The Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina helps visitors find traditional music in the mountains and foothills. There are concerts, festivals and small venues throughout the state where you can hear this heritage first hand. MerleFest 25 to 29 April 2019. MerleFest is the state's most famous festival, attracting more than 75,000 and it is consi...

The end of summer is the time for brown bear watching in British Columbia. From mid-September and into October, the Chilko River hosts one of the region's most dramatic salmon runs that in turn attracts the bears who wander in to dine on the spawning Sockeye. Images by Murray O'Neill The Chilko Lake grizzly bear is a large subspecies of the North A...

The US State of Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline in the United States, lakes that feel like oceans, beaches and many miles of cherry orchards. There are more than 100 public beaches, some of the highest freshwater sand dunes in the world, multi-colored sandstone cliffs and two National Lakeshores. The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctu...

The Lincoln Center Theater's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I is at the London Palladium until Saturday 29 September 2018. It gives West End audiences the chance to see the Broadway stars reprise their original roles on the London stage, led by Kelli O'Hara as Anna) and Ken Watanabe as the King). Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musi...

SafariBookings.com, the online marketplace for African safari travel, has published a ranking of the 10 best safari parks. Findings are based on reviews by safari-goers and park reviews by experts including authors from Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Frommer's, Bradt and Footprint. The complete list of the 'Top 10 African Safari Parks' : Serengeti Na...

Wild Women Expeditions (WWE) will host five departures in 2019 for a women-only trip to the Indonesian Archipelago. These will explore international efforts to preserve the critically endangered Bornean orangutan. The 14-day itinerary, Untamed Indonesia, delves into one of the world's oldest rainforests(140 million years) on Borneo, the world's thi...