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Welcome to the Official Visitors Guide on the web, for travelers and tourists considering a visit to both Portugal and Spain. A great idea! This site contains comprehensive tourism information brought to you by the official departments of tourism for Portugal and Spain. http://portugalspainboth.com

Both countries have a wealth of historic monuments: Roman ruins, medieval castles, Moorish fortresses and Gothic, Romanesque and Baroque cathedrals. Portugal – and particularly Spain – are treasure troves of art and were once home to some of the world’s most revered artists like Velázquez, Goya, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí and Picasso. In addition, both Lisbon and Madrid have been adding new museums and expanding their other cultural institutions. And yet beyond these traditional sights, Lisbon along with Spain’s top cities now have a cool, modern vibe with hip new design hotels and trendy restaurants.

For today’s travelers, Spain and Portugal offer a pulsating energy, non-stop nightlife, friendly people and arguably the most interesting and delicious cuisine in the world.

In fact, there has never been a better time for Americans to discover the destinations of the Iberian Peninsula. Right now, architects are busy restoring historic quarters, renovating waterfronts, adding state-of-the-art marinas and creating dramatic new cultural centers. And while both countries are sprucing themselves up –– they are also taking care to safeguard their enormous historical and cultural wealth.

The Spanish call it amor a la vida and the Portuguese, amor da vida, and both communicate this love of life to all visitors.

So this year, or next, why not plan a trip to Spain and Portugal? Thanks to the lovely temperate climate, visitors can enjoy sunny weather year round. Even in winter, snow birds can bask on the beaches of the Algarve or the Costa del Sol and sail the warm waters of the Mediterranean or Atlantic.

We invite you to come visit our Iberia – a land where all your travel dreams are possible.

Portugal? Spain? Both

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Europe
Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Croatia, Greece, Iceland

Asia
Russia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal

Africa
South Africa, Swaziland

South America
Argentina, Chile, Bolivia

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Suraj Guest House

Suraj Guest House
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A Peace Full Family Guest House Home Away From Your Home

* 24 Hours Electricity * Homely Comfort * Rooms with Attached Bath Running Hot & Cold Shower * Centrally Situated Near River GANGES & GOLDEN TEMPLE, Durga Temple, Monkey Temple. * Sunrise with Bedroom * Travel Point with all Information * Govt. Tourist Assistance & information

A Family House giving good service & Taking care of our guest from last 10 years. A Peace full family house, Very Clean, Sunrise n River view from rooms. We have a classical music programs here some times.

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Kathiravelu Pradeeban is a software engineer at WSO2 Inc., a pioneer in open source Middleware. He holds a Bachelor of the Science of Engineering (Hons) degree, majoring Computer Science & Engineering, with a first class from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka [Batch 2010]. He is also an old boy of Royal College, Colombo [A/L 2005].

He is highly interested in FOSS development, and is a three time participant of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. With AbiWord (2009 as a student and 2011 as a mentor), an award winning light weight word processor, and with (OGSA-DAI) Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration (2010 as a student) - an innovative solution for distributed data access and management, mentored by OMII-UK.

Currently he is a team member of WSO2 Stratos - An enterprise-ready complete-SOA-middleware Platform as a Service.

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About Me
I am a native resident of Bangalore, but have also spent a part of my professional life living in other Indian cities (Chennai, Hyderabad, and Mumbai), in Germany (Walldorf) and in the United States (Chicago). I can speak fluent English and Kannada, understand basic Hindi, and speak a smattering of German and Telugu.

I've a long list of countries I'd like to visit. I enjoy meeting like-minded people wherever I travel and am happy to share information with anyone going to places I've already been to. My preferred travel style is backpacking / flashpacking as opposed to luxury vacations.

My professional profile is on LinkedIn.

Countries Visited (Alphabetical order)

 * Austria
 * Belgium
 * Bhutan
 * Cambodia
 * France
 * Germany
 * Hong Kong SAR
 * India (but of course!)
 * Italy
 * Kazakhstan
 * Lao PDR
 * Malaysia
 * the Netherlands
 * Singapore
 * Sri Lanka
 * Thailand
 * Ukraine
 * United States of America
 * Vatican City

Upcoming Travel

 * Munnar, India (confirmed - Aug 2012)
 * Kenya (confirmed - Sep 2012)
 * Dubai (tentative - Dec 2012)
 * Vietnam (tentative - Q1 2013)

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I am a docent for Bangalore, India. To contact me, please use E-mail (preferred) since I rarely check my talk page.

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Providing Airport transfers to/ from Prague Airport including to cities in the Czech Republic.


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Hello Prakasharige! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Please see Project:Don't tout and Project:External links. (WT-en) Jpatokal 08:31, 22 August 2007 (EDT)

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This is a community created by ONKAR INFOTECH PVT. LTD. Webmaster. To help all members to get the cheapest fares to Dubai, Bangkok, Pattaya, Sri Lanka, Phuket, S Africa, Maldives, Singapore, Egypt, Thailand, New Zealand, Malaysia Bali, Mauritius, Hongkong, Australia from anywhere in the UK.

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My trip story It was about three o’clock when we reach at Corbett tiger century. We go to the security person to take information about Corbett Park, He told us that you hire a geep and stay one night in jungle to see the tiger, as it is huge park near about 200 sq mi. It is hard to see the tiger. And he also tells us that in evry jeep one guide will be there to guide you. And there is a place to stay in night in jungle where you can watch the tiger with safe distance.

We decided to stay one night in jungle. We hire two geep to see the park. It was really adventure tour to us. Our geep interred in to the park it was near about fifteen minutes one of the guy see the dears. We take a snap of dear. After moving few kilometer the road end and the muddy way from there started. It was very hard to derive the geep and we are enjoying the tour. After few hour of tour we stop at place and take rest. There we see monkeys, langgurs, and elephants going to their way. The journey again started and we reach the place where we can stay for nights to see the tiger. The guide shows us the screeches on the tree, which is made by the tiger. He told us that tiger screech by his nail on the tree after hunting, it means that he shows his power. It was our bad luck that we cannot see the tiger.

Corbett National Park : Uttarakhand, India Established : 1936 Area covers : 520 sq km located between : 29°25' to 29°39'N latitude : 78°44' to 79°07'E longitude temperature in winter : 5 °C to 30 °C temperature in Summer : 40 °C species of plants : 488 different species

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I’m currently working as a Search Engine Optimizer in an IT- based company.

By nature, I was never a studious kind or a bookworm. I preferred playing to studies. For me studies were mandatory only for the purpose of standing on my foot and were never an interest area.

When I came across the concept of Search Engine an its functioning, I easily became interested and wanted to proof myself in this field.

Now it has been years and I have attained enough knowledge in this field. I have worked on a number of projects relating to commercial, educational, organizational websites and have helped clients achieved the desired positions on search engines.

Simultaneously, during the years I have learnt the skills pertaining to website designing that has further helped me in my core area of Search Engine Optimization.

Now I feel that the time is ripe for me to further associate myself with this field by selling my ideas and distinct concepts.

I have learned and attained proficiency in: • Keyword Research & web site Analysis • Title & Meta tags Research & Optimization • Optimizing WebPages for Search Engines and Robots • Manual Directory Placement (About, InfoSpace, LookSmart, ODP / DMOZ, Yahoo!, Zeal) • Hand Submission to Search Engines • Link Popularity Building & Networking • Maintenance & Placement Tracking • Google Page Rank Analysis and Improvement • Documentation • Manage PPC campaigns (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.) • Reconciliation of billing and program costs across all PPC properties • Monitoring and reporting of competitor campaigns • Implementing XML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and ActionScript • Experience implementing MySQL & SQL database driven web sites • Experience implementing Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla • Interaction with web developer and Designers. • Click fraud detection • Web 2.0 : Implementing web 2.0 technologies to promote web site. • SEO Proposal

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Rajasthan is the state of India which combines faces of different cultures, colorful customs and famous for a glorious past for the kingdom in India. Rajasthan tour operator provides complete tour packages for tour and travel to souvenir Rajasthan during the tours India. Rajasthan tour packages lets provide to tourist have accommodation or stay options in luxury hotels in Rajasthan, camel safari desert tour in Rajasthan, car rental services for tour to Rajasthan, spending holidays or family vacation in delightful Rajasthan.

During the Rajasthan Holiday tours you may see wildlife sanctuaries and national Parks of India including the famous Ranthambore and Sariska National parks which are a part of India's famous Project Tiger, a plan lunched in 1973 to protect Tigers. The best way to explore such a beautiful and versatile land is through a safari. You can enjoy a camel safari, a jeep safari or a horse safari to explore the natural, cultural and monumental charm of this exceptionally beautifully part of India called Rajasthan. Camel safari is the most popular and widely used safari in Rajasthan.

Architectural heritage beauty- City Palace of Jaipur & Udaipur, Amber Fort Palace of Jaipur, Mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur, Junagarh Fort of Bikaner, Lalgarh Palace of Bikaner, Kumbhalgarh Fort, Umaid Bhawan Palace, etc are most famous tourist attractions and  preferred Rajasthan tour packages. You will have a wonderful opportunity to explore the magnificent monuments during the Rajasthan tour.

Colorful Rajasthan is famous for the gold and white marbles, traditional costume turban and skirts, camel safari in the desert and wildlife in Ranthabore and Bharatpur. The one and only hill station is Mount Abu the place for where can spend the holidays and Vacation with family.

If you are wish to India tours must visit Rajasthan – the cultural, colorful and heritage state of India. Some of Rajasthan tour operators provide complete sightseeing Rajasthan tour packages to make your tour convenient and pleasure just opt Rajasthan tour packages. http://www.northindiatravelservices.com/india-rajasthan-tours/india-rajasthan-tour-packges.html North India tours

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an ENFP, random traveller ! cant remember lyrics of any song and no direction sense whatsoever....love parties and outings and wild camps!

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Hello, I am Prathik and I am the owner of many websites, I am a very active member of Wikipedia and thought I'd do good in wikivoyage too.

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See my English Wikipedia profile.

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I am from God's own country..

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About Me
Hello! I am Praveen Yedlapalli

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My name is Ram Pravesh Gupta. I am working with Woodapple Interactive Pvt. Ltd. as a Software Developer.

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User:(WT-en) Pravia

What if you have a day to spend sightseeing but need to store your luggage? Your options are rather limited, but there are solutions.

Most of Manhattan's finer hotels have a luggage storage room. If your hotel does not store luggage, you might ask the concierge of a nearby one that does. You might also find that a generous tip can possibly help find you a solution if the hotel clerk hasn't got an answer. However, less expensive hotels might not be of any help at all, at which point you need to consider other options. On a similar note, if you just stepped off a cruise ship and have eight hours before your flight, what to do? If you are the persuasive sort and well-dressed, you likely could store your luggage at a four-star hotel simply by approaching the concierge. Again, a generous tip would be in order, in addition to any fee the hotel might charge.

A mention of places that currently do NOT store luggage: The Port Authority Bus Terminal; LaGuardia Airport; and Newark Airport. Advance airline check-in does not function here as it does in some European countries, whereby your luggage can be delivered to the airline 24 hours in advance. Thus, an early trip to the airport would be a waste of time anyhow. Some foreign carriers do make special arrangements for their first-class passengers; inquire of the airline.

Although JFK airport does have two luggage storage facilities, unless you intend to fly into JFK and fly out again from JFK, it's a waste of your time to travel so far just to store your luggage. This service is most useful if you have just arrived after a long-haul international flight and have a day to spend before your onward connection. The facility operates 24 hours per day, and charges $4.00 to $16.00 per day depending on the size of your luggage. For more information, phone (212) 643-1369the size of your luggage. For more.

Pennsylvania Station does store luggage, but the facility can be hard to find. Do ask a uniformed Amtrak employee for assistance at the station if you have difficulty finding it. Generally, you need to be able to present a train ticket to use this service, but not always. Costs are moderate. This option is most useful if you intend to travel via Amtrak, or if you will take NJ Transit/AirTrain to Newark Airport. Perhaps less stressful and more convenient would be New York Luggage Storage which offers luggage storage, luggage forwarding, and a modest self-storage facility. They charge $5 to $10 per bag per 24 hour period and are open daily from 8 am to 11 pm.

In sum, with a bit of planning you can arrange to store your luggage should you find you have a day or so to spend in New York minus your possessions. A final note: Always lock your luggage before storing it!Obviously under no circumstanc    should you leave any valuables your luggage (camera, passport, money). 270 West 36th Street Newe York, NY 10018 (212)643-1369                                                                                Public transit; A,C,E,B,1, train to 34th street

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Hi Preetam here.

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Prem Patel here to tel!

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Nationality
Croatian who has lived in Côte d'Ivoire, San Francisco, and Catalonia.

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I am more than happy to offer up information on California, San Francisco, Catalonia, Figueres, Girona, Croatia, Zagreb, Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Abengourou, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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I am from Egypt and i am female.I would like to share editing informations in wikivoyage.

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Brazilian, 22 years old.

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I am from Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

Places I have been include;

 * Australia
 * Sweden
 * Denmark
 * Germany
 * Belgium
 * France
 * Italy
 * Austria
 * Czech Republic
 * Slovak Republic
 * Hungary
 * New Hampshire
 * Maine
 * New York (city)

I am hoping to travel to China, Russia and Central Asia in the near future.

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Europe is the second smallest continent, with an area of 400,000 km² (4,000,000 square miles). Its borders are much disputed, reflecting cultural and political factors instead of geographical ones. There is much here for the traveller to enjoy, with a bewildering array of diversity and culture, cosmopolitan cities and spectacular scenery.

Europe defies easy categorisation, with its compact size and complex history. The following are five (loosely defined) regions.

 * British Isles - coloured in red - consisting of the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Channel Islands and the Republic of Ireland.

 * Western Europe - coloured in blue - consisting of Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Andorra, Portugal, Italy, San Marino, Monaco, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Greece.

 * Eastern Europe - coloured in yellow - consisting of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey and Malta.

 * Scandinavia - coloured in green - consisting of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Faroe Islands and Iceland.

 * Russia and the Caucasus - coloured in purple - consisting of Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

See also: European Union, 25 European states in various stages of economic and political union.

Get around
There are no border controls between countries that have signed the Schengen Agreement. Likewise, a visa granted for any Schengen Agreement signatory country is valid in all other countries that signed the treaty.

These countries are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Note that not all EU members have signed the Schengen treaty and not all Schengen treaty countries are members of the European Union.

At some airports, airlines will still insist on seeing your id-card or passport. Travel to and from a Schengen Agreement country to any other country will result in the normal border checks.

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I'm planning on visiting Jakarta, Indonesia and New Delhi, India in the spring of 2007.

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I'm Jack, I was born and raised in East Sussex, but I am now attending university in Plymouth. I've travelled quite a bit around Europe, been to most of the old EU (pre 2005) and working on the newer bits! If you want to contact me for whatever reason just email me:

I have heavily contributed to the East Sussex (also the docent for it) and various (well, most) town and activity pages linked from that article, I have also filled in information for where I have been such as as camping sites in European cities. If I know something then I'll add, I've had nightmare travel experiences and anything that could help a fellow traveller avoid those experiences is well worth writing down.

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Going from one place to another is difficult here as there is no regular bus service. You have to depend upon taxis or share-taxis. Taxi drivers are very nice in Oman. All of them are Omanis as this profession is reserved for nationals. As all the Arabs have their own vehicles, the taxis are always used by the foreigners. From Biladishuhoom to Ibri I can hire one taxi for 10 Riyals or if I am lucky I can share one for only one riyal. As I am well known in the area I frequently get free lifts too. But all these village cars are very simple and take grass and goats inside. Omanis carry one of their cattle when they go to Ibri because they consider it a sign of prestige. Coming back from Ibri to Biladishuhoom is often a problem because taxi drivers simply refuse to go there. Most of the Omani teachers drive their own luxury cars for coming to the school. But they come only upto Mokhniyath village and park their vehicle under the trees. Then they share a four-wheel-drive Toyota cruiser and come across the wadis(=mountain waterflow) and hills to Biladishuhoom. It is possible for them to drive all the way to Bilad but they don’t want to spoil their new cars. I went to Muscat three times but couldn’t see all the city because there was no facility for city sightseeing tours. But at the Nizwa town I was given a free city sightseeing tour. I got into a sharetaxi going to Ibri and they wanted three more passengers to start the trip. They went around the city and shouted ‘Ibri’, ‘Ibri’.. but noone dared to enter the car because only one passenger was filled. After three rounds around the city, I lost my patience and went for shopping. After one h our, I had the great privilege of going around the beautiful city once again in the same taxi, this time with only one passenger to fill. The driver went on shouting 'Ibri.Ek.Admi’ Ibri.Ek.Admi’.

Biladi Shuhoom is a small village with only a few hundreds of people. There is a Juma mosque but Friday prayer is a new thing here as the mosque is of recent origin. Formerly, it was customary to have the noon-time prayer during Fridays as the long trip to the next village of Mokniyath was a difficult exercise.Even now, my school, the Zaid bin Al-Kathab senior secondary school, is the only building here showing off the green, red and white national flag. Unlike in India, all government establishments have the privilege to carry the national flag. Mokniyath is a little bigger village with one more flag-bearing building, a public clinic. But even there there is no post office or public telephone machine. For all these higher services, you have to travel another 100 k.m. to Ibri which is the nearest town and the headquarters of the wall who is the district collector here. Ibri itself is 500 k.m. or so from Muscat hut it is only two hours by car to Dubai across the border.Biiadi Shuhoom is a village without roads, telephones and other modern amenities. Electricity is there, but it is a recent development like the Friday prayer. During the annual mountains floods, the village is totally marooned from the outer world and essential food supply is provided by helicopter. The viilagae Bedouins are engaged in wheat cultivation, sheep rearing and there are plenty of wheat farms. You need a four-wheel drive vehicle to reach there and you can drive across the mountains in an as-you-please manner. The houses are quite small and the biggest house is my own quarters which is leased out by the Ministry of Education from the village sheikh. The sheikh also provides water pumped from a wadi or mountain steam.Sending letters is a big task here as there is no letterbox to drop hem. You have to entrust them with some Omanis going to the Ibri market. Incoming letters end up in the post box of the Ministry in Ibri and the principal brings them during his weekly trips. Some visitors carry their mobile telephones to the village but it is impossible to make or receive calls as the signals are blocked by the mountains surrounding thevillage.

From Khaboora I ate Pakistani Porotta. They are double the size of Indian Porottas and look like pappadams. But they taste like our porottas and are much thinner and declicious. Three porottas are available for the equivalent of Rs.11-00. Omani Khubz is not tasty and it is made up of maida. I also visited an Indian restaurant in Sohar and they gave me excellent lunch with Ayla curry, Ayla fry and Payarupperi. They charged only 400 Baisa (Rs.44-00) which is considered very low lunch price here.

Poverty has different shapes, and not having the power to choose your breakfast is one of them. I have completed six months in this alien Omani village of 'Biladi al Shuhoom'. The people are generally good. Both Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are behaving like angels. But Indians, especially Keralites and Biharis, are really bad. Arabs bring breakfast in turn. It is eaten in two small groups in the courtyard. The Egyptians come to the eating place to please the Omanis. But they won't sit and eat with them as they consider the Omanis as inferior people; still they come to Oman for making money. They simply take a few dates and walk away.. The Jordani teacher Ahamed Al-Soradi dislikes both Omanis and Egyptians and so he never leaves his staff-room. I am the only foreigner who eats with the Omanis almost everyday. Breakfast is important matter to me here. Here I want to eat well because the breakfast time comes after teaching two hours in the circus ring. But on many days they bring strange liquid food (why don't they bring idli and sambar?) and so I open my shelf and eat one packet of potato chips sharing it with the hungry and angry Jordani who says, "I am fed up with Oman, I am leaving this year, do you want my AC, my fridge, my washing machine.." One some other days I share the Omani breakfast when they bring the 'Omani Kubz' looking like our Ghee Roast. But this is much larger than the Tamil Ghee Roast. It is not at all tasty as it is saltless and ultra-thin. Ocassionally they bring chicken which is eaten with small kubz (tasteless, colourless, odourless). Mutton is a rarity and it is presented only once in a month and everybody seems to enjoy them. Everyday I am worried about the breakfast because I don't know which Omani is in charge of it on that day. Sometimes I also bring some sweets or cakes which is eaten happily not only by Omanis and the Egyptians but also by the lonely Jordani. He won't eat with the Egyptians or the Omanis because he hates them all but Indians, he thinks, are very agreeable. On many mornings, the today-me- tomorrow-you arrangement between the Omanis gets confused and and I am left hungry. That is why I wish to repeat --Poverty has different shapes, and not having the power to choose your breakfast is one of them

Omani English teachers like Yusuf are a rare species.Mr.Yusuf is a person with a dichotomous approach to things. He wants to follow the methodology meticulously and he wants to punish each and every miscreant severely. He cannot tolerate even a little noise inside the classroom. He is strongly against teachers cracking jokes inside the classes. ( But I do it like putting thenga in the puttu-kutti.) Yusuf al-Majrafi is a wonderful man. He goes to the classroom like a soldier going to the battlefields carrying the text book(Acthivithies book), the non-detailed text (kissa), the students' work book('Bubils book'), the tape recorder, different cassettes, visual stimulus cards, Flash cards, the teachers' guide("Moo dalika usthad? What is that big book you always look?", "shut up boys"), etc. etc. He doesn't carry them all himself. He gets two boys to walk on either sides of him like president Narayanan entering the Parliament hall. Yusuf opens is “Acthivithies book” and teaches for exactly seven minutes and asks all the students to close their books and listen to the tape-recording of that lesson. He then asks them to open the Bubils book and teaches for exactly eleven and a half minutes as directed in the teachers' guide. Then he arranges the visual stimulus cards on the blackboards and 'motivates' the students to write paragraphs. He doesn't utter a single word of Arabic and follows the instructions to the last point. I, on the other hand, secretly tell the students that 'harar' means hot and 'baradh' means cold and so all these teaching-aids are not necessary. But the inspector asks the students whether the teacher uses the teaching-aids as they are compulsory. So I take one item once in a month and uses it the whole hour so that the students are totally fed up with that item. When I take the tape recorder I play it full time in all the classes and tell them that they are audio versions of lessons for September, October, November and December. Last time, the inspector asked the students: Does Mr.Shareef use the taperecorder, and Ahamed al-Shuhoomi, the buffoon replied:" Yes, Usthadh, Wajidh(=very much)". Yusuf doesn't like my free methods and always makes fun of me by saying,"today is tape recorder day for Shareef"

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About Me
I come from England but I live and work in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

Projects
My sole project is the Nakhon Ratchasima article. I want it to be the first Thai article to receive star status (although Bangkok may well get there first).

Docent
I am a docent for Nakhon Ratchasima. Contact through 'my talk' please.

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User:(WT-en) Property-in-bulgaria

Hello,

Are you interested in Bulgaria? We would like to present you with a Bulgarian property for sale in the Stara Zagora region. It is a traditional rural house situated just 15mins from Stara Zagora. The property with a beautiful wooden facade consists of 2 rooms, one of which can be turned into a kitchen/living area, an outside toilet and dependencies to be restored or removed. Built on 2510m2 of land, included in the price, the house can be extended to add living space and an inside toilet incorporated. There are a variety of fruit trees on the land and a fresh water well. Surrounded by wonderful views, and the price is only 15.000 Euro! Visit our Bulgarian properties and * enjoy it!

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User:(WT-en) Pro Taxi

Pro Taxi serving the Delta! On call 24/7

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User:(WT-en) PSD 123

Greetings from PSD_123 in New York City, New York!

Wikivoyage is great! I always consult it before traveling!

It has always been really helpful in terms of giving me a background on the place(s) where I am going, the languages spoken there, what to do, where to go, what to eat and drink, where to stay, how to get around, staying safe, local customs, and the like!

Places I've Been

 * United States
 * New York
 * New Jersey
 * Connecticut
 * Pennsylvania
 * Maryland
 * Virginia
 * Washington DC
 * Florida

 * Ireland
 * Shannon Region
 * Southwest Ireland
 * Southeast Ireland
 * Ring of Kerry & Blarney
 * East Coast and Midlands
 * Dublin

 * Wales
 * Holyhead

 * England
 * Cumbria
 * Lake District National Park
 * Carlisle

 * Scotland
 * Edinburgh

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From: Portland, OR, USA

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User:(WT-en) Pstng

I'm Roger, from Barcelona, Spain. I've seen this great site and I'll try to collaborate. Besides of Barcelona and sorroundings, I'm interested in Morocco, so I have some job here!

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User:(WT-en) PsychoCemia

Barend Havenga
Location
 * Atlanta, GA

Languages (in order of comprehension)
 * English (American & British)
 * Afrikaans
 * Dutch
 * French
 * German

Recent Destinations
 * Seoul, South Korea
 * Brussels, Belgium
 * Stockholm, Sweden
 * Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
 * Kyoto, Japan
 * Toronto, Canada
 * Seattle, Washington
 * Colorado Springs, Colorado
 * Cape Town, South Africa
 * Nassau, Bahamas
 * Gatlinburg, Tennessee
 * Dublin, Ireland

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User:(WT-en) Psychofish

aka: サイコＦＩＳＨ

I want to... see the world, meet new people, take photos of them.

My photos are here: The Digital Shoebox (or flickr)

=Random Notes And Things To Do=

Miami/Miami Beach
If you look like you belong enough, you can totally walk in onto any fancy hotel's pool.

Baltimore

 * Visit:
 * the aquarium
 * Hampden
 * Federal Hill
 * Lexington Market (it was closed when I tried)
 * Baltimore Museum of Art (free admission)
 * more of Fell's Point
 * take the water taxi
 * tour the light rail and metro lines
 * eat water trout (at The Roost)

Washington, D.C.

 * party on K Street

Pennsylvania

 * visit Fallingwater

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User:(WT-en) Ptbennett1

I am from West Midlands, England and live to travel!

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User:(WT-en) Pteron

Hey Wikivoyagers,

I'm an ardent budget traveller from Cologne, Germany (currently studying in Rochester, NY, USA). Just found my way here from Wikipedia and I like this very much - guess this means my old (and probably never visited...) 'Free Travel' site has become obsolete...

Anyway, I love independent budget travel, and help as best I can to help people find the most affordable vacation imaginable. I can give tips on stuff ranging from hitchhiking to finding low-cost staple food. I'm quite travel-hardened after travelling widely in Europe, Northern and Western Africa and North America - more to come soon I hope...

Countries I've been

 * Austria - it's been a while, but my memories of Austria are fond - especially of the ferris wheel in Vienna (yeah, I was young)
 * Belgium - charming, been there tons of times
 * Canada - nice relaxation from the US...
 * Czech Republic - Prague is cool and cheap - Europe's East really offers hosts of undertravelled places
 * France - can't beat Paris - the rest of the country is picturesque and I get to practice my French
 * Germany - live here, love it. Everyone visit!
 * Italy - Roma is da bomb - but take a miss on Milan...
 * Luxembourg - tiny, nice for a day-trip
 * Mauritania - dusty, sandy and nothing there. Cool place for adventures though
 * Morocco - very nice, beautiful sights, nice people and loads of couscous!
 * Netherlands - need I say what draws me here...
 * Senegal - lush and green, a change from Mauritania's desert. Also friendly people and tons to do.
 * Spain - sunny and some lovely cities. And I must admit, in young years I also partied in Mallorca...
 * Switzerland - Picturesque - just seeing the alp villages and mountain ranges is an exceptional experience.
 * United Kingdom - my birthplace. What can I say - love it, love it. Be back soon Britain...
 * United States of America - this place continues to fascinate me. The contrasts of a vast country - don't judge it, see it first!
 * Western Sahara (claimed by Morocco) - go here if you want to dodge land-mines and insurgents...

Places I want to go soon
Want to try and get to California and Mexico before I leave the States. After that it's back to Germany - and then I really want to tour the new EU countries in the East, if I find some time.

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User:(WT-en) Ptudor

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ptudor

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User:(WT-en) Pumice

Indonesian and loves traveling around Asia. (WT-en) Pumice 09:44, 21 March 2012 (EDT)

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User:(WT-en) Puri Rai Hotel

Welcome to Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai warm welcome you with the comforts of private, intimate and romantic location, natural warmth and friendliness staff will make it hard to leave Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai, where comfort, nature cool beauty and tradition combine. Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai is the only hotel in town with a swimming pool. Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai is a Melati accommodation with 1 star hotel services. Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai invites you to experience and enjoy the through magic of Bali in your home away from home at the eastern part of Bali. Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai Location Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai is located on Jl. Silayukti Padangbai, eastern part of Bali. Padangbai predominantly a fishing village and still has enough tourism aspirations to qualify as a great holiday alternative in Bali. The small town is the main gate for Bali and East Nusa Tenggara connection through ferry boats that criss cross Bali strait every 2 hours. Puri Rai Hotel Padangbai Jl. Silayukti padangbai No. 7X Karangasem - Bali Indonesia Phone : +62-361-8528521, Fax : +62-361-430739 http://www.puriraihotel.com For booking inquiry, please send to:reservation@puriraihotel.com

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User:Querent

About
Mary is a Australian living in Sydney. She is a English Wikivoyage administrator.

Status
Intermittantly active at present.

Former usernames
Wikitravel: User:Hypatia from 2004, later renamed to User:Puzzlement.

Todo
Port Douglas: diving, On the Inlet, The Beach Shack, Central Plaza, Ballyhoo.

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User:(WT-en) Pz-engl

I come from Germany nearby Hamburg. The name of the town is Buxtehude.

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User:(WT-en) Qamar Abbas Khokhar

I am a travelling enthusiast based in Moscow, Russia. By nationality, I am a Pakistani, working in Public sector.

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User:(WT-en) Qingdaochina

QingdaoChina

All you need to know.

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User:(WT-en) QMosheGibsonf

Hey everyone,

My name is Moshe Gibson. Most call me mosh! I live is Kansas City with my wife, jessica. My wife helps me in my business. We run a small save trees non-profit NGO organisation. A special thanks to our sponsors oracle

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User:(WT-en) Quartermainesworld

Quartermaine's World is the personal travel blog of Geoffrey James Quartermaine Bastin.

I travel extensively in Asia, the Middle East and East Africa as an economist and writer. My tales and stories are part fact/part fiction but, I hope, always fascinating. Don't take them too seriously - they are meant to inform but also to amuse.

The blog reports my adventures, opinions, hotel and airline reviews and anything else that comes to mind from the strange places I go to. Posts cover my adventures since January 2010 in Yemen, USA, Georgia, Thailand, Dubai, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tanzania and Kenya. In 2011 I've been in the UK, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and now South Sudan:) I'll be going even further afield.

Contact me directly by email on: travel@quartermainesworld.com or join me as a friend on Facebook.

Join me in Quartermaine's World!

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User:(WT-en) Quekpj

Country of origin: Singapore

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User:(WT-en) Quinde

http://www.mindocloudforest.com

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User:(WT-en) Quirk

In a few words, I'm a french guy working mainly for the french Wikivoyage. You'll find more informations (in french) about me in (WT-fr) my french user page. You may also have a look on the (WT-fr) photos I've taken during my previous trips.

Homepage : http://www.en-voyage.info (french)

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User:(WT-en) Quovadis

Quo Vadis
English copyeditor currently living and working in Wonju, South Korea. I occasionally edit in http://wiki.galbijim.com/, an expat collaborative wiki on Korea.

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User:(WT-en) Qx

travel a lot, will likely end up an expat in the end.

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User:(WT-en) R1ngu

My name is Nathan. I am from San Diego, California, specifically in the Del Mar area. I have been to South Korea and a mountain in North Korea. I've also been to Canada. I hope to travel more in the future, specifically Norway.

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User:(WT-en) Raajaa91

My name is S.Krishanamoorthy also called as Raja or Rajamani.

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User:(WT-en) Rabie

hello fierst my name is rabie elmzagfi im morrocain ilive in marrakesh and i have 24 yaers old i have License bus igot it in 25/05/2005 i dont have any experionce but i drive car i spaek english and litel bit frensh and my langiuge arabic i want work in ur company if ther is choice that evrry thing about me thx elraedy

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User:(WT-en) Rabi Lama

Ghau Chot Production

Ghau Chot Production started to make YouTube videos since 2011. One Man who is doing everything, Directing, Editing & Shot.

Under-construction Working ....Soon...

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User:(WT-en) Raceclub

Itinerary is in Shanghai.

Why this tour was created
As a long time resident of Shanghai I have taken some time to build for you The Tour an exciting, comfortable way to discover the best of Shanghai in a day, and take home with you the most treasured souvenirs you could ever hope for in the form of some captivating and memorable stories to tell your friends.

I created The Tour to ensure you not only visit all of the essential areas of Shanghai (namely The Bund, the former French Concession and the former International Concession) in one day, but also to enhance your enjoyment, that you see it though the eyes of a high society fellow living in Shanghai during the 1930's Golden Era.

The Tour features 7 iconic buildings standing as fine and noble today as they did in 1930's and are mostly accessible. Each building solidly revealing to you one aspect of the life of our Bentley chauffeured high society man in Shanghai during the 1930's; Eccentricity, Fear, Decadence, Power, Riches, Control and Luxury.

The Tour starts at the eccentric Moller Villa estate near the 5 star hotels on Nanjing West Road and ends around 4 to 6 hours later at the former Shanghai Race Club building in the center of Shanghai timed perfectly for a spot of afternoon tea in K5, the fine cafe on the roof terrace. Twice during The Tour you will require a 20 minute ride to journey from building to building, whilst the rest can be covered on foot. A side note: In the interest of concentrating the number of places visited during The Tour I have purposely left out Yu Yuan Gardens, as many of you will go on to see more grander tours of ancient Chinese culture in the other cities and towns in China such as Suzhou. I have also omitted the area of Pudong which I have concluded looks most impressive view over dinner from one of the fine restaurants on The Bund, especially when coupled with a rare vintage bottle of Bollinger - should you have the right connections. Other often visited areas such as The Shanghai Museum and Xin Tian Di are on the route between the featured iconic buildings, in case you want to stop off there also.

"The Tour of Shanghai"
9.30am. Starting in the former French Concession area you first encounter eccentricity at the Moller Villa, an extraordinary estate with a design based on the original owner’s daughters drawing of an imaginary fairytale castle.

''Moller Villa is still the Moller Villa. 30 Shaanxi South Road, Jingan''

10am. A short walk brings you to the fort like mansion of Mr. Du, the most feared man in Shanghai. Aside from heading up the most powerful underground gang in Shanghai Mr. Du also had an official role as the head of police for the French Concession. Known by many as “Big Eared Du” you would probably have been ill advised to refer to him by this sobriquet if invited you to pay him a visit at his residence here.

Du’s residence is now the Mansion Hotel, 82 Xinle Road, Xuhui District

11am. In need of an early gin and tonic to calm the nerves? Then take a short walk to the Circle Sportif Francais, the splendid French concession social club. A scandalous club that allowed women to freely join and not surprisingly hosted the wildest parties in its cruise ship inspired ballroom. The enchanting garden that beckons you out the front door of the Club is a vast bed of romantic secrets.  The Circle Sportif Francais is now the Okura Garden Hotel 55 Maoming South Road, Luwan District

Take lunch around here perhaps on the top floor of the imposing Cathay Mansions just opposite.

The Cathay Mansions is now the Jinjiang Hotel

1pm. Straighten your tie and wipe off the lipstick smudges as you drive down to the seat of power at the Shanghai Club, on The Bund (International Concession). Here at the Long bar- the longest bar in Asia- you encounter the ruddy faced top rung foreign business men in China, or “Taipans”. The logic subscribed to is the ruddier the face, the more taipanier the taipan. Should you be seeking to make acquaintance with the heads of the powerful Swire and Jardine trading companies, you now know how to identify them.

The Shanghai Club is now the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 2 Zhongshan Road (The Bund), Huangpu District

2pm. A few doors down brings you into the hushed vaults of the one of the finest and richest banks in the worlds, The Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, a spectacular example of how a private bank should present itself.

The HSBC is now the Pudong Development Bank, 12 Zhongshan Road (The Bund), Huangpu District

2.30pm. Loaded with silver dollars it is fortunately a quick walk back to your beautiful Cathay Hotel located in the sensational Egyptian Sphinx inspired Sassoon building. Here by chance you encounter Sir Victor Sassoon the man has managed to control a great part of Shanghai though aggressive property and hotel speculation done at a speed rarely seen except in board games. It’s not by chance his apartment in this building sits precisely where the head ornament sits on The Sphinx’s head.

The Cathay Hotel is now the Fairmont Peace Hotel, 20 Nanjing East Road, Huangpu District

3.30pm. Chauffeured from here up along the glittering “great mall of China” Nanjing road, the day ends at the racecourse, in the most sumptuous horse race club building of its time. Finish off with afternoon tea on the original top floor rooms, next to the clock tower of this perfectly appointed building. Look out across the heart of Shanghai – the original race course - a stretch of nature, the ultimate luxury for any city, guarded by walls upon walls of buildings as far as the eye can see.

The Shanghai Race Club house is now the Art Museum, 325 Nanjing West Road, Huangpu District

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User:(WT-en) Rachael846

I'm an American living in Denizli, Turkey.

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User:(WT-en) Rachel

http://nmcfarl.org/rachel - rachel's web site

Currently live in Santa Fe.

Spent 2001 travelling around the South Pacific, South east Asia, and East Asia. Looking forward to contributing to wikivoyage some more.

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User:(WT-en) RachelBartlett

My main playground is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RachelBartlett

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User:(WT-en) Rachelfleet

I am a rabid Russophile. I majored in Russian Language and Literature at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and studied Russian philology at Simferopol State University (now Tavrida University) in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine. After graduation, I moved to Simferopol to teach English a few hours a week and to spend the rest of the time perfecting my Russian fluency, with an eye to becoming a translator/interpreter. A side job with the local United Nations Development Programme office afforded me a taste of interpreting, and I decided that it wasn't for me. Instead, the job pointed me toward the law, by exposing me to the intricacies of citizenship issues in the former Soviet Union. I returned to the US, worked for a year, then entered law school with every intention of working in Ukraine.

But how life does change our plans. I met my husband, married, and had a child. I left my criminal defense and immigration law practice when my son was born, and am now looking into ways to get back into the law and satisfy my growing yearning to use my Russian again, after almost ten years of stagnation. We live in Seattle, and I keep connected to my interest in all things Russian mainly by listening to Russian popular music and cooking Russian, Ukrainian, and Central Asian cuisine. Recently I have reconnected with some of my Russian friends via international text messaging.

Travel interests
Travel in Russia and Ukraine is wonderful; it satisfies my sense of adventure and makes me more introspective, in a good way. Moscow is my favorite major city in the world (not that I've been to that many, but it has beat out London, Paris, San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, LA ...). Kiev is a close second, simply a beautiful city. In Crimea, I tend not to tour much; I love to just relax at our friends' dacha and enjoy the sunshine and good company. My first travels in Russia and Ukraine, in 1994, were marked by a constant wonder at simply being in the former USSR, and by, I'll admit it, spy fantasies. My husband and I will be travelling to Crimea in September to stay with friends. We'll do some touring then so that he can see the sights.

In general, I enjoy wandering aimlessly around towns and discovering what there is to be found, but of course that is a luxury that has to be reserved for long stays.

My husband, son, and I travel often to the United Kingdom to visit my husband's family. I hope someday to tour Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

WikiTravel work in progress
Establishing Russian transliteration standards

Beginning:

Russian
There is no common standard for transliterating Russian into English. Many systems exist; all share the disadvantage of using diacritic marks. A system relying heavily on diacritic marks provides precise orthographic information, but it does not help the casual reader understand correct pronunciation. The British Standards Institution (BSI) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) systems provide the correct pronunciation at a glance for the non-Russian speaker, using very few diacritic marks. They satisfactorily preserve the distinctions between hard and soft vowels (e.g., Е and Э) and account for the use of Ь (soft sign)and Ъ (hard sign). The BSI standard is favored by the Russian grammar reference work A Comprehensive Russian Grammar by Terence Wade.

A further issue, however, is that in general every letter of a Russian word is pronounced, but at native-speaker levels of pronunciation, the surrounding letters often change a letter's pronunciation. So it's not always possible to render the pronunciation perfectly in a transliteration, as to do so might send the orthographic info spinning out of control. Also, in such a system, a non-speaker would find it easy to read the transliteration, but impossible to render a correct transliteration merely by substituting latin letters for cyrillic ones. Therefore, one must give up one of the following: pronunciation help for novices, or orthographic information for experts. Since in this forum a user can also provide the cyrillic letters, and the point of the website is to provide information for travellers, not linguists, the preference is to provide pronunciation guidance through the transliteration, and to also provide the word in cyrillic letters when possible. Users should strive to match Latin letters to Cyrillic letters one-by-one, ignoring the more subtle points of pronunciation, (unless it renders an absolutely incorrect pronunciation, which will be rarely). Example: Южный берег (Southern Coast) should be rendered "Yuzhnij bereg," even though technically the final "г" in "берег" is devoiced to a "к" sound. "Коктебель" should be rendered "Koktebel'", even though in practice the "е" is pronounced as an "и" because of its position as an unstressed vowel sandwiched between "т" and "б".

The chart below is derived from the BSI and ANSI standards, except where those standards rely on diacritics.

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User:(WT-en) RacingRog

I live in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I am retired, having worked near Johannesburg for a major chemical company since emigrating to South Africa from Blackpool, England in 1983. My wife and I have travelled quite extensively around the tourist spots around South Africa. We've also travelled around Switzerland; being a fan of trains and majestic scenery our first trip there in 2007 won't be our last! The British canal system is also one the things we're "in to".

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User:(WT-en) Rafcha

I'm from Brittany. I currently reside part time in Fort-de-France as well as Bogota. I mostly contribute to the Colombia pages.

Travelled Countries

Europe :

 * 1) Austria
 * 2) Belgium
 * 3) Bulgaria
 * 4) Czech Republic
 * 5) Denmark
 * 6) England
 * 7) Finland
 * 8) Germany
 * 9) France
 * 10) Hungary
 * 11) Ireland
 * 12) Luxemburg
 * 13) Netherlands
 * 14) Poland
 * 15) Romania
 * 16) Spain
 * 17) Slovakia
 * 18) Sweden
 * 19) Switzerland
 * 20) Turkey

North America
 * 1) Canada
 * 2) Mexico
 * 3) USA

Carribean
 * 1) Barbados
 * 2) Martinique
 * 3) St Lucia
 * 4) St Vincent

South America
 * 1) Argentina
 * 2) Brazil
 * 3) Bolivia
 * 4) Chile
 * 5) Colombia
 * 6) Ecuador
 * 7) Guyana
 * 8) Paraguay
 * 9) Peru
 * 10) Venezuela

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User:(WT-en) Raffikojian

Webmaster of http://www.gardenology.org and http://www.armeniapedia.org

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User:(WT-en) Raftidaho

I simply love Idaho. The Mountains, Rivers, Wildlife and people.

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User:(WT-en) Raghu.kuttan

Raghuprasad from Chennai

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User:(WT-en) Raiha

my location
Jakarta, beautiful capital of Indonesia. Its small, a little bit messy and too crowded, but my town indeed.

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User:(WT-en) Rai koku

I'm Japanese people and wikipedian.

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User:(WT-en) Rainbow child d

About me
A mix child born and raided in Greece, traveling as much as possible and trying to help other travelers by sharing information.

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User:(WT-en) Rainer Wasserfuhr

WikiPedia:User:Rainer Wasserfuhr

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User:(WT-en) Raja1020

hey guys.

pages I started

 * seraiki phrasebook
 * etiquette in Pakistan

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User:(WT-en) Rajarshi777

Nationality
Indian. Born in Asansol, West Bengal

City
Asansol, Durgapur, Howrah, Kolkata, Bangalore

Loves, Hates and Wishes
Thanks to (WT-en) Burmesedays for the (adapted) table lay-out.

Upcoming travel plans

 * Hampi
 * Mysore
 * Vizag
 * Mizoram
 * Sikkim
 * Haridwar

Patrolling
Helpful pages:
 * Tours
 * Tout
 * Traveller First
 * External Links
 * Apartments
 * style
 * Concensus and Status Quo
 * Co-operating with Wikipedia
 * External links
 * Front-linking
 * welcome business owners

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User:(WT-en) Rajeev

rajeevnair chathannoor 9895640619

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User:(WT-en) Rajinder

I have made some changes to 2 pages you have created.

I have changed added brackets to the Rarang (Kinnaur) to fit in with Wikivoyage naming conventions and tidied it up a little.

There is another page for Rarang. This page appears to be a Hindi phrasebook, but there is already a detailed Hindi phrasebook page on Wikivoyage. Unless Rarang has some special importance to the Hindi language, I propose that the information on this page is deleted, and the page redirected to Rarang (Kinnaur). If you have any comments please add them to the discussion page for Rarang. (WT-en) Chris1515 18:32, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

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User:(WT-en) Rajithmohan

See : User:Rajith Mohan

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User:(WT-en) Rajkumar Vijayraj

About me
Hi This is Rajkumar Vijayraj. Thanks for dropping by..

I live in Chennai, Tamilnadu, Southern India. India is where I was born and raised, where I spend of my life. I never thought of leaving this country. I belong here, India fascinates me and I feel most inspired and fulfilled just being here. I like music and movies, good south Indian food, everything really and am just enjoying life!
 * Located at:

I am married to wonderful woman and have a grown up daughter who is studying to be a doctor. Together we love to travel by car across the country. I have a master degree in English Literature. Have been writing off and on, and have been a voracious reader, with a good collection of books.
 * My family and myself:

I am an armature travel photographer. I believe in the magic of camera, it captures memories we all keep closest to our hearts. Someone once said the secret to taking great pictures is to take enough poor quality memories. After many poor ones, I finally figured out what he meant!
 * Photography:

I am also a collector of bronze statuettes that we have procured during our family travels from various places. My collection consists of statues of gods and goddess of Indian mythology.
 * Collections:

I have been a Project Manager by profession, I used to manage Interior fit outs of large and medium projects. I am now transitioning to Real Estate business. I am presently engaged with a multinational company.
 * Occupation:

My Wikivoyage:Projects
Tasks in progress:

Significant content and photo contribution have been made by me to the articles I am working on. Most of the information I contribute is gathered first hand while in the destination itself, the rest I compile by reading books, and internet information research.

 * Shravanabelagola is a historic village famous for its impressive Jain temple. It is located in Hassan District of Karnataka.

 * Belur Kannada: ಬೇಲೂರು) is a historic town in Hassan district of Karnataka state.

 * Chennai formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India, and is the country's fourth-largest city.

 * Madurai formerly known as Madura is the third largest city, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located on the banks of the river Vaigai, Madurai has been a major settlement for two millennia. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

I have traveled in India to
Tamilnadu:

 * Bodhinayakkanur
 * Chennai (I live in Chennai)
 * Coimbatore
 * Connor
 * Dingukal
 * Erode
 * Gingee
 * Harur
 * Karur
 * Kodikanal
 * Mudumalai
 * Namakkal
 * Ooty
 * Palani
 * Periyakulam
 * Pollachi
 * Salem
 * Theni
 * Thiruvannamalai
 * Udumalaipattai
 * Vellore
 * Villupuram
 * Yercaud

Kerala:

 * Cochin
 * Ernakulam
 * Munnar

Maharastra:

 * Mumbai

Pondicherry:

Karnataka:

 * Bangalore
 * Belur
 * Dharmastala
 * Halibidu
 * Hassan
 * Madikeri
 * Mangalore
 * Mudigere
 * Mysore
 * Shravanabelagola
 * Talakaveri
 * Chamundeshwari Hills
 * Bandipur

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I live in Winnipeg, Canada. Was born and raised here, My Back ground is east Indian, My parents are from Punjab. Im 18 going to school full time.

New to this so If I did'nt do anything right, let me know, much appreciated!

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User:(WT-en) Rakkar

Myself
As of 2005 I am a 21 year old guy who grew up travelling Australia and since leaving school I have studied welfare and spent two years working in inner Sydney in the homeless community. I have begun a trip around the world, thus far visiting San Fransisco, UK, France and Belgium. I would describe myself as left of centre with an ecclectic bunch of interests.

Places I've visited this trip & added to wikivoyage

 * Kendali also a rakkar
 * Oxford
 * United Kingdom

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User:(WT-en) Rak-Tai

I have lived in Thailand and other Asian countries part-time for many years. I will contribute as I have time.

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User:(WT-en) Ralfi

I lived in Canada, Germany, Ireland, France and The Netherlands - so you can imagine that I have quite an interest in the travel subject :o)

I'm now living in Brussels, Belgium.

These days, I only travel in Europe.

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User:(WT-en) Ralphmiester

I Make pages about the places that I visited

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User:(WT-en) Ralthor

Found this site looking for travel information and it seems like a great place to contribute to. Hopefully, I can help contribute some good information as I plan trips. I currently live in Albuquerque, New Mexico but that article is already very good.

Desired Destinations

 * Seattle - I grew up in Washington and have family there, haven't been in a decade? Need to go back sometime...
 * Las Vegas - Haven't been since I was a kid, would love to see it with just the wife.

Planned Trips

 * Late July 2012 - Bear Lake (Utah) for a family reunion.

2012

 * July 12 - 15- Cape May for my wife's friends wedding. It was a great trip in a nice Bed and Breakfast.
 * April 19 - Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks. Beautiful area, really need to spend more time on day trips around New Mexico, so much to see.
 * March 10 - 17 - Finally got in the trip to San Diego. Spent most of our time at Sea World, the Zoo, and hanging out on the beach.  Per my wife, will have to move there one day.

2011

 * October 7 - 9 - Ruidoso again, saw the Cowboy Symposium.
 * July 30 - Spaceport America Tour
 * June 18 - 26 - Idaho Falls, Yellowstone, Moab, Arches National Park.

2010

 * October 9 - 11 - A trip with some friends to Destin for a wedding. Luckily there were no traces of the oil spill.
 * August 27 - 29 - Down to Ruidoso again, got to spend some time hiking around the mountains this year.
 * June 3 - 10 - Took a nice long family trip to St. Croix.

2009

 * Summer/Fall - Family trips to Rudioso.
 * April - Combined a work trip with a person trip to DC.
 * February 2- 6 - First time to Boston, wife not happy that I got to go without her for work.
 * January 31 - February 1 - One of our many family trips to Ruidoso

2008

 * August 29 - September 1 - Drove to Boulder to visit some family for labor day weekend.
 * August 16 - 21 - DC for work, got to go sailboating.
 * June 26 - July 8 - Oahu - Honeymoon, enough said there.
 * June 18 - 20 - A new place for work, Colorado Springs.
 * April 6 - 10 - Mostly DC and some in Leesburg for business.
 * February 11 - 13 - And again Leesburg for business.
 * January 6 - 11 - Back to Leesburg for business.

2007

 * November 21 - 25 - Long drive to Idaho Falls for a family Thanksgiving. Started an article for it, but stayed with and spent most of my time with family so I don't have a lot to contribute.
 * November 12 -14 - Another trip to Virginia for work.
 * October 26 - 28 - Alamogordo, New Mexico, I took my son to see the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenger and Holloman Airforce Base Air Show. The airshow was amazing and the CV-22 is an impressive machine.
 * September 23 - 26 - Leesburg, Virginia, Business trip working with the FAA.
 * September 13 - 17 - New York, NY, first time in New York, wow...
 * August 24 - 26 - Elephant Butte, New Mexico, camping trip with a bunch of friends.
 * May 7 - 11 - Washington DC, business trip to be a vendor at the Government Security Conference. Ran around all evening seeing all the sights sometimes two or three times.  First time on the east coast and it was quite different than I imagined (it was green?, thought the entire east coast was concrete...).  Got to ride the metro and walked more in a week than I usually do in a month.

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User:(WT-en) Rama

manali is the part of kullu valley its  very famous in world wide many people come here to look nature .some come for holy days .some come for traking  tour its nice for hang around and its a hiss sation  u can go around for rootag paas  nagger casal many tampel around

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User:(WT-en) Ram-Man

Hi, I'm a new WikiTravel guest (November, 2004) who stumbled onto the site from the English Wikipedia. Like many others who get into using wikis (it seems), I am a software engineer. I am also married, male, and living in Aston, Pennsylvania. I am interested in many things Wiki, so when I found this site, I signed up the first day. I'm a bit of an idealist who believes in the ideals behind open source, open knowledge, and the sharing of our collective experiences. I'm not very subtle sometimes, so hopefully I don't step on many/any toes!

I don't know how useful I will be here, as I tend to be a very spontaneous person who may one day start a flood of editing. For now I am actively trying to multi-license as many English Wikipedia U.S. city and county articles as possible so that others using this site might be able to use those articles. Ideally, I would like those people who borrow from Wikipedia to also consent to dual-license using the GFDL as well in order that the two projects might feed off of each other.

I accept to multi-license my contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 1.0 or any later version and the GFDL 1.2 or any later version. I elect to release all minor edits into the public domain. If this appeals to you, add a similar notice to your user page (and if you work on the English Wikipedia, do so there too).

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Ram Mohan

Database administrator, working currently in Oracle and SQL Server.

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User:(WT-en) Ramraja restaurant

ramraja restaurant

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==Shri Ram Sharnam Ashram situated at Haridwar and Vrindavan, India. Rooms are available at Nominal Maintenance Charges. Vrindavan Ashram : Shri Ram Sharnam Ashram, Parikrama marg, Raman Reti, Vrindavan - 281121 Dist. Mathura (U.P.) INDIA, Phone No: +91 (565) 2540191 Mobile: +91 9810011735 Haridwar Ashram : Shri Ram Sharnam Ashram, 511-A, Sapt Sarovar Marg, Near Agrasen Ghat, Bhupatwala, Haridwar - 249401 (Uttranchal), INDIA. Phone No.+ 91(1334) 260741 Mobile : +91 9810011735 Email: ramsharnamashram@yahoo.com Web: www.ramsharnamashram.com==

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User:(WT-en) Ramy

Update
Home in Hurghada for most of the Year.

About
Working In Hurghada As IT Manager.

Travels
I Visit Sharm el-Sheikh and Taba, Dahab, St. Katherine, Na'ama Bay, Taba Heights, Port Said, Cairo,Giza Pyramids, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, St Anthony's Monastery, Kom Ombo

Since then I've lived in the HurghadaI can move moreacross Egypt.

More info
I'll add more info later.

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User:(WT-en) RandalSchwartz

I am Randal L. Schwartz—a wikipedian.

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User:(WT-en) Randomm

Occasional traveller, enthusiastic photographer and a bloody poor guitarist!

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User:(WT-en) Rantan

I've lived in Canberra, Australia for most of my life, but have also lived in England and on the Central Coast of NSW. Currently I'm on a Gap Year, backpacking through Europe and Asia.

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He is researching interests like  search engine algorithms ,Search Engine Marketing  Automation and E-commerce Marketing  Management and Social Media Marketing.

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User:(WT-en) Raptoravionics

I have spent most of my life in Udaipur, I reside in Mumbai now.

I have been to most of the places in North, West India.

Singapore and New Zealand are the international destinations I have been to.

Ask me anything you have related to places in Rajasthan or India generally. I do have enough experience to talk about traveling in NZ as well.

reach me at raptoravionics@gmail.com

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User:(WT-en) Rastacoolie

I was born in Trinidad, the largest island constituting the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. I visited Barbados on two occasions and Venezuela on one occasion. I was born in 1980 and my visits to these countries were in the early to mid eighties so I don't recall them too well. I did visit the US more specifically Miami Florida a dozen times or so until 2004 when I went to study in Atlanta Georgia. Since then I've been to the following places:

New York City-

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User:Rastapopulous

I'm Rastapopulous. I'm from New York, specifically Brooklyn but nowadays live in Seattle. In college I spent substantial time on Long Island I've also done brief stints in Havana, Middlebury, and a very brief stint in Pittsburgh. The kid of a rather international family (Italian-South African), I started traveling at an early age, but have also been venturing out into the world on my own.

Docent
I am the docent for Brooklyn. If you have questions, please leave them on my talk page.

Projects
Diversions (Personal reminders: Biang!, Cafe at Your Mother-in-Law, Varesichnaya, Pho Grand, Ted's (Steamed Cheeseburgers)) Main Projects
 * There's a whole bunch of restaurants I've been to all over the map, and I need to add them to their respective articles
 * Getting various articles about Cuba up to shape, starting with Baracoa
 * Getting my own hometown of Brooklyn up to shape, particularly the areas around Prospect Park, which I know well, and the Downtown area, which I also know well but not as well as the area around Prospect Park.
 * Doing some work on the East End of Long Island

Future Projects
 * Improving the New York article, or at least what I can work on: the aforementioned Brooklyn work, plus some stuff in Lower Manhattan.

Next Up
I'll be heading to Europe for the first time in a while, heading to Amsterdam and Edinburgh and doing a redo in Brussels

Where I've Been
I usually define having been to a place as my feet having touched solid ground there (i.e. not in some vehicle or other), however briefly that may be

I have visited the following countries:
 * My native USA
 * I currently live in Seattle
 * I've spent a lot of time Vermont
 * I have ventured into New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey for collegy-type stuff
 * Washington DC
 * Virginia: Area around DC
 * Maryland: Area around DC
 * Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
 * Illinois: Chicago
 * California: From San Francisco to LA, with stops in Yosemite, Sequoia National Park, and Fresno, and on to Joshua Tree National Park
 * North and South Carolina for the barbecue!
 * While traveling on Amtrak from New York to California, I have "visited" West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. My feet touched the ground in all of these but Kentucky.
 * On my recent Amtrak trip from New York to Seattle, I went through Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and very briefly Idaho
 * Ohio deserves special note as the only state I have visited entirely while asleep. I don't suppose that counts as visiting under traditional definitions?
 * My "motherland" Italy
 * My other "motherland" South Africa
 * Switzerland
 * France
 * Spain
 * Monaco
 * San Marino
 * The Vatican
 * The UK
 * Belgium
 * Germany
 * Latvia
 * Estonia
 * Finland
 * Japan
 * Ecuador
 * Turkmenistan
 * Turkey
 * Canada (Yes, I am an American living in the Northeast, and I got to Turkmenistan before I ever set foot in Canada)
 * Cuba: I got the amazing opportunity to do a semester of study in Havana as an American. I spent 4 months there, longer than anywhere else outside of New York.  I also got to go across the Island to Trinidad, Santiago de Cuba, and my personal favorite Baracoa
 * North Korea
 * China
 * Tajikistan
 * Colombia
 * Peru
 * Kazahkstan
 * Iran
 * UAE
 * Argentina
 * Brazil: For less than 24 hours!
 * Uruguay
 * Technically, I was on Paraguayan soil for less than a minute

My favorite places (In no particular order):
 * Hiroshima
 * San Francisco
 * Joshua Tree National Park
 * Granada (even though I was 8 at the time, I still loved it)
 * Riga
 * Tallinn
 * The Kohtla-Jarve Mining Museum
 * Brussels
 * Sicily
 * Cape Town
 * Kruger National Park
 * Darvaza--Modern wonder of the world, anyone?
 * Baracoa

Travel Goals
So far, they are:

a. Leave the United States and live somewhere else, quite possibly permanently. b. Go on a round the world trip. c. Visit every country in the former USSR.

Wish List
Regions I am interested in:
 * Eastern and Central Europe, especially Russia and the former USSR (one of my goals is to visit every former Soviet state; so far 3/15 completed)
 * Central, Southeast, and East Asia
 * West and North Africa and the Sahel
 * Andean South America

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User:(WT-en) Ratukruise

Frequent travellers and residents of Darwin, Australia. We have travelled extensively within the country and to many overseas destinations. We have a timeshare in Thailand where we like to spend several weeks each year. These days, though, we are in to cruising and currently planning a cruise to South America/Antartica later this year.

You can view our travel photos at: Picassa Web Albums

Docent
I have listed myself as a docent for the city of Darwin. Please, feel free to contact me (preferably by email by using the button in the left navbar) if you have any questions. I'll will do my best to answer them.

For more information about docents go to Project:Docents

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User:(WT-en) Raul os

Hi! I'm Raúl and Live in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

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User:(WT-en) Raven

 * 1) REDIRECT User:(WT-en) JohnSLSingleton

Raven is the name by which [mailto:jslsingleton@hotmail.com John S. L. Singleton] is best known to friends offline and online.

C. M. Joserlin is a pen name used for poetry, plays, and fiction.

Home:  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Web backtrail.    Usenet backtrail.   [most recent 1000 posts]

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User:(WT-en) Ravi

I am originally from Madras, TamilNadu, India, and I currently live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I have major travel plans for the future, but for now, I have visited atleast these following places:

Places
 * South India -- Madras, Bangalore, Madurai
 * United Kingdom -- quite extensively
 * USA -- California at length, and other short/quick trips
 * Canada -- Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa

I hang out at the McGill Outdoors Club (MOC) in Montreal, and I am a computer geek at large. I use free software exclusively, and choice of operating system is Debian GNU/Linux.

Contact Info

I have some webpages and an email address, ravi-web@bothan.net, too!

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[ [ edit] ]

I moved to Hyderabad, India in May 2007. Before that, I used to stay in Thane and work in Mumbai. I have been a Mumbaikar all my life, but I am enjoying the new experience.

I work with a subsidiary of Bank of America called Continuum solutions developing technology for the bank. It is a fun job, but I also want to travel.

I got married in January 2007, and went to Havelock Island for my honeymoon. I found out about the island from (WT-en) Cacahuate who spent a whole month there. It is a beautiful island. You should visit it. I might have to visit it again... because I seem to have lost my honeymoon photos. I will either have to find them or take her again. Tough choice :(

I became a dad in September 2008. My son keeps me busy at home, but the smile he gives me when I reach home from work makes up for all the sleepless nights.

Apart from Mumbai, I have stayed in Chennai and Lucknow. The only countries I have visited are the US and Malaysia. In the US, I have been to Charlotte, Boston, Seattle, Bay Area, Ohio, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and New York. In Malaysia, I went to Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi

Planned

 * January 1-10, 2010: Kerala
 * September 2009: Mumbai, Mysore

August 2009

 * Mangalore

May 2009

 * Mysore

December 2008

 * Mangalore, Chikmagalur

November 2008

 * Charlotte, Boston, New Jersey

August 2008

 * Goa

2nd week of January 2008

 * Malaysia - Langkawi and Kuala Lumpur

22-25 Nov 2007

 * Tirupati, Chennai, Pondicherry.

23-Sept 07-6 Oct 07

 * Cranford, New Jersey and New York

24 Aug-3 Sept 07

 * Mangalore, Chikmagalur

16-17 June 2007
Mantralayam and Hampi on the weekend of 16th and 17th June 2007.

Links

 * (WT-en) to-do list
 * (WT-en) Place for experiments
 * (WT-en) New user page

Docent
I am currently Docent for Mumbai, Thane, Hyderabad and India, and well... Clark. Contact me on my talk page or on ravikiranr at gmail dot com if you need help. I'll know something about other Indian destinations too.

wts:User:(WT-shared) ravikiranr

I get published!
My longtime dream of seeing my name in the papers was recently thwarted when the Hindustan Times took an image I had contributed to Wikivoyage and published it without giving credit. Click image on the right for more details

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It turns out that the Indian geographical hierarchy is a mess, and it is my doing. Quite clearly, I had not understood the policy. I have now reread Project:What is an article?, Wikivoyage Talk:What is an article? (including my own question and Jani's answer) and the Project:Geographical hierarchy policy. Let me lay it out to ensure that I am clear.

Briefly, the geographical hierarchy under a typical Indian state is:
 * State S
 * (Optional) Region R
 * District D
 * The district headquarters, a city or a town, usually also named D
 * (Optional) smaller towns
 * Lots of small villages which may have attractions that are spread out - lakes, temples, resorts, etc.

The approach we have been taking is to have a D (district) that follows the region template, and a city page D that follows the small city template.

The problem:
 * 1) In the vast majority of the cases, there isn't and will never be enough content to justify two articles. Maintaining them is a problem, especially when you have two articles with the same name and people are confused about where to put their stuff.
 * 2) In the vast majority of the cases, the district headquarters is just a little town with nothing worth seeing. Most of  what's there to see is in the surrounding countryside.
 * 3) In some cases the above is not true.
 * 4) The current region article template says that we should only summarize the attractions in the region, and only the really important ones should be mentioned in detail.
 * 5) The What is an article? policy says that remote attractions outside cities should not get their own articles, but be put in the Get Out section of the nearest cities.
 * 6) Put 2, 4 and 5 together, and we end up with a D which has hardly any content in its main sections, but an enormous Get Out section.

This does not make much sense. I guess what we should do is:
 * 1) Have D as an article that covers the entire district. List all the attractions there. Do not create a city article unless it is absolutely needed.
 * 2) When it is needed, break it out, but continue to list attractions that will be found in a district in that district.  Put an "explore the district" in the Get Out section of the city article.

Does this violate our guideline that attractions go into the lowest level? Does it require any change or clarification to our policies, or was I misunderstanding it all along?

 * I think it's absolutely fine to merge cities/towns with their surrounding districts, we already do this quite often elsewhere. (WT-en) Jpatokal 01:59, 22 August 2009 (EDT)

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Africa
Cape Maclear, Zambia, South Luangwa National Park, Cape Town, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, more...

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Wikivoyage's success depends on the active participation of Wikivoyagers like you. Wikivoyagers contribute content, organize the articles and also decide policy, all through consensus. This page aims to be a useful list of the ways in which you can help Wikivoyage achieve its goal of being a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.

The list is grouped into
 * Content
 * Structure
 * Community and Policies

While this list aims to be exhaustive, a couple of items may have been missed out. If you find such items, please add them — this is a Wiki, after all!

You will find that some of the items in this list have a * against them, which means that only an administrator can do them. Those restrictions exist only because some actions are difficult to reverse and only experienced users can be trusted with them. However, such items are few and far between and are not special privileges granted to administrators. Admins exercise those powers only with the approval of the community and in accordance with policy.

Structure

 * Add links to the Main Page. The Main Page is the entryway for most new readers to Wikivoyage, so we like to have it look great and have great articles on the page. We have a set of guidelines for what should and shouldn't go on the Main Page. But if you know something that should be there, and fits the guidelines, please do add it!

Community and Policies

 * Welcome new users. When new users come onto Wikivoyage, it's nice to leave them a brief welcome message pointing them to important parts of the site. We normally wait until folks have created a user account and possibly set up their own user page. Welcome messages let new contributors know that they're part of a community, and also make sure they have pointers to important tools for contributing.
 * Clean up the travellers' pub. The travellers' pub, as the default place to put discussions about Wikivoyage, tends to get a little crowded at times. For this reason people take turns moving discussions out of the pub and into the archives or to more specific talk pages. It only takes a few minutes, it helps make discussions more clear, and it's easy to do.
 * Make or edit policy and style guidelines. The policies and manual of style define how we work together to make a great travel guide. If you're working on Wikivoyage and think there's ways we can make a better guide, or we can work together better to achieve our goals, by all means start a new policy or guideline page! We try to make decisions by consensus, so there's no guarantee that your idea will be accepted, but it definitely won't be if you don't suggest it in the first place!

 * Add logbook entries. The logbook is for keeping track of new news about Wikivoyage. If you know of something that's going on inside Wikivoyage, or someone who's talking about Wikivoyage, feel free to add a logbook entry. The latest three logbook entries also go on the Main Page.
 * Archive the logbook. Each month we move old logbook entries to a new page. Make sure the logbook entries on the Main Page are copied to the logbook first.

Old content
On many kinds of community Web sites, most participants have a very limited set of tasks they can accomplish. On those sites, special participants called administrators do most of the rest of the jobs to keep the site going. Although this keeps "normal" users from maliciously or inadvertantly messing up the site, it also makes a bottleneck where important jobs aren't done until an overworked administrator finds the time to do them.

Wikivoyage, like most other WikiWiki sites, is not like that. We have administrators, but the list of things they can do that other contributors can't is really really short; mostly they're things that can't be easily undone. But most jobs that would traditionally be done by "admins" or "sysops" on other sites are done by regular contributors here. Wikivoyage works better if every Wikivoyager participates in the "janitorial" jobs that need to get done to keep the site going.

This page lists some important jobs that need to get done that new Wikivoyagers may think they're not allowed or not supposed to do. Probably the fact that a lot of administrators are also "old hands" who know what jobs need being done, so they get them done, makes it seem like only administrators should do them. Not true at all! Please feel free to plunge forward and make these things happen: Wikivoyage needs all the help we can get!

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User:(WT-en) RaviPutcha

I love travelling and sharing my experiences about travels.

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User:(WT-en) Raydyent

About Me
My name is Megan, I'm a college student from the great state of North Carolina. I'm majoring in Political Science with a minor in International Studies and in two years I hope to be in an International Relations with a focus in Asian Relations grad program. My eventual goal is to either work as a consultant or for the US State Department. Next year (2008) I hope to either study for a semester in Osaka, Japan, Sydney, or Bangkok.

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User:(WT-en) Rayerta

Thanks for stopping by!

I just got started on Wikivoyage(April 2006). I'm currently living in Minneapolis and began by adding to the page on Minneapolis/South. I will be moving to Sudan for one year, so I should have plenty to add to that page after a few months.

Robert

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This is how you should link to an outside website CNN, which  will look like this - CNN. This is how you should link to an outside website CNN, which  will look like this - CNN.

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User:(WT-en) Rayf

Me!
Hi, I'm Ray.

I have a particular interest in the natural environment of the southwest of Western Australia, and currently live in Perth.

I'm a resident of Australia, born in South Africa and have travelled in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

I publish the books of Cape to Cape Publishing. These are books about walking in the southwest of Western Australia, and the natural environment of that area.

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User:(WT-en) Ray King

I grew up in Manhattan, went to school in Cambridge, MA and now live in sunny (well mostly sunny) Portland (Oregon). I've travelled a bit on business, but hope to revisit many of the places I've been and spend more time wikivoyageling. I'm also a general wiki enthusiast and hope to add something here.

Countries Visited
Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Romania, Mexico, China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Singapore, Tahiti, Malaysia, Portugal, Dubai, Pakistan

WishList
Russia, Prague, Serengeti National Park

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User:(WT-en) Rayong Info

Rayong Info is a independent information center based in Rayong City

Rayong Info

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User:(WT-en) RayR

Hello, my name is Ray Ruddick.

Firstly let me say that I'm a London Blue Badge and City of London Guide, working mostly alone guiding overseas visitors around London and the UK.

The best thing about this work is that I get to share my enthusiasm for London's rich heritage whilst making new friends all over the world at the same time.

I guide in the English language and most of my time is spent 'driver-guiding' small groups, up to 8 persons, in my VW Transporter minibus (van). It's air-conditioned - very necessary in these warmer times, even here - plus it has lots of luggage space for those staying away trips which can run to 19 days. (Occasionally I work with larger groups and use luxury coaches which have up to 72 passenger seats. On these tours my responsibilities are those of Tour director and Guide).

The majority of my clients are from the English-speaking world - but not entirely - I meet people from practically every corner of the globe, and although I personally guide in the English language only, my fellow London Guides speak almost 40 languages between them and I am happy to refer an enquiry in the right direction.

My website has lots of London and UK facts and information, monthly events pages, plus general tips for child-friendly activities, etc. I have also recently created a 'FREE London' page listing by category many things to do in London which are completely free. (Thought it might help in these credit-crunch times!). Where possible I have tried to include some of this information in Wikivoyage hoping to benefit all those travellers who are thinking of visiting London, whether they wish to use a private tourguide, or not!

Finally, I am very happy to answer all travel-related questions on London and the UK, either via my website or through Wikivoyage, so please get in touch if you think I may be able to be of assistance to you. Happy travelling!

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User:(WT-en) Razbe

I am Razbe working as tour guide in Srimangal for Sylhet Zone. you are welcome to ask for any tour.......Phone= 8801672-201346, email= infoonme@gmail.com. Lawachera Tropical Rain forest-evergreen forest (National Park) a home of wild animals, Kasia Tribal Village- different life style, Madhobpur- Lake of Lotus, Tea Garden look like green carpet, Tripura indigenous Village- different life style, Food Garden( Pineapple, Lime, Jackfruit etc.) a picturesque, Rubber Garden, Monipuri indigenous village- different cultural life style, Wetland-Bird watching & boating ,Seven layer tea Cabin.

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User:(WT-en) Rba

Well, although admittedly not extensively traveled, I have been several places around the world. Mexico(Yucatan,Baja),Japan(cities only),Brazil(Santos,Guaruja) and road tripped the hell out of Southern California(Death Valley, Mojave, 'the 395'), Pacific Coast Highway(from San Diego to Oregon) and parts of Arizona. Oh yeah, can(t) forget my time in New York (Long Island).

Im pretty much running point on this for a couple of friends of mine that have much more extensive experience on the road than i do. However, I will place a couple things here and there just to get momentum started on an area.

Well thats it for now. Nothing too compelling coming out of my fingers so its time to click around.

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User:(WT-en) Rbakels

I am an independent "flashpacker" traveler from Europe. One of my ambitions is to travel all European countries. I particularly like traveling in Eastern Europe: it is so exotic yet close at the same time, both in kilometers and in culture. I also traveled extensively in the Far East, especially since a severe skiing accident forced me to look for other destinations in the winter time.

Another hobby of mine is to travel by train. Trains are a nice way to get in touch with the local population, and usually they are reasonably comfortable (although I am 6'5" which is a problem in most sleeping cars).

As a typical "flashpacker", I prefer cheap hotels. They are often amazingly good. Expensive hotels remind me of business hotels, of work rather than holiday. Still I avoid youth hostels where I do not have a private room - because everyone gets up at a different time, and the more people there are in a room, the more likely it is that one is snoring loudly.

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User:(WT-en) Rbowser

I live in downtown Portsmouth NH, ran across Wiki travel, and would like to flesh out the description and listings for Portsmouth, NH.

The reason is I often travel and use web sources all the time. In this case, it is easy for me to give back and write about where I live (which is a tourist destination).

My plan is to do a little each week.

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User:(WT-en) Régis B.

Hello there! I'm French and I actually live in Beijing (China). Starting from september 2006 I will be back in Paris. I can speak English, German, Chinese, Dutch and a bit (small small bit) of Russian.

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User:(WT-en) Rcobra

Lisbon, Portugal.

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User:(WT-en) Rdavout

Occasional contributor. Do rather check my profile on the Wikipedia:.

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User:(WT-en) Rdb

While I now live in Sydney - Australia, I have also lived in Melbourne, Mount Gambier, Churchill, Tennant Creek, Parkes and Norseman.

I have travelled widely across Australia and I have had the pleasure of visiting Austria, Chile, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, South Korea, the UK and the USA.

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User:(WT-en) Reachrich

My idea is to enhance international tourism to Russia using Wikivoyage opportunities. That is why I'm concentrating on English version of the guide.

I've done some work on Arkhangelsk and Pushkinskie Gory, but I'm still quite new here.

Just finished the list of all foreign embassies, consulates and visa centers in the cities of Russia.

Currently I'm working on Sochi guide.

Please feel free to contact me via my talk.

Andrey

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User:(WT-en) RealLeo

RealLeo is Henrik Herranen, traveller of Chernobyl Oct 2008.

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User:(WT-en) RealUlli

For now, just the language info:

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User:(WT-en) Realwendy

I am Wendy and I have joined Wikivoyage to learn and share.

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User:(WT-en) Rebecca Reynolds

It seems like I'm gone from home several times a month now, traveling for work and pleasure. I've found that Wikivoyage offers valuable information that helps me plan ahead and avoid surprises once I reach my destination. Thanks, Wiki contributors for all your hard work!

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User:(WT-en) Rebel

...from the peoples republic of Cork, boy.

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User:(WT-en) Red

I'm an ozzie with a love for Peru, and much more with the love of my life in Peru. So while travelling to South America I always return to Peru and my loved one.

Sometimes I'm in Australia but that seem to be happening less and less.

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