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  • Top backpacking destinations for 2011

    Are you ready for another year of globe-trotting with nothing more than a backpack and a camera? Backpacking is not something that everyone enjoys, but a genuine backpacker knows that a tight budget and little luggage won’t stop anyone from having a great holiday, on the contrary!

    Backpacking will allow you to mingle with locals and other tourists alike, to see place that are off the beaten track, and to experience the culture of the country you’re visiting in its purest, rawest form. So start packing for another great year for backpacking, especially with destinations like these! Here’s our list of the top backpacking destinations for 2011.

     
  • Turkey: A culinary journey

    Now that national cuisines are very much in vogue, we can expect so see a lot of national and regional specialties in restaurants, cafes and even fast foods. But nothing can compare to the taste of the genuine product, made by locals using local ingredients and local savoir-faire.

    Turkish food, that delicious fusion of all the best in Asian cuisine,  is all the hype nowadays (judging by the number of Turkish eateries popping up everywhere), so on your next trip to Turkey, try out these tips concerning what to eat and where to eat, to get that special genuine Turkish cuisine feeling.

     
  • Five Challenging Cultural Tours for the 2010 Summer

    In such times of cultural awakening, cheap traveling and widely available information, the world begins to look more and more like a huge open air museum. And one must admit that there are few things that today’s travel industry cannot offer: form the Ancient Silk Road to the footsteps of Belgian comic hero Tin Tin, tour organizers are coming with creative options that can feed your craving for knowledge and adventure.

    Today’s post will try to give you a few suggestions on what is there to see and explore in the soon to come summer of 2010:

     
  • Amazing Earth – Pamukkale – Turkey

    While one of our blog’s focuses has always been the presentation of fun, interesting places we visited or hidden traveling gems we stumbled upon, we usually bunched them up together to form easily-digested lists and tops.  This has an obvious advantage to the casual reader but we feel we’ve been doing these amazing places a slight disfavor by cutting them short so as to fit in a list.

    So we’ve decided it’s time to give more credit to the uniqueness and beauty of some of Earth’s most impressive places with the help of a new series of articles called “Amazing Earth”. And what better way to fire up your appetite for this sort of locations than the godly sights offered by Turkey’s Pamukkale.

     
  • Five Fabulous Resorts around the Black Sea

    Odessa

    Odessa

    During the latest years, the Black Sea resorts have managed to enter the European summer migration circuit: while while the westerners, in search for new experiences and more affordable rates, area heading towards the eastern European countries, the Eastern Europeans are more and more attracted by the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean.

    Despite the facts that the Black Sea lacks the characteristic clarity of the Mediterranean, the absence of tides and sharks makes its waters much safer. All around this inland sea, one can find the ruins of ancient Greek colonies, modern ports and isolate fishermen villages. We now give you five of the best Black Sea resorts:

     
  • Best Adventure Travel Destinations for 2010

    One might think that in an age of fast an inexpensive traveling like ours, there is little room for      geographic discoveries, not to mention the glorious explorers of the latest centuries.

    Fortunately, the world is a really big place, big enough for every daring traveler to be able to get all adventure the he or she wants. And now that nature is gradually coming back to life after this fierce winter, it’s time to check out what 2010 brings new in terms of adventure travel.

     
 
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