Travel Briefs

The 39th annual Carriacou Regatta will take place July 25-Aug. 2, 2004. The most southerly of the Grenadines, Carriacou is the largest of the chain of islands between Grenada and St. Vincent. The festival is a salute to its sister island of Grenada’s art of boatbuilding, handed down by Irish and Scottish ancestors.

Race events focus mainly on the locally built “workboats,” ranging from 14 to 35 feet in length. Onshore festivities include the Miss Aquaval Queen Show, a donkey race, bicycle races, musical chairs, tug-o-war, a greasy pole competition (it’s suspended over the sea and...

In July, the Supreme Court of India banned all tourism and business activities within the “core areas” of all of its 25 national tiger reserves until states comply with the “core/buffer” management strategy laid out by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in 1972.

Protected core areas of at least 300 square kilometers are where tigers can find water, shelter and prey and breed in safety. Around these are “buffer areas” in which limited industry (logging, farming, grazing, etc.) as well as tourism lodges are allowed.

It is the states’ responsibility to notify...

The “Tali Wiru Experience,” a dinner served on an isolated dune with a view of Uluru and the distant Olgas, is offered April 1, 2012, to Jan. 15, 2013, by Ayers Rock Resort in Australia (phone +61 2 8296 8010, fax +61 2 9299 2103, e-mail travel@voyages.com.au). Tali wiru means “beautiful dune” in the Aboriginal language Anangu. For AUS295 (about $313) each, no more than 20 guests are picked up from the resort’s six hotels and taken to Tali Wiru, where they will walk 250 meters on soft sand to the top of the dune. Canapés and champagne are served as the sun sets, followed by a four-course...