Travel Blog
They are made of earth, bamboo and wood, can be round or square shaped, the oldest ones are 1,200 years old and they can be 100 meters in diameter. They are found in China’s Fujian province and Americans satellites thought they were nuclear power stations…What are they? The Tulou houses of Fujian. They were built […]
Domestic Chinese tourists are madly in love with Lijiang. Thanks to a local airport opened a few years ago there is now a daily torrent of tourists flowing through the pretty streets of the old town. Watching this performance is actually a tourist attraction in itself – everywhere there are groups struggling to keep up with their […]
Last summer, as we were driving along the Lake Geneva highway, I had a glimpse of the Lavaux area from our car. This brief introduction was enough to excite my (chronic) travel bug and put the Lavaux vineyards firmly on my to-visit-list (it’s always the same when I travel …I meet new people, I see […]
6.45am, middle of our holiday, my kiwi wakes me up… Kiwi – we are going to miss the first train… Voyagista – What??? We said we weren’t going to take the first train! Kiwi – I couldn’t sleep and the weather looks great, we might as well go earlier… Hardly awake, we were already boarding […]
There is a Japanese Proverb that goes something like this… A wise man climbs Mount Fuji once, a fool climbs it twice. At the moment, I belong to the first category… I climbed Fuji overnight to see the sunrise from the top of Japan, something you shouldn’t miss when you live in the country of the […]
Before going to Sicily, Syracusa reminded me of my latin lessons and of old greek adventures… now that I have been to Syracusa, it reminds me of my favorite town in Sicily! Ortigya island is really what makes Syracusa so special. The island is a world heritage site – driving is restricted to locals and […]
Often, when I travel to locations in Asia, I feel that I have arrived there too late… The ever-increasing number of tourists is not always well managed, damaging the environment, atmosphere and the beauty of the sites. I think this is the case in Halong Bay. To try and avoid being disappointed (and also because […]
I recently went back to Angkor: ten years have passed since my first trip and tourism has exploded since then. Some temples get really crowded these days and it means tuk-tuk traffic jams are common place. Is it still possible to feel like an adventurer when you are there like I did on my first […]
Penang island was a real discovery for us. Tourism in Georgetown has been booming since it got listed as World Heritage site back in 2008: the historical center is undergoing continuing renovation but the place doesn’t feel too touristic yet. Here is a few reasons to go and visit Penang (the fact that there is […]
I knew of Cordoba because of the Mezquita so we decided to sleep just in front of the church to make sure we could make it to the opening. However that meant my New Zealand husband, who is used to more space on roads, had to deal with maneuvering our car through the maze of […]
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