Spanish La Palma, Canary Islands

As if caught in a floating half of the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, South America, Tazacorte Waterfrontand brought off the coast of West Africa, La Palma, there is something in the soul of every continent. The steepest island in the world is only 16 miles wide and 8,000 feet high, La Palma is a huge variety of ecological and historical significance of the 1492.

That was the year that the first Spaniard, Alfonso Fernandez de Lugo landed on the island of La Palma. The island will soon stop ground staff to the west to the New World. Columbus was necessary to stop for rest and supplies. The City of Santa Cruz has established itself as the three most important ports in the world, Hispanic. I also saw the departure of thousands of immigrants in South America, as Cuba, where the Islanders established tobacco plantations.

When we visited the Santa Cruz we found a quiet town. That’s fine and fine old colonial buildings. There are white churches and special accents of dark volcanic stone houses decorated with colorful wooden balconies. I have a copy of the ship Columbus’ Santa Maria at the end of the Plaza de la Alameda, a nice old laurel trees in the shade.

The Island Bay trees that now form the Los Tilos Biosphere Reserve north of Santa Cruz protected. The name derives from Los Tilos, the Spanish word, Santa Cruz Balconiesfor smelly because smelly laurels when he fell.

We joined a guided trek through Los Tilos, horrified and colored green. Our guide to Ilonka-Natour Trekking, said that more than 2000 unique plants and 70 types of vegetation in La Palma. The mountains are tapestry fig tree, orange trees, palms, banana plants, shrubs, trees, laurels and dragon trees, tree, only the central part of the island, and that grow several hundred years. [...]

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Joint Travel Tips Children’s Teen

When was your last trip with your child who was a teenager? Teenagers do tend to choose to travel with peers than with parents. However, it could not hurt you design a tour with the teenager.

To further familiarize themselves between parents and children, could be for example to travel between mothers with teenage girls or fathers with teenage boys. If you have never travel alone with your children who are still teenagers, the following tips you need to refer to.

Talk about time travel
Do not immediately decide the best time to travel. Discuss with your child. At times like school holidays now a suitable time. However, also adjust the schedule with your child.

Choose with your desired travel destinations
Talk about tourist destinations which would you and your child visit. If time allows only a minute, then select a nearby tourist destination of residence. When the time length is obtained, it can choose a rather distant destinations.

If this is your first time and the teenager traveling alone, no need to choose your destination abroad. Rather, look for destinations in the country that was still affordable range. Remember not the purpose of which became major destinations, but the trip itself.

Do not select the destination that makes you trouble down the road. Ensuring the comfort factor. Choose a destination that is used to receive tourists, which has a variety of accommodation options, a variety of tourist activities, and easy access. If not, you certainly do not want to spend time on the trip by constantly arguing with the teenager, is not it?

Create a schedule and travel route
The attractions whatever you want and the teens go? Make a list of sights you want to visit, and create a list of tourist attractions also want to attend your child. Then set which roughly equally be preferred. Choose attractions that involve joint activity between you and your child. For example, activities to make ceramics or rafting. [...]

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Safe Travel Tips in a Foreign Country

Yes, let alone travel abroad to a country that is foreign to us, as advanced as any country, travelers should remain vigilant. Although the country’s record of low crime, crime does not mean the danger was threatening. Here are tips on traveling safely abroad.

Know the level of crime
Do your research and identify areas where the country which is an area with high crime rates or dangerous for tourists to enter the area. Regions like this are usually always exist in any country. Although the country’s relatively developed countries.

Learn a tourist destination
Know what crimes usually occur in the country. Also avoid dark alleys and slums. But remember, in some countries like in Europe, the crime often occurs not because of economic reasons, but because of the influence of alcohol.

Keep emergency numbers
Save the number of local police and the Embassy of your country in that country. If you plan on traveling in a long time in the country, could not hurt you to report yourself to the local embassy. Know also who the people in the embassy that you can contact if anything happens. Arm also with the local state language, although only limited basic words. [...]

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London Beauty Never Ends

How you stand on the bridge at the River Thames in front of Big Ben in the next few months. Imagination that may emerge is admiration of a clock tower with a tale every fifteen minutes and the Houses of Parliament aka British parliament building. In this building, the political process took place in the state in the form of constitutional monarchy. So, where are the first stepping upon arrival in London.

Sightseeing in London, many do and many choices. Could be you’re an artist. Thus, a myriad of theaters in London will be a treat to attract, including Shakespeare’s theater program from Shakespeare’s Globe. Building wooden Shakespeare’s Globe was first built in 1599 as an open theater during Shakespeare worked and wrote many famous plays. Buildings located in the heart of London reopened in 1997.

If you are connoisseur of paintings, the gallery will be a national priority. If easy outdoor , wide field, such as Hyde Park or St James Park, will be the first to enjoy London. In other words, whatever the background of the capital of United Kingdom visitors are always the perfect choice.

Almost all the historical places located in the heart of London. So can be reached by the tourists in one to five days. Usually the third visit places in London to enjoy, and it mengapresiasi chosen location it may take a day. Here are some of them. [...]

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Twiske, This is the “Green Heaven” Beautiful in North Amsterdam

Like the lungs of the city, the existence Twiske North in downtown Amsterdam, which is between Zaandam and Purmerend, a regional “refresher” with big trees forming the wet forests of the lake surrounded by clear-nan lake.

Forests and water, that Twiske. Around it with the bike was very enjoyable, because this land of 650 hectares of which is water and the lake. This certainly gives cyclists an opportunity to tourists to enjoy the many other ways on vacation in this place, such as swimming, fishing, sunbathing on the shores of lake sand or sail around the lake.

A Windmill is located on the shores of the lake, typical building Windmills country has become one of the main attraction because of its location right at a fork in the road for cyclists and joggers. Not far away, a white sandy lake is also used as a panacea cool off fatigue.

In the summer, this is where the people sunbathing. This is not a beach, but people here really enjoy it.

Nature recreation area is almost no visible trash, enjoying stops spots on the lips or the lakeside woods. Did not seem too lifeguard supervise uniformed and sinister-looking, because all signs suggestion, prohibition, or travel information is available.

Here are spur car but “less desirable”, if not cycling, generally tourists choose to walk or ride. In addition, tourists who come by car parking charge. There was no guard parking, because parking here is done automatically through the machine, the result is used to maintain the recreation area. [...]

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