Colombia’s calling: Beaches to rival those of the Caribbean and some of the world’s most alluring cities – no wonder this beguiling country is the newest South America hotspot

by David Hibbins | Jan 31, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Deep in Tayrona National Park, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, a 10ft caiman raises its knobbly snout from the river, sending ripples towards fishermen who are standing waist-high in the water and casting out nets by hand.‘Isn’t that rather dangerous?’ I ask Diva, our...

Why isn’t it a more popular holiday destination? TikToker praises THIS spot for being ‘literally jam-packed full of cute things to do – including one definite bucket-list activity’

by David Hibbins | Jan 31, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Forget being merely a hotspot – South Korea is ‘on fire’, according to one TikTok traveller.Adriana Neptuna asks: ‘Why isn’t this a more popular holiday destination?’, adding: ‘It’s literally jam-packed full of cute...

Fiddler on the plane! Amazing moment Irish folk star pulls out his violin to entertain passengers on Ryanair flight to Canary Islands – before one of them breaks out into a spontaneous Riverdance

by David Hibbins | Jan 31, 2024 | Latest Travel News

This is the amazing moment a spontaneous folk music performance broke out on a Ryanair flight from Belfast to Lanzarote with a passenger playing the fiddle and another doing an unplanned Riverdance. Musician Sean Magee launched into a lively...

The search for Kingussie Kong: Watch as drone closes in on Japanese macaque on the run and hiding in woodland after escaping from Scottish zoo

by David Hibbins | Jan 31, 2024 | Latest Travel News

The first drone footage of an escaped Japanese snow monkey has been captured showing the animal strolling through woodland – just 300 yards from the park.After four days on the run, the primate, nicknamed Kingussie Kong, has still managed to evade recapture after...

Holiday firm On The Beach takes to social media to fire back at ‘abusive, snobby and fat-shaming’ trolls who took aim at advert showing family enjoying airport lounge access

by David Hibbins | Jan 31, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Holiday firm On The Beach has taken aim at social media users who have shared ‘abusive, snobby and fat-shaming’ views online.The package holiday firm said it had seen ‘an alarming number of posts’ taking aim at the family in its advert and this...

Say cheese! Artist trained two rats to take selfies… and they didn’t want to stop

by David Hibbins | Jan 31, 2024 | Latest Travel News

It turns out that humans are not the only mammals addicted to snapping selfies.A French artist spent two months training rats to push a small shutter button of a camera facing directly toward them in a photo booth-like machine – find the rodents pushed it a few...