One of the most exciting places to experience is Norway's arctic wilderness Svalbard. This island is located in northern part of the country and was presented on the 19th Norway International Meeting and Travel Fair - Reiseliv 06, in January 2006. The pioneering tour operator the Svalbard Villmarkssenter AS - the Wilderness Centre - Villmarkssenteret, was promoting Svalbard and tours for unique adventures on the stand. It`s a family based company runned by Berit Hole and Karl Våtvik. They offer short and long dog sledding trips in the winters, overnight trips to hut in the wilderness and trips with accommodation in tent. In the summer they offer dog sledding on wheels, daytrips to mountains and glaciers with or without pack-dogs including lunch. Svalbard is full of opportunities for winter extreme sport, observing the northern light, dog sledging, and has well developed infrastructure for winter sport, snow- and ice festivals. The enthusiastic persons in Svalbard Villmarkssenter AS have through hard work over 10 years expanded the bounds of arctic travel.

Discovery of an ancient village just outside Jerusalem has brought into question one of the strongest images of biblical times - the wholesale flight of Jews running for their lives after the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

The Seven Summits represent the highest peaks on the seven continents. The seven summits are Kilimanjaro, Denali, Elbrus, Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid, Mt. Vinson and Mount Everest. This mountain is one of the Seven Summits. It's the tallest in Antarctic and for Cecilie it will be her sixth of the 7 Summits (www.7summits.com). Together with Rolf, Inge and Simon, Cecilie will make an attemp reaching the top of Mount Vinson.

Finally the snow has come and the Christmas atmosphere in the Norwegian capital Oslo raise to great heights. What would a Christmas be in Oslo without snow? Few capitals have longer winter than Oslo. It's surrounded by forest, mountains and the fjord. Some of Norway's great winter sites are Voss, Beitostølen, Gålå, Wadahl, Geilo, Hemsedal, Kvitfjell, Hafjell, Lillehammer, Lofoten and Tromsø, but in the outskirts of Oslo city centre there are great opportunities for skiing too. Our photos today show the winter wonderland of Oslo in the Christmas preseason. Famous sites and building as Akershus Fortress, Aker Brygge waterfront, the City Council, the main street Karl Johans Gate, the Nobel Peace Prize Institute and the Royal Palace, look all mysterious in the magic sun light.

Kerala in India is the land of red flags and neat school uniforms! Out of the mountain mist march tea workers, one waving a red flag, like a 1960s Chinese poster, except they are dressed in dhobis and head scarves and this is India 2005. Here in the highlands of Kerala, where neatly manicured tea bushes cover the hillsides in brilliant green, the hammer and sickle can be seen everywhere.

Eager tourists who would like to visit Santa Claus! The Santa Claus Air Plains to Rovaniemi, Lapland, in Soumi - Finland, has become a big business. Norwegian media report about heavy traffic in the air across Norway. 90 % of the tourists who across Norway on their way to Rovaniemi are British.

Hwo are the best national parks in USA and Canada? How are the famous national parks rated as Denali National Park & Preserve, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Redwood National and State Parks, Rocky Mountains National park and Grand Canyon National Park? As National Geographic writes on it`s website: If you visit a national park, you'll often spend plenty of time just outside the park, too—eating, sleeping, parking, shopping, sightseeing—in the town or region that geographers call the gateway. A park and its gateway are really a single destination, with similar history, scenery, and climate. The way park and gateway interact can make all the difference in the quality of your trip and in the sustainability of the destination. Read about the rating at National Geographic Traveller`s scoreboard! The winner is.....

India is one of the largest and most populated countries in the world. There are numerous of places for unique adventures in wild and various landscapes as the Himalayas, Auli, Gir, Ladakh, Manali, Shimla, Goa, Kerala, Rajasthan, Rishikesh, Uttranchal, Sikkim, Kangra Valley, Kumaon, Gulmarg, Jim Corbett National Park, Andaman, North East India - The Seven Sisters States of India' , Ranthambore, Periyar,Kovalam, Lakshadweep, Himachal and Darjeeling.

In Iceland Santa Claus has several nicknames. In addition to Santa - Santas, he or they are called Yulemen, Yule Lads or Christmas Boys. Nobody knows exactly the origin of these names, but anyway the Christmas celebration in Iceland goes on. In the middle of May 2002 I was lucky to the get a glimpse of some Santas at the Blue Lagoon. I thought the Icelandic Santas were seasonal too, but here I could observe him and she enjoyed themselves in the hot pool in the summertime. The Blue Lagoon looks "frosty blue", but it's really hot. The temperature is about 40 Celsius (104F), and the soothing, mineral-rich water is believed to have curative powers. It seemed to me that the Santas really got their extra power from the magic water, and it will make them in better shape for their hard work in Christmas!

The bartender just brought me a huge whisky (November 2005). I am at '10 Downing Street', a pub on the second floor of a shopping mall in Pune, Maharashtra - India, the happening university city to the east of Bombay.

It's popular world wide for children to tell Santa what they would like for Christmas, but where do he live? Shall your wishlist be sent to the North Pole, the South Pole, Rovaniemi in Finland - Soumi, or to Savalen or Drobak, Drøbak in Norway, or somewhere else?

Travelling back in Biblican time was really great. The Middle East is so enriched with big wonders. Some of them I and my wife Marna experienced were The Western Wall, Tel Aviv, Jerash, massive Roman ruins, Jerusalem, and Shel Zahav. We were closed to the bomb explosion in Amman. Further more we explored the ancient city Petra, the Nabateans`culture and wonders. Spielberg liked the city enough to film the third Indiana Jones movie here, especially the Treasury. We also took our time to admire the sacred Biblical shrine of Mount Nebo, the Dead Sea and more.

Are the ancient wonders made of the Incans messages for the future? Cuzco, the capital of the Incan Empire, was built out of stone and adorned with gold. Both in the city and in the environment around, there are great wonders as Qorikancha - Coricancha - the famous sun temple of Qosqo, San Blas Church, La Companía Church - once Inca Huayna Capac's palace, The Cathedral - was built over the ruins of the palace of the Inca Viracocha, the huge stone structure Sacsayhuaman, Q'enqo - Kenko - a temple dedicated to Mother Earth, Puca Pukara - the Fortress Watchtower, Tambomachay - the Inca Baths, Laqo, Lanlakuyoq and Kusilluchayoq - old observatories and ceremonial sites, the lost city Machu Picchu and Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley - Valle Sagrado. What is so special with these monuments, and how are they connected?

In a remote canyon known as Range Creek in USA, it has lived a mysterious people. The vast majority of archaeological traces in the site are associated with the Fremont Indians, one of the early Americans. It dates between about A.D. 500 and A.D. 1350. So, what became of them? The Range Creek site was unveiled in 2004 and now archaeologists explore the area. Compared with their neighbours Anasazi in the south, the ruins are not so spectacular, but anyway the constructions and petroglyphs are real impressing...

Long, dusty and winding trails to the ancient city Petra in Jordan, go through deserts, rocks, deep valleys and narrow passages. It`s not so far from the city Wadi Musa. Outside Petra there are small caravan places which people used in the past for staying overnight and resting. Bedouin nomads use some of these places today sometimes. In the past Petra`s wealth grew as the Nabateans kept control of caravan trade routes through the region.