Travel Stories and News for 3/30/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

Below is a list of travel stories and news for 3/30/2009

Hit the Appalachian Trail – via Washington Post
It’s more than 2,175 miles long and passes through 14 states from Georgia to Maine. It climbs mountains, plunges into river valleys and even finds its way into town from time to time. It provides ample opportunity to sprain or fracture things best left unmolested. It gets hot. It gets cold. There are bugs — all sorts of bugs, many of them sworn to evil. Ultimately, it rigorously tests, both mentally and physically, one’s sheer locomotive drive. What’s not to love? But in fact there is much to love, and you doubtless know already that I’m writing about the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the most celebrated footpath in America. You’ve been threatening to through-hike it for years. So no more excuses.
Download and Go: Do-it-Yourself Walking Tours of Great Cities – via frommers
Paper or audio, there are plenty of options for downloadable walking tours of the world’s great cities, and many just happen to be free. So before you set out on that next great world tour, you may want to spend a little time scouring the internet for specialized, themed, and generalist tours of your favorite destinations. We’ve done a bit of the hard work for you and here are a few tours to get you started

National Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. – via Gadling
There are 3,700 cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, the partially man-made inlet along the Potomac River between the Jefferson Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. Thanks to an initiative that started back in 1912 with a gift of cherry trees from Japan to the U.S., this stretch of the capitol is awash in pink for a two weeks each year.

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