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Amsterdam: An eternal beauty
Amsterdam, a famous place in Europe has millions of things to offer. Tourists just love to be there again and again. It is the capital of Netherlands and also a largest city of it. Well, a popular city has always something to offer its tourists and brings a spark in them to explore it entirely. This city lies in the province of North Holland in the western side of Netherlands. The population of this country is more than 1.36 million. The name Amsterdam is derived from Amstellerdam that indicates a dam in the river Amstel. This city was settled as a tiny fishing village during the late 12th century and today it is among the most significant ports in the world right from the Dutch Golden Age resulting in the developments of trade. Culturally and financially this city is the capital of Netherlands [...]
World’s Top Cruise Destination: Forte De France
Christopher Columbus announced Martinique ‘the most beautiful country in the world’ when he discovered it. Martinique was only complimented by the Columbus but the picturesque is also appreciated by the Arawak and Carib Indian who called their homeland Medinina which means ‘island of flowers’. The volcanic landscape and varicolored flowers, its climate just make a perfect location to attract tourists from all over the countries and stopover for many cruise ships at the port of Forte de France. Fort de France is most liked and looks like miniature of Paris. While coming by the sea, the first glimpse of the place at the port will impress you by its landscape of colonial homes, multiple church towers and backdrop of mountains. This place has the charm of the old world and stunning [...]
Dominica- Nature Isle Of The Caribbean
The Commonwealth of Dominica is an island nation in Caribbean Sea to the northwest of Guadeloupe and towards the southeast of Martinique. Morne Diablotins is the highest point in this country. The beauty of this island is striking and this island is the youngest island in Lesser Antilles and formed by geothermal volcanic activity followed by world’s second largest boiling lake. There are many rare species of animals, plants, and bird species and island is well known for luxuriant mountains and forests. The conflicts of this place are very huge and in the year 1838 it became the first British Caribbean colony controlled by African majority. In 1962 it became the province of West Indies Federation. It became an independent nation in the year 1978. It is listed in UNESCO’s World Heritage site [...]
One Of The Exotic Places In Morocco: Tangier Port
Just imagine, you are wondering through the street looking at the splendid shops by the road side. The shops have displayed their product very attractively to lure customer. The door man at the grand hotels welcomes the guest with smiles on their face, just ahead then you come across children playing in a garden, couples and families sitting on the grass enjoying each others company. Then you come across a market with many active customers bargaining with vendors, you just keep on walking and then to another side of the market you reach a place where old civilization began, with old houses and building, sculptures, etc, still standing, surviving many battles and trounces. It’s not a scene of a movie but actually such market exists in Tangier port which connects the old Tangier to new Tangier. [...]
Shopping Destination: Pointe-a-Pitre
Though Pointe-a-Pitre does not have charm of historical significance or much famous landmarks, but the beauty of such places is often hidden behind the closed doors. As Pointe-a-Pitre initially had swamp land so there is no much past settlement of human race except when British came here and settled on a hill nearby the swamp. It also faces many calamities which destroyed the any settlement made. But after a decade, the swamp dried away and now a large urban city exists on it, making Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe’s largest city. This city has a very unique combination of modern buildings and few colonial buildings which compliments each other. Shopping is what most visitors come here for. You will get everything from France imported perfumes to madras cotton, silver, watches and china made [...]
City Of Columns: Havana
Initially being the pirates’ regular target and founded by the Europeans, Havana has a long history for its existence. Havana has epithet as ‘Ciudad de las Columnas’ which means ‘City of Columns’. Being the capital city, main port and leading commercial center of Cuba, old Havana is full of magnificent Spanish colonial structural design and regarded as a UNESCO world Heritage Site. Havana is filled with richness of architectural buildings which came from its colonists in and through as it was the main transshipment point among the new world and old world met. The style of the buildings and fortress differ from Spanish, Moorish, Italian, Greek and Roman. So it’s like mixture of culture, tradition and custom at one place. The whole different styles bring out the uniqueness about this [...]
Cinderella Of The Pacific: Ensenada
Ensenada sits in the heart of a vineyard country that is considered as the best in Mexico. It makes a good short holiday trip by car for the citizens of US as its just one hundred and ten kilometers away from the border of US. Ensenada has also become stopover for the cruiser ships because it’s closer to the California by the sea route. Once you step on the land of port, you will think there is not much to get around but that’s not true! In Ensenada, there is a small town known as Guadalupe which is famous for its home grown vintages. The cruisers can get best offer from organized tour for wine tasting and tour in the underground store and wineries galore. It’s a great opportunity for the wine lovers to taste best wine grown in this region and could get good deal for wine bottles. Just [...]
Best Vacation Cruise Around Caribbean: Puerto Plata
Puerto Plata, means Port Of Silver, is haven for tourist as it has very pulsating nightlife; attracting bands and salsa dancers from all over the Caribbean, inexpensive sea front beach hotels and adventurous water sports such as wind surfing, snorkeling, diving with free shows of whale watching. The Puerto Plata port is the money-making port of the north coast of Dominican Republic and was established in 1502. Dominican Republic has very unique culture; French dance and ballet can be seen in Cibao and Santiago, Victorian and English architecture can be seen in Puerto Plata and Jews who fled from Germany during Hitler rule still call Sosua their home. In Sosua you will get to see number of reefs, canyons, shipwrecks, and precincts. It just takes twenty minutes to reach Sosua. And about an hour [...]
Cozumel – “Mexican Heart With A Caribbean Soul”
Cozumel portrays itself as a “Mexican heart with a Caribbean soul”. Also this tropical island resort, is situated off the Yucatan Peninsula, and gives a reminiscent combine of Afro-Latino civilizations. Distinguished for its superior coral reefs as well as beach-scattered shoreline, Cozumel is in principal immature in its mid core where emerald green jungles as well as marshy lagoons are house to widespread birds as well as the numerous butterflies. A worth mentioning national park as well as quite a lot of environmental reserves offer protection for rare and in danger of extinction natural world species, to name few the nesting marine turtles. Cozumel is also a refuge for water-sports as well as fishing yet proffers stillness in great quantity, from eye-catching sunsets and walks in the [...]
Sail To The Wonderland Of Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands lie in the western Caribbean Sea and are actually a British overseas territory. This territory includes the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman which lies towards the south of Cuba and also at the northwest of Jamaica. This territory is the main offshore financial hub in the Caribbean. The islands are the peaks of a major underwater ridge which is called as the Cayman Trench and has a height of about 8,000 feet above the sea level. Out of all the islands Grand Cayman is the largest by covering an area of about 76 square miles. Cayman Brac has an area of about 14 square miles and Little Cayman has 10 square miles of area. These two islands are usually called as ‘Sister Islands’ and the population of Cayman Islands are 52,000 who represent a mixture of over [...]