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Halkidiki


To the southeast of the city Thessalonki there is Halkidiki, the birthplace of the famous Aristotle. Its capital is Poligyros, which is located in the center and 69 kilometers from Thessaloniki.
Its special form reminds tourists of three fingers pointing to the Aegean Sea or trident of Poseidon.

The three peninsulas are named Cassandra, Sithonia and Mount Athos.Peninsula Halkidiki is a paradise, being endowed with charming coves and sandy, rocky headlands, with golden sand beaches and crystal clear waters, pine forests, olive groves and splendid complete picture of Halikidiki vacancies. Of the “three fingers” of the peninsula, just at the middle and western (Sithonia and Cassandra) welcomes tourism, with an incredible natural beauty and tourist facilities developed. Cassandra is the ideal place to spend the whole night, and for fun on beaches restless, Sithonia is the place for those who love nature, quietness and deserted beaches.

With over 300 beaches and coves wade the calm waters of the Aegean Sea, with breathtaking scenery and a variety of interesting places to visit, Halkidiki is a paradise for those who want to spend their vacation here. Cassandra, the western peninsula of the three, is famous for beautiful beaches, often surrounded by pine forests. Near the village is a cave complex whose corridors extend over 1900 meters and contains beautiful examples of stalactites and stalagmites.

Halkidiki has interesting villages of rare beauty and beaches are among the most beautiful in all Greece, which are famous for their crystal clear waters and white sand.

Halkidiki holidays are ideal for everyone.

Posted on August 26th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Montreal

Montreal is unique in North America, combining the New World modern with the romantic charm of historic districts and a European air Gallic lifestyle, evident in the cafes and the city’s dynamic nightlife.
Although skyscrapers downtown are testament of the economic influence of the second largest city of Canada, visitors are most likely attracted by the promise of rides in a cart on the cobbled streets of old town near the St. Lawrence River.
Montreal is on an island between Rivière des Prairies and Saint Lawrence River. When Jacques Cartier discovered the island in 1535, it was already inhabited. Until Paul de Chomedey arrived in 1642 to found the Ville-Marie, the first European colony has been already abandoned. Cross on the Mount Royal, which is visible from most of the city, marks the place where Maisonneuve planted a wooden cross to thank that the city was spared by the floods in the first winter.
French revolt against the British in the economy led to the “silent revolution” between 1950 and 1960, culminating in the crisis of 1970 and the referendum about royalty from 1980 to 1995.
As a result, French became the predominant language at work and a number of companies in Quebec have become active in global market forces. Approximately 65% of people claim that French is their native language, making Montreal the second most populous French-speaking city after Paris.
But in Montreal there is a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants around the world, who contributed to the rich cultural heritage and lively atmosphere in the city. This is most evident during one of the largest festivals in Montreal, International Festival of Jazz in Montréal, when tens of thousands of music fans fill the streets of every day.
Elegant buildings of Old Montreal, which was the heart of the city until the late nineteenth century, are now full of shops, bars, hotels and restaurants.
The best time to visit Montreal is summer, when even the nights are muggy and the whole city seems to spend. Autumn that reveals the leaves color is the right period to visit the Laurentians forest.

Posted on June 27th, 2010 by admin  |  1 Comment »

A holiday in Turkey

A tourist region par excellence, with a lot of sights that await you beyond the gates of all hotels in the all inclusive system. Tens of thousands of tourists choose each summer, for many years, holidays with no worries and rain in Antalya, Turkey.
A day in the city of Antalya runs smoothly with the sun disappearing into the sea and the history that comes alive as you descend from the new to the old port in the Mediterranean. Among the traditional houses carefully restored by new owners, shops and craft bazaar with goods that undulate in waves, the heart of the city hides even the heart of fun in the region which is supposed to be the coolest club outside the hotels where you can white your nights during holidays, the well known Ally Club .

Belek, situated in the Antalya region, has the most luxurious, but the most expensive too, five star resorts in the Antalya valley and the Side-Alanya area has low prices and is full of historical monuments, a paradise for fans. You make your choice as you like it, after your budget or passions.

Beyond Belek, toward Alanya, which is also located 140 km away from Antalya, is a few miles of coast and it lies one of the best preserved ancient buildings in the world, the amphitheatre in Aspendos, built by Marc Aurelius. Travel agencies offer daily trips here, and the money you will pay are going to be certainly well spent. Millennium Theater had also periods in which it abandoned the cultural mission. Seljuk from Turkey turned it into a caravanserai because it was an important trade route. Then, a sultan made palace for himself in a strange ancient construction. Meanwhile it was returned to its original form, of a theater. Performances are held at dusk, especially music. From Aspendos you can get to Side in a few minutes, also called the old Antalya, an abandoned city, with remnants of Greek, Roman and Byzantine, who once was one of the most prosperous ports in the region. On Side, the Temple of Apollo is still raising its trunks to the sky, and the trade history with slaves comes alive in guides stories.

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Bora Bora Island

Bora Bora, the island in the middle of the Pacific, was called by many as the most beautiful place on Earth. The island is a mixture of shades of blue, from azure to dark blue of the ocean after the barrier reefs, all surrounding emerald mostly conferred by abundant vegetation of the Otemanu volcano.

The island of volcanic origin, Bora Bora, is actually a complex of small islands, formed along a barrier reef around the main island.
Bora Bora is the main favorite destination for honeymoon and also a visit in family which will be a unique experience.

Bora Bora is part of the French Polynesia and is located to the tropics, near Tahiti, from where air you can arrive in about 45 minutes. One trip here from Romania for example takes about 24 hours, and requires a stop somewhere in the United States of America.

Bora Bora Island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 225km northwest of Tahiti, has 6.5 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide. Bora Bora is an island of volcanic origin which was formed about 3 million years ago.

The climate is tropical, pleasant at any time of year, sunrise and sunset of the sun are impressive, and water’s clarity crosses the limit. Certainly, this would be one of the most splendid holiday ever happened to any of us. Those who had the opportunity to visit this land remained with a strong nostalgia even if this was just a visit, but it remained in memory the most beautiful place on earth, the so called Heaven on Earth.

In 1977 this island was named by Captain James Cook, Bola Bola which means “First Born”, and then, after the Americans arrived, this place was named Bora Bora, an island which is now visited by people from the most remote corners of the world.

Posted on December 11th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Etna Volcano

On the eastern shore of Sicily are rising three large rocks, caressed by the waves. They have volcanic origin and they don’t seem to be like the other rocky formations from the shore. Rocks, they are said to have been thrown by a monster in the footsteps of Odysseus’s ship, the hero of the Trojan wars hero of the Greek mythology.
Homer, the Greek poet of the seventh century before Christ said in Odyssey that the hero of Ithaca and his comrades were held in Sicily by some giant man eaters. Their leader was Polifem more hideous than the others because he had only one eye, sitting in the middle of the crowd. While Polifem was sleeping, Odysseus and the others have sharp  a piece of olive wood, then they flushed into the fire and burning, stuck it into the only eye of the monster, then they fled to the ship with which they came.

Blind and tormented by pain, Polifem tore rocks from the mountains coast and threw them on the tracks of the fugitives. He did not hit them, but even today boulders are still being there where he throw, thing which still remember the terrible power of the monster.
As for the legend’s truth, if we look carefully to the inside of the island at about 20 km, we can see the conical tip of the Etna volcano. Its single crater, blind and deep, is like the monster’s eye.
Not once, but many times during the centuries Etna has demonstrated its ability to spout boulders on large and long distances, and it still gives today such dramatic proofs of its anger from depths.
Its eruptions are fed by a reservoir of lava, of 30 km long and 4 km deep, located under the mountains and fed by huge quantities of molten material filled with gas, located in the depths of the Earth. You might think that place is not at all favorable for human settlements. However, the Etna slopes makes one of the most densely populated regions of Sicily. The rivers of lava that flow are slow and not very numerous, rarely killing someone. People collect even five harvests of vegetables per year and fruits are growing in abundance.

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Kalahari Desert

Beyond the gray plains of pebble, in northwestern South Africa, land is slightly inclined to lay open one of the timeless masterpieces of nature: a large  old sand appearing as a baked apricot, which stretches like forever. This is the Kalahari, a vast territory on the African plateau. Surreal beautiful in its immensity, prehistoric culture and structure, the Kalahari Desert covers almost the whole Bostwana, continuing to the west in Namibia and north in Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe. People who live here call it Kgalagadi, meaning “wilderness” – a region so vast, so impenetrable, as it hides secrets of ancient civilizations that disappeared a long time ago. Its sands are home and hunting territory of the oldest populations in the world, the tribes of Bushmen or San, who live today as they did 25,000 years ago. Their amazing adaptations in scorching heat, to the lack of the water and insufficient food, allowed people to survive where others would surely not. Although there is currently no longer than a few thousand bushmen in the Kalahari , their ancestors have left behind them numerous paintings in caves and on rocks in the region. For example in caves and on cliffs of the Tsodilo Hills, in the north-western desert, there are no fewer than 2750 pictures in 200 sites. These subjects vary from simple geometric designs to various groups of people and animals.
Even today, large groups can be seen as marching along the dried  rivers of Auob and Nossob, throwing gold dust in the air. Here, lions are often hidden under the foliage of trees, waiting for night to start hunting.

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by admin  |  2 Comments »

Congo River

Innumerable tributaries feed the Congo river along the arc of a circle which is being crossed from its sources, to the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, until flowing into the Atlantic. On the road or 4700 km, the river winds through dense jungle and mangrove forests accumulating so much power that flows into the sea 41,700 tons of water per second, its  debit being exceeded only by the Amazon’s one.
When the river estuary was discovered, in 1482, by the portuguese explorer Diogo Cao, he could not cross the cataracts upstream of the river mouth, today named Livingstone Falls, so the river has remained unexplored for nearly 400 years. For Europeans of the nineteenth century, this area was known as the “darkest Africa”.
The upper Congo River is partially navigable. Initially, it flows to the north through a narrow, steep and rocky gorge, then winds through swamps covered by reeds and flowing into Lake Kisa, a paradise of egrets and seagulls, but the fishermen in the area. Further, navigable portions alternates with thresholds before Nyangwe, where the river enters into the dark jungle which frightened Livingstone in 1871, preventing him from going forward to the north. The river crosses 7 waterfalls along the 90 km, with the largest flow of water in the world, approximately 166,850 tonnes per second.

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Paris vacation rentals

It’s great to be in a vacation as this one, in Paris, Monmartre. There, tourists are having a fantastic time, staying in some of the greatest apartaments in Paris, which is perfectly situated,right by the park,right above some beautiful caffes,and is very peaceful when tourists go to the park in spring here and then they go downtown, come back and love the piece of serenity. Another important target of a Paris vacation could be the Sacre Heart Church which is just wonderful to visit as many other attractive places. Monmartre is a quite place in this big city,it’s a very interesting place of streets that are all up and down, and the stairways that are historicaly famous and romanticaly famous for this area.Here tourists would prefer to stay and live right in this area. You can turn left or right, to go straight, outside of your apartment you will find something new everywhere they turn.As a conclusion, some of the best chioces a tourist could have is an apartment from the whole list of paris vacation rentals.
This is really beautiful. Is nice to be in an apartment, then they don’t have to stay in a hotel, tourists will cook for themselves.Surrounding they will find some minimarkets from where they could buy meat, cheese, vegetables and cookies, so this is a lovely place for most of them, be sure of that. But also the majority is inspired by the sound inside the other restaurants, the caffes downstairs. We could say even starting with the studio, apartment in which tourists are staying, it could be felt the presence of something artistic. The apartments are designed so elegantly, so beautifully. Every detail is just really amazing, wonderful and makes you feel like living in a very loved home. It’s like your goal in a travelling when you feel like the locals and when you try to live like them.

The Paris vacation rentals today are completely renovated with wonderful furnishings. Specially those from the Monmartre district are offering the most spectacular sights which will remain in your mind for a good period. Surrounded by those buildings mentioned before, tourists will never forget this staying in a large furnished studio or apartment entirely equipped.
Try to explore the Montmartre quartier from the hill, overlooking the rooftops of Paris, which is known to be one of the most favorites in Paris.

Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin  |  2 Comments »

The Devil’s Bridge

The Devil’s Bridge is located in Toscana, Italy. This bridge is one of 30 marvels which are found in Europe and which throughout the centuries have spawned a lot of legends.

This bridge is found in the mountainous Lanzo area being known as the “Ponte del Diavolo”.

The Devil’s Bridge was also built in the 1300s and it also is rising above the level of the water with 15 meters hig. This thing is creating travelers around the world a sturdy passage from Mount Buriasco to Mount Mombasso.

There are many legends about this bridge that have swirled around it. When you see it, you will think of the legend of Dracula and many thing in your mind will ask you how the name of this bridge has come out.

Most of the stories claims the devil himself has built this bridge which wears his name. It was even built only in a single night in exchange for the sacrificial soul of a local resident.

In that moment, the authorities have decided to put a tax on wine to help the bridge being paid. The wine tax was known to remain in effect for around 10 years. Then the locals said “To hell with this bridge.”
Since then, the legend has stood along the years, even today…

Posted on August 27th, 2009 by admin  |  1 Comment »

Christ Church, Jerusalem

The Christ Church from Jerusalem started to exist when several people were in the good place at a good time. As the Book say, men and women came at church each day and finally they were practically a part of it. The Church Of Christ was built in 19th century, preciselly in 1849 and it is also the oldest church from the Middle East. Along the years, the church needed help for serious repairs to maintain the reputation of the Lord clear as well as His house.

The Christ Church from Jerusalem has in its origins the needed to educate the Jewish people, to learn them about the life of Christ. The church is trying to eliminate all anti-Jewish forms, things against christian people.

This beautiful Church from Jerusalem is preciselly situated at Jaffa Gate from the Old City. The hrist Church was also the 1st Protestant church from the Middle East.

Known to be an Anglican church, it attracts annually a lot of tourists, christian visitors who are very excitied to see such an old building and also to learn something from its history.  The majority of people around the city are praying for the peace of Jerusalem. The beautiful Church also houses many different Messiah Jewish congregations.

Posted on July 12th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »