Lake Havasu City may be small, but it is known all over the United States as being a fun, beautiful, and welcoming paradise. Depending on the time of day, your 108 minutes can vary greatly but no matter what you are sure to have a great time! Start your day at Makai Café by the [...]
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COPENHAGEN: Let’s imagine that you’re a tourist in Copenhagen. You want to get out there, eat some Danish pastry and meet some of the people in this little Scandinavian kingdom. If you follow the advice of the glittery “Wonderful Copenhagen” Tourism Bureau board, you will likely spend your day posing for tacky photos in front [...]
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The desert is hot, hot, hot, but nothing is cooler than Tucson, Arizona at dusk. While most locals don’t let the heat keep them from venturing out into the city during the day, there is one place none of them can resist to be around: The University of Arizona campus around sunset. Start your 108 [...]
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When you are not bathing in Costa Rica’s famous clear blue beaches and coasts, spending the night on a volcano retreat, or exploring its lush rainforests take your free 108 minutes in Costa Rica to discover the city of San Jose. You’ll find that the country’s capital has much to offer to the curious traveler [...]
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Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand, and is also home to a rich array of museums, cultural shows, panoramic views, touristic attractions, and foreign cuisine. To truly enjoy the best of what the city has to offer would take years of exploration, trial and error. The city caters to every type of tourist [...]
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Take a leap back in time with a walk through the largest city in the Caribbean, Havana. Eerily blank from the lights, signs, and traffic of urbanity, Havana retains the feeling of a simpler era. The click of dominos, the ever-present sound of a rumba beat, and the iconography of the city’s turbulent history mesmerize [...]
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DAHAB, Egypt: It is a city is dividing the Red Sea coast in half, located on the way from Sharm el-Sheikh to Nuweiba in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, untouched by the hand of technological progress and Western trends, Dahab fascinates with the balanced combination of Egyptian traditions and Western touristic approaches. 108 minutes in Dahab can [...]
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Al-ARISH, Egypt: As the evening begins to take hold, the main streets of this border town begin to move toward the cafe. This is a cafe town some 30 minutes from the Gaza border. Residents rush toward their local jaunt as the sun begins to make its final push toward the horizon. The orange mixed [...]
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ASWAN, Egypt: Situated the best part of 1000 km south of Cairo, just before the first cataract on the Nile, Aswan might as well be in a different country. Owing to its location on the river, it’s always been an important market and trading center. These days, although undeniably touristy, Aswan is a picturesque city [...]
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Minutes 1-50 Begin at the American Museum of Natural History on 79th Street and Central Park West. After a brief tour of one or two of the staple exhibits (like the famous giant whale or the Rose Center IMAX space show), exit the museum and walk south on Central Park West. Minutes 51-80 First option [...]
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AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan’s capital is as different as they come in the Middle East. White and cream colored buildings shining in the sun are what you might notice first giving Amman a strange almost un-city like aspect with its absence of strikingly tall glass covered buildings (Jordan Gate towers are still being finished). Seat of [...]
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank: Any planned trips into the West Bank require the admission that most people in the Middle East aren’t free to travel within Israel and even those that are, are daily subjected to delays, hassle, and worse at the border crossings. So for 108 minutes in Bethlehem, we do not take for granted [...]
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LARNACA and NICOSIA, Cyprus: Cyprus is one of the few countries that you can actually experience in a very short amount of time. I’ve traveled extensively throughout the Greek-side of the island, so that’s where we’ll explore. Rent a car in Larnaca, where you probably landed if you flew. There are some very inexpensive, albeit [...]
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ABU SIMBEL, Egypt: The vertical length of Egypt is often expressed as from Alexandria to Aswan. That is inaccurate, as the tiny town of Abu Simbel lies 190 miles (280 km) south of Aswan. Abu Simbel does not feel like anywhere in Egypt. This small Nubian town by Lake Nasser is only 25 miles (40 [...]
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LAHORE, Pakistan: Once the seat of power for the magnificent Mughal empire and subsequently for British colonial rulers, is a city brimming with opulent history, stunning architecture, and an exhilarating energy. We begin our whirlwind journey at sunset, at the eastern Delhi gate to Lahore’s walled city, to the sound of a thousand adhans, or [...]
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: No visit to Egypt is complete without a tour of Alexandria. Being considerably smaller than Cairo, its sights and museums can be seen in two days. However, some of its beauty and history can be delved into in just under two hours; specifically in 108 minutes. Let’s go! This is where Alexander settled [...]
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Al-ARISH, Egypt: As the evening begins to take hold, the main streets of this border town begin to move toward the cafe. This is a cafe town some 30 minutes from the Gaza border. Residents rush toward their local jaunt as the sun begins to make its final push toward the horizon. The orange mixed [...]
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ROME: The sun is setting in Rome and you have 108 minutes to spend in the city. What to do? Start in Campo di Fiori. While the multitude of bars offer mostly over-priced coctails at such un-Italian venues as The Drunken Sailor and Magnolia, one must experience the piazza’s nightlife. You’re as likely to hear [...]
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ROME: If you had 108 minutes to spend in Rome, start at the Coliseum. An epic 2,000 year old structure, this ancient gladiatorial stadium is awesome to behold. Don’t bother going inside, since you don’t have much time, but do pause to take a picture with one of the men posing as gladiators (if you’re [...]
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CANTERBURY, England: The large spire of a tower literally looms over the town. Turning left or right from one of the scores of small alleyways, the massive Cathedral sits there, peering at you from every angle, watching your every move and waiting, it seems, to launch an attack if you make the wrong move. This [...]
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