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Sunday 4 March 2018

Top 13 Reasons Why You Should Visit popular Ghent

Blue Birds by Pitaya, a light installation acquired by the city after the 2015 Festival of Light | courtesy of Visit Ghent

Share by Nana Van De Poel

Combining the quaint old with the hip new has become Ghent‘s strong suit, making for a historical city that’s rich in art, food and music. Here are 13 of the things Culture Trip adores about this Belgian canal city.

The Ghent Festivities: a 10-day extravaganza with hippie roots

For 10 days in July, Ghent becomes a cultural jungle. Every corner is taken over by concerts, plays, exhibits, circus classes, children’s workshops or markets, and over a million people pay a visit to these lively streets during one of Europe’s biggest urban festivals. And to think it all started with white-bearded Walter de Buck and his crew of hippie friends who sung forgotten folk songs on the little square next to St. Jacob’s Church. The plaza is now named for Walter in honour of the joyous spirit he brought to town, and remains a nerve centre of the festivities every year.

Its festival that literally lights up town

Every three years Ghent plays host to an exceptional festival of lights. International artists have made the city one of the most imaginative places in Europe by way of giant luminescent bunnies, mystical whales and light stories projected on protected monuments three times already, and the next edition is slated for February 2018. Dazzling festival aside, Ghent enjoys a careful lighting plan designed by renowned lighting great Roland Jéol the rest of the year, and it recently gave a permanent canalside spot to a work of radiant blue birds based on a fairytale by Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. ...... keep reading ...... http://bit.ly/2uxpx8e

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Thursday 1 February 2018

Revealing 10 New Zealand Natural Wonders You Must visit

10 New Zealand Natural Wonders To See Before You Die

Share By Martha Brooke
Let’s face it, us Kiwis are an intrepid bunch. We love travelling to the far corners of Mother Earth in search of beauty and adventure. But the grass is not always greener—New Zealand is filled with natural wonders that will take your breath away.

And so, to remind you of the jaw-dropping splendours that our beautiful country has on offer, we’ve rounded up the ten New Zealand natural wonders you need to see before you die.

Blue Springs

Pututuru

The Blue Springs at Pututuru just don’t seem real. With its intensely, crystal-clear blue waters and surrounding luscious plant life, they wouldn’t look out of place in a Disney animation. It comes at no surprise that 70% of New Zealand’s bottled water is supplied from here. Take a short board walk through the foliage and be treated to magical views of the clear waters and coral life beneath. PS. keep an eye out for fairies!
Hot Water Beach

Coromandel
Forget paying for an afternoon at an over-priced spa pool, instead, don your togs, grab a spade and get ready to dig your very own! Head down to Hot Water Beach for a unique experience of building and digging your own naturally-filled, hot-watered pool at low tide. With the natural, chemically-infused water reaching temperatures of 64°C, be careful when lowering your sacred parts in first! ........keep reading ....... http://bit.ly/2FBCaET

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Monday 8 January 2018

Enjoy an uplifting experience Sweden’s High Coast

The High Coast is a world heritage site for its unique and scenic land and seascape and its distinctly red Nordingrå granite cliffs and rocks.

Share by Richard Nelsson

From the sea shore, the path had been rising steadily up the hillside, twisting and turning through thick forest, when suddenly it opened up on to a vast clearing of cobble-sized stones. I had spent the previous hour sweating up the mountainside, yet it felt as if I were back on the coast, staring across a rocky beach at low tide.

I wasn’t too far wrong: this was in fact an ancient seabed, one of many bizarre features of the Swedish High Coast – in the Gulf of Bothnia, the topmost part of the Baltic Sea, 500km north-east of Stockholm. It’s a wild and largely unsettled landscape of flat-topped mountains, dense evergreen forests, lakes and inlets that is, quite literally, on the rise.

During the most recent ice age, this region was crushed by a 3km-thick layer of ice. But when this began to melt 9,600 years ago, the land began to rise in a process called isostatic rebound. It has been growing at a rate of 8mm a year ever since, leading to an ever-evolving archipelago gradually emerging from the sea. It was declared a Unesco world heritage site in 2000. ....... keep reading ..... http://bit.ly/2DEnaUV

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