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Need an excuse to take a holiday? We present to you an array of special events taking place in different parts of the world in the next couple of months. So whether you are interested in events related to sports, music, culture, history and tradition we have it all. Choose from Oktoberfest in Munich, to the U2 concert in Istanbul, to the World Expo in Shanghai, the Singapore F1 Grand Prix and many more! |
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Oktoberfest, Munich is one of the best festivals in Europe. With this year's Oktoberfest being the 200th anniversary of the festival, the city of Munich has come up with some sensational ideas and they promise to make this years Oktoberfest the biggest one ever!
Travel to Munich from September 18th to October 3rd to enjoy this special occasion for Rs 73,500 pp for a 7 nights holiday: 3 nights in Munich, 2 nights each in Salzburg & Vienna including stay, breakfast, return airfare and rail tickets. |
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Follow the legendary Irish rock band U2 at their 360 degree tour of Europe. Experience the concert LIVE in Istanbul on September 6th at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium. Istanbul, the European capital of culture for 2010 is being hailed as the ‘World’s Hippest City’ and there is no better excuse to visit the city than a U2 concert!
Stay in Istanbul for 4 nights from 4th to 8th September, including 4 star accommodation, breakfast, airfare, sightseeing, return airport transfers and tickets to the concert for just Rs 50,900 pp. It just doesn’t get better than this! |
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The World Expo is a large-scale, global, non-commercial Expo and is held every 10 years. Accordingly, the World Expo with its 150-year history is regarded as the Olympic Games of the economy, science and technology. The 2010 expo is being held in Shanghai from 1st May - 31st October.
Combine your expo visit and discover China on this 8 day tour starting in Beijing, moving on to Xi’an, and then Shanghai for just Rs 87500 including 4 star accommodation, breakfast, sightseeing with English speaking guides and international and internal airfare and tickets and transfers to the Expo. |
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Get the ultimate Formula 1 racing experience at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix, “the jewel in the Formula One crown”. Experience the most dramatic of races on the Formula One™ calendar in the heart of downtown Singapore from 24th to 27th September.
Enjoy 3 nights in Singapore for just Rs 46300 pp including airfare, accommodation, daily breakfast, city tour, airport transfers, and 3-day F1 passes include practice, qualifier and finals. |
For details on airfare and FI packages to Singapore click here |
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Travel to the heart of the Canadian Rockies on this spectacular vacation. Your trip begins in Calgary, before heading into Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, stop in Lake Louise and then travel to the Pacific coast and board a ferry for Victoria Island. End your holiday in spectacular Vancouver where you can enjoy Vancouver's Celebration of Light festival - the largest firework competition in the world! And if you are there between 6 – 15 August, you can enjoy MusicFest Vancouver which treats the city to a feast of classical, world music and jazz. 12 days from Calgary to Vancouver from US$ 1689 per person. |
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If you have enjoyed your fill of football over the last few weeks, its time to shift gears to high-octane T-20 cricket for the Champions League to be held in South Africa from 10 – 26 September. CLT20 features teams from India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and West Indies, and will once again showcase a host of world cricket’s biggest names including Tendulkar, Dhoni, Hayden and many more.
Use this opportunity to explore South Africa – enjoy 12 days visiting Sun City, Wildlife, the Garden Route and Cape Town for Rs. 132500 pp including accommodation, international and internal airfare, transfers, sightseeing and meals. |
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Experience history in the making as Singapore hosts the first-ever Youth Olympic Games from 14 to 26 August 20610! During these 12 days, over 3,500 youths aged 14-18 from all over the world will compete in 26 sports to bring glory to their nations at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
Enjoy 3 nights in Singapore for just Rs 20,500 pp including airfare, stay, daily breakfast, city tour and airport transfers. |
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Esala Perahera is the grand festival of Esala held in Kandy from 15th – 24th August. The Perahera (paraders) take to the streets every night, with the parades growing ever longer each night until the final night of pageantry, when the parade is at its finest. The procession includes fire-juggling acrobats, 100 elaborately decorated elephants, traditional dancers, oboe-tooting musicians, banners, palanquins, whip crackers, torch bearers and thousands of barefoot pilgrims and swordsmen.
Enjoy 04 days at Kandy and Colombo for Rs 23,900 pp including airfare, stay, breakfast, transfers and city tours. |
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Nehru Trophy Boat race is a popular Vallam Kali (boat race) held in the Punnamada Lake near Alappuzha. The most popular event of the race is the competition of Chundan Vallams (Snake Boats). The race conducted on the second Saturday of August (14th) every year is a major tourist attraction.
Stay at the 4 star Lake Palace Resort in Alleppey which is in close proximity to the boat race for Rs 18,888 per couple including 2 nights stay, breakfast, dinner, sunset cruise and taxes. |
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Held each November at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon (12th – 21st Nov 2010), Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting 300,000 people and up to 20,000 camels, cattle and horses. For visitors it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan.
Enjoy 03 days at Pushkar Fair for Rs 23,250 per couple including stay in deluxe tents, all meals, camel ride, folk dance and taxes. |
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There is a one time cost of INR 2750 to purchase the SIM card which currently comes with 2 mobile numbers: UK (+44) & US number (+1). Since the SIM card is owned by the traveler, they get a permanent UK and US number which they can use whenever they travel aboard. Also when you are back in India, World SIM has a free call forwarding facility in India where calls to the World SIM No. can be forwarded to your India SIM free of cost. |
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| Travel News |
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•The check in counters for domestic airlines will now close 45 minutes prior to flight departure as per latest guidelines released by the DGCA.
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| •The new Terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi has opened for passengers – the terminal is the eight largest in the world and has the capacity to handle 34 million passengers annually |
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| •Jet Airways has announced a code share agreement with United Airlines with effect from 30th June. From its gateway in London, Jet Airways now connects transatlantic to UA hubs of Chicago, Denver, LA ,SFO & Washington D.C. and from its gateway in Hong Kong, Jet connects transpacific to UA hubs of Chicago and SFO |
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| •The US$ 5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands hotel has opened in Singapore. Marina Bay has three 55-story towers with 2,561 luxury rooms and 230 luxury suites. The three hotel towers are crowned by the Sands SkyPark® on the 57th story and has a 150-metre long infinity pool |
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