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Stallion Semen Served Up in New Zealand as New Energy Drink
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsThe latest crazy candidate for a food fad may prove to be quite a mouthful. Raise your glass if you fancy a shot of horse semen, a purported "delicacy" that will debut at the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, New Zealand, in March. "It is sort of quirky, I suppose," festival organizer Mike Keenan told AOL News, with Kiwi understatement. "It is the protein of the stallion. It is going to be tastefully done." The shots, which will sell for $10, are pitched as being healthy energy boosters and will be available to sample as they come or in cherry, licorice or banoffee pie flavors. "You often ...
Butterflies Make a Partial Comeback in Mexico
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- The number of monarch butterflies migrating from Canada and the U.S. to Mexico has increased this year, a hopeful sign following a worrying 75 percent drop in their numbers last year, experts reported Monday. The total amount of forest covered by the colonies -- millions of orange-and-black butterflies that hang in clumps from the boughs of fir trees -- more than doubled from last year's historic low. But concerns persist about the monarchs' long-term survival, because their numbers remain well below average. Miguel Tovar, AP A new report says there is a partial ...
Travel Agency Offers VIP Tours of Offbeat Destinations
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsThese days, traveling anywhere can be pretty stressful. Luckily, however, one specialty travel company has designed a luxury getaway that takes every last ounce of irritation out of jet-setting. Universal Travel System, or UTS, is a California company that specializes in organizing deluxe vacations for travelers who wish to visit unique destinations all over the world. Over the years, UTS has offered clients top-notch guided tours to out-of-the-way places such as East Africa, Suriname and the Guyanas in South America and Micronesia. This year, it's stepping up its game by offering a cushy, ...
New Stars Light Up Bethlehem Nightlife
By Matthew Kalman - AOL NewsBETHLEHEM, West Bank -- For as long as anyone can remember, young people have had nothing much to do in Bethlehem after nightfall. When the Israeli army and Palestinian gunmen finally quit the streets in 2005, restaurants and cafes continued to observe an unofficial 10 p.m. curfew, and anyone seeking some action had to head north to Ramallah, a tortuous, hourlong journey through military checkpoints and death-defying mountain roads. "I spend my evenings at home on the Internet because there is nothing to do here for people our age," said Sally Zaghmout, 19, a student at Bethlehem University. ...
Was Stonehenge an Ancient Tourist Destination?
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(Sept. 29) -- New research indicates that Stonehenge may have been an ancient tourist destination, attracting visitors from across Europe. Studies of the skeleton of an adolescent boy from some 3,500 years ago found near the site suggest that he traveled all the way from the Mediterranean -- potentially Italy, Spain or southern France -- to the southwest of England. Wessex Archaeology / AP This skeleton of a wealthy young teenager buried near Britain's Stonehenge came from the Mediterranean, scientists say, proof of monument's international importance even in prehistoric times. Another ...
Liberace Museum to Shut Down in Las Vegas
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS (Sept. 11) -- The Liberace Museum, long one of this city's best-known and unusual attractions, is shutting down next month, the latest victim of a brutal recession that has hit Nevada particularly hard. A singular landmark since its opening in 1979, the two-building spread topped by a skyward sculpture of a keyboard contains thousands of artifacts from the career of its namesake, who once reigned in the Strip's showrooms by pounding sonatas out of rhinestone-encrusted pianos while donning outlandish sequined capes. The museum is operated by the Liberace Foundation, whose board ...
Need to Get Away? How About Abkhazia?
By Haley Sweetland Edwards - AOL NewsSOKHUM, Abkhazia (Aug. 30) -- Russian tourists dressed in a colorful array of sequined bikinis and tiny Speedos are spending their summer holidays in record numbers in Abkhazia, the bullet-riddled, semi-independent territory between Georgia and Russia. During the height of the Abkhaz tourism season this month, rows of massive tour buses are rolling into war-scarred Sokhum, Abkhazia's capital city, and disgorging hordes of sun-starved Russians onto the freshly tiled boardwalk downtown. Victoria Loguinova, AFP / Getty Images A Russian family enjoys the sunset on a Black Sea beach in the town ...
10 Countries Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You To Visit
By not in system - AOL NewsVeteran travelers know the U.S. State Department keeps a list of countries where it is dangerous to travel. The list is updated periodically, in response to geopolitical and environmental events around the world. The State Department doesn't pull punches, even for nations that are considered close friends of the U.S. government. For example, Israel is on the list, as is Mexico. ...
Tourism's Not for the Timid in Ex-Yugoslavia
By Joost van Egmond - AOL NewsBELGRADE, Serbia (Aug. 22) -- Yugoslavia's successor states are pushing hard to encourage tourism, but visitors to some pockets of the region have to steel themselves for some surprises. In recent weeks, for instance, bathers at picturesque Perucac Lake on the Serbian-Bosnian border have been joined by divers looking for bodies from a massacre of Muslims perpetrated across the Drina River in the Bosnian town of Visegrad in 1992. And that's not the only gruesome reminder tourists might encounter of the wars that raged in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s. Perucac Lake was ...
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