by admin on March 2, 2010
HostelsClub, in accordance with Hostellling International – Boston Downtown, HI-DC and HI-New York hostels, are proud to announce that Ellen Yoshie Sudo Lutif won the 2010 USA Winter Special Free Accommodation Giveaway!!
We appreciate her choosing HostelsClub.com when organizing her trips and as a way to say thank you, HostelsClub.com and Hostelling International – Boston Downtown are going to give her a free stay for up to two weeks amongst the three top American East Coast cities: New York City, Washington, D.C. and Boston for up to two people in the dorm style bedrooms at those Hostelling International locations!!
HostelsClub wishes Ellen happy and safe travels!
Find out how to win and take advantage of more HostelsClub specials!
by admin on February 25, 2010
Staying at any of the Munich hostels, you can enjoy this vibrant city with room in your budget for beer. Don’t wait for Oktoberfest to visit the beer gardens at Englischer Garten, which houses the nude garden and is a charming natural oasis right in the city, or choose one of many smaller local beer gardens.
Munich is a historic city with plenty of palaces and ancient castles, including Cinderella’s castle in Neuschwanstein. See the Devil’s footprint at Frauenkirche, or remember more recent evil at Dachau memorial. Don’t forget to visit the Glockenspiel at Munich’s famous New Town Hall. Many of these sites are close to Munich hostels, and many hostels in Munich offer day tours to further-out attractions.
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by admin on February 23, 2010
Check out The Hostel Life! It’s a new web based travel show about hosteling. The host Medhy is travelling around the world on a limited budget, and reporting it all on his website. The coolest thing is you get a say in where he goes to next.
You can check out his site to see the latest episodes and get some first hand fresh intel on places you want to visit, then participate in deciding his next destination.
Informative and entertaining!
by admin on February 18, 2010
Many backpackers dream of trekking in new and exciting places – places where few have gone before – but this is a difficult goal with tourism opening all over the globe. No less exciting is the prospect of going where many have gone before. A long, long time before.
Angkor, Cambodia (9th c AD to 15th c AD)
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by admin on February 18, 2010
The concentration and extermination camp in Auschwitz is the most famous symbol of the Holocaust and Nazi cruelty in the world. It’s located in the town of Oświęcim near Krakow in Poland. Those territories were under the German control during World War II. This place shows us the amount of Nazi war crimes and made us find out the borders of humanity. Visiting Auschwitz is something that you’ll never forget.
The concentration camp in Auschwitz came into being in 1940. It was the first and the biggest Nazi camp in Poland. The camp was divided in a few parts, the main one was Auschwitz I – the camp of compulsory work and the administration centre, and Auschwitz II – Birkenau – the extermination camp, where people were kept in inhuman conditions and murdered in gas chambers. It’s very hard to estimate the real number of victims killed in Auschwitz. Different sources estimate that it was from 1,1 million to even 4 million people.
Two years after the end of the war, a part of camp was renovated and turned into a museum. Nowadays the Auschwitz extermination camp is almost completely reconstructed and changed into the most important exhibition regarding the Holocaust in the world. The camp is inscribed under the UNESCO list of global heritage.
The image leaving you with the greatest impression is by the Wall of Executions with exhibitions featuring clothes, shoes and even hair of prisoners, information about cruel, pseudo-medical experiments pursued on humans and the former cell of Maksymilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who sacrificed his life for another prisoner and finally starved to death. Also very touching, is the exhibition about the cultural life in the camp, which describes how prisoners were preserving their culture. They were composing music, writing poems and preparing performances to forget about sorrow and keep their humanity. [click to continue…]
