TripAtlas.com Olympic Torch Tracker


Follow along and countdown with TripAtlas.com while we track the Olympic Torch Relay this year for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics taking place in Beijing, China!

The Relay lasts 130 days and the torch is carried 137,000 km’s through destinations all over the world and throughout many of China’s cities and regions. The Torch was passed from Olympia in Greece to Beijing on March 31st, 2008 to relay throughout the world to finish again in Beijing on August 6-9th, 2008 when the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing begin.

Yungas Highway of Death, Bolivia: World's Most Dangerous Road

May 15, 2008 | comments | read on →

The World's Most Dangerous Road

The North Yungas Road or "El Camino de la Muerte" (Road of Death) is notoriously known as one of the world's most dangerous roads and is found in Bolivia, just near the northern Amazon Rainforest. Less vehicles drive along North Yungas today but it has become a popular tourist destination - read on to find out why.


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Honeymoon in Dubrovnik, Croatia: The Pearl of the Adriatic

May 14, 2008 | comments | read on →

Dubrovnik

Postcard perfect.

Explore all that Croatia and Dubrovnik, the Pearl of the Adriatic Sea, has to offer for your honeymoon. Explore medieval cities, ancient sites, to the nearby islands of Elaphiti, Lokrum, Kolocep, Lopud or Sipan and Mljet - the mythological island of Calypso and Homer.

Read on for more details on where you'll go, what you'll see and more!


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Mystery of the Sailing Stones: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley

May 12, 2008 | comments | read on →

Racetrack Playa

Located in Death Valley, California - one of The 5 Hottest Places in the World - is Racetrack Playa - the bottom of a dried-up lake in the midst of the mountainous desert of Death Valley National Park.

Racetrack Playa is best known for its "sailing stones" or "wandering stones." A natural geological phenomenon, the stones in this dried up lake are known to move completely on their own from one place to another - with the tracks to prove it.

A hoax, you say? Maybe it's aliens? Read on to find how the stones move!

 


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