Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and its name means the city beyond the river. Hanoi is a “typical” Asian capital, with all the good and bad that implies this definition to a modern city. Its streets and chaotic traffic, street restaurantes, their small bikes and sidewalks occupied by the heat during summer allows any visitor to realize that in an Asian city. However, Hanoi also has a charm that other cities do not have, for example, be a city without too many skyscrapers, with neighborhoods (or rather street) separated by offices such as Beijing’s hutongs.

Photography by Eustaquio Santimano

From Hanoi we recommend to wander through its streets in the center while you are visiting sites in the city with which it is best to move with a certain type of transportation, whether by motorcycle or tuk-tuk Vietnamese. (más…)

Germany’s Carnival officially begins on November 11th at 11:11 a.m. and continues to quietly and sleep mode for no less than three months. No wonder the Germans call this carnival season “fifth season”.

Photography by PresleyJesus

Cologne Carnival:

The real climax of the carnival arrives in Drei Tolle Tage (three crazy days) whose peak occurs in Rosenmontag (Monday), day 42 before Easter. By then, in Cologne, home to the largest carnival in Europe, a big party begins on Thursday (Altweiberfastnacht) just following Tuesday (Veilchendienstag) with the burning of the carnival spirit (Nubbelverbrennung), symbolizing the Atonement the sins committed during the carnival season. (más…)

Sapa was probably one of the most beautiful and unspoiled places in Vietnam to make treckings and rest on the mountain. Probably twenty years ago, when mass tourism was not yet invaded the northern ethnic groups in Vietnam and had to mostly ethnic women street vendors wandering barefoot on the roads between the rice fields with the sole purpose of sell trinkets and souvenirs while talking on his mobile phone. Phrases like “you buy me” or “you buy for me?” Possibly the most repeated are tourists.

Photography by David McKelvey

How to get to Sapa?

Sapa is one of the most touristic places in northern Vietnam, (más…)

Since ancient times has been speculating on the possibility of a chamber beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza.

“Before they (the pyramids of Giza) is the Great Sphinx, which deserves more admiration than these if possible and instead has quietly been ignored by the Egyptians since ancient times. The inhabitants of the region considered a goddess, and are of the opinion that Horemjeb Pharaoh (1307-1292 BC) was buried in [Book 36 XVII]”.

Photography by Ana Paula Hirama

It was Edgar Cayce, (más…)

Halong Bay is one of the most beautiful parts of Southeast Asia. Named a World Heritage Site since 1994, has dealt with over 3000 islands and islets in 1500 sq km in the bay where the dragon has lasted millions of years of erosion, water and wind action. Is this as a place where you can sail under a romantic spot that will not leave anyone indifferent.

Photography by gregw66

Islands of Halong Bay:

Halong Bay is a huge place full of places (almost) virgin you can enjoy the type of trip you have chosen to get to Halong Bay.

How to get there and see Halong Bay? (más…)

Some say it is one of the most energy on the planet. Others assert that the ancient lost city of the Inca gods. The reality is that the Inca fortress of Machu Picchu is perched between the majestic Andes mountains, flanked by mountains, old and new (Machu and Huayna Picchu) emerging from the Peruvian jungle. More than five centuries of history surrounded by a halo of mystery this magical corner of the planet, which some historians believe was the resting place of the highest nobility of the Inca empire, with its capital in the city of Cuzco (Quechua Qosco, “navel the world “).

Photography by kudumomo

Machu Picchu is now one of the seven new wonders of the modern world, and any traveler can assert in this election just inside the first entrance to the fortress. (más…)

There is a place in India at all ardent devotees of Hinduism in its many manifestations come to celebrate the end of his life. Called Varanasi (Sanskrit, Varanasi) and is at the confluence of the rivers Varuna and Asi, along the sacred Ganges.

Photography by David S. Lowry

At the site there are hundreds of sadhus (Hindu priests), sick and elderly who are on the last leg of its existence that sojourn in the same direction, to make their final prayers and ablutions in the sacred waters of Mother Ganga, between cows , buffalo, dogs, goats, monkeys, fishermen, women doing laundry and children laughing and playing happily while bathing in the river, apparently oblivious to everything going on around them. (más…)