China
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From the cosmopolite city of Guangzhou, the
China
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From the cosmopolite city of Guangzhou, the old Canton, of the colonial time, to the misty peaks of Li River in Yangshuo, to the eclectic collection of minorities of Yunnan, one of the most interesting provinces of China, and the closest to Southeast Asia , what fascinates you the most is the diversity when you move from South to the North. From the ethnic part of the southern provinces mentioned before, where Dali and Lijinag are really jewels for watching ethnic tribes and old traditions kept intact, you move to the Buddhist central part where the greatest Buddha of the world is waiting for you in Leshan and not far away is Emeishan, the holy mountain of the Buddhist monasteries nearby to Chengdu the gate to Tibet. After that, you move north again to the imperial China, to see the terra-cotta warriors of Xian, the Buddhist caves at Luoayang, the lair of the Shaolin monks and finally reaching Beijing, the imperial city, with its magnificent palaces and gardens, with its mix of old empire and new communist legacy and with the mind boggling Great Wall.
Come with us and enjoy all this and many others in a fascinating travel video about this far away country.
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Cote d'Azur, France
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Cote d'Azur, France
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We returned to France and visit its famous Cote d'Azur with the world renown cities of Nice, Cannes, Antibes and the Principality of Monaco, with picturesque villages like Eze, going all the way to Cap Ferat and Menton near the Italian border and, opposite, to St Tropez.
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Easter Island, Chile
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Easter Island is known
Easter Island, Chile
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Easter Island is known mainly for the colossal statues named "moai" that were placed on the local temple platforms, "ahu", watching impassable inland to protect the clan that raised them in that place. They represent the "mana" or the spiritual power of the deceased leader of the local community named in the island "ariki". The mystery that surround these statues still persists no matter that more or less their history and origin are explained in various theories but when you visit the island the mystery stays with you during the entire visit.
The island's name is the same as the language spoken on it, "Rapa Nui" but the legendary name is more significant meaning the Navel of the World.
The legend says that the first king of the island, Hotu Matua, dreamt that he will move his population on this island and landed on one of the few beaches shortly after that. He brought here a population that was named in history the Long Ears, a name that came from the elongated ears' lobes caused by the heavy ear rings they wore. Later, a new population came or was captured and brought to the island and named the Short Ears, these new inhabitants becoming the builders of the existing "moai".
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Egypt
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From Abu Simbel, where the famous temple of
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From Abu Simbel, where the famous temple of Ramses II was moved stone by stone, to a neighboring location, when the Aswan dam on the Nile was built, to the temple of Philae, on a nearby island, to Kom Ombo, and Edfu going all the way to the magnificent city of Luxor and the grandiose temple of Karnak, to the enigmatic temples of Dedenderah and Abydos, the utmost pilgrimage place for a long lost civilization, the Nile Valley has tremendous mysteries still having to be solved. But being astound by the magnifiency of the temples let us not forget the pyramids , no matter that they are Egypt cliche. Keops, Meknes, Mikerinos plus the Saqqara and Abu Sir groups represent the oldest area of funerary tombs and Keops pyramid represents the only standing wonder of the world out the seven indexed by the old civilization.
Come and visit all these in our travel video, which will bring you also to Sinai, the biblical place of Moses and the prophets, and take also a trip in the middle of the night to the top of the Sinai mountain, to see the place where God spoke with Moses and the place where Iezechil saw God in the dessert ending the trip to the beautiful monastery of Santa Catherina and to the beaches and diving areas of Dahab. Also you can see the remarkable mosques and Coptic churches of Cairo and the bustling bazaar , one of the biggest of the Arab world.
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France
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Come with us and visit in the southern part of the country, Languedoc and Roussillion.
We start our tour in Montpellier, and we stroll through the cities on the Mediterranean coast and visit, the magnificent cathedrals of Beziers and Narbonne, Sette with its picturesque canals, Carcassonne, the best preserved medieval city of Europe, the Cathar castles from Les Corbiers region, testimony of a successful but short lived civilization of Pays d'Occitane. Here we will talk about the the 13th century Albigense crusade of the Papality against these citadels that brought the demise of the Cathars rule and religion and brought the establishment of the Inquisition that will loom for hundreds of years over Western Europe. Latter we will go to Collioure, a very picturesque city on the Mediterranean coast that hosted several famous fauvist painters including Matisse and Derain, the reproduction of their paintings being hanged in the places where they painted them.
We continue to Roussillion, the French Catalonia, and visit its beautiful monasteries of Serabonne, St. Michael de Cuxa and St. Martin de Canigou stopping also at several fortified cities on the way. We cross the Pyrinees in Andorra, a independent principality, and we go further to visit Lourdes, the most important pilgrimage place for the Catholics of Europe. From there we continue to go west, and visit Pau, the birthplace of Henry de Navarre, Biarittz, the in resort for the aristocracy at the end of the 19th century, the Basque city of St. Jean de Luz and return all the way to spend several days on the Mediterranean coast at Grande Motte, a futuristic resort built in the 70s. From here we will do short incursions to Nimes, to visit its famous Roman amphitheater and to Aigues Morte, a city surrounded by fortified walls.
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Greece
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Starting from Athens Acropolis where the P
Greece
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Starting from Athens Acropolis where the Parthenon is the symbol of the magnificent Greek civilization, the cradle of the western civilization, we hoped a ferry overnight to Chios, the island famous for mastic production, birth place for Homer, to see the picturesque villages of Pyrgi and Mesta and the 15th century monastery of Nea Moni, to the secluded island of Inouss, the only place where we could say that we were the only tourist on any island, to Samos, the place where, for sure, Pythagoras and, probably, goddess Herra was born, where you could see magnificent work done during the reign of tyrant Polycrate, to Patmos , small but very picturesque island where St. John the Evangelist was exiled by the Roman emperor Domitian and where, living in a cave, he wrote the Book of the Apocalypse, to Bodrum in Turkey, the legendary city of Halicarnasse, which hosted one of the seven wonders of the world, to the splendid island of Rhodes, with its beautiful cities filled with impressive castles. Our intention to continue in the Cyclades was thwarted by the lack of connections so we flew back to Athens and we drove from there to Meteora, where mysterious monasteries are, like, hanging in the sky and to Metsovo, deep in the Pind Mountains, a place where a population, speaking a Romanian dialect, lives and preserves ancestral traditions.
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