Germany is the land of castles, forests, mountains and fairy tales, which are spread throughout the country. Whereas castles, forests and mountains are easily found on a map, fairy tales are usually not associated with a particular location. An exception is made for the Bremer Stadt Musikanten (City Musicians of Bremen), which pin points the story in the old...
Take a tour of the old city in Bremen at night, guided by a nightwatchman.
In days of old, cities like Bremen were protected by organized groups of watchmen who would take shifts patrolling the streets at night calling out the hour and sounding the alarm at the sight of attack, criminal activity or fire. A tour company in Bremen...
We were traveling in Georgia (the “other” one… in Asia), and arrived in Svaneti, a region surrounded by the Caucasus Mountains filled with beautiful Alpine-like meadows and imposing sheer snow covered mountains. My guide had booked, what looked like an interesting farm house bed and breakfast for the night, but it turned out to be down a long, rock...
The landlocked area of western Georgia named Svaneti is a beautiful region with Alpine-link meadows and stark snow covered peaks. Through the centuries most of the empires of the time have crossed through this area, including the Persians, Mongols and Turks, trying to plunder what little there was to take. The Svans, a local tribe that has inhabited this...
Bhutan is known as "Drukyul" (the land of the Thunder Dragon), which sounds much more violent than you will find it to be. Perhaps due to the fear that the name strikes, the country has never been colonized, and it's independence from giant neighbors (China and India) has endured for centuries. Located on the ancient Silk Road, the Bhutanese...
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