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12:08

El Nido – Palawan

15:18

Jaipur – Royal capital of India

Jaipur is often called the Pink City in reference to its distinctly colored buildings, which were originally painted this colour to imitate the red sandstone architecture of Maugham cities. Jaipur is the largest city in Rajasthan and was built in the eighteenth century by Sawai Jai Singh as India‘s first planned city. It belongs to the tourist Golden Triangle of […]

06:20

Honolulu Aloha!

Honolulu Aloha! Ekomo mai (welcome) to Honolulu, on Oahu’s south shore, the capital of Hawaii. The Waikiki neighbourhood is its centre for dining, nightlife and shopping, famed for its iconic crescent beach backed by palms and high-rise hotels, with volcanic Diamond Head looming in the distance. Honolulu is both the westernmost and the southernmost major American city. Famously being […]

05:20

Stockholm • Sweden

Stockholm is made up of 14 islands connected by some 50 bridges on Lake Mälaren, which flows into the Baltic Sea and passes an archipelago with some 24,000 islands and islets. Over 30% of the city area is made up of waterways and another 30% is made up of parks and green spaces, making it […]

09:39

Florence • Italy

Rich in art and architecture, a centre of medieval European trade and finance, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and once the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Florence is so rich in art that some first-time visitors experience the Florence Syndrome, a phenomenon observed and described with more than 100 cases among tourists and […]

03:05

C’mon Toronto: why you should visit Canada’s largest city

C’mon Toronto, have a good time in this buzzing city on the shores of Lake Ontario, one of the largest fresh body of water in the world that resembles an ocean more than a lake. Over 40% of the people of Toronto are not native Canadians. Toronto has the third largest percentage of immigrants in the […]

04:05

12 hours in Doha

Doha (Arabic: الدوحة‎) is the capital of the peninsular Arabian Gulf country Qatar is a modern city on Doha Bay. Once a fishing village dependent on pearl diving, Doha was founded in 1825. It was officially declared as the country’s capital in 1971, when Qatar gained independence from being a British Protectorate. Following the accession of […]

07:29

Sigiriya – the Lion Rock

The Ancient City of Sigiriya is the most visited historic site in Sri Lanka. The ruins lie on the steep slopes and at the summit of a granite peak standing some 180m high, the ‘Lion’s Rock‘, which dominates the jungle from all sides. Sigiriya is an ancient palace located in the central Matale District near the town […]

02:34

Koh Samui

Abundant tourist resources, sandy beaches, coral reefs, and coconut trees are to be found on Koh Samui, the second-largest island (after Phuket) in Thailand off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus, in the Chumphon Archipelago. The island was probably first inhabited about 15 centuries ago, settled by fishermen from the Malay Peninsula and southern China. […]

04:18

Swayambhunath Stupa

Swayambhunath is an ancient religious architectural stupa atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. A UNESCO World Heritage since 1979. Each morning before dawn hundreds of Buddhist (Vajrayana) and Hindu pilgrims ascend the 365 steps from the eastern side that lead up the hill, passing the gilded Vajra (Tibetan: Dorje), thunderbolt sceptre, […]

08:10

Toronto – home town

Toronto is officially my home, it is the place of youth. My very being and character were shaped by Toronto. Under-rated in many ways, this is the most culturally diverse city in the world as acknowledged by the United Nations, with more than 50% of the population having arrived from overseas. In Toronto one celebrates your culture without […]

04:24

Negombo – Sri Lanka

Located on the west coast of Sri Lanka at the mouth of the Negombo Lagoon, Negombo draws tourists who stopover on their way to or from the airport. With quick access to and from the country’s main international Bandaranaike International Airport and also approximately 35 km north of Colombo, Negombo has some quiet stretches of beach which are maintained by […]

05:50

Barcelona • Spain

Spain‘s second-largest city and the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona is full of markets, shops, museums, churches, and beaches too. Barcelona‘s official languages are Catalan (not a dialect) and Spanish. Local people consider that Catalonia is a nation, with its own culture, history and traditions, different from the other regions in Spain. Its tradition of creative art […]

13:54

Seville • Spain

Seville is more than 2,000 years old and has a distinct personality, a large and well-preserved historical centre with strong medieval, renaissance and baroque heritage and heavy influences from Arabic culture, which can be seen in the most famous monuments and places. I have a love affair with Seville, it is just one of those […]

07:25

Ponta Delgada • Azores

Ponta Delgada is the largest city on the island of São Miguel in the archipelago of the Azores, the autonomous region of Portugal. Populated since 1444, the island of São Miguel was a vast territory, with small settlements scattered about, except for Vila Franca do Campo in the central-southern coast, and the community of Ponta Delgada. […]

06:41

Petra – ancient desert city

The fabled “rose-red city, half as old as time”, Petra is the well known ancient Nabataean city in the south of Jordan, recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. Chosen in July 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders and what may be one of the most expensive admissions to any archaeological site […]