Posts Tagged Curiosities
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A monastery (Hurezi Monastery) and a curiosity!
As I mentioned here, on December 31st we went visiting some places, including Hurezi Monastery. I told you in the post that I'll dedicate a special article to this monastery – for we've discovered a very-very interesting thing! So here's the articl
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Khongoryn Els – the Singing Dunes (literally!) – Gobi Desert – Mongolia
There are many incredible places on Earth and many amazing experiences created by the nature. While the Mongolian legends say that the desert is magic for it speaks, singing the bravery acts of the ancestors, the science agrees and proves that the
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Hotel de Sal in Bolivia – the hotel made entirely out of salt
Are you looking for a hotel that is made entirely from salt - including most of the furniture? Then you must go near Colchani, Bolivia and stay at Hotel de Sal where salt rules ;). How is that even possible? Well, the hotel sits on Salar de Uyuni,
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(Strange new) Law in Mexico: marriages contracts for two years (with the possibility to renew it)
It's a fact: nowadays more and more couples are getting a divorce after a short while. Moreover, there are many couples (or a person in a couple in many cases) afraid of commitment and of the difficult time of getting a divorce in case the marriage d
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The place where Devil’s horns hit is in Italy
Interesting things (or curiosities if you want) to find out are all over the world. My friend that visited Italy told me about such a special object in Milano, Italy. A white column that you might not even stop to photograph is the place where it
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Curiosity: Griggsville, Illinois: the town who found a natural cure for mosquitoes
Birds, many-many relatively small birds. Everywhere. With houses all over the town. You’d think this is strange and that you want to run as far away and as soon as possible, right? Well, there is a town in this world where small birds - purple m
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Cano Cristales – The river of five colors (Rainbow river) in Colombia – the most beautiful river in the world
Nature is surprising and there are places that have a special beauty only for a limited time. This is the case of a river in northern Colombia, in "Sierra de la Macarena", that transforms itself from an “ordinary” river, with usual colors, in a
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The Dutch Way
If you plan to visit or travel around the Netherlands you should have in mind a couple of things before coming this way. I landed here 2 months ago and I still find out things that are peculiar to me (like the garbage container which has working hour
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Rooftop Ornaments Association in Riga*
Chances are most of what you think you know or imagine about Riga is wrong. It’s not a typical communist city, it’s not a typical Russian city, it’s not a sad city or an empty one, it’s not a new city but it’s not an old one, either. This
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Thirteen interesting facts about Paris as picked out by Michael Schuermann, author Paris Movie Walks
Guest post ParisBuff 1. In the years immediately before the French Revolution, the Palais Royal – nowadays the epitome of bourgeois calm and good taste – was the mother of all open air brothels. 2. Marie Antoinette was so unfamiliar
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