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Reading Time: 7 minutes @StephBeTravel (hi, that’s me) at the Casa Marina, Key West for Fantasy Fest Hello Fantasy Fest! A ten day festival celebrating ghouls, freaks, and sci-fi loving geeks, this year’s theme, All Hallows InterGalactic Freak Show, welcomed 60,000 free people. Free in mind, body, and spirit, revelers of all ages, sizes, and interests took on body paint, parades, live music, and ghostly parties. The 2015 theme is “All Hallows Intergalactic Freak Show.” Fantasy Fest, Key West (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO) #FantasyFestFlorida: spend Halloween with a clan of ghosts, ghouls, and lovers all things absurd. Click To Tweet Alas, the 13 Fantasy Fest phases: Preparing your costumes. Thou does not simply wear a cocktail dress and animal ears to Fantasy Fest. People spend months planning their costumes for the Mardi Gras style parades, strutting solo or rolling out in groups of up to thirty. In addition to the overall annual festival t...

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And I believed that I was just a minor hungover, maybe even a small dehydrated. Regrettably, anytime you’re traveling in a area the place malaria has not still been eradicated (as I was when I was traveling in Mozambique final month), even the smallest signs really should be taken significantly. Per the CDC, this kind of signs incorporate “fever and flu-like illness, which include shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may well also arise.” Or, as your ubiquitous Lonely Planet says, “The early phases of malaria involve headaches, fevers, generalized aches and pains, and malaise, which could be mistaken for flu.” The stage is, really don't screw about, striving to convince by yourself you do not have it and that surfing lessons in Tofo Bay must certainly not be interrupted just mainly because you come to feel a very little underneath the weather. Ahem . . . For me I knowledgeable an unusually pronounced desire to lay in my bed at 8 a...

SOUTH AFRICA These photos are from my trip through South African and Mozambique all through September, 2009.

The Cook Islands may well only be 15 small islands, but they stretch across an area of the South Pacific the size of India, and with about a hundred,000 site visitors a year, you’d consider they’d be a tiny extra, effectively, touristy. But believe again. Although historically pleasant to outsiders (perhaps a very little too substantially) these islanders cling to their Polynesian culture which there is in all probability no much better instance of then their songs and dances. Over is a rather very good video, taken close to the capital of Rarotonga. Stick all around to three:forty for the funds shots of the beautiful coastline. Incredible to assume that the nation is only a short three.five hour-flight from New Zealand.