the last 152 steps up to the Golden Gallery.  The Golden Gallery is also on the outside of the dome, and the views from this level were even ...

... of times the odds are are five out of six that you live out your life in very austere and trying conditions. We are the exception and not the norm but's a pretty damn cool exception to be a part of. So, the Odyssey is over. Long live the ...

... to fear that all the hotels in Jinghong were this way, and rather than wander about for hours searching for the golden ticket, we set up shop in a new hotel with a squat toilet - apart from the bathroom, it was a really nice place, and only cost 60Y a ...

... agent at our hotel in Kathmandu for a bus to trip to Bhairawa on the border across from Sunauli, India. We will travel via Golden Travels bus line for 1600NR. We also bought tickets for the train from Gorakhpur to Varanasi for 6600NR. But we have to ...

... felt like a limp cabbage. 1st impressions of the Royale Bintang Hotel was that it has a nice modern decor, situated within the popular Golden Triangle area of KL where most of the main hotels are. Even though the hotel is 20 storeys high, it didn't ...

... was that shortly before the program started the cable went out. This was reminiscent of the previous year in Cambodia when just as the Golden Globes were to come on the power cut. I complained to the hotel guy but he said that the problem was with the ...