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SRI LANKA – The fortified city of Galle and the city founded by the Portuguese – Part III

After a few days in the jungle living to the fullest and desperately trying to see leopards, it was time to head to Galle! The city of Galle and its fortifications are the most vivid proof of the Dutch occupation. The Fort, built in 1663, still has the grandeur of other times. The solid walls […]

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SRI LANKA – Religion, Teas, and Jungle – Part II

Dalada Maligawa Kandy – the religious heart of Sri Lanka! Kandy is known as the capital of mountains. The city stands out for its beauty and for being the heart of the country in terms of religion. This is where we can find the Dalada Maligawa – an architectural complex made of pink pavilions with […]

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SRI LANKA – The Millennial History – Part I

Now that you know what you need to travel to Sri Lanka, let’s travel around this incredible country! Sri Lanka is a country with an infinite cultural diversity. The different ethnicities and immense history make Sri Lanka a very, very special place. It is the birthplace of one of the oldest and purest strains of […]

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Cape Town

V A Waterfront We ended our 2018 travels on the African continent. It was our first time in Africa and it was a pleasant surprise, mostly for me because I had no expectations. I must confess I wanted so much to go to Cambodia and Vietnam that when João convinced me to go to South […]

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Montepulciano

2018 was a great year, full of changes and also lots of success, but success comes with a lot of work, so it was also a very exhausting year! And sometimes that exhaustion doesn’t allow us to do what we like the most, in my case, traveling. We were already planning a big trip to […]

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Lausanne – what you must do in the most beautiful town in Switzerland!

Lausanne was founded by Romans next to the lake, in the I century. Later, the population would move to the hills, to be safer. Here is nowadays located the beautiful and magical Old Town (Vieille Ville). It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the country and one of the main economic and cultural areas in […]

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Lucerne

Located in central Switzerland, the geographic and historic center of the country, Lucerne is one of those cities taken straight out of a fairy tale. It’s the biggest of central Switzerland, situated in the margins of Lake Lucerne. Started as a fishing village, but from 1220 it had an important role in economy and commerce with the […]

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Pompeii

Pompeii’s ruins with Vesuvius in the background  Located very closely to Naples, Pompeii was once a true and important city of the Roman Empire, similarly to other Italian cities, it would for sure have a quite preserved historical hallmark, but the total devastation caused in ’79 by the unstoppable rage of the Vesuvius did not […]

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Welcome to the South – here’s the Amalfi Coast!

Sick traffic, a confusion, curves and more curves, and a huge amount of people characterise the Amalfi Coast! At first you might think this not a very positive view over one of the most wanted destinations of all times, and in the end, that’s what it is. And why? Because not even in paradise everything is […]

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Cortona

Piazza Della Republica Returning to paradise… I’m sorry, Tuscany! Those who know this Blog are aware of our love for Italy, more precisely for Tuscany, and by the time of our 2013 trip to this region somethings were left unseen, namely this town, eternalized by Frances Mayes, in “Under the Tuscan Sun”. It’s true this american […]

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