January 16, 2012
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Thermalpark Veľký Meder – a popular thermal water park in Slovakia Updated: January 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Termalpark Veľký Meder is a popular thermal water park situated in the village Veľký Meder in Slovakia, about 10 km from the Hungarian border and 65 km from the capital city of Bratislava. Photo by […]
Tags: aquapark, bubble-bath, further-information-visit, hungarian-border, indoor-entertainment, interactive-water, outdoor-sections, pool, self-service-restaurant, slovakia, swimming, swimming-complex, table-tennis, thermal-park, thermal-water-park, ticket-costs, treatment-beauty, velky-meder, water-cannons, water-curtain, water-park, water-playground, water-slides, water-tower
Categories: Slovakia, Wellness, Relax & Sports
January 16, 2012
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Charleroi with a belfry included in the World Heritage Sites List | Belgium Updated: January 16, 2020 | By Claire | More Belgian city of Charleroi is situated at the banks of the river Sambre in the province of Hainaut, the westernmost part of Wallonia, located about 50 kilometers south of the capital city of […]
Tags: archaeological-museum, banks-of-the-river, belfry, belgium, bell-tower, charleroi, charles-ii, city-of-brussels, curious-tourists, geographical-position, glass-museum, heavy-industry, museum-of-fine-arts, museum-of-photography, northern-france, river-sambre, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, wallonia, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Belgium, Sights
January 15, 2012
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Croagh Patrick – one of the world’s largest Christian pilgrimages | Ireland Updated: January 15, 2020 | By Claire | More To the west of Ireland, over the southern shore of Clew Bay, you can find the mountain Croagh Patrick. It is the subject of many legends and a place of one of the largest […]
Tags: bad-weather, ballintubber-abbey, christian-ireland, christian-pilgrimages, county-mayo, croagh-patrick-mountain, dominant-element, ireland, irish-people, judgement-day, moors, mountain, pagans, pilgrimage, s-hill, saint-patrick, spiritual-significance, top-of-the-hill, unbelievable-view, west-of-ireland
Categories: Ireland, Nature
January 13, 2012
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Glass Igloo Village Kakslauttanen – watch Northern Lights above the bed Updated: January 13, 2020 | By Claire | More From the height it looks a bit like UFO landing site. Shining glass balls situated in the snow and geometrically perfectly arranged in the middle of the forest… But in fact it is a glass […]
Tags: arctic-circle, bath-fireplace, cool-pond, finland, glass-balls, hotel-in-finland, igloo, insulating-glass, lapland, lapp, natures, northern-lights, rest-rooms, saunas, sculpture-contest, ski-resort, sleeping-bags, statues, teepee, warm-beds, wooden-cottages, woolen-socks
Categories: Finland, Travelling Tips
January 12, 2012
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Ambras castle – Renaissance Pearl of Tyrol | Austria Updated: January 12, 2020 | By Claire | More One of the most important sights of Innsbruck, the dominant feature of the surrounding landscape, which you can not overlook is Ambras Castle. Its history is inextricably bound up with a Renaissance prince, Ferdinand II, Archduke of […]
Tags: 11th-century, ambras, ambras-castle, amras, archduke, armor, austria, benches, castle, dominant-feature, early-music, ferdinand-ii, first-class, forests, half-an-hour, knights, minibus, music-management, prams, renaissance-chateau, renaissance-prince, squirrels, tyrol-austria
Categories: Austria, Sights
January 11, 2012
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Oberstdorf – south-Bavarian hiking and skiing resort in Germany Updated: January 11, 2020 | By Claire | More Oberstdorf is a hiking and skiing center located in Bavarian Alps, in the south of Germany. It boats an annual average of 2.5 million visitors, and is famous mainly because of ski jumping hills at the foot […]
Tags: alpine-peaks, bavaria, bavarian-alps, deep-snow, descents, downhill-slope, euro-32, extreme-sports, fellhorn-kanzelwand, germany, hiking, ifen, jumping-hills, mountains, nature, overflows, resort, rugged-trails, ski-areas, ski-jump, skibus, skiing, snowboard-parks, snowboarders, south-of-germany, spa-and-wellness, wellness-activities
Categories: Germany, Nature, Wellness, Relax & Sports
January 10, 2012
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Pieniny – the smallest and second oldest national park in Slovakia Updated: January 10, 2020 | By Claire | More East of the rocky peaks of the High Tatras mountains lies the picturesque and extremely attractive natural scenery of Pieniny National Park (Pieninský národný park – PIENAP). It is spread at the Slovak-Polish border and […]
Tags: beautiful-nature, cave-systems, climate-fluctuations, cretaceous-limestones, forest-villages, garrigue, high-tatras, horse-drawn-carriages, masaryk, mountain-streams, national-park, natural-scenery, natural-treasures, nature, pieniny-national-park, polish-border, remarkable-rock, rock-formations, rocky-peaks, shales, slovakia, square-kilometres, tatras-mountains
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
January 9, 2012
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Štrbské Pleso – a favorite ski, tourist, and health resort in the High Tatras mountains in Slovakia Updated: January 9, 2020 | By Claire | More Despite the recent natural disasters that occurred in 2004 in the High Tatras National Park, Štrbské Pleso is still one of the most visited tourist destinations in Slovakia. In […]
Tags: altitude, coregonus-lavaretus, glacial-lakes, glacial-origin, glaciers, high-tatras, maximum-depth, nature, plants-and-animals, pleistocene, pleso, recent-natural-disasters, roach, slovakia, species-of-fish, sport-activities, tatras-national-park, tourist-destinations, valleys
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
January 8, 2012
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Venice – the most important tourist destination at Adriatic Sea | Italy Updated: January 8, 2020 | By Claire | More The world-famous city on the lagoon, the romantic city full of canals and the historic city of museums and monuments – that’s Venice (Venezia)! Venice is absolutely the most important tourist destination from all […]
Tags: adriatic-sea, barbaric-tribes, bishopric, celebrations-and-festivals, city, city-of-venice, conquest-of-constantinople, constantinople-in-1453, cultural-heritage, empty-regions, end-of-the-roman-empire, history-city, islets, italy, mestre-venezia, romantic-city, romantic-location, sights, slow-decline, venetians, venezia-mestre, venice, venice-mestre, venice-venezia
Categories: Italy, Sights
January 7, 2012
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Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park – the third largest national park in Finland Updated: January 7, 2020 | By Claire | More Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park is located in Finland, in the northern part of country, in western Lapland, near the town of Enontekiö. It is the third largest national park in Finland with a total area of […]
Tags: altitude, aurora, countryside, cross-country-skiing, europe, finland, forests, hiking-trails, lapland, log-huts, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, northern-lights, pallas, peat-bogs, sea-level
Categories: Finland, Nature