Finding yourself in a Mediterranean village just 10 kilometers from Budapest is one of the surprises the Danube offers up to travelers. The small town of Szentendre (Saint Andrew) is the gateway to the Danube Bend, a curve of Hungary’s most majestic river. The town retains its 18th and 19th century appearance and atmosphere.
With a population of approximately 26 000, to this day the customs and traditions of Serbs who fled the Turkish hoards at the end of the 17th century are kept al
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Spend a few days in Charleston South Carolina's Low Country and you'll either hear about Wild Dunes Resort or be staying there. An iconic beach getaway across the harbor from downtown Charleston in Isle of Palms, Wild Dunes is a sanctuary from everyday hassles. This means you're not even getting inside the gates unless you're on the guest list or show your pass.
The resort's 1600 acre chunk of barrier island wasn't always so intensely developed. Long the stomping grounds of Sewee Natives and loca
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Itatiaia National Park is the first and so also the oldest National Park of Brazil. It was inaugurated in 1937 and covers almost 30.000 hectares of the
larger Environmental Protection Area of the Mantiqueira mountain range.
Getting there from Rio de Janeiro is a +/- 200 km drive via the BR116 (Rio – São Paulo). The distance from São Paulo is about 250 Km. I’m
lucky to live in Volta Redonda, which is only 80km from the park.
Veu da Noiva (bride's veil) waterfall in Itatiaia
How to get ther
To-morrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn’d his clothes,
And dupp’d the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
#1. The Seductive One: Rome
The country of pizza, pasta, good wine, beautiful women and romantic architecture dating back from the past! The cultural heritage and exquisite Italian cuisine are certainly a deeply touching and f
Es el barrio de la alegría. Bellavista, situado entre el río Mapocho y el Cerro de San Cristóbal de Santiago de Chile, apabulla con tanto colorido y tanta juventud con ganas de comerse el mundo. En los siglos XVII y XVIII era el lugar donde la aristocracia levantaba sus mansiones. Luego llegaron los intelectuales y artistas, como el Premio Nobel Pablo Neruda, que se mudó a su casa La Chascona en 1955 (actualmente la vivienda se puede visitar y constituye uno de los alicientes del barrio).
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When did it stop being an experience and more of a package, a deal, a search result?
Travel has turned into an obsession for the cheapest airfare, cheapest hotel room and pretty much the lowest, cheapest cost for anything and every thing related to travel.
Wasn't so long ago that airlines, the most "commodified" of the travel experience, were sufficiently different from each other that you could tell them apart.
There were differences in food served, space between rows of seats, service, in-
Costa Rica continues to be a magnet for adventure racing, high-endurance extreme sports and triathlons. Top international athletes travel to Costa Rica several times a year for sport competitions and events.
The north Pacific Guanacaste region is one of the most popular zones for extreme endurance events. In early March 2014, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) will hold the 2014 Pan American Cup at Playa Hermosa in Guanacaste. The XTERRA off-road triathlon race comes to Costa Rica also in M
Many times people ask me what is the best way to travel around Europe. Well I have toured England and Europe by car and train, but definitely the best way to get around Europe was on a cruise ship. For many seasons I cruised the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Here are my top ten reasons for picking a cruise ship over train or road. If you have any more reasons to add please let me know.
Recently at the Castel Monastero, in the rolling hills of Tuscany’s Chianti region, the famed medieval, five-star one-of-a-kind hotel hosted a Bulgari art exhibit of famous actresses of the 50s and 60s. The famed Italian jewelry house, Bulgari has brought back a star-studded collection of esteemed precious stones worn by dynamic divas of the 50s and 60s. On screen goddesses who personified an era of elegance, style and taste. The Bulgari exhibit included photos of Italian starlets Sophia Loren
Josh Cellars, by Joseph Carr, proves two things: a winemaker doesn’t have to have a vineyard or a winery to produce excellent wines, and second labels can be intoxicatingly delicious values.
Joseph Carr embraces his designation as “the negociant of Napa Valley”. A “negociant” is a wine merchant who assembles either the grapes or the wine of smaller growers and winemakers, and sells the product under its own name. Mr. Carr uses the Larson Family Vineyards’ facilities in Sonoma, California to m
Even when the tourist season is over, Morocco still retains all its charm, offering visitors a fantastic opportunity to discover the country from a different perspective. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that winter is the ideal season for a trip to Morocco.
At this time of year, the monuments and museums are far from packed, making it the perfect time to take the kids on a tour of the splendours of this kingdom, offering them an intriguing insight into the country’s glorious past, which dates
Los pueblos de alta cultura construyeron imponentes ciudades, con excelente disposición urbanística, barrios destinados a diversos fines o distintos estratos sociales, calles, avenidas, plazas delante de sus templos y palacios, más enormes plazas centrales. Así fue el Cusco de los incas.
Cuando Manco Cápac y su tribu llegaron a las cumbres del los cerros que están al sur de la ciudad del Cusco, que en conjunto se llaman Huanacauri, divisaron el valle del Cusco, lo hallaron poblado por diversas n
If bird-watching is your passion, then you definitely want to add Costa Rica to your “Top 10 list of places to go birding.” The small Central American country is home to more than 870 bird species – more than in all of the United States, Canada and Mexico combined – and is a bird-watching hotspot. A single day of bird-watching in this enchanted corner of the globe can earn sightings of up to 85 to 150 different species.
Costa Rica’s strategic location in the tropics bridging North and South Ameri
Next to dropping your camera in the water, the next worst thing has to be losing your memory- that is your camera's memory. All your photos stored on one little card, GONE!
An ounce of prevention
Don't buy the biggest memory card you can afford and try to store your entire vacation on that single card. Lose or zap the card and there goes all your vacation photos. So if you were thinking of getting one 32Gig card, buy four 8Gig. Same storage and certainly less risk.
You can use different strate
If you’re vacationing in Cancun, on the Mayan Riviera, the Costa Maya, or elsewhere on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, coast or the majestic Maya archaeological ruins of the interior (highly recommended), you’ll stumble across – and hopefully not into – cenotes (“say-NO-tess,” from the Maya dzonot). These are good-size, sometimes enormous, sinkholes, often filled with water, and the limestone of the Yucatan peninsula is riddled with thousands of them. The first time I came across one was during a v
por Cristóbal Ramírez
Tiene fama de gris, aburrida, sin alma, burocrática… No haga caso de los tópicos, porque Bruselas puede resultar en principio todo eso, pero a nada que uno rasca descubre su esencia.Lo que define a la capital europea, sede del parlamento de todo un continente, es su condición de cruce de caminos. Está llena de gente de cualquier procedencia que se echa a la calle después de las largas jornadas laborales. Un chocolate, un café, una cerveza, una cena… Y así se van encadenando
When I was 20, Jimmy Carter was President and I summered in Greece, sleeping on the beaches, drinking Retsina wine, gobbling Moussaka. Retsina has been around for 2000 years, evolving from the practice of sealing wine casks
with pine resin. It is, to say the least, an acquired taste. In the 1970s, Retsina was synonymous with Greek wine, and remains the EU’s name for the Greek Appellation. Greek vintner Alexander Megapanos says wine is a product of its civilization, and should “represent its
Think of the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta and chances are that your first thoughts gravitate towards a beach vacation. The majority of visitors are North American, neighbors from the United States and Canada, escaping a colder climate, for a bit of fun in the sun. Offering over 300 days of sunshine, adventures on the are endless. Perhaps a surf lesson in Sayulita, a round of golf in Nuevo Vallarta, snorkeling at Los Arcos, deep sea fishing and scuba diving in the Marietta Islands are
Sandwiched between North and South America and two oceans, Costa Rica is an amazing bridge of biodiversity bursting with natural wonders. For such a small country, it is home to more than 500,000 species; 250 of which are mammals.
Costa Rica’s south Pacific region of Golfo Dulce (Sweet Gulf) is one of the most intense zones for plants and animals. Surrounded by the Corcovado National Park, Piedras Blancas National Park, and Golfito Wildlife National Refuge, Golfo Dulce is wild jungle at its best
How do action-less, people-less, laughter-less, romance-less, love-less videos emotionally engage and move us? Move us to book or buy?
VFLeonardo is an acknowledged leader in the art of visual storytelling, promoting their services to the travel industry and beyond.
Their recent webinar was called “Lets Get Visual: The Power of Telling Your (Hotel’s) Story Through Video.”
The webinar made some solid points, among which were:
• Video drives a 150% increase in organic search traffic
• We are a v
