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Read more about the article Cappadocia: Goreme hot air balloon flight

Cappadocia: Goreme hot air balloon flight

🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 This is stunning, once in a lifetime experience. The offers a unique vantage point to see Cappadocia's beautiful rock formations, cave dwellings, ​fairy chimneys, and more. We were picked up around 3.30 in the morning  from Foremanson cave hotel. Pick up frrom all the hotels took time and then we were on our way to a field about 5ish where baloons are getting ready. The basket itself is splitted to small cubicle which gives some seperation though its pretty crowded . On the way we were given a light…

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Read more about the article Liechtenstein – Vaduz and around

Liechtenstein – Vaduz and around

🇱🇮 🇱🇮  🇱🇮 Principality of Liechtenstein is 25 KM long landlocked micronation sandwitched between Austria and Switzerland. Economically it has one of the highest per captia GDP ratio and considered the safeset country in the world Day 1 My flight was in the morning 6AM from Heathrow airport. Travelling in the morning from Heathrow was a bliss, hardly takes anytime for security in an otherwise extreamly busy airport. Flight to Zurich airport was under 2 hours and then public transport to Vaduz , capital of Liechtenstein. It's straightforward to go , train…

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Read more about the article Croatia : Zagreb

Croatia : Zagreb

🇭🇷 🇭🇷 🇭🇷 Day - 1 Zagreb is the captial of Croatia and my last stop before flying back home. I started in the afternoon after a long day at Plitvice . The bus reached at Zagreb early evening . I stayed at YHA in Zagreb. After checking in I roamed around city centre and also had my dinner . Interestingly in the city center the have probably smallest train line in the world ( used only for touristic purposes) . Tkes ppl from lower level of the town to upper level.…

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Read more about the article Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo

🇧🇦 🇧🇦 🇧🇦 This was the last leg of ny B&H trip. The hotel I booked was just opposite to the pigeon square. It was fairly cheap but comfortable. I arrived from Mostar in the morning by Talgo train. There are two daily trains depart from Čapljina , I took the morning train which departs about 6.30 AM. Sarajevo is about 2.5 hours but it took little longer. With the help of my host , I took a local tram to the pigeon square and deposited my luggage . Sarajevo old town…

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Read more about the article Bosnia and Herzegovina : Mostar

Bosnia and Herzegovina : Mostar

🇧🇦 🇧🇦 🇧🇦 Day 1 I arrived Mostar in the morning . The hotel was in the old town and it was bit of walk from the bus stop. My hotel was at the heart od new town . It is one of the Bosnia and Herzegovina's most beautiful cities . Most of the old town area can be covered easily by foot . Stari Most ( old bridge) is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s most famous landmarks and its compelling history and lively culture mean it features highly in a visit…

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Read more about the article Croatia : 3 days in Dubrovnik

Croatia : 3 days in Dubrovnik

🇭🇷 🇭🇷 🇭🇷 Day 1 This is the beging of a 2 week trip coinciding with UK bank holiday. I arrived Dubrovnik in afternoon. My apartment was between Lapad and Old Town. Uber is available in Dubrovnik so I took an uber to my accomodation. Later in the afternoon visited a local beach named Belevue. Day 2 Dubrovnik gets pretty hot even in the beginning of June. So next mornings I wanted to go for a walk along the city wall as first thing. For a walk,  tickets are pretty expensive close…

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Read more about the article Iceland: Hiking an active volcano

Iceland: Hiking an active volcano

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 Iceland is known to be the land of ice and fire, and in the past few years it’s really shown the world what that really means. The country is situated on top of two tectonic plates, the North American and the Eurasian plate, and also right above a hotspot – a geological term for a volcanic area that has an unusually hot mantle underneath it. With over 32 active volcanic systems in the country, you’d expect there to be a volcanic eruption going on all the time. Hiking to…

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Read more about the article Iceland: Laugavegur Trek and Fimmvörðuháls pass

Iceland: Laugavegur Trek and Fimmvörðuháls pass

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 The Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls trek has been listed by National Geographic as one of the "World's Best Hikes" due to the unique and extremely diverse landscape encountered on the trail. One can see everything from sizzling hot springs and volcanoes to icy white glaciers. We walked through geothermally active lands of colored rhyolite mountains, obsidian fields, cross glacier rivers, and so much more on our journey. We stay in rustic, but charming highland huts located in remote areas. Each area is unique, revealing new features in the ever-changing landscapes of the trail. Day 1 Reykjavik  to Landmannalaugar  We departed early in the morning from…

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Read more about the article Aberdeen, Shetland and Inverness

Aberdeen, Shetland and Inverness

Shetland is an island archipelago between UK and Faroe island in Norway. There is a cluster of 100 islands only 16 of which are populated.  So it was a long journey from mainland UK. Day 1: London - Abardeen This was long day started at morning in Hemel Hempstead. We had to travel all the way Kings Cross and then take the train Abardeen. It`s one of the longest train journey in UK ( longest one is  Aberdeen to Penzance) of more than 7 hour . We reached Abardeen in late afternoon…

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Read more about the article Khirai – Valley of flowers

Khirai – Valley of flowers

🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 Khirai, a sleepy station next to Panskura Junction is known as Bengal Valley of flowers. Though most of flower cultivation happens few miles down near Dokanda village at lower reaches of Kansai river. A nice day-out . It was sad to see that some farmers were destroying their own corps . Spoke to one and he told me that even the cost of transportation is more then what it would fetch in wholesale market.

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