Thursday, March 25, 2010

Route for the Castles of the Loire

To do a route for the castles of the Loire is one of the best forms of knowing this area of France, of a big beauty and of a very rich past as for art and history. The truth is that it is worth discovering this area of France, in which in addition to enjoying the castles, you will be able to enjoy a few exceptional sceneries.

castle

From the trips blog, some of the points tell you that you cannot get lost:

  • Angers: you her will find along with the river Maine, a tributary of the Loire. He is worth visiting his castle, in which there is a collection of carpets of the Middle Age with scenes of the Apocalypse, and the Romanesque cathedral, which has a few shop windows of big artistic value, which date of the XIIth century.
  • The Usé castle is worth it a visit, not in vain it is the one that, apparently, inspired Perrault to write his story The beautiful sleeping one.
  • There are great the castles concerning which we will find beautiful gardens, but that of Villandry stands out because theirs are of geometric design. It is worth stopping in the coffee of the building, which is of Renaissance and very nice style.
  • Also he emphasizes the Castle of six checkers, in Chenonceau, one of most visited of this area, which is along with the river Cher. One of the galleries of the castle exitiende on the river, an almost magic place.
  • The Blois castle is other of the most curious, since it is formed by four wings and each of them has a different architectural style. It is worth approaching to the city and going for a walk for the ancient historical helmet.
  • That of Cheverny is other of the curious castles, since it was the one that served as I shape Hergé to create the Castle of Molinsart in The Clink adventures.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Air companies and cheap flights in Australia

Australia is an enormous country, and there is a big distance between his most important cities. If you are of tourism in this country, you have that knowledge that the trips in train are very expensive, and in bus it is taken very much. The best option is to fly but: how to do it and what are the companies of flights that operate in Australia?

Qantas


First of all you have the company Tiger Airways, perhaps the cheapest of all. There are flights for less than 50 dollars of Melbourne to Sidney, or of Sidney to the Gold Coast. Nevertheless, sometimes, if you are succeeded in finding, there are discounts, and the flights go out for you for less than 30 dollars. Of course, you must bear in mind the expenses for 6 dollars in valuations for reserving for Internet.

The baggage limit with Tiger Airways is a handbag of not more than seven kilos. The baggage can be invoiced, but if they overcome more than 15 kilos, you will have to pay 15 dollars at the moment of the reservation. If you invoice in the counter, perhaps the enclosed price raises something more.

Other one of the companies áereas in Australia is Jetstar. This company allows free hand luggages up to 10 kilos. The invoiced baggage of more than twenty kilos will have to pay ten dollars at the moment of doing the reservation, and slightly more in the counter, cost that can come up to 80 dollars, for what better knowledge is what baggage you are going to take the day of the reservation.

Jetstar offers the Friday Tariff, with a series of very cheap national and international routes. The routes promise to be on the same Friday, and can be reserved by Internet between the 16.00 and 20.00 hours of this day. There are offers that go from 79 dollars of Adelaide to Perth, or 19 dollars up to Tasmania.

Another company that operates in Australia is Virgin Blue. It is not so cheap as Tiger, but nevertheless it has the best tariffs between the 12.00 and 13.00 hours, in a species of happy hour of the flights. During this hour it is possible to reserve for Internet the cheapest flights of Australia with this line.

Finally we have Qantas, the national airline of Australia excellently. Of course, it has the most expensive prices, although at the time of invoicing, it allows free baggage up to 23 kilos. Ademñás, in the long flights offers sandwiches, movies and other free services in the plane. Perhaps cost a little the sorrow to pay a little more, especially if the flight is long.

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Palace of Kensington in London, living history of England

It is true that it is necessary to try to have time to visit London. There are so many things for seeing … Nevertheless, today we stop in the famous Palace of Kensington, a very remembered place, especially if we approach the history of sadly missing person Lady I Gave.

Palace Kensington London England

The Palace of Kensington is located in Chelsea, along with Bayswater Road, in the door of entry of the famous Notting Hill.

The history of this palace begins at the end of the XVIIth century, when king Guillermo III and the queen Maria II want to escape of the cold that reigns in the Palace of Whitehall, placed along with the Thames. They decide to buy Nottingham House in Kensington Village, which for the epoch was withdrawn enough from London.

They decorate it and turn it into an authentic palace. Nevertheless, it would be king Jorge I who really dedicates his time to the Palace of Kensington, dedicating his efforts to him and extending it, hiring big artists of the epoch to decorate his walls.

Really he had left so well that, to his death, Jorge II, his successor, turned the Palace of Kensington into his principal residence, settling there with his wife, the queen Carolina. Nevertheless, with the premature death of Carolina, king Jorge could not see in him any more than the memories of his wife, and he neglected the palace.

The palace did not recover his heyday again up to the arrival of the queen Victoria, who precisely was born in Kensington. Today even it is possible to visit the room where he was born and the room where it was baptized. Also, in your trip you will know the place where Victory slept like princess and got up like queen, since the dawn of June 20, 1837, his uncle was dying, and llea he was inheriting the crown of England.

It was the moment in which the queen Victoria left Kensington to go to live to the Buckingham Palace. Nevertheless, he never forgot the place where he was born, and the day of his 80 birthdays, the queen Victoria wanted to open to the public the palace.

In the last decades, who gave him fame again to the Palace of Kensington was Lady Di, the princess Diana Welsh, who lived there during the marriage with Prince Carlos, and just before his death. His children, Guillermo and Enrique, also were living with her in Kensington.

It is sure that you still will remember the thousands of branches of flowers that, days after the death of Diana, the Englishmen and persons come from all the corners of the world, they deposited in the doors of the Palace of Kensington, in memory of Diana. Precisely, from Kensington it divided the funeral procession of the princess up to the religious office in the Abbey of Westminster.

Nowadays, in the Palace of Kensington there live three cousins of the queen Elizabeth II, and the persons who work so much for the queen as for Prince Carlos have apartments in Kensington. There can be done visits guided to the palace, which last one hour and a half, or simply walk along his gardens. Nevertheless, do visit this living history of England.

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Essential visits in Salamanca

Salamanca is a city full of history. The truth is that if you have time it is worth it that you stop to contemplate everything what it has to offer you, but if you go with the just time, there is a series of visits that are really essential.

salamanca


From the trips blog, we tell you what you must not get lost in your visit to Salamanca:

  • Two cathedrals: the old Cathedral, of the XII - XIIIth century and the New Cathedral, of the XVIIth they give us idea of the importance that had this city. If you want, you can realize a holding a permit itinerary that will take you for the cloister, the towers and the museum. Especially nice in the night, with the illuminated fronts.
  • The House of the Conches is one of the signs of identity of Salamanca, a Gothic palace decorated with plateresque elements. It is called this way because in his front there are approximately 300 conches of Santiago.
  • The University, through which a flourishing stage lived, stands out for his fronts, and it is different of the visits that we cannot allow doing.
  • The Biggest Square is different of the essential visits. She is one of the nicest of the whole Castile designed by Alberto de Churriguera, she relies on with 88 semicircular arches. It is one of the principal centers of social life of the city, and also it is advisable to sit down in one of his patios (if it is nice) and to enjoy the conference.
  • The Orchard of Calisto and Melibea is an essential visit for the lovers of the literature, since he remembers us to the literary work. It is an urban park of Arab inspiration that opens every day of free form.
  • San Esteban and Santa Maria of the Proprietors are two of the most significant temples of the city. In the convent of San Esteban we see elements of the late Gothic and Renaissance men and in the church of the Proprietors, of 1419, see clear examples of plateresque Spanish.

Certainly, that in the convent of the Proprietors can buy to themselves sweets prepared by the nuns: very advisable.

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Roman ruins in Croatia

It is sure that you know cities as Split and Dubrovnik, on the beach of Croatia, tourist destinations of the first level. Nevertheless, there are other jewels in this country where to be able to contemplate wonderful Roman ruins.

Polish

Croatia is a country that mixes beautiful beaches and fascinating historical destinations. We move to the north of Croatia, for example, to visit Polish. There you will see a Roman Circus, very similar to the Coliseum of Rome, dominating the outskirts of the city. This ancient building is surrounded with modern constructions. In this amphitheater concerts are celebrated during the summer.

You can come to Pula perfectly both in bus and in car, and it is possible to cover in one day. In addition to visiting the Roman Circus, we recommend to you to walk along his shops or to sit down in a patio to taste the wonderful wine of Croatia. If you decide for staying at Pula, you will have time to see other monuments, in addition to beaches and beautiful coves.

Polish it is in the Istria region. To the south-west of this region we find the Channel of Fazana, between the continent and the Islands Brijuni. There is a brief sail from the continent across Fazana. From the ship you can see the National park, which lodges a series of Roman ruins in the Bay of Verige and a fortitude of the Age of the Bronze in Kolci.

In this national park also you have the opportunity to stay, to make excursions for the whole archipelago, senderismo, contemplate birds and do even up to a child safari to see the most ancient olive trees of the Mediterranean.

Also you will see a small museum in the island, which lodges an exhibition of photos of the ancient Yugoslavian president Tito. From the decade from 1940 to 1970, Tito lived in the island. The photos gather the testimony of his life in the islands of Brijuni, in addition to the famous visitors who have been his guests.

Croatia is one of the countries that in the last years tourist has experienced a major heyday. Thanks to God, the worst times they have already happened, and thousands are the tourists who approach up to his beaches. Nevertheless, as véis, the Croatian coast also has other big attractions. From his excellent gastronomy, his wines, his impressive scenery, the national parks, lakes as those of Plitvice and Krka, and the Roman ruins … Croatia is to know it.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Guidebook of Turin

Turin is a city that is located on the banks of the river Po, with really nice sceneries and that is worth knowing. One of the nicest corners of Italy, which has great that to offer to the visitors.

turin


How to come?

The airport of Turin receives direct flights from Spain, for example, from Madrid and Girona. From the airport it is easy to come to the center of the city, since there is very good combination in train and in bus.

What to see?

The delight of Turin is countless. Of the city it is possible to obtain one of the best conference from the Mount of the Capuchins, which is in the Southeast. From the lookout an ideal place one can contemplate a sight of the whole city, undoubtedly, for the lovers of the photo.

The tower of the Mass Antonelliana, one of the symbols of Turin, stands out in this sight. It was constructed by the target that it was a synagog in the XIXth century and nowadays it is the head office of the National museum of the Movies, a visit that the lovers of the seventh art cannot allow doing.

It is worth knowing the ancient center of Turin and for it, the best option is to do it on foot. Along 18 kilometers of galleries porticadas, we will find theaters, museums and coffees in which to stop to do a rest and to be enjoyed of the Italian coffee.

He emphasizes the Cathedral, of the XVth century, or the church of the St Lawrence and the Palace Madama, from baroque style. In the Route Rome there are shop windows of the best international fashionable signatures, ideal for the lovers of the buys.

San Carlo is worth stopping also in the square, in that he emphasizes the emblematic coffee Torino, famous person for his chocolate and his 28 types of coffee of his letter. Also here we will find big candy stores quantity.

About the center grew Borgo Nuovo, that a visit is worth it he gives birth var to the impressive baroque mansions, many of them constructed when the Savoy they were supervised by the city.

Others of the visits that must not allow being done are the Bridge of Umberto I, on the river Po, which joins the Courthouse with the Park Valentino, ideal to contemplate the evening.

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Sap: trip to Vietnam in the center of Prague

We were in Prague and it turned out to be curious to us to begin seeing a series of Vietnamese walking along the city. Suddenly, we double a corner and meet Sapa, or what is the same, a kidling Hanoi in full heart of the Czech capital.

Sapa


Sapa is a Vietnamese flea market to the south of Prague. Most of the articles that we will see here come from China. The best thing of everything is that they are very cheap, authentic bargains that, if you haggle good, can turn into the best memory of your trip.

In Sapa you will find a little of everything. Clothes, Vietnamese meal as rice, noodles, grasses, spices, meats and another series of products that you will not see on any other market of Prague, products done to hand to half of price with regard to the shops of Prague, Chinese toys, Vietnamese traditional music and much any more.

After seeing the flea market, Sapa also offers the possibility of penetrating into the quarter and of sitting down to eat in some of his bars. The noodles soups Vietnamese is usually the specialty of the house. There are many types of soups of noodles, although the most popular and the one that makes use in all the bars is the Pho.
Of all the bars and restaurants we want to recommend to you three of them. They talk each other of Hai Phong, Thang Long and Hue Xua, since in any of these three the meal is prepared to the Vietnamese traditional way. The noodles bowls are usually very cheap and tasty. Anyone would say that we are in full Prague …

Really, there is no loss to be able to come up to Sapa. The best thing is to take the red line of meter from Kacerov or the yellow line from Smichovske. Also it is possible to go in bus from Kacerov, which even works the weekends.

Also there is a very interesting tourist option, since the tourist buses 133 and 333 pass for Sapa. You can go down, throw a glance to the area, and then raise you in another tourist bus, since the ticket costs for the whole day.

Without a doubt that Sapa is an attraction more that it has for showing us the city of Prague. Unfortunately, it is not usually in the principal tourist routes of the city, is usually gathered in all the guidebooks of Prague. You will feel as if inside Prague hubiérais traveled round a few moments up to Vietnam.

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He travels to Tiberíades and the Sea of Galilee in Israel

Israel is a country with a rich cultural and historical heritage. One of the places that is part of the history of the antiquity is Tiberíades, with his wonderful ruins and his impressive conference to the Sea of Galilee.

Mar de Galilea


Tiberíades is placed in the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel. His name comes from the emperor Tiberio. His history so loaded with symbolism and spirituality, appears in numerous occasions in the life of Jesus de Nazaret. Any tourist who boasts will feel fascinated by the history and the spirituality that is breathed in the area.

Also, the puttings suns on the Sea of Galilee are the whole gift for the senses. His crystalline waters shine shine to the light light of the sun. The colors that are projected in the sky melt on the waters of the sea. It is worth while coming here to see this marvel and to share this history of more than two thousand years.

About the lake there is a series of streets and alleys, where they grow a bougainvillaeas blast. Flowers of orange, pink, white color and peach, which join the spectacular nature of the color of the evening on the water.

From the calmness of the scenery of the Sea of Galilee we can go on to the Tiberíades pother. Restaurants, flea markets and shops of souvenirs fill the streets of the city. Also there are all kinds hotels, so much luxurious like small motels.

What places do we recommend to you to see in Tiberíades?. Since there is their big quantity, although the most interesting are the ruins of Cafarnaún, the churches of the Announcement and San Jose, the National park Hamat, with his ancient wharves of the XVIIth century and the synagog constructed in the IVth century, with mosaics and a marvelous museum.

Since it could not be less, Tiberíades has some places that will be of enormous memory for the Christians. Between them there is proper Mar de Galilea and Tabgha, the place where it is supposed that Jesus realized the miracle of the multiplication of the breads and the fish.

Not that to say has that, after a good day of tourism, we can go to have dinner to some of the restaurants of Tiberíades. Between them we recommend you Galilean, Karimo or Lagoon, where to prove the famous fish of San Pedro, essential plate for that you like the fish.

A trip to Israel to know the Sea of Galilee and the city of Tiberíades will turn out to be a fascinating experience for many of you. History and religion, spirituality and many emotions to be lived in one of the most beautiful sceneries of the country.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Alsace, a region with delight in France

How many beauty is there in the French region of the Alsace. In a small space there are distributed several Patrimonies of the Humanity of the UNESCO. Small cities, scarcely known, which are places with delight that you should know.

Alsace


One of these cities perhaps you sounds enough. It is a question of Strasbourg, in the heart of the Alsace. We covered it on foot and it is a delight. The historical center is a Patrimony of the Humanity, with his navigable, very picturesque channels, his bridges and his houses always full of flowers. We take a few wonderful pictures of the tanners' houses of Petite France, as well as those of the square of the cathedral.

The Cathedral of Strasbourg is undoubtedly between the best of the whole France. It is of Gothic style, and at first sight, his front impresses, with his beautiful sculptures and his astronomical clock. If you enter his interior, not to forget to visit the museum, with very good sculptures and the treasure of the cathedral.

In another shore of the river is the Castle give Rohan, which was in his moment a bishops' house, and today it lodges several museums. In Strasbourg also you can visit, in the modern part, the European Parliament.

Nevertheless, for my taste the nicest city of Alsace is to Fulfill. You will be captivated by his quarter known as the Small Venice. The best thing is to cover it in boat, discovering his wooden houses, hearth in his moment of fishermen and farmers and the weeping willows in the shore.

In Fulfilling also you can see the Museum Unterlinden, the Museum Bartholdi, or the Church of the Dominicans, which lodges important works of art, like the picture of the Virgin in the Square of the Roses, of the XVth century.

To the south of Fulfilling there is the city of Mulhouse, industrial town but that nevertheless keeps an exceptional culture. Here you must visit the Museum of Fine arts and History, as well as the City of the Train, an exhibition dedicated to the history of the railroad in France. Also to approach Electropolis, the Museum of the Motorcar. The best of all of them perhaps is the Museum of the Role, the biggest of the world in his style.

Alsace is a very picturesque region, with very much delight. Villages and almost medieval cities, surrounded with mountains, with narrow and cobbled streets and houses with enormous wooden rows of balconies and many flowers. The visual coloring is fascinating.

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Jaipur: the pink city of the India

It is difficult to translate in words the marvels that the memory keeps on bringing me from my trip to the India. Channels and creeks dressed in flowers of lotus, a fresh breeze always in the turban of the face, and in the most sweet horizon the pink city of Jaipur

Hawa Mahal


Jaipur was founded in 1727 by Maharaha Sawai Jai Singh, a modern city in which, apart from his architectural beauty, you have of everything: shopping centers, multiscreen cinemas, discotheques and the most animated night life.

What must not you get lost of Jaipur?. First of all, the Palace of the City, placed in his historical center. It is decorated by elegant paintings, mirrors and floral adornments. In his interior you will not get bored by no means, with his museums, his art galleries, the real rooms, and even a restaurant.

Of the palace it is necessary to direct to Hawa Mahal or Palace of the Winds, constructed in 1799. It is just next to the previous palace, and offers a beautiful panoramic sight of the old man Jaipur. He keeps affectionate histories, since it was constructed in order to that the real checkers, which scarcely could go out to the street, could see the bazaar and other monuments from his windows.

The photos that I keep with more fondness are those of the Palace Jal Mahal placed in the middle of the Lake Man Sagar. There look like two palaces in one, since the reflex in the water of the structure is fascinating. It was constructed in the XVIIIth century, and I recommend to you to visit it or to the evening or at the dawn.

The most ancient Jaipur building is the Fortaleza Amber, constructed in 1592 in marble and red stone. The interior is impressive, a set with wonderful paintings, where it is possible to see the Jaipur history. In the same fortitude you can reserve a trip in elephant to cover Jaipur. An incredible experience.

To visit Jaipur is to approach the beauty, the culture and the most deeply rooted traditions of the region of Rajasthán. You can wander about the streets for his bazaar, and be put where they sell all kinds of craft, like miniatures, paintings in marble, jewelry shop and works in metal or in stone.
If you want to do an excursion from Jaipur you can approach the neighbor Parque Nacional de Ranthambore, famous person for his tigers, and the National park of Sariska, where beautiful birds can be seen.

Jaipur is the most beautiful place, where there is mixed the ancient thing, the traditional thing and the modern thing. You will enjoy an adventure without limits.

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Friday, March 12, 2010

The Beach of Railay in Thailand

One of the nicest beaches of Thailand, if it is that we can emphasize some of the others, is the Beach of Railay, which also knows her as Rai Leh, a beautiful spa on the beach of Andaman, in Krabi.

Flat Thailand


And perhaps there is the most beautiful not for the color neither turquoise of his waters nor the gilding of his sand, but perhaps for his impressive limestone cliffs. Of course, this provokes that the access to the beach is a little difficult, but that makes it more exciting.

To the being a peninsula surrounded with mountains, it is possible only to come to her across a trip in ship. There are regular services that go out from Ao Nang, Krabi, Koh Lanta, Koh Phi Phi, and especially from Phuket.

We want to recommend to you the Beach of Railay fundamentally for two reasons, each of them well different. On the one hand it is a paradise for those who look for the retirement and the relaxation, since there are no many tourists in her. And for other, for the most adventurous, it is ideal to practise the climb in an incredible stage.

His isolated nature has attracting in the last years newlyweds' numerous couples who enjoy a paradisiac honeymoon. As contrast, also you will see many backpackers ready to be done by the top of the cliffs. Do not worry because in the Beach of Railay there are accommodations for all the tastes and trips.

Rayavadee Premier Resort, in the Beach of Phra Nang, is perhaps the best accommodation of the area. It is a question of a hotel in an almost solitary beach, therefore it turns out to be ideal for those who look for a romantic escape. Of course, it is a little expensive.

Slightly cheaper you it have in the area west of the beach, especially in the flat neighbor of Ton Sai, placed scarcely to ten minutes.

To eat there is a very good variety of bars and restaurants. Most of them serve local kitchen, which, to tell truth, is delightful and very cheap. There approaches the area west of the beach, where the best restaurants are, some of them on foot of beach.

We have not said it to you earlier, but we advise it to you now. The cliffs of limestone of the Beach of Railay are not very propitious for those that have ever climbed. For those that you do not have a lot of experience, the best thing is to raise you to the top and to contemplate the wonderful conference.

Finally, the Beach of Railay also is a marvelous place for the lovers of the diving. The marine life and his coral reefs perhaps are neither so attractive nor so diverse as that of other beaches of Thailand, nevertheless you have to prove it, because it is a marvel.

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What to see in Kenya

In Kenya we can see some of the National parks most important and emphasized from Africa, a summary of the fantastic sceneries and of the African fauna. To visit Kenya is to discover another world: animals, sceneries … completely different from that we are used.

kenia


There exist in the travel agencies enough offers of photographic safaris and organized trips, and the truth is that every time they are more the persons who cheer up to discover this place.

From the trips blog, we do to you a summary of some of the places that you cannot allow knowing in your visit to Kenya:

Nature reserves

  • Nature reserve Samburu: this reservation is in desert plenary meeting and on the banks of the river Ewaso Ngiro. The giraffe reticulada is one of the animals that they inhabit in the area, in which the members of the ethnic group live also samburu. In some safaris, stays are done in this area, in shops of camapaña.
  • Nature reserve Masai Mara: this reservation is possibly the most famous of Kenya, and it is in territory of the masai, to the south of the country. This area is the continuation of the Nature reserve Serengueti.

National parks

  • The Mount Kenya: the tallest omntaña of Kenya, with a 5199 meters altitude, is a peak that is in the national park of the same name, in which also there are very interesting animals. Of course, the ascent to the Mount Kenya needs a certain experience in the mountaineering.
  • National park Lake Nakuru: concerning the lake Nakuru, this park has a big waterfowls quantity, especially, of pink Flemings (one of the most typical pictures of Africa)
  • National park Amboseli: This nature reserve is on a wetland, which feeds on the water that gathers the Kilimanjaro, one of the mountains most known about Africa, to which it is known as “the roof of Africa”. This is one of the best areas to enjoy the sight of herds of elephants.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Night New Orleans

It is very possible at that if we look for a crazy night, or several, almost nobody would look for the United States of America, we have this vision of boring country, Fast Food, and big cities. New has Orleans everything, but on sale the eroticism and the madness.

Bourbon Street

Bourbon Street


In no city of USA we will be able to do what is allowed here, the capital of the Mississippi, it has turned into the erotic, night and sinful center, it is like a gigantic Disney World, as the Americans do, but of music, drinks, contests, sex, dances, a carnival continued.

It is much that to see during the day in Loussiana and his capital, can name some of the essential ones and more acquaintances, like the big cotton household chores, who today are visited and preserved intact with his servants dressed in epoch, the same one of WHAT THE WIND TOOK. We can speak about the different trips for one of the biggest rivers of the world, but more, joined with the Missouri. We might see his animal Icon, only one the Aligátor, a very nice crocodile that can start an arm to you without feeling. Of his stadiums and buildings, and of his history, his tramcars, sports, meals and customs.

But today we are going to center on the area most sinful and entertaining French Quarter. The French quarter shines if the same, in fact it is to what we go to the pother and the entire disorder, The Sodom and Gomorrah of America. New Orleáns was Spanish, there is a big colony direct descendant from canaries, there happened to be French, again Spaniard, a family of Bourbon they settled there, hence there comes to him all the French and Spanish flavor and the name of his wonderful streets.

Bourbon Street is the principal artery of this part of the city in which you feel in another century. During the day, after sleeping well, so the night it is muuy long, it is possible to see apart from monuments and other tourist places: The Cathedral, the famous cemeteries, the whole possibilities fan, between them excellent musicians everywhere, very peculiar and creative. But we go to the night!

Girls' house, the shades go away in the windows to back light from the street

Girls' house, the shades go away in the windows to back light from the street

If it is known like the capital of the Jazz, with his first figure Louis Amstrong, who appears in all sets off, but the night it has more. The streets are small. With houses all colonial ancient ones, with big balconies always full of girls. The police are always present, but it allows everything, even something that is unthinkable in USA, to drink at any time and especially for the street, the whole world takes his big one I base of strong drinks, combined, coktails or beers. This is already a big difference, in Europe it is not also possible to go for the street drinking to everything to give. All the shops remain opened, the bars of course and the centers of Jazz, spectacular all, with the best bands, of all kinds of Blues, Jazz, Rock, everything is inside this sinful city. You will see lines of the people waiting to enter the Striptiss places, all full houses the whole night, with all kinds of sexual spectacles. You can find several establishments that do sexual contests, for example that of WET T-SHIRTS, size or beauty of the breasts for voting. You will see many completely naked, but identical girls as if they had a suit or images on his skin. In fact the carnival is in February, Mardi Grass, but all the weekends and especially in summer that a stifling heat gets worse, the people throw themselves to the street and arm a perfect imitation of the carnival, without so many outfits, but with many peculiarities.

gays kissing in Bourbon Street

gays kissing in Bourbon Street

The people kiss in the street, sometimes without meeting, and they realize any thing that occurs to him. In the souvenirs shops they sell necklaces, there are much plastic bargain sales and a bit more luxurious. In fact there are little bolls, like pearls, of all the colors, there can be silver or gold, or of different colors, there are big necklaces. And why do they serve these necklaces?. Very simple so that the women teach the breasts. In New Orleáns there gets lost the whole decency and the taboos, the people do a ring to a woman of any age or precedence, and they sing to him and urge him that it shows his bosoms, until they obtain it, then the spectators as award throw a necklace to him. This woman is always in groups of friends, it is not an exhibitionism, but a sensual game. You can be in a balcony, they all are of bars, and from below someone he asks you to throw a necklace to him, there are the people who throws it for a simple kiss, or for making something sexy, also they can ask the same boy he to teach something then he undresses, one lowers the pants and teaches for what they ask him, there it is where there forms the big scandal that, on having heard it, more people bring to this ring, this ring keeps on applauding and cheering on the lower ones to those of above and the other way round. Put more in the night you can see for the street women without anything above with many necklaces, that means that his breasts have applauded him very much, bighead will go, and if you see a boy with many necklaces also has taught, then they return to the load and they will continue throwing bold night nudists. The night is long, the river of the people keeps on walking and stopping in the bars and in the rings on having heard the screams and applauses: You already know what it means!. As we were saying at first, it is much that to see in New Orleáns.

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bourbon Street

girls' houses

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Baths, the city of the volcanoes in Ecuador

One of the places that more left me impresionade of my trip to Ecuador was the city of Baths. In fact it is a question of a small people that would not have major interest not to be because it is completely surrounded with volcanoes … and all of them in assets …

Baths

We come to Baths getting dark, and we surprised the roar of one of his volcanoes, the Tungurahua. A local resident calmed us, on having said to us that it was something habitual. The accommodations in Baths are very good, and by no means expensive. You can find double rooms for scarcely 10 dollars.

Baños is famous, in addition to for his volcanoes, for his baths of thermal waters, since there are the best of the whole Ecuador. One of his baths is to the feet of an enormous cascade, which falls down from the mountain that surrounds us. The entry to the baths only costs a dollar, and you can enjoy his waters rich in minerals even in view of the stars.

Of the big quantity of volcanoes that exists in the whole Ecuador, many of them are in assets. Precisely one of them is that we mention you earlier, the Tungurahua. It is possible to rise up to the feet of the volcano, but it is necessary to go out of the city and to cover a way not at all asphalting. There is a pair of tourist operators who will take you straight to see it.

Anyhow, also there are groups for the street that take you in what it is known as kids, a few ancient buses that will take you to the top. Above you will enjoy the conference of the volcano, and they will offer you a spectacle of traditional music, accompanied on a drink and, if you are lucky, you will see how the volcano spits he washes. The trip just costs 3 dollars.

To relax of the experience you can go to the Zoo of Baths, where there are bears, birds, turtles and other animals. Nevertheless, if you want more adventure, the best thing is to rent a vehicle all area and to get lost for the surroundings of Baths, full of forest and cascades.

Baths, which finished name is Baths of Santa Clara, there is one of the cities that more will impress you of Ecuador, especially for being surrounded with volcanoes, in full Andean mountain range. To come there is a bus that it salts from Quito, 120 kilometers to the north, and that will only cost you five dollars.

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Guidebook of Japan

Japan, in spite of being a quite remote destination, is undoubtedly a marvelous place to which to travel. To initiate the trip for the Japanese island of Hosnhu, which is the biggest of the whole Asian continent, Tokyo in a good starting point from which to visit other more traditional villages and to know another culture and another completely different way of life.

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How to come?

It is important to bear in mind that from Spain there are no direct flights to Japan, therefore first you will have to fly towards another European city. Once there, the Narita airport is to approximately 75 km, of the center, and the transfer can be realized in bus or taxi, although the train is the most rapid and advisable way.

How to move?

The distances in Jápón are big, so the Shinkansen (train of high speed) is one of the best forms of moving and also it crosses the whole country. Also you can rent a car, but if you decide on this option bear in mind that he behaves for the left and you can have problems with the indications in Japanese.

There exist night buses, which are a good alternative to travel in the night, and inside the cities, the meter is the most rapid and more comfortable transport.

What to see?

The truth is that it is very difficult to do a summary of the things that you can see in Japan, since there are great ones. But for example, in the center of Tokyo he emphasizes the Imperial Palace, or the quarter Shitamachi, the most ancient of Tokyo, which you will be able to cover thanks to the Tokyo Shitamachi Bus. The Asakusa quarter, with the Temple Senso-ji, of the year 645 is other of the essential points.

Also he emphasizes the market Tsukiji, which is one of the biggest of the world.

On the west, we can find the mount Fuji, of approximately 3776 meters high, to which there promotes thousands of Japanese during the Week Obon (it takes place in the middle of August) as a way of producing homage to his dead persons.

Also he is worth visiting some villages of the center of the country, like Takayama, with houses of the XVIIth century; or Shirakawago, who has been declared a Patrimony of the Humanity.

Nara was cardinal in the VIIIth century and from 1998 it is a Patrimony of the Humanity, and in her you can enocontrar some of the temples the most ancient Buddhists of the whole country. Kioto was cardinal later, from 794 to 1868 and in her you can see the quarter of the Geishas or the temple Kinkaku-ji, the Garden Rioanji …

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The best water parks of Finland

Scandinavia …: what do you think when this word occurs to you?. There occurs to me coldly snow, pines, reindeers, Saint Claus, small houses with chimneys and forests with elves. We are going to close the eyes for a moment and to imagine Scandinavia.

park Helsinki


Scandinavia is today Finland, a country with cold, with snow, reindeers, sledges … and also, for that you do not create it to yourselves, the best water parks of Europe. Precisely, the biggest water park of Europe is called a Serenade, and one finds approximately 23 kilóometros of Helsinki. Not to worry, since the interior is very warm, and makes alike a tropical forest.

The park has in whole approximately 200 square meters, surrounded completely with palm trees and a few beautiful conference. There are toboggans like the Creek of the Water, 140 meters long, although the most rash and most entertaining is the Black hole. Also, you can experience bathing in the Dead Sea, a swimming pool with 25 per cent of salt, in which it is possible to be afloat without being able to swim.

Other of the best water parks of Scandinavia is in Nokia, to approximately 15 kilometers of the city of Tampere. We refer to the Water park of Rantasipi Eden. Here you have both air-conditioned swimming pools, and swimming pools with cold waters. Also, to slide for his toboggans, or to relax in the Finnish sauna, in the jacucci or to receive a hydromassage treatment.

Also there are some hotels that offer us inside his facilities a water park. This is the case of Rantasipi Tropical Spa Hotel. This hotel is placed in the city of Vaasa, and in addition to enjoying the water park we can relax in his saunas, jacucci, or receive a medical treatment with masseurs specialists.

What seems to you?. I imagine that from now on, whenever the word occurs to you Scandinavia, also you will think that in Finland, there where we believed that only the cold and the snow could exist, some of the best water parks are of the whole Europe. Do you cheer up to know them and enjoy them?.

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Essential visits in Venezuela

Venezuela is a wonderful country, an authentic treasure of the nature, a natural sanctum that you should know. There it is possible to do of everything, senderismo, ecotourism, windsurfing and sports of all kinds. Do you want to know any of his most wonderful places?.

Canaima


Essential visit is the one that you have to do to the Archipelago of the Roques, with his beaches of white sand and crystalline, fabulous waters to do diving. It is placed in the Caribbean Sea, to only 85 kilometers to the north of Caracas. The archipelago is formed by 350 small islands, in that scarcely little more than thousand persons live.

Most of the islands are desert, therefore the sceneries are completely virgins and incredible. You will see swamps, coral reefs and an exotic marine life. There are many excursions by ship that you can reserve in Caracas.

Another visit can take you to the islands Daisy and Car, placed to the North-East of the country. In Isla Margarita it is possible to buy very cheaply, while in Isla Coche the best thing is to practise surfing and kitesurf in his waters. In both islands there are hotels for all the tastes and budgets.

In the state of Sucre you have to approach to the water Spa Cradle. The best thing is to rent a car, since there is no public transport so far, between the peoples of Cariaco and Casanay. It is a question of a complex with several thermal swimming pools and a thematic park, with dinosaurs and histories of the Egyptian life, in addition to a zoo.

Impossible not to visit in Venezuela the cascade of the Jump of the Angel, the highest of the world. It is in the National park of Canaima, in the state of Bolivar, to the southeast of Venezuela. Natural beauty and exotic sceneries surround it, and the conference from the top are impressive. It is possible only to see if you penetrate for the forest or fly over it. An adventure without equal.

We recommend to you, if you want to travel to Venezuela, to do it with some company or travel agency, and in no case for your own account. The best thing is to be always accompanied by persons who know of the place. If you do not reserve with any agency from here, all the hotels of Venezuela can do the visits guided with tourist operators to you.

For proper experience, to move back and forth to take taxis, do not go on foot for the cities if possible, especially night. When you go to villages of the interior, almost in the forest, to never drink tap water, always bottled. Any recommendation in Venezuela is always important to take it to effect.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

National park of the District of the Lagos, in England

The Cumbria county, in England, lodges the National park of the District of the Lagos, undoubtedly a really interesting visit for the lovers of the nature and of the sceneries. If you like the photos, do not forget the camera, because it offers impressive snapshots.

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In whole, it groups sixteen lakes and peaks of medium altitude, in addition to footpaths and several peoples that he is worth visiting. The best epoch to visit this zobna is from April until October, since it is the epoch of less rains and when the day is longer.

From the trips blog, we speak to you about some of the most interesting places:

  • Windermere is a locality that is along with the biggest natural lake of England, which turned into a destination of holidays of the bourgeois class in the XIXth century. In the Bowness people routes can be hired by the lake, a very interesting experience. Also, in Bowness you will be able to find the center dedicated to the stories of Beatrix Potter. In Sawrey you will find also the farm in which he wrote his most famous stories.
  • Grasmere is a people that is on the banks of the lake of the same name, famous person because it was there where the poet William Wordsworth lived. Also, in the surroundings it is possible to practise the senderismo.
  • Keswick is a Victorian city located on the banks of the lake Derwenwater, a tourist center emphasized in the area of the north. It is worth covering his streets and visiting the museums of the Mines and of the Pencil.
  • The Vale of Langdale, framed by the highest mountains of the district, Langdale Pikes, is different of the visits that it is worth doing, since it is a question of an area with a few beautiful conference. Also, for these mounts there are footpaths that take us up to lakes as Blea Tern.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

He visits to the Angkor temples in Cambodia

The city of Angkor seems simply spectacular to me, in Cambodia, a place that lodges more than thousand temples of diverse size and beauty. Do you want to know this wonderful corner Patrimony of the Humanity for the UNESCO?.

Angkor Wat


Angkor was the head office of the empire Khmer between the IXth and XIIIth centuries. It was in this epoch when the big temples quantity was constructed here existing. The biggest of all of them is Angkor Wat constructed in the middle of the XIIth century. It is located in the Archaeological Park of Angkor, an exceptional place with 400 square kilometers of pure beauty.

There are passes to visit the park for one, three or seven days, at the cost of 20, 40 and 60 dollars respectively. The earnings sell at the entry of the park.

To assure you of taking a lot of water, and very comfortable and light clothes, since in the area it is very hot during the whole year. A good idea is to go to the well early park, to take a rest at midday, and to return in the evening. You can hire a tourist guide for 20 dollars a day. Really it is a good idea, since they give you a lot of information, and are professional.

As we say to you, Angkor Wat is the temple most known about the area. It is a question of the biggest religious monument of the world, and national symbol of Cambodia. Prune you neither to imagine the wonderful thing that turns out to be this temple at the dawn. To be useful, because the park opens to the 05.00 of the dawn. There are great the tourists who see dawning along with this temple.
From his interior he emphasizes a 49 meters long wall completely carved in bas-reliefs, in which a Hindu myth is represented between the gods and the demons. It turns out to be simply spectacular.

In the city of Angkor Thom you will find the wonderful Temple of Bayón. It is provided with 54 towers in whole, each one with four heads that represent four points of the compass. The carved faces belong to Jayavarman VII, the king who constructed the city. This city was the last capital of the empire Khmer.

Other of the most well-known temples, especially because in him the movie Tomb Raider was filmed, is the Temple Ta Prohm. In contrast to other temples, the nature has grown between his walls, as what it has a magic character.

You can cover the Angkor temples so much on foot as doing an incredible excursion in elephant. Nowadays it is one of the most impressive archaeological parks of the world. A completely advisable trip.

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He travels to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine

After Russia, Ukraine is the biggest country of the East Europe. Perhaps do not be a very well-known place, but when you know turísticamente speaking Kiev, his capital, you will remain astonished. What are the best places to visit in Kiev?.

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One of the buildings that more will captivate you will be undoubtedly the Cathedral of Santa Sofía, the most ancient church of the city, since it dates of the XIth century. The sight from the square is wonderful, but the best thing is to raise up to the tower belfry and to contemplate the city, or to see from the ship of the church the mosaics of his dome of the XIIIth century.

Another daydream place in Kiev is the Monastery of the Caves, which in Kiev is known as Pechersk Lavra. It was founded by the monks Antonio and Teodosio in the XIth century, and in this moment there were simple caves where the monks were living. Nowadays it is a Patrimony of the Humanity for the UNESCO, and it includes several churches and museums. The sight that is had of him is beautiful, being reflected at night on the river Dnipro. To visit it, the women have to place a handkerchief in the head, and it is necessary to go dressed in long pants.

After these wonderful places we can penetrate for the Khreschatyk, the main street of the capital. One turns completely pedestrian the weekends, due to the big quantity of the people who covers it. In the south end there is the Market of Bessarabska that, in addition to offering the most fresh products of the city, is provided with many restaurants and bars to eat bargain sale in Kiev, as well as shops and coffees. At the end of the street you will find the Square of the Independence.

Other places that cannot be missing in your visit to Kiev are the Museum Chernobyl, which recreates the disaster that there took place in this nuclear power plant in 1986, placed to 60 kilometers to the north of Kiev, the Cathedral of San Vladimir constructed in Byzantine style, and the Palace Mariyinsky, of the XVIIIth century, placed in a very agreeable park.

And the fact is that Kiev is one of the nicest places to get lost in the East Europe. Perhaps do not be between the most visited destinations, but that makes her more accessible and cheap.

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Medieval Paris, a walk along with the Seine

Paris is one of the nicest European capitals. Undoubtedly, ideal for a romantic escape and to walk along his streets. Paris is one of these cities that we might not know completely in a visit. That's why, from the trips blog, we propose a trip to you for the medieval Paris.

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A good point to begin the trip is the church of Saint Etienne of Mont, in the Latin quarter, one of the most curious architectural works of the city and in whose deambulatorio there are the graves of Pascal and Racine.

A cultural ambience that begins being breathed in this area, and is that not in vain we are close to the Sorbonne, founded in 1257 in order to teach theology to the poorest pupils, this university turned into an authentic cultural bubbling. Opposite to his entry, we can see the National museum of the Middle Age, raised on the ruins of ancient Roman baths.

Here we can see the only collection of medieval virgins, shop windows of Sainte Chapelle and a series of carpets devoted to the Lady of the Unicorn. Continuing the walk, we discover a church especially high and narrow (due to the absence of area which they had for contruirla): the SAint-Sèverin church.

Saint-Julien is different of the most interesting churches, with a choir and impressive iconostasio. Crossing the square Square René Viviani, we will go so far as to see the Notre-Damme cathedral, one of the most impressive cathedrals of France.

Sainte Chapelle is other of the fundamental points of this trip, maximum splendor of the Gothic. A curiosity: it was thought that it should lodge the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ, which Luis XVI bought to the emperor of Constantinople.

The island of the Cité, a walk to Saint-Germain-des Prés, of bordering on the Seine and to come to the coffees They Deux Magots and Flore, who were frequented by the most recognized existentialists, is a way of feeling part of the history.

And of course, the Louvre is one of the things that we must not forget, going down for the rue Bonaparte up to coming to the Fine arts bridge.

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

He visits the Tower of London

On the banks of the Thames one of the monuments is with more history, but simultaneously more mysterious and exciting, of London. It is a question of the Tower of London, constructed in the year 1066 by Guillermo Conqueror. Today we penetrate into her …

London


On having been located on the banks of the river, and having been a jail, the prisoners were coming here in ship, where they were waiting up to being executed. Between these prisoners, here there found the death Ann Bolena, wife of Enrique VIII, the queen Elizabeth I or Lady Jane Flock.

But, calm, today the tower is a simple tourist attraction, where the famous Beefeaters do custody, along with the crows. It counts the legend that, if the crows should leave the tower, the fortitude would eliminate. Also, there are many bogeys histories in the fortitude, between them those of Ann Bolena and Sir Walter Raleigh.

The fortitude consists of three big towers. The first one that we visit is the White Tower, which was constructed by proper Guillermo Conqueror, and who today lodges the Real Armories. The second one of them is the Tower Beauchamp, where there lived for one year Robert Dudley, the favorite of the queen Elizabeth I. His walls are painted by memories of the prisoners of the Dynasty Tudor. They can still be read …

The third tower is the one that is known as the Bloody Tower, since one believes that it is here where the children of Eduardo IV were murdered. After the death of his father, they were taken to the tower by his uncle, Ricardo III. Nevertheless, everything was secretly, and nobody ever knew where the children had been taken.

Centuries later the skeletons of two children were discovered under the stairs. There were the skeletons of the children of Eduardo IV, murdered by proper Ricardo III. Today in this tower it is possible to contemplate an exhibition that details this tragic history, while the low part of the tower remembers Sir Walter Raleigh, who lived here years before his execution.

There is the Green Tower, where three queens as Ann Bolena, Katherine Howard and Lady Jane Flock were executed. Inside the tower also the Jewels of the Crown are guarded.

After the visit, you can pass for the snack bar, and drink a coffee and some sandwich. It is usually very busy with the tourists.

The Tower of London opens on Sundays and Monday from 10.00 to 16.30, and from Tuesday until Friday from 09.00 until 16.30 hours, being the last sale of earnings at 16.00 hours. The price to enter is 17 pounds for the adults, 9,50 pounds for the children and 14,50 pounds for students and pensioners. The most nearby meter stop to come is that of Tower Hill.

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Of buys in Turin

In addition to being the door of the Alps, Turin is a wonderful place to go shopping in Italy. To walk along the streets of this city of the Piedmont is a pleasure, since they are full of all kinds shops. Do you want to accompany us?.

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From bargains shops to the most exclusive fashion. Like that is the shopping center of Turin. Here you will find from fashion, up to shop windows with furniture, jewels, craft, etc …

Route Rome and Route Po are two of the most commercial streets of the city of Turin. An ideal place to go shopping, so much if it is sunny as if it rains, since they are protected by porticoes. Here there are shops for any tourist, like Zara and Handle, especially in Porta Nuova, at the end of the Route Rome.

You can find, of course, more exclusive shops in Piazza San Carlo. The Route Po is provided also with wonderful snack bars and confectioneries to relax you while you are of buys. In both streets also there are shops where to be able to buy other traditional products, like oil, wine, and even antiquities shops. Not that to say has that in this area you have to visit the Gallery dell'Industria Subalpine, a very traditional shopping center, in a building of the XIXth century.

One of the best streets to go shopping in Turin is a Route Garibaldi, to which it is possible to come perfectly from Piazza Castello. You will see many tourists, and many of Turin, since it has all kinds of shops, especially shoe shops, like Cat, the most expensive of the area, and those who are to the north of the street, much cheaper.

From the Route Garibaldi we can go up to the Market of the Ball, in Piazza della Repubblica, to the right of Route Bellezzia. Every Saturday morning you will find here the most fresh products of Turin, in addition to clothes, antiquities, trinkets and all kinds of craft. Eye to the pickpockets, especially in the night, which they make use of the pother to go fishing.

Finally, not to forget the supermarkets, where you will find very good Italian coffee at an accessible price, and a wide selection of Italian pasta, simply the best of the world. Also some cheese gorgonzola, Parmesan, something of wine and oil.

Do you come to yourselves from buys to Turin?

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He travels to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia

The best thing is to cover La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, on foot. Of course, you are going to feel from the first moment the height to which this one is cardinal, between 3.500 and 4.000 meters on the sea level. Do you dare to this adventure trip?.

La Paz


Do not worry if sometimes you lack a little the air when you walk along La Paz. It is something normal, everything owes to the altitude. But to try to do all the possible from walking, since La Paz is a city much cheered up in his streets, with many flea markets and ambulant positions, where it sells of everything.

To approach, for example, the flea markets of Big High place, which are celebrated on Thursdays and Sundays from 09.00 until 15.00 hours, or also to the Black Market, to the west of the city, where it sells to itself especially electronic products. Nevertheless, the flea market that more tourists it has is the Market of Bruges.

The Market of the Sorcery or Market of Bruges is in the street Sagárnaga. Between the positions of clothes of colors, there are many booths with objects and magic rituals, like grasses and home-made remedies, as well as the statuettes of ceramics of Pachamama.

In addition to the animation and the flea markets that exist in La Paz, here also you will see many churches, as in most of big cities of South America. In fact, stand out two over all. One of them is the Cathedral of La Paz, of neoclassic style, that you can see in the Square Murillo. Really it is impressive, with beautiful shop windows.

The second one of the churches that we recommend to you to see is the Church of San Francisco, perhaps the nicest of La Paz. His style is a half-caste baroque, a miscellany of the pre-Columbian European art. The Andean figures fill the altar and the reredos of the church. Inside the church to visit his museum, with big paintings of Virgin Mary, silver chalices and cares.

From the churches it is necessary to go on to the museums of La Paz. Perhaps the best of all is the Museum of the Coca, in the street Linares. Interesting other is the Ethnographic museum and of the Folklore located in the colonial mansion of Márquez de Villaverde. This museum is provided with a wide exhibition of masks and the most beautiful collection of ceramics.

Finally, nothing better than to visit the National museum of the Art. The first plant lodges religious art, while the modern art is located in the second one.

Any of these visits can bring you over much more to know a city of big beauty as La Paz.

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

What to see in Minorca

The Balearic Islands are a marvelous destination to relax and to enjoy marvelous beaches and impressive sceneries. Minorca, although it is not very big, is one of the destinations preferred by many tourists.

menorca

From the trips blog, we tell you the places of the island that you must not get lost:

  • Maó is the port of the Minorcan capital. It is a question of an arm of sea that has a length of more than five kilometers. Here you can find Maó and It is Castell, with his ouertos and areas of free time. There are known in this area the islets Of The King and the ancient Lazaretto. Also you will find a museum that formerly was a fortitude of Elizabeth II.
  • The port of the ancient capital is small, but with a very special ambience. The Ciutadella is other of the points most emphasized from Minorca. Do visit his historical helmet, with his cathedral and his Renaissance palaces.
  • One of the more popular areas of summer holiday is It is Grau, in which in addition to a few marvelous beaches, you can enjoy an area of lagoons that there is part of the Nature reserve of s'Albufera d'Es Grauilla d'en Colom and Cap de Favàritx.
  • The lighthouse of this end is precisely, that of Favàritx, one of the most typical sceneries of Minorca. The lighthouse gets up in the middle of a scenery in gray color, of slate cliffs. Undoubtedly, it is one of the most impressive conference of the North coast.
  • The coves are other of the big attractions of the island. He emphasizes That, for example, It Soaks through Macarella, one gains access to the qie from the Ciutadella, and it is only accessible for sea or for a caminito. Cales You Cosee it is a cove in which you can find several prehistoric caves. You will find it after reocrrer from Cove some Macarella of the beaches that are considered to be the nicest of the south of Minorca: There are Sura, Mitjana or Galdana.

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The Island of Suasi in the Lake Titicaca

Today we bring to you an idyllic and incredible place for those that sigh for the adventures trips. It is a question of the Island of Suasi, a wonderful private island, placed in the northeastern part of the coast of the Lake Titicaca, in Peru. What does the idea look like to you?.

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To come even there it is necessary to take a flight that takes us up to the city of Juliaca, and from there 45 minutes in car or in bus up to Handle. We would advise you that you quedaráis one day in Handle to get acclimatized to the altitude. On the following day, you can go to the Handle port, to do your trip in ship up to the Island of Suasi.

In the trajectory you will happen for the floating islands of Aurochs and Taquile, where it is possible to meet the local people. You will remain impressed for how these people live, and they will teach you his customs, his traditions and his nutritive habits.

One hour, after going out of Taquile, you will see finally the Island of Suasi. The first impression that you will take will be of a beauty sobrecogedora. In the island there is a very good hotel, used to receiving tourists who come here in plan it ventures. All the rooms of this hotel it has magnificent conference to the Lake Titicaca, and to the patios full of flowers and colibríes.

In Suasi you can do multiple activities, like covering the island in canoe or in canoe, contemplating the fauna and the flora of the island, or simply become entranced in the blue immensity of the Lake Titicaca. There is no corner of the island that does not present a few incredible conference of the lake.

There always are usually many people for the surroundings, do not believe that you are going to be alone. But neither good, are so many adventurous tourists who approach so far. Rather they are the mochilera people, adventurers, or couples that want to get lost in one of the last places of the world.

The Andean kitchen of the hotel is marvelous, and they usually do many nights barbecues with the clients in the patio and in the gardens, to encourage the coexistence between the guests. It is an adventure without equal.

You have to discover the wonderful presence of the Lake Titicaca and his Isla de Suasi, a place where the men and the nature melt in perfect harmony.

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Guidebook of Verona

When we think in a romantic city of Italy, one of the first ones that it comes to our mind is Venice. And yes, Venice is romantic (and very much) and an ideal city for the love. But it is not the only one. What do you say to me about Verona, the city in which Shakespeare ambientó one of the nicest love stories of all the times?

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Verona is the city of Romeo and Julieta, a corner of Italy that it is worth discovering. One of the best forms of knowing it is to walk along his cobbled streets and to enjoy the narrow streets, the squares and the Renaissance palaces.

An impressive sight of the city can be obtained from the hill of San Pietro, and from there, we can approach the Roman theater, which dates of the Ist century to. C and in that at present they keep on representing spectacles.

Nearby we have the Archaeological museum, which is a convent of the Xth century in which you can find Roman pieces of big value.

Verona was nicknamed the “piccola Rome” and alcaznó all his splendor of the hand of the Scaligera, enre 1262 and 1387. The stone bridge is different of the visits that you cannot allow doing. Across him, you will cross the river Adige to come to the old town of the city.

There he emphasizes the Duomo or the Cathedral, with Gothic interior and Romanesque front. Do contemplate the Asunción of the Virgin, of Tiziano. In the surroundings you will find the church of Santa Anastasia, Arche Scaligeri (funeral urns), the church of Santa Maria Antica …

Also there emphasizes the square dei Signori and the square delle Erbe constructed on a Roman forum. Certainly, that the Julieta house is the ideal place for the romantic ones. His walls full of messages of love drive up to the balcony and the statue of Julieta, to which it is necessary to touch a breast, according to the legend, to attract the love.

The Sand, the third amphitheater of the world is a colossal work of an impressive capacity. This and the palatial fortitude Castelvecchio, which was of the Scaligeri, are different of the visits that you cannot get lost.

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Friday, March 5, 2010

He travels to New York in spring

The spring approaches, and in Holy Week we all think about how to give ourselves a small escape, in search of our first holidays of the year. What would seem to you to visit New York in spring?.

New York


Of course, in New York rare it is the day that does not rain in spring, nevertheless, it is a spectacular destination in any season. Perhaps be still lucky and be able to visit the skating track on ice of Rockefeller Center, since it is opened until April. For less than ten euros you can rent a few skates, and him say to your friends that patinastéis in New York.

What imports if us it rains in New York?. For that we have, for example, the Museum Metropolitan of Art. He is located in the Fifth Avenue, and we will have time to visit it, and even to drink a coffee inside. Of course, it costs a little expensively, 20 dollars for the adults. To make use well then of the visit.

If instead of the art, you like more the science, nothing better than to visit the American Museum of Natural history, placed in the number 79 of West Street. The entry is cheaper, approximately 8 dollars, and you will enjoy during the whole day.

You are still on time of coming to the Holidays of San Patricio in New York, which are celebrated in March. In the city there is a heap of Irish pubs that celebrate it for everything high, since, as you know, San Patricio is the boss of Ireland. Nevertheless, before the pubs, to be present at the big parade that takes place in the Fifth Avenue. To assure you of wearing something green, as it marks the tradition.

Another important date of the spring in New York is Sunday of Easter. In the Fifth Avenue there is a giants parade, between the 10.00 and 17.00 hours.

It is sure that not every day you it will rain, and more of one even even will be nice, and some heat. If it is like that, the best thing is to give him a return for Southstreet Seaport, in Lower Manhattan. There talks each other of a shopping center where to walk in ship, restaurants and bars that have conference to the bay of New York.

And finally, not at all better that to approach with your children the Zoological garden of Head office Park. The entry costs 8 dollars for the adults, and is usually opened the whole day, although the best hours to go are between the 10.00 and 16.00 hours, when the managers feed to the animals.

There are so many things for doing in New York. The spring approaches and this destination waits for you.

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Seaworthy route for Cabo de Gata: it discovers his gastronomy

The coast almeriense has very nice places, with impressive sceneries, the only beaches, coves … it is a question of an area in which many of the peoples have survived throughout the years thanks to the fishing. And is it that thanks to the rich fauna who inhabits the waters almerienses, this coast can presume to offer one of the best kitchens of fish of the whole country.

Cabo de Gata

It is clear that to enjoy the gastronomy of the area is one of the things that undoubtedly we must do in our trip. The area of Cabo de Gata is a good starting point. It is this natural space we will be able to enjoy places of impressive beauty, like the reef of the Sirens, and close, the Beaches of West and Trap-net of Montelva, with a church of the XIXth century.

It is a question of one of the first peoples in which we will discover the seaworthy spirit: in the morning the fishermen you go out to work and they return to noon with fish variety: groupers, red mullets … Undoubtedly, it is necessary to eat something to midday, any of the restaurants of the area will offer us an exquisite fish.

The beaches of the Levant of the Cabo de Gata (more virgins are The Genoeses and Mónsul presided by the Rock of the Ornamental comb, it is formed by mobile dunes), and peoples like San Jose, or the Islet of the Moor, who is undoubtedly one of the villages with one more character distinctly seaworthy, there are some of the points that we cannot allow visiting.

And again, a stop to enjoy the gastronomy of the area: grilled fish, in casserole, with rice, the red shrimp (typical of Pulley), a cuajadera or a broth quemao are some of the most typical plates of the area.

In spite of so much for discovering, it is no wonder that all those who have visited the area want to repeat.

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He visits the Parthenon of Paris

Perhaps do not be so a famous person as the Tower Eiffel or the Museum of the Louvre, but if you have thought to travel to Paris, you cannot be missing to your appointment with the Pantheon of Paris, a place where the culture, the history and the French architecture melt in the only one.

Parthenon Paris


The history of the construction of the Pantheon is the less curious. Luis XV promised in 1744 to construct a building in homage Santa Genoveva, boss of Paris, if it was recovering of an illness. To the being like that, it arranged the construction of the Pantheon in 1758, but for economic problems it could not end until 1789.

About his origin it was thought that it was a church for the saint, but in the end it turned instead of eternal rest for some of the heroes of the French Revolution, like Voltaire and Rousseau, in addition to French celebrities like Víctor Hugo and the Curie.

The Pantheon is located in the Latin Quarter, and shows a neoclassic style, with big Corinthian columns in his front, as in the Pantheon of Rome. In the center there is a dome, which the Tempietto of Rome remembers to, with a 85 meters height. It was this dome the one that inspired Foucault to try to demonstrate his investigations on the movement of the ground, this implies that there is an enormous pendulum in the center of the Pantheon.

In a corner of the pendulum there is a badge in memory of Antoine de Saint Exupery, the author of The Principito, who disappeared in the Mediterranean in a recognition flight in 1944.

Nevertheless, one of the big reasons for which to visit the Pantheon is in his crypt. On having entered her, it is possible to read an inscription that he says in French “For the big men of the homeland”. And the fact is that here there rest big French illustrious men, like the philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and Discardings, writers Víctor Hugo, Emile Zola and Alejandro Dumas, the inventor Louis Braille, the chemist Pasteur, as well as Soufflot, the architect of the Parthenon.

It is impossible therefore not to visit this sacred place for the French, in which, in addition to the architecture and the local beauty, he rests the flower and cream of the history of the thought and the French arts.

To visit it it is necessary to bear in mind that it opens every day from 10.00 until 18.00 hours. The entry costs 7 euros for the adults, 4,50 euros for the young people between 17 and 25 years, and free for the persons younger than 17 years. To come, the more nearby meter stop is that of Cardinal Lemoine.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Region of Inari, in Finland

Lapland is a really impressive place, in which there are beautiful sceneries which to enjoy. The area of the north of Finland, in which they emphasize the national parks Lemmenjoki and Urho Kekkonen, is one of the most impressive of the area. It is a question of an area in which you can enjoy a scenery full of lakes, rivers, dense forests …

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The Finnish Lapland extended concerning the Arctic Polar Circle is a perfect area pair to know covering his nature reserves. At the time of sleeping, it is worth staying at huts that are in full nature.

The most north airport of Finland is that of Ivalo, point from which it is possible to begin covering the area. The city of Inari is the following point, with small houses of wood identical with colors and the lake Inari, a big water extension with 3000 islands.

In Inari it is of almost forced visit the Museum of the Samis, a northerly people that at present it keeps on preserving many of his ancestral tradicoines. They are nomadic, they support his language and his gastronomy and they are supported fundamentally of the reindeers baby.

Continuing towards the Southwest we will come to Njurkulahti, an entry to the National park of Lemmenjoki, in which we will be able to see copies of Arctic fauna.

From here, we will come to Kultaha, in the heart of the reservation, with a thematic museum in the podemos to learn very much on the gold, sifting water of the river, for example. One of the best things of the reservation is that it offers free refuges (they are called tupa), in addition to camp sites and other huts in which it is necessary to pay and in which we can find some serviceability as the sauna very typical of this place.

From here we will come to the National park of Uho Kekkonen, with routes for forests of pines, a reservation with impressive sceneries that pass between cannons and water rapids.

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Elsinor, Hamlet's hearth in Denmark

If you have read the work Hamlet, of William Shakespeare, you the beautiful city of Elsinor will sound, in Denmark, placed thirty kilometers to the north of Copenhagen. If it is not like that, for that it is we who are here, to teach you his delight, which it has, and many …

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Elsinor shows proudly the wonderful Castle of Kronborg, one of the best examples of Renaissance architecture of the north of Europe, symbol of the city. Elsinor is a charming city, with his port and his medieval ambience. To walk along his streets is like doing a trip in the time centuries behind, with his picturesque buildings of wood and his cobbled streets.

From any part of Elsinor you will see the Castle of Kronborg, which has a few beautiful conference of the port and the strait of Oresund. This castle is a Patrimony of the Humanity for the UNESCO. Not to stop visiting the Elsinor Bymuseet located in a sailors' ancient hospital of 1520, and who is dedicated to the Elsinor history. The best thing the model is to scale of the city in 1801.

In the park where the Castle of Kronborg is located you can visit the Danish Maritime museum, which lodges the biggest marine collection of Denmark. There you will know the commercial and marine history of Denmark. Another interesting museum is the Museum of the Wine.

On having walked along Elsinos, you will find very nice churches, like the Cathedral of Elsinor, of the XVIth century, with his big reredos and a font of 1579. Of the XVth century it is the Church of Santa Maria, placed about a garden, with his cloister and a few paintings in his interior of big value.

If we were speaking about Hamlet, we have to visit the Castle of Maryenlist, which although enclosure in the last months for reforms, it is still possible to visit the garden, where to see the Ofelia grave. In the Elsinor port you can see the Aquarius, which is part of the University of Copenhagen.

If you want to go shopping for Elsinor, the cobbled streets of his historical center are full of picturesque shops. In Axeltorv, the principal square of the city, there is a traditional flea market every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Here it is where the traditional Christmas flea market is celebrated.

In the same square also you will be able to eat bargain sale and take something in his pubs and restaurants. In summer it fills with patios, with many people enjoying a beer and the typical polse, a sausage.

It is impossible to refuse to travel in the time with Elsinor. Not even the proper Shakespeare could do it. Hamlet was grateful for it eternally.

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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Saas vale, in the Alps

In the Saas vale we can find four villages in which there stays alive the culture of this recondite area of the Swiss Alps, an area in which the history and the culture estña tied, of inseparable form, to his sceneries. Not in vain we are speaking about an area in which we meet peaks of a height that goes so far as to overcome 4.000 metrod, glaciers, rivers …


This vale was autosufficient and he stayed partly isolated until the beginning of the XXth century, epoch in which it turned into a much valued mountain destination. From here it was developing until our days, in which it is one of the places of the Alps with a major offer of accommodation and activities.

How to come

To gain access to the Saas vale, you can take a flight up to Geneva, it is sure that in the agencies you can find something that is well of price, even can find some cheap flight. From there, it rents a car up to coming to the Visp locality.

What to see

From Visp, you will take a highway excavated in the rock that climbs while little by little you will see how the vale expands. In this area the wooden houses with flowers in the balconies it is one of the most typical pictures, which he announces that we are on the point of coming to Saas-Balen. He is worth visiting his church neo baroque, circular and with the white walls.


Very close there is the people Saas-Grund, the tourist center of the vale of Saas. Once here, it raises the telecabina Kreuzboden, which also, it goes out of the urban center, to gain access to the most impressive mountain itineraries.

It is worth approaching and discovering the sceneries that make a detour to the Kreuzboden lake. Back to the principal highway, we come up to Saas-Almagell, which in the epoch of the Romans was already used like step to Italy. He is worth visiting the marsh of Matt-Mark, fed by the thaw of the galciar Gletscherrandsee.

Undoubtedly, in the whole region Saas-Fee she is the most famous population, for his glaciers. Certainly, do not go away from here without proving a raclette in a restaurant (process cheese and smeared in potato).

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