Archive for febrero, 2011

Adventure Travel Kruger Park

Lunes, febrero 14th, 2011

Adventure Travel Kruger Park

Are you preparing your adventure trip to Kruger Park? If you travel to South Africa is a must visit one of the oldest nature reserves and extensive in Africa. The Kruger National Park resonates in the memory in the form of stunning images engraved in our minds through wildlife documentaries, or the mythical idea of adventurous explorer in search of the “Big Five”.

Adventure Travel Kruger Park

Photography by Stuart.Bassil

How to plan our safari in Kruger?

A Tour organized. It is without doubt the most comfortable and also more expensive. There are many safari operators for your tours in South Africa and these usually include accommodation, transportation from the place where you hire, food and excursions to meet face to face with African wildlife spectacular. (más…)

Gaudi’s Park Guell in Barcelona

Domingo, febrero 13th, 2011

Gaudi’s Park Guell in Barcelona

The Park Guell is a park located in one of the slopes of the Caramel Mountain neighborhood in the northern district of Gracia in Barcelona, and is one of the most characteristic works of Gaudí.

Park Guell in Barcelona

Photography by mazlov

In collaboration with Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Berenguer Jujol, planned and directed from 1900 to 1914 for Eusebi Guell commissioned the creation of a residential garden city of the British type, scheduled for 60 houses. However, the project was never fully developed, only two houses were built, but it led to the creation of this unique space in 1923 became the property of the municipality of Barcelona. (más…)

Galicia paradise in the North West of Spain

Domingo, febrero 13th, 2011

Galicia paradise in the North West of Spain

Galicia, is simply one of the most picturesque areas of Spain, this is magnet attracting the coldest places in Europe where tourists from these areas really notice the change in climate, vegetation, atmosphere and charm of his worldly nightlife and the quiet charm of the villages in the interior.

Galicia

Fotografía por jodova

Characteristics of Area:

Galicia is composed of four sub provinces, A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, and the cities of Vigo and Ferrol. The capital of the region is the beautiful city of Santiago. The population is sparse, which is approximately three million people, they live mostly in coastal regions has about 100 inhabitants per square kilometer, which is much higher than the Spanish average. (más…)

Peru, the great unknown

Sábado, febrero 12th, 2011

In this vast terrain is the largest canyon in the world, created the largest river in the world geography and the only living species of pink dolphin known to marine biologists. Peru and the lost civilization of the Incas are still a big unknown for the vast majority of tourists. Today we begin this series with one of the treasures hidden in this amazing country: Iquitos, capital of the Peruvian Amazon.

Peru the Amazon jungle

Photography by yonel_campos

In the heart of the Amazon jungle, 100 meters is the beautiful colonial jewel of Iquitos, born in the confluence of the Maranon and Ucayali rivers. With nearly half a million inhabitants, it is the largest city in the world that are not accessible by road, connecting with the outside is only by boat or plane. When next the landing, can be clearly distinguished bird’s eye view of the whimsical curves of “winding river”, the mythical Amazon, and its many tributaries that give it its deserved reputation as the world’s largest river. (más…)

Alexander the Great face

Viernes, febrero 11th, 2011

Alexander the Great face

The photo does not exist in antiquity, so find out how the look of someone who lived 2,300 years ago? The only way to know, roughly, is to use ancient texts that describe the character in question. If this was described by contemporaries, the better. From here, if the character statues have survived, we must select those traits that are closer to the descriptions of these texts.

Alexander the Great face

Photography by aigialos

Alexander is one of the most important in the history of mankind, and as such has been mentioned in many texts. Few of them however were written in the hero’s life. Most are later stories that blend history and legend with more or less skill, and say very little about the physical appearance of the Macedonian king. (más…)

Travel Tips: what technology we take?

Jueves, febrero 10th, 2011

Travel Tips: what technology we take?

Any person intending to make a trip over a long period and want to keep in touch with your friends, family, Internet, travel store photos and videos, make calls with local SIM cards, chargers with adapters, cameras taking pictures, among other exciting options.

Travel Tips

Photography by D’Arcy Norman

The traveler should consider what gossip can be useful to take during the trip, but also usable, low weight, which take place, protective measures, etc.. (más…)

Where do the spaghetti?

Miércoles, febrero 9th, 2011

The other day, eating a delicious plate of bucatini (spaghetti with holes that have their origin in Lazio), we asked ourselves what is the origin of pasta and spaghetti? have their origin in China? Do the Arabs brought it to western Asia, Greece or Italy?

spaghetti

Photography by TheCulinaryGeekPasta dish

As of this story there are different versions, counting the most popular start on how they got the spaghetti and Europe. As the story was thanks to Marco Polo, when after returning from his trip (1295) introduced in China in the West (among others), ice cream and spaghetti. (más…)

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