NP Travel

Content Search Results

• 5 Best Bets
  Best North American plane route There's no better way to get between the East and West coast of North America than on Cathay Pacific's service from JFK to Vancouver. While we're not the biggest fans of the herringbone seating arrangement in business class, it still beats anything on offer from Air Canada or
  
  
• Sun And Skates
  I am standing in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo. The temperature is a balmy 25 degrees and there's not a hint of snow in the air. Nonetheless, next to me is a skating rink, filled with hapless but very happy Mexicans doing their best to stay erect. In the centre of the rink, the red, white and green
  
  
• Go ahead, forget to pack your skis and snowshoes
  Pursuing your favourite adventure sport is thrilling, but getting there can be tiresome. Now there's a service that may provide a sweet new ride.
  
  
• Cruise news you can use of the week
  Winning a free cruise is nice, but most contest prizes are pretty similar. Celebrity Cruise Lines is offering a trip with a difference: They're running a contest that will let 10 couples win a trip on the new Eclipse when she leaves Papenburg, Germany, in 2010. What makes this trip unique is the ship travel
  
  
• Chateau Aglow
  Where Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello, about an hour's drive from Ottawa in Quebec.
  
  
• Seeing sights swiftly
  Zip-lining is becoming a big tourist pleaser in the rainforests of Central and South America, especially Costa Rica and Honduras, as well as the islands of the West Indies, Antigua, Jamaica and St. Martin among them.
  
  
• Panama: Ants, monkeys and, at last, the elusive jaguar
  I'm in Panama, on a bus to a rainforest tour. I'm told there may be jaguars in this jungle. And I am keeping an eye out for one.
  
  
• A chic week
  My wildest adventure in the Caribbean recently was in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where I visited seven gorgeous islands in seven days travelling by local boats and planes. SVG comprises 32 islands in the southern Caribbean -- the last stronghold of the Carib Nation, and thus the last to be settled by E
  
  
• Visiting one island a day in St. Vincent & The Grenadines uncovers treasures
  My wildest adventure in the Caribbean recently was in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where I visited seven gorgeous islands in seven days travelling by local boats and planes.
  
  
• Dinged by the rings?
  As any Olympic athlete can tell you, the road to the games is paved with sacrifice, commitment, hard work and dedication. Making the most of everything you've got. In my case, "everything I've got" amounts to $1,000 and a week off work in mid-February. And while I don't stand a chance of making the podium,
  
  
• Cruise news you can use of the week
  The Cruise Critic website has been on the scene for more than 15 years, which has more than earned its editors the right to list their best cruise choices of the year. Cruise styles Best family cruise line: Royal Caribbean; Best luxury cruise line: Crystal; Best for romance: Princess Cruises; Best for adven
  
  
• For as little as ...
  ... kids in grade 4 or 5 (or born in 1999 or 2000) can receive up to three ski coupons for each ski/ snowboard area with the Snow-Pass (1-705-445-9140, snowpass.ca).It's valid for the season at 154 participating Canadian ski hills and includes lessons and rentals deals. Forms, details available online. FREE
  
  
• On top of the world
  So this was the view that greeted explorer Samuel Hearne in 1771, when he became the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America: a vision of small islands rolling away to the horizon. Hearne had travelled months to get here, trekking northwest across "the Barren Lands" with an ever-changing p
  
  
• Whiff you go
  Travel should broaden the mind but more often dilates the nostrils. You don't have to possess the proboscis of Cyrano de Bergerac to catch a whiff of the Guinness factory in Dublin, nor do you require a GPS to let you know that you have reached Faridabad, a sprawling industrial city north of New Delhi.
  
  
• Where sea and sky both sparkle with shiny stars
  It's a moonless night, but as I trail my hand through the water of Puerto Rico's bioluminescent Las Croabas bay, my fingers glow with a gazillion tiny points of light. "Look!" cries my companion, as a fish swims past, its spine and dorsal fin fluorescent against the black velvet water.
  
  
• Where the wild things are, and how
  Jaguar, jaguar, burning bright. In the forests of the night ...
  
  
• Panama
  Approximate one-way flight costs: $515 from Toronto, $615 from Montreal, $750 from Calgary, $680 from Vancouver.
  
  
• Bermuda
  Approximate one-way flight costs: $200 from Toronto, $200 from Montreal, $400 from Calgary, $420 from Vancouver.
  
  
• St. Lucia
  pproximate one-way flight costs: $550 from Toronto, $600 from Montreal, $650 from Calgary, $730 from Vancouver.
  
  
• A ray of sheer terror
  Ken and I are sipping a rum punch on a delectable strip of icing-sugar sand on Jamesby Island. This little hump of coral and wind-torn pines is one of the links in the sparkling archipelago of Tobago Cays, little dots in the Southeastern Caribbean. We're waiting for a turtle to lumber by.