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Thursday, March 11, 2010

In Search Of Europe's Great Wildernesses (2)

Those who like wild nature will enjoy this my new series of posts. Here I want to explore the last great wild areas in Europe. The first post was a simple quitz (In Search Of Europe's Great Wildernesses (1)). I was sure, it's the first image that appears in the heads, when we touch this theme. I don't write the name so if you want to control yourself, you can open the page and read.

This time I present you an other place and, if you like questions, try to guess:
One day Americans noticed they killed all the American buffalos, and the life is much more poor without these animals in America.
To ri-populate prairie, Americans imported European bisons (wisents).

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Question:
Where is the last big population of European bisons?

Watch this video and listen to the special song about this forest.

The answer is
Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park (BE) 1,771 km² / Białowieski Park Narodowy (PL) about 100 km²
Surely, it's possible to visit these National Parks. And it's the paradise for hunters all over the world.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Wikio Shopping For the Traveller

A very interesting notice I'll tell you today. After great success in France and other european countries, Wikio, a European search engine, launches Wikio Shopping for UK, an innovative way to shop online. Why is it so important for us? I'll explain to you here why I like it. Suppose we are looking for a hotel in a place that we want to go for our next vacation. I'm sure it'll amaze you. First of all, the welcome page presents all the categories clearly, with photos, so that you do not have to lose time searching for the location for product of your interest. When I clicked on the category "hotels", I remained literally with my mouth open. There was a list of cities divided by countries! You know, I have blogger friends from Malaysia that like to go to Kuala Lumpur and tell us so much about it, so now I dream about visiting it. I decided to explore hotels of this city. And here comes the best part of Wikio Shopping. The main list of the hotels -and there are 151 in my search results- gives price, description and stars. You can also see if there are photos and reviews from the visitors of this hotel. When you click the name of the hotel, you pass to it's main page, where you can find price comparisons of the proposals from different agencies. There is a star rating, user opinions and photos. It's very important to see photos of the hotel, as you know. From this point of view, if the clients take photos of their hotel, it's the best sign that they liked it. Ah, forgot, there is the map and similar products too. In some words: I remain impressed and content of this new possibility to find what I need online.

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Searching For The Revelation of the Future

Looking for informations about Tibet I found this beautiful photo (in the bottom) and wanted to know more about this lake. Because it's not a common lake.
But we have to begin from the beginning describing it. :-)

Lhamo La-tso, Wikipedia tells, is situating not far from Lhasa at an altitude of about 5,300 m and covers an area of only about 2 square kilometres. I could not find something about the depth of the lake. Probably, nobody was so courageous to explore it.

Because this lake is Holy, Vision or Oracle lake. The most sacred in Tibet.
While gazing it, the monks discover the re-incarnation of Dalai Lama but there are many visitors that come there to try to see something in it's water. Visions or forecasts.

The Goddess on the picture here is Palden Lamo. She protects the lake, the Dalai Lama and Lhasa too. If you come to the lake with proper devoutness, is possible you will see your future in it's mirror.

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Bön Mask Dance Festival

I rarely write about Tibet in this blod and am happy to remember you great travel destinations I described in my previous posts. Valley of the Death in Tibet, had great success, and National Geographic About Shangri-La Treasures.

One of the very requested destinations in the places conected with Tibetans (not only in Tibet but in India and Nepal) are the buddhist monasteries. It would be maybe interesting to write a sequence of posts about them, but today I want to write not about the monastery (Menri Monastery, a Bön monastery first in Tibet, actually re-founded at Dolanji in Himachal Pradesh, India) but about the Mask Dance Festival you can visit there.

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If you are interested in Mask Dances, you have to know that there are different nations performing them. Corea, Japan, Thailand, Senegal, Guatemala and Tibet/China partecipate at Andong International Mask Dance Festival. I will write about these dances in my next posts.

What I did not understand -and maybe somebody knows to tell me- WHY these dancers have to use masks? To scare bad spirits?

An Other Pirate's Island

Our next stop in search of the places, where we could "meet" pirates, is Curaçao, a little island in the same region, Caribbean sea. We visited island Tortuga and Port Royal in my previous posts. Those were the "capitals". This island was not very good for life because there were problems with potable water. That is why Spanish did not want to leave here.

Next come Dutchmen on the island. And you can understand it, if you look once on the photo of Willemstad. Very happy colors, mmm?

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The island was rich in that period, and the pirates liked to visit it to change or sell their merchandise. By the way, guess, part of what country is this island today? If you do not remember, it is about 80 km distant from Venezuela. Here (Wikipedia)

The answer is "is one of five island territories of the Netherlands Antilles, and as such, is a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." ;-)))

And here is a very interesting "tourist guide" for those who wants to go there the first time.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Create Your Great Vacation

I write many posts about the possibilities to invent very special events in our life, thinking about it a month or more before in the last period. Here I describe you an other way to create a great vacation. It's simple using coupons collected by Savings. It's a site where you can find all sort of deals that can donate the satisfaction to have as much as possible with the same money. Among other offers there are those for travellers. And I assure you, you will find very interesting proposals.

We want to begin with the entertainment. Southwestairlines promo code allows us to save till $200 with complete vacation packages. There are different destinations. You want to visit Disneyland with all the family? Well, you can stay 5 nights and pay only 3. Or you like to have discounts "all inclusive"? There is a great offer where you can receive Disney Gift Cards.

Ohhh, Las Vegas! My dream. Can you imagine to receive a splendid Spa packege with Savings Las Vegas coupons? Sincerely, I would leave everything and take this possibility. Specially with free treatments... After this terrible winter I feel so depressed and put on 100 years. I just began to look, if it's possible to find something similar. I HAVE to do it and get back my youth.

Finally, the flights. To find something interesting, control Savings travel coupons. Is 60% discount not enough interesting for you? Excuse me. France pass, Swiss pass, Saver pass are thought to force you to visit not only one but different places. We have such pass here too and I was sceptical about it's benefits. My friends told me, they bought it in Paris. They were very content and tell, it is the right way to save money, if you want to visit all the possible museums.

In Search Of Europe's Great Wildernesses (1)

Are you tired to see all the signs of civilisation? Let's explore the last wildernesses of Europa. Here is one of them. I would like to ask you: Can you say Where it is? Help? Europe...
The answer is under the second photo. Don't scroll too quickly!