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...TYROL, AUSTRIA: Hiking in the Austrian Alps leaves you spoiled for choice. There are 600 peaks topping the 3,000-m mark, 15,000 km of trails and hundreds of farmhouses and taverns for rest and relaxation (read flagons of beer and plates of hearty grub). A favorite spot for meals and overnight accommodation is the Gruttenh?tte, reached after a thrilling trek up the Wilder Kaiser. Read more at austria-tourism.at...
...There's been a tradition of intervention at Lascaux from the very beginning," says François Bourges, an independent hydrogeologist and expert on France's caves. South by 230 km, the Tuc D'Audoubert and Grotte des Trois Frères, caves of a similar vintage and impact as Lascaux, have never been open to the public. Count Robert Bégouën, whose father and uncles found the caves on the family's Pyrenean estate in the years just before World War I, continues a family tradition that decrees no one enters either cave without...
...island of prosperity in an ocean of despair," laughs Mark Wrong, a British developer with plans to build Western-style malls in several Russian cities. "But it's not true any more." Last month he broke ground on his first mall, in Yaroslavl, which is about 240 km northeast of Moscow, and over the next two to three years he hopes to have outposts as far as Ufa and Yekaterinburg. Such expansion outside Moscow was unthinkable even a few years ago, but it's a sign of how Russian retailing has evolved over the past decade. Some new retailers...
...close eye on the cave's condition." The same precautions are maintained at font de gaume, a cave located just down the Vézère valley from Lascaux. Privately-owned Tuc d'Audoubert and Trois Freres have never admitted tourists. Rouffignac, another privately-owned cave 25 km west of Lascaux, has a natural advantage: its massive size. The cave's owners installed an electric train through some of its 8 km of tunnels in 1959. The carriages transport 30 people at a time into the cave, which has no fixed illumination. "We limit the visits to 550 people...
...TYROL, AUSTRIA: Hiking in the Austrian Alps leaves you spoiled for choice. There are 600 peaks topping the 3,000-m mark, 15,000 km of trails and hundreds of farmhouses and taverns for rest and relaxation (read flagons of beer and plates of hearty grub). A favorite spot for meals and overnight accommodation is the Gruttenhütte, reached after a thrilling trek up the Wilder Kaiser. Read more at austria-tourism.at MAUI, HAWAII: The 43 km of trails through Maui's Haleakala National Park nps.gov/hale may [an error occurred while processing this directive] seem a modest distance...