Top 5 Secret Beaches Along the East Coast

If you are heading east for the summer and are already have in mind some ultra-popular destinations like Myrtle Beach, Miami or Ocean city, then this might be your chance to reconsider your options. Although these famous resorts are able to host and entertain millions of tourist every summer, fighting for a piece of beach or queuing in front of an over-crowded theater house and hoping you’ll get a seat  don’t actually sound like vacation. There are plenty of smaller beaches along the Atlantic Coast that offer surprising possibilities, from all kinds of water sports and fun parks, to historical monuments and unspoiled habitats.  …

Discover Europe’s Forgotten Cities

Malaga

When you decide to go for a trip through Europe, you must face a difficult decision: you can either go mainstream, join the noisy crowds and see all the places you dreamed about for years, or just decide to go freestyle and discover Europe all by yourself. The difference between these two ways of traveling are quite obvious: go mainstream and you are guaranteed all the famous attractions lots of pictures to show off with; dare to adventure off the beaten path and surprise will become your faithful travel companion.

Just about any traveler will know that more than half of the positive travel experiences are actually the consequence of unplanned events. And last, but not least, let us not forget that numerous travel destinations tend to be overrated, while others are laying in their shadow, waiting for the few cast aways to (re)discover them. Today I will present you five of Europe’s most beautiful forgotten cities. …

Amazing Earth – Pamukkale – Turkey

While one of our blog’s focuses has always been the presentation of fun, interesting places we visited or hidden traveling gems we stumbled upon, we usually bunched them up together to form easily-digested lists and tops.  This has an obvious advantage to the casual reader but we feel we’ve been doing these amazing places a slight disfavor by cutting them short so as to fit in a list.

So we’ve decided it’s time to give more credit to the uniqueness and beauty of some of Earth’s most impressive places with the help of a new series of articles called “Amazing Earth”. And what better way to fire up your appetite for this sort of locations than the godly sights offered by Turkey’s Pamukkale.
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5 Inspiring Spring Destinations for the Artist Within

Just as winter is reserved the grandeur of whole cities covered in snow, autumn the richness of fragrances and tastes and summertime the blessing of the sun, springtime is, above all, simply inspiring. If there is one season pushing us to go outside and awakening our adventure spirit, that can only be spring.

With all the songs, paintings and love poems praising the spring, no matter that this season often seems over-saturated with romanticism. But it is equally true that there is no better time to let yourself guided by inspiration, grab a camera and let loose the artist within. Traveling across Southern USA, you will discover the most amazing, breathtaking spring sceneries: …

Five US food fairs that are hard to resist

As much as one will keep going on and on about his inspiring road trips and out of the ordinary travel experiences, now one can affirm that he/she has experienced the real America without getting to taste its food.  The United States might seem like a fast food nation, but few other countries can display such an enormous diversity of ingredients, combinations and ethnic influences.

While even the smallest town will have at least one Chinese or Mexican restaurant, bigger cities go as far as organizing annual ethnic food fests and being home to trend setting restaurants. From here and there, we managed to bundle up a brief list of USA’s most appealing food fairs. …

Europe’s Best Preserved Medieval Cities

Bruges at night

It is a common symptom among European travelers to get lost in the labyrinth of cobbled streets of some random historic city and get the impression that an invisible time machine has sent them back in time. The sensation is both scary and inspiring. But there are those towns and villages across old Europe where it feels like time has no other effects but to enhance their beauty – cities that have been so throughly preserved that sometimes you wonder how can personal computers and TV sets hide between those delicious moldy walls and washed-off plaster.

And the greatest thing about it is that you’ll find hundreds of such towns in Europe, many of them still undiscovered by the tourist hordes. Today’s post is a short list of the most popular and best preserved European cities: …

Five Irresistible Tourist Traps across the US

Let’s face it: no matter how much we try to avoid clichés when traveling, we find it so hard to resist them. I mean, who doesn’t own a few dozen photos of a younger, over-excited variant of him/her, making faces in front of Eiffel Tower, Rushmore Mountain or Lady Liberty? As much as the experienced traveler confesses his contempt regarding the so-called ‘tourist traps’ (generally defined as extremely popular attractions, characterized by over-priced and kitschy souvenirs, chain fast-foods and endless queues), they each have their own particular charm.

Actually, these tourist traps are often part of the whole experience: they might ruin your mood for half a day, but they eventually turn into sweet memories. So here is a small selection of some United States unavoidable tourist traps: …

5 Fabulous After Easter Destinations

Just as Easter is a great time to spend some unforgeable moments with your family, get to taste all those long awaited goodies and, of course, get emerged in all those fascinating traditions and spiritual quests, the after Easter vacation invites you to indulge yourself with the joys of travel. If the period preceding Easter is all about lent, pray, and mourning, then the post-Easter week calls for some action.

Whether you head for some exotic beach or your are doing your own pilgrimage (in this sense, the Bright Week is just as rich in traditions and religious manifestations as the Holy Week). You can also look at the Easter week as a time to detoxify your body from all those calorie bombs and say goodbye to this short, but truly inspiring all-you-can eat diet, which is so typical for holiday period. From all corners of the world, here come some original Easter Week destinations: …

Five Great All-family Theme Parks

April might be the cruelest month (unless T.S. Eliot was just in a bad mood when he wrote this, and immediately regretted it), but it is also the month when theme parks all over the country open their gates, letting all the adrenaline addicts come in. Millions of visitors, most of which are families with children, rush in and line up in queues, anxious to get a ride on the highest roller coaster, most scary ghost house or the fastest carousel. Names like Legoland, Disneyland or Universal are part of each child’s vacation repertoire.

The addition of new, exciting facilities each season and the fact that they are situated in warmer climate zones (like Florida and California) help these world-renowned parks to attract a constant number of visitors all year round. However, there are lots of other parks around the nation that can be not only easier to reach, but also less crowded and more family friendly. Today I will present you five of them: …

Fun Easter destinations: Five Ski Resorts That Rock

In the last post I was suggesting some less conventional ways to spend Easter, among which I also included toe possibility to go for a short ski vacation. Fortunately, the Rockies are still tucked under a  thick layer of snow, so, no matter whether you prefer the slopes of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado or California, you will be able to ski in the same perfect conditions (and even get some nice tan). An impromptu ski vacation won’t give you too much trouble if you have the necessary equipment and a  spacious four wheel vehicle. In case you need to take the plane, it might get a little pricier (tickets have a tendency to get really expensive near Easter).

However, in terms of skiing, April is far out of the peak season, so accommodation and equipment rental rates will have significantly reduced. Based on some recent snow reports and also on the amount of fun they are likely to provide, here are the most recommended USA ski resorts for the Easter break: …