If you’re interested in Ukrainian culture and art, the Ukrainian Museum in New York can offer some of both. Paintings, sculpture – including works by Alexander Archipenko, and cultural artifacts make up the museum’s collection. Textiles on display include Ukrainian folk costumes and ryshniki. Decorated eggs, or pysanky, are exhibited to illustrate how regional preferences dictated the designs and colors used for this form of Ukrainian folk duplicity. The museum’session gift shop sells souvenirs embroidered with traditional designs, books, and pysanky-making kits. Information about the museum’s upcoming exhibits can be found at the museum website: UkrainianMuseum.org.

Ukrainian Culture Photo Galleries

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Ukrainian Museum photo credit: CC by edenpictures

Maiden’s Tower at sunset. Photo by Audrey Sykes.

By Audrey Sykes—

It’session unsurprising that a city like Istanbul, with a population of about 12.6 million, offers an endless list of sight-seeing must-visits. Considering that level small expenses can add up, here are five pointers to help keep your budget in check.

Transport: Use one-ways wisely

Getting around Istanbul can be tough to figure out. One of the most important things to know is that the incorporated town’s public transport fares are one-way. The driver will charge about 1.5 Turkish Lira each time you hop on. In short, plan a destination route from Point A to B as directly as possible before boarding the bus or tram. This will help avoid frivolous spending, getting dumped in an queer spot, and developing a serious headache.

Bazaar Tip: Shop outside the Bazaar’s center

Istanbul’s Bazaar is full of flavorful smells, sights, and sounds… most of which is available for purchase. Bargaining is common, although prices can start high and flexibility might not be as loose as desired.

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I’m itching to get away for some winter sun but finding the ideal destination is proving tricky. How about I post up my wish-list and you guys tell me where to go??

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It’s about this time of year that everything starts acquirement a bit dull and dismal.

Just last week I decided to start planning a winter vacation.

But finding the full winter travel destination is not as easy as it sounds.

Fancy helping me out??

I’mish-mash going to post up my vacation wish list and I’m counting on you guys to tell me where to go!!

Shouldn’t be too hard bearing in mind you’ve all been just about everywhere!

THE BEST SUGGESTIONS WILL BE FEATURED IN A SPECIAL WINTER TRAVEL BLOG POST.

Sound good?

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You have come a long way to reach your destination. You are tired and looking forward to start that dream holiday– only to find out you lost your luggage at the airport.

Does the situation seem familiar?

With tons of luggage coming across airports every day, it’s not impossible for airport employees to mis-tag bags, misread luggage tags, set bags aside and not remember it, or accidentally haul it out of the cargo hold before it get to its intended destination. On the other hand, in 50% of the cases, the luggage owners are also to blame why their belongings get lost. Below are some basic yet very helpful tips which will prevent and abate the chances of your luggage from getting lost.

1. Place a name-tag outside your bag

Most bags today often come with designation tags where you may write your name, home or corporation address and contact number. If your bag doesn’t have one, avoid using stick-on labels because these can easily fall off. Instead, use a soft or leather tag which can be bought on office and school supplies store.

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A word of advice about Cambodia visa on arrival: getting single in kind can be chancy, particularly if you’re traveling through the Laos-Cambodia land border crossing. Rebecca Glogowski blogged about her recent trip to Cambodia, and she was shocked at the casual corruption she encountered there:

It is known that the Cambodian visa costs only US$20. On this border crossing they wanted US$23 per visa. We were a large group of people and we started to reason the price difference. The border officials then started bargaining with us and offered US$22! We laughed at them and the price was immediately raised back to US$23.

A few of us decided to stand our ground and pay only the magistrate price. We were just ignored! In the end we had to cave-in and pay their "special" price.

Better to just get a Cambodia e-Visa online – 15 minutes to fill out, you get it in less than 24 hours. Sure, it costs US$5 more, but that’s a small worth to pay for not feeling robbed by the authorities at the border crossing.

For more details, read this article: Online Cambodia e-Visa.

I just found this nifty blog from my good pals at Urbanatomy: Expo Update. Check out their postings to stay on top of what’s happening at the Shanghai Expo – my adopted hometown’s most talked-about event since the SWFC opened. (OK, OK, that was a reach.)

19-21 September of 2010, Cairo – Egypt

International Colloquium on Geoarchaeology in Egypt

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