A video of a Jet flying over the alps - Mont Blanc & the Matterhorn. Hold on tight as we fly at hundreds of miles per hour across the most famous mountains of the European Alps, a fantastic bird eyes view at high speed of the most majestic mountains.
The Westwood European band tour from the Canada winds its way through Italy in the summer of ‘06, stopping at the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. In this video you’ll get a view of the tower, wind your way up the narrow steps and take in the view from the top.
Nice slideshow of a Los Angeles resident Aaron Salcido’s trip to Greece in 2004. Includes Athens and some Island Hopping. Nice job looping the photos with the great music. Length: 3:48 minutes.
If you have not yet downloaded Google Earth and traveled the globe, you’re missing out. This video by Google will demonstrate their new “3D Building” layer by taking you on a tour through the hotels and casinos of Las Vegas, Nevada, in three dimensions. It’s as if you are flying through it yourself. It’s a truly insane program.
With its wonderful stretch of Adriatic coast, many consider Croatia as one of the most beautiful parts of Europe. The war in the early 1990’s interrupted its booming tourist industry, but it has since come back strongly. Locally called Hrvatska, the country has a great number of national parks, mountains, lowlands beaches and over 1,000 incredible islands.
A beautiful video that begins with a helicopter taking the mountaineers to the base of the Swiss Alps near the Matterhorn, follows some of their climb, and shows lots of gorgeous scenery. It’s a lot more scenery than mountaineering, but that’s okay—the view is incredible and it’s worth the watch.
Join in a Nouba Wedding. The Nouba group populates different parts of Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan, they live mostly on the Nile river banks and they rely on farming and fishing for the most part of their living. The filmmaker believes this particular ceremony was performed by the Egyptian Noubas. Silk Wedding Flowers
Awesome, incredible, beautiful, exhilarating, relaxing, brilliant, memorizing. Those are just some of the words that quickly come to mind as I watch this time-lapse video of Vancouver which was taken from the flimmaker’s condo in Yaletown, Vancouver, Canada. He used a simple Canon miniDV cam and using BTV Pro software on his Apple computer.
There’s not much I can say about this video slide show except that it gives you an absolutely gorgeous tour of Norway. Not many photos of any cities or towns, and lots of natural beauty of the country and coastline. Filmed in July 2006, the photos are beautiful and is making me consider traveling there soon. silk flowers
Mark and Shayla get a new boat and away they go off Maui, Hawaii to sound conch shell for whalesong. Serious whales. They warn to not try this video on your own. Whales are very large, intelligent creatures who come to Maui in the winter to spawn. They do not eat while in Maui but go back to Alaska in the summer to eat. You’ll see beautiful scenery, huge whales and “undiscovered” beaches. Spend the ten minutes and relax with this peaceful video.
Here are some of the adventures of “Modern Gonzo” who take a tour around the world, after he cashed in his insurance money from an accident. Hanggliding, spelunking, crazy people and . it’s not quite the Crocodile Hunter - but there’s plenty of Gonzo madness. He manages to visit 24 countries in five continents in 12 months.
Here’s a future traveller that will know where he is going! Watch this little preschooler being quizzed by (I assume) his father on the capitals of the fifty states of the United States of America, and the capitals of the countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and the other Americas. It’s extraordinarily cute and he’s phenomenally smart. You’ll love it. He not perfect, but he comes pretty close. But it doesn’t matter. Once you watch it, you’ll see why I decided to include it. So, worry you don’t get a real travel video today, but I thought you’d enjoy this.
A great video six minute video of the incredible Taj Mahal. The Tāj Mahal, generally considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements of Persian and Indian, is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. Construction began in 1632 and was completed in 1648. Sit back and enjoy, and hope you get the chance to see it in person some day.
Here’s a beautifully done film showing some of the most famous places in Prague in the Czech Republic. Wonderful music by Mozart accompanies the video. I’m assuming the filmmaker lives in Praque because he’s created several films of the city, which we also include on the page once you click through. That’s three films of Prague for you.
Here’s a raw video of and by some Americans who traveled to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In this six minute video, you’ll join these tourists as they visit markets and other everyday spots, especially navigating the streets in pedal-power taxis. Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong River delta. The metropolitan area which consists of Ho Chi Minh city metro area, Bien Hoa, Thu Dau Mot and surrounding towns has more than 9 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in Vietnam and Indochina.
