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Cairo, Egypt is one of those places one is not likely to visit on a holiday trip. The city is huge, the traffic exceeds more or less 10 times what the roads initially were planned for, and you definitely need guide to get around. I was in the city for two-three days on business in Autumn 2004. The schedule, as usual, was quite tight, but as one of the days had a little bit longer lunch break scheduled, we decided with some colleagues to take taxi near the pyramids and have look!
We ended up travelling on horse back to a good place to take pictures - something neither I or my colleagues had planned for. If you look closely at the picture, you will realise that my colleague was not really dressed for horseback riding. We had to persuade him a bit, but in the end, our journey started towards the pyramids.
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Las Vegas is a holiday destination for many Americans, the "Disneyland for adults" as some have said. The city is an attraction set up in middle of desert, and more or less everything you see is man-made. It is interesting place though, to see at least once for a day or two. I remember from the time when I lived in Dallas, some American colleagues who did "weekend packages" in Las Vegas. Several times a year, they flew in on off-peak weeks, and signed up to play for certain sum at hotel casino, thus getting the hotel room and dinner etc. for free from the same hotel-casino.
My work has taken me to Vegas multiple times, usually during some bigger trade show. Last time I was there in January 2005, and these pictures are from that trip. Nowadays I am not that keen on travelling there on business, as the place is always crowded during trade shows, starting from the airport. One day it would be nice to make a road trip and stay at Vegas maybe a couple of days before taking of towards the West coast.
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Jardim Orquidea is an orchid garden located in the city of Funchal, Madeira. The garden is owned by Pregetter family which has relocated to Madeira from Austria. This garden is one of the three places on the island that have orchids on show, the other two being Boa Vista Orchids at Quinta Boa Vista, and the Madeira Orchid Farm at Quinta dos Saltos. The latter one seems to be popular by the guides of at least one Finnish travel agency, although I must admit it has not met expectations. Boa Vista Orchids is in the neighborhood of Jardim Orquidea, and if you have your own map, you can fairly easily navigate your way from Jardim Orquidea to Boa Vista Orchids by walking downhill.
If you have time and interest, by all means do visit both Jardim Orquidea and Boa Vista Orchids. The reason why we recommend Jardim Orquidea is because there you may buy baby orchids in bottle, in vitro. The orchid seedlings are guaranteed to be healthy, as the Pregetters have own laboratory where they propagate the orchids. If you visit Madeira, and you are interested in seeing or buying orchids, do not miss this place. We have here some sample pictures from the orchid garden, and a short video clip as well.
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Hawaiin islands, an American holiday destination is such a remote location travelling from Finland that one likely looks rather for a Mediterranean destination than for this remote group of islands. Considering international business meetings, Hawaiian islands are conveniently located between Japan and USA. This location and the fact that there were very few European people taking part into the meetings, led me to travel on business to Hawaii during summer of 2004.
Usually I plan my business trips so that I spend in the destination only the minimum time needed, this time the long travelling time and flight schedules provided me with more or less one full day to drive around with my rental car. The Kona island has many of the world's climate zones packed into one small island. That, and the volcanoes makes the place attractive for playing tourist.
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Madeira is an island that belongs to Portugal, located some ways west of Gibraltar. Madeira is very green island, having nice climate and mountains that climb almost 2000m up from the sea level. The nature of the island is very accessible due to the irrigation canals, or "levadas" that have been dug into the hills and mountains in almost all parts of the island. There are many guide books that outline the levada network, and provide easy instructions how to get to the levadas. Our favourite book is from Sunflower books, and available at least through Amazon.
On one hand, there is not that much of night life or beaches on this island, and hotels usually have their own swim areas, even with sea access. But on the other hand, there is abundance of hiking routes and great views! Some of these are easily accessible to anyone travelling with bus or car, while others require hours of hiking, passing through tunnels, and careful steps before seeing their splendor, like the waterwall shown in the pictures, in place called Caldeirao Verde.
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