Category: Unesco

Istanbul

I love this city and its beautiful mix of Eastern and Western cultures. Smart business people brush past in their business suits marching alongside the gentlemen in their flowing robes and headdresses. Topkapi museum, the Blue Mosque and Aya Sofya  minaretes and domes jut out as you cruise along the Bosphorus at sunset. The grand […]

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Bulgaria: Bansko and the Rila Monastery

Superb, beautiful, stunning! there are not enough superlatives to describe the Rila monastery. The paintings of this ancient monastery It was founded nearly 13 centuries ago by Ivan of Rila. During this long period of time,the monastery was burned down and rebuild several times. The arches and the colonnades, the covered wooden stairs, the mural […]

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Cappadocia

It is not every day that you get to meet a real Fred Flinstone. Fred runs a restaurant in a cave in the Rose Valley in Cappadocia. We were wandering through the Rose and Red Valley admiring the homes built into the Fairy Chimneys when we happened upon the rock cafe in the strangest of […]

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Levanto and Cinque Terre

strolling through five beautiful Italian coastal villages is not as easy as you think. Basing ourselves at Levanto we hiked along clifftops to visit a village a day. Vernazza has a gorgeous Piazza to watch the sun set overlooked by a church on one side and a ruined castle on the other. The lowering sun […]

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Torres Del Paine

Torres del Paine national park  is home to Glaciers, beautiful scenery of lakes and mountain tops. It is named after its three granite towers that dominate the landscape and is one of the world’s most remote places. My friend Olivier and I did the W walk staying overnight at refugios so that i didn’t have […]

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