What is hiding below the surface of Lake Titicaca? The AKAKOR team has searched in this expedition for traces after the dawn of civilization in the Andes. They wanted to prove the Akakor theory about that Lake Titicaca for 5,000 and 8,000 years ago was shallower, and also in some areas was dry and habitable. Already on an expedition in 2000 the AKAKOR team made some discoveries backing up their theory. Due to the more incredible finds the history has to be rewritten about pre-Incas civilizations.

Teotihuacán's mythological builders in Mexico's have so far managed to hide the secrets. By using advanced equipment archaeologists have revealed more of amazing Teotihuacán's history, the first major metropolis of the Americas. Teotihuacán was built by an unknown people almost 2,000 years ago. The site sits about 25 miles (40 kilometres) north of present-day Mexico City. Temples, palaces, and some of the largest pyramids on Earth line its ancient main street. The probably biggest unanswered questions about Teotihuacán concern is why the city was abandoned around A.D. 650?

How long will the Bushmen manage to retain their cultural heritage? Survivel International reported 8 October 2005 that dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.

The mysteries related to Stonehenge goes on, and even recent discoveries make it bigger. It`s probablably the most famous of all English Heritage Properties. Archaeologists discovered in May 2003 six more bodies near the grave of the so called King of Stonehenge.

The remains of four adults and two children were found at a site in Amesbury, close to where the Amesbury Archer was discovered the year before.

Ten o'clock Thursday night (20 October 2005), Kath my Aussie travelling companion has gone to bed. I walk toward the bridge over to Hanuman Ghat on Lake Pichola in Udaipur. This is the Venice of Rajasthan, an alluring, seductive city built by the Maharajas.

I am not ready for bed and I want some hard liquor to help me kill my cold. I wait for the first auto rickshaw to come along and I hail it.

During my tour in Jordan in July this year (2005), I talked to several Bedouins about Lawrence of Arabia, his lifestyle, preparation and attack on Aqaba. Who was he really? Is the movie about him telling the truth? His full name was Thomas Edward Lawrence, who lived from 1888 to 1935. He wrote the self biography Seven Pillars, but what think the Bedouins about him?

On Saturday 8 October this year (2005) a powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck the region bordering Pakistan, northern India, and Afghanistan. This quake is estimated to be responsible for at least 20,000 deaths in southern Asia, and the death toll may be as high as 30,000 according to local officials. Everybody can do something to help those affected by the earthquake! People who have passion for travelling care about other people. If you would like to donate to the relief effort, there are several organisations who offer both immediate and long term assistance as Care, Red Cross, Save the Children, UNICEF and others.

Take a virtual sightseeing tour around the world. By using the Google Earth-tool you have the whole globe inside your PC. You can point and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore. For example you can find the easiest way in Grand Canyon and the best route up to the top of Kilimanjaro before you go, and you can consider the efforts by studying the terrain. And the best of all: Google Earth is free for personal use.

Cato Zahl Pedersen (46) and his team reached the top of the sixth highest mountain in the world, Cho Oyo in Himalaya. The other six persons in the Norwegian team are: Stian Voldmo (29), Einar Osland (51), Brit Volden (44) Øyvin Thon, (46), Rune Snaprud (36) and Casper Ravnsbaek (26). Cato has just one arm and to make this arm working, he uses a prosthesis on the right arm. The team gives credit to the four sherpaes Tenzing, Tapa Kilo, Dawa Chiiri, who assisted them whole the way to the top, and also the cook Lat Sang, who waited for them in the Base Camp - all with Sherpa as surname.

After three years actively searching for squids - huge octopuses, the Japanese research team finally manage to capture one on film. The squid was 8.5 meters long and had 10 arms. This was the first time the species Architeuthis of squids became filmed by a robot camera. The research team, who was leaded by Tsunemi Kubodera from the Japanese National Research Institute in Tokyo, filmed the squid when it attacked a prey on 1000 metres deep outside the coast for the Japanese Bonin Islands in the Pacific.

What is going to happen in the future of leisure travel? What kind of adventures will the travellers demand? How will products, ways of communication, prices and information systems develop? The report "Tourism of Tomorrow, Travel Trends & Forces of Change" from May this year (2005), is worked out by Sara Nordin. She works as a researcher by the European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) in Sweden. Her specialising is innovation in the travel industry with emphasis on clusters and innovation systems.

This report is useful for tour operators, agents and other travel organisations for understanding the need in travel market and for being able to take advantage of it.

From Liverpool this beautiful song has spreaded around the world - even to the harsh deserts in Jordan. This song brings joy and happiness, and its joins people across nations, oceans, mountains and also deserts. I told the Bedouins about the fantastic football club Liverpool F.C. and the people from Liverpool. They stay together in good and bad times. Bedouins and people from Liverpool have very different lifestyle and culture, but one thing they have in common is unique hospitality and good guts.

Computer programmer Luca Mori discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa when he browsed Google Earth maps showing satellite images of his local area. In the beginning he thought it was just a spot on the map, but when he studied it more thoroughly he suspected it could be something else.

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