Tuesday, December 27, 2011

What The Airlines Don't Tell You!

If you miss your flight and there's just time to catch another, go right to the other airline's departure gate instead of to its ticket counter. If it has an empty seat, the second airline will usually honor the ticket for the flight you missed. Good to know it!

Monday, December 26, 2011

Weird Places, McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctic

Is the largest ice-free region in Antarctica. 15.000 km2 area. Its landscape includes glaciers, mountain ranges, ice-covered lakes, sand dunes, wathershed system. It's a region where life exists at the very extreme enviromental  limits.






Since 1995 tourists have visited Taylor Valley.
Here you have tour operator links
Aurora Expeditions
Heritage Expeditions
Quark Expeditions

The Perfect Travel Shoes

Mike Richard searching for the " perfect travel shoes". Reading the features, i guess he found it.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Incredible Desert Oases

Ubari lake oasis
Nakhl Fort Oasis
Huacachina
Desert lake oasis, Brazil


                            

Fish pedicure in Budapest

Desperate need of a pedicure after long days of travelling? Kangal fish will be your personal beautician. Yes, i'm talking about a fish, that curious little animal eat dead skin, leaving the healthy skin soft. You can try it in Budapest at this address:
A-List, Jozsef Nador ter 8, Pest, Budapest.



Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The seabirds island, Berlengas (Peniche)


The Berlengas Grande Island is one of the most inspiring place i have seen in Portugal. Located in the west coast, 10 km far from the city of Peniche where you can take ferry and it takes 45 minutes to arrive.
The Island is a nature reserve for seabirds, actually thousand of birds stay here during migration. For that reason camping is not allowed, but if you decide to visit the island i strongly recommend to sleep here, even for a night, inside of Forte São João Baptista.




The fort has a rich history, once was a monastery, in fact in 1500 the monks decide that was a perfect place to live in austerity through solitude and silence, but soon became victim by many attacks from pirates, monks decide to abandon the monastery. Later with the ruins of the monastery was build the fort, an ideal defensive position from barbary pirates. Now is a basic hostel.
I want to be honest, the rooms are really old, mine has also a broken window, no sheets and beds are full of dust, there is no electricity after some hours and the water as well, but the place really worth it. There is a bar where you can eat, but my favorite place was the roof, is like a huge terrace where you can walk around, lay down during the night under the moon, surrounded only by the sea and and the light of lighthouse. The only sound will be the waves and the birds. Isn't magic enough?