Stonehenge outside London, the ancient city Petra in Jordan, Colosseum i Rome, Machu Picchu, Cusco in Peru, Angkor Wat in Cambodia. These places are considered as the world's 5 most over-rated ancient and historical sites in a new book called The Road Less Travelled. So where can we find more interested places to experience?

National Geographic encourage people to send in their best photos in three categories: People, Places, and Nature. In the photo contest participants have a chance to win a digital camera kit and get their images printed in National Geographic magazine.

What are the world's top destinations, places that every curious traveller should visit in a lifetime? Could it be cities as Amsterdam, Athens, Rome, Bangkok, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Jerusalem, Beijing, Los Angeles or other places? Join National Geographic`s poll, and vote for the city you most like to visit!

UNESCO launched the electronic version of the new edition of its Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger on 19 February 2009. This interactive digital tool provides updated data about approximately 2,500 endangered languages around the world and can be continually supplemented, corrected and updated, thanks to contributions from its users.

The locations were determined by an analysis from the website that is visited by about 25 million users a month. New Zealand topped the international survey.The Greek island of Rhodes was voted on Thursday as the top European location in a survey of the world's 100 best travel destinations.The Austrian capital Salzburg was the next most favourite European destination while the spa resort town of Bath was the highest-ranking British destination.

In 1975 the Cambodian born US journalist Dith Pran became arrested by the Khmer Rouge. Fortunately he manage to escape after a while in an incredible way. His story shocked the world, and he became later the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields. Dith Pran died recently after combating cancer through almost three months. His memory will live forever!

See the complete list worked out by Forbes.

The tour operator Coex Amazon is specialised in offering adventurous expeditions with an eco-cultural profile. It offers 5 different expeditions for experience Peru’s exotic and wild nature. We break through the jungle by river boats, on the horseback and trekking, tells the owner and manager Oyvind Wesseltoft.

Are you ready for exploring off beaten tracks in Peru? Then the pioneering tour operator Coex Amazon in Peru can offer you something special on its expedition tours. Coex Amazon attended the Norway International Meeting and Travel Fair, Reiseliv, for the second time. According the establisher and owner Oyvind Wesseltoft it’s so much undiscovered in the Peru, especially in the dense Amazon jungle.

Svalbard was presented on the 21st Norway International Meeting and Travel Fair - Reiseliv 08, from 10 - 13 January 2008. On Svalbard genuine adventurers can experience arctic wildlife, glaciers, large icebergs and a surrounding landscape of vast mountains and tundra.

On Norway International Meeting and Travel fair 2008, representatives from Iceland focused on the Vatnajokull glacier. When USA prepared to send men to the moon in the 1960s, the organisation NASA used Vatnajokull as a training ground. Some scenes from the recent James Bond movies have been shot there. A more dramatic landscape can hardly be found in the world!

The organiser Reiseliv 2008 will have a special focus on facilitating increased sales for exhibitors. Reiseliv offer them a bustling marketplace, access to professional buyers of business travel, leisure travel, course and conference services. Thousands of travel enthusiasts will attend this travel fair at Lillestrøm near Oslo from 11 - 13 January. Get ready for the big sales rush!

The world famous website for expedition news, ExplorersWeb, has covered nearly thousand expeditions in 2007. The staff write on its website: it's difficult to choose the best, as they all contributed in their own way, sharing their story - their very soul in fact - with us and the world.

The travel fair Reiseliv 2008, Lillestrøm, Oslo, is a venue for Inspiration – Experiences – Exhibition offers – Planning! News are: Tanzania, Gambia, Libya, Kenya with Wild Kenya’s Adventure Safari, Mali in Vest-Africa, Mongolia and Philippine in Asia, Serbia with Beograd, Moldova, Lithuanian and Hong Kong will attend the fair this year. Also the Caribbean island Aruba. In addition tour operators offer new countries to go to.

In this article you find extract from stories and selected photos from exciting journeys during 2007. Our freelance journalists around the world have the ability to tell stories that make it interesting for others to read. Their journeys in Laos, Guatemala, Central America, Malta and Finland are about unique adventures, explorations and meeting of nice people with different lifestyle and culture than themselves. Here are our highlights from 2007......