Morocco’s Blue City
The heart of the Rif, the Moroccan mountain range that runs parallel to the Mediterranean Sea, hides Chefchaouen, a small village that looks like it has just come out of a tale from One Thousand and One Nights.
Tag: Hidden Gems
The Marble Cathedral
An intricate network of caves, a one-of-a-kind geological formation located at the southern far end of the world, in that charming, wild and remote region of America known as Patagonia.
Spain’s Eye on Science
The Ciudad de las Artes y la Ciencias (“City of Arts and Sciences”) is a huge architectural complex that rises from the old bed of the Turia river in Valencia, Spain.
The 350,000 square meters (~3,790,000 sq.ft) of this modern center are dedicated to the promotion of scientific knowledge and cultural activities.
Sighișoara: precious and colored little gem
Sighișoara is a small medieval town of Transylvania. Founded by Saxons in the 12th century, it entered the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.
It is one of the most romantic cities in Romania, with its intact ancient walls strengthened by many towers and bastions.
The bathing monkeys of Jigokudani
Since 1964, in the city of Yamanouchi, in the northern part of the Nagano Prefecture, a very unusual park can be found.
The name Jigokudani means “Hell Valley”, a name that’s been inspired by the vapours emitted by the thermal activities of these japanese valleys.
But what makes this park so peculiar is the presence of a large community of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata), more commonly known as Snow Monkeys who love to bathe and relax in the thermal waters of the park.
Wrocław’s dwarves
There is no doubt: Wrocław is a wonderful city. And did you know that almost 200 of its 630,000 inhabitants are… dwarves? Yes, exactly: dwarves! This ever growing community lives in the town’s underbelly, but you might get lucky and meet a few of them walking down Wrocław’s streets, squares…
The Marble Cathedral
An intricate network of caves, a one-of-a-kind geological formation located at the southern far end of the world, in that charming, wild and remote region of America known as Patagonia.
Spain’s Eye on Science
The Ciudad de las Artes y la Ciencias (“City of Arts and Sciences”) is a huge architectural complex that rises from the old bed of the Turia river in Valencia, Spain.
The 350,000 square meters (~3,790,000 sq.ft) of this modern center are dedicated to the promotion of scientific knowledge and cultural activities.
Sighișoara: precious and colored little gem
Sighișoara is a small medieval town of Transylvania. Founded by Saxons in the 12th century, it entered the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.
It is one of the most romantic cities in Romania, with its intact ancient walls strengthened by many towers and bastions.
The bathing monkeys of Jigokudani
Since 1964, in the city of Yamanouchi, in the northern part of the Nagano Prefecture, a very unusual park can be found.
The name Jigokudani means “Hell Valley”, a name that’s been inspired by the vapours emitted by the thermal activities of these japanese valleys.
But what makes this park so peculiar is the presence of a large community of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata), more commonly known as Snow Monkeys who love to bathe and relax in the thermal waters of the park.
Wrocław’s dwarves
There is no doubt: Wrocław is a wonderful city. And did you know that almost 200 of its 630,000 inhabitants are… dwarves? Yes, exactly: dwarves! This ever growing community lives in the town’s underbelly, but you might get lucky and meet a few of them walking down Wrocław’s streets, squares…