Went to the New Year holidays in Finland on a machine with a dog and even New Year's Eve was a long time ago, but still suddenly someone will be useful. Today, talk about the "technical" side of things, or rather to answer questions I often ask about this trip. Much to my surprise it is not a question of beauty, and all so obvious that it is beautiful, but about how to get where they ate, where they lived ...

Continue our journey to the farthest point of our route. Coming out of Montevideo, after 2 days at sea, we arrived in Port Stanley - the capital of the Falkland Islands. In fact, it's a cool place, "a stone's throw" from Antarctica, is a hot spot! The dispute over her lead Argentina and the United Kingdom ...

In November, I went on a day trip to Tallinn. Travel schedule was very tight and free time almost was not. On the day of departure, I got up early in the morning and managed to the plane a few hours to run through the old town with a camera. Photo report attached.

During the raging flu virus, every journey becomes a difficult test for the psychological state. You look not so much at the list of attractions as at the reports from the fields of medical battles. In this regard, my August visit to Latvia and Estonia seemed ideal. The virus spared these countries and nothing interfered with a quiet tourist vacation. I spent most of the trip in my native Riga, but I allotted only one day to Tallinn. Let's see what I managed to see there.

Helsinki - the capital of the unusual. City all the time at the hearing: in his honor named the Moscow Helsinki Group, are regularly held various summits and meetings, hosted the Olympic Games and Eurovision. The existence of Helsinki is known to all, no worse than the existence of Rome, Paris or New York, but if Rome is associated with the Colosseum, Paris with the Eiffel Tower, and New York with the Statue of Liberty, the Helsinki the average person is not associated with anything.

The distance from Tallinn to Helsinki by sea - only 80 kilometers. Overland comes exactly ten times more, in addition, across the border with Russia, not part of the Schengen area, so it was logical that 97% of passengers between the two capitals rests on the ferries.

Birkash - a small village on the edge of the Sahara desert, where there is the largest camel market in the whole of North Africa. Here sell camel Imported from Sudan, Ethiopia, from all over Egypt, and sometimes from more distant countries, such as Somalia.

You might be surprised, but I had never ridden a vacation tour package. These Antalya, Tunisia, Egypt and other somehow passed me, so that before the trip to the Dominican Republic, I had no idea how relaxing overwhelming majority of our citizens, departing at all insclusive resorts. More interesting was in the Dominican Republic to get used to the role of the average tourist and spend time in a new country in a very different pace than it occurred in dozens of travel before.

Copenhagen May 24, 2012, all these photos were taken on the same day. The weather is good, there is now a long day, and I move a lot and for a long time, so a lot of pictures. 70 out of 355, shot that day. If we assume from 8 am to 11 pm, it appears that shot on average once every two minutes (taking into account a couple of hours in museums, where almost no shot). Even the Chinese are so often photographed.

Kutna Hora is very beautiful, pretty town 60 kilometers from Prague. The story of his starts since the XIII century. There were periods of prosperity and decline, but now it appears in its medieval guise that attracts many tourists.

As practice shows, to get to the castle train better. The train runs from the main train station, and passes through Smíchov, so if you live closer to him, then we can sit down and in Smíchov. However, when we were traveling by train on Sunday, seats to Smíchov no longer exists.

Bohemian Switzerland (Czech. Ceske Svycarsko, it. Bohmische Schweiz) - The Czech part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, which are called in the German part of the Saxon Switzerland. This area of North Bohemia is located on the upper reaches of the river Elbe near Decin.

Far in the Caribbean, an hour's flight from the island of Cuba, there is one small but very beautiful island - Cayo Largo.

So, being heard about the terrible poverty and devastation that prevails outside the cozy tourist areas - Varadero, in black Limpopo "real Cuba", we, with some trepidation, preparing for the first trip around the island.

Eastern Qing Dynasty tombs or Tsindunlin located 125 km north-east of Beijing. Tsindunlin necropolis is one of the largest cemeteries in imperial China. Here are buried five Qing emperors, empresses 15 and 136 concubines. The complex has an area of 80 square meters. km. Almost all the tombs are well preserved, although three burials were plundered during the civil war in China in 1928. This has made them accessible to tourists, so now Tsindunlin most informative historical necropolis, where you can explore the imperial mausoleums, not only outside but also inside. The only penetrated by the well-known imperial tomb is Tsindunlina in China - the mausoleum of Ming Emperor Wanli, located in the necropolis Shisanlin, near Beijing.