You will lucky to spend your holiday in this curious hotel in the south of Chile. It is located in the Huilo-Huilo reserve, a reserve of 60000 hectares. This reserve holds the snow-covered volcano Mocho-Choshuenco, fabulous fall waters, and mountains torrents. The Magic Mountains hotel looks like it has been taken from a Disney movie.
There are 13 rooms with unobstructed view as they are all around the core. All, made of wood, are furnished and have a large bathroom. They are reachable via a spiral staircase made of wood and stones.
From your room, you will be able to look up to eagles and condors flying.
A spring gushes out from the top of the hotel as a volcano and streams in the form of waterfall along walls which makes this hotel particular.
Moreover, this hotel offers one of the best restaurants in Chili, ‘The Forest Table’, Warless connection for all laptops, mini golf, sauna, trips to discover the wildlife.. they also have strange Jacuzzi, made in trunks located up on a terrace from where you can see all the forest… A dream…
Here is the dream …
Nearby, there are two villages where can ride bicycles, go kayaking on Pirhueinco lack. Summer is also the best period for fishing and hunting, where as winter provides boardsports
This a soothing and magic place that you can’t forget.
This video can give you a glimpse at this peaceful place.
The New York Times has published a list of 44 places to go in 2009. The selection is already given, but the list is interactive and you can vote for your favorite one, in order to advise other travelers.
From this selection, made by the North American newspaper, classical places are, obviously highlighted, such as Las Vegas, Berlin, Rome, but also others interesting destinations to discover such as Kazakhstan, Beirut,The Philippines or Bhutan.
Oddly, Cuba is in this list where as Americans are not allowed to go to this island: none planes take off from the US to Cuba. Actually, if they wish to see Havana and Cuban beaches, they must catch a plane from another country (Canada, Mexico…) and ask to not get a stamp on their passport.
Destinations are also classified by categories: luxury, family, ecology, culture, etc.
In the Pyrenees, at an altitude of 9438.86 ft, in the Pic du Midi, the best panorama of the region takes place. At the top, you will go into ecstasies looking at this amazing view; you will also find a museum about astronomy, a traditional mountains restaurant, an observatory-hotel with bedrooms identical as while researchers were living there. Each room provides a bed and a washbasin; WC and showers are at the same floor. Hosts of this shelter have voluntarily left everything identical. Moreover, sheets, blankets and towels are provided.
There is not a single night alike. You will get to the pick via a cable car, from the Mongie, at the bottom of Tourmallet saddle point.
You will have the head in stars for a night
In Yllas station, in Finland (Lapland), the first cable-car sauna has been inaugurated. We, all, already know traditional cable cars which bring us to the top of ski runs. From now on, in Finland, no need to wear a down jacket or a hat anymore to get the top.
Yllas station offers the most unusual cable car ever. Cabins are entirely made of pine, they can accommodate 4 people. These cabins will take you to the top of the mount Yllas, the highest of the region. Once at the top you will jump into the snow before getting into the main sauna, then going back down with the cable car as many times as you want.
As this 2km trip brings a huge success, it would be better to book in advance (2h minimum).
This 15 minutes of warm bliss will able you to see an amazing white landscape, while wearing only a towel.
This ski station is open from November to May; it has 61 ski runs and 28 ski-tows: a super G run, some runs for snowboarders and some others for skiers: It is a paradise for all skiers, experienced and novices.
The pass includes access to cable car-sauna and to the main one located at the top.
A concept which could be only thought by finish.
Haven’t you already thought, during long flights, being on your own in a plane? La Ferme Aventure, located in les Vosges, France offers the opportunity of sleeping in a caravel, a fabled plane from the fifties, in a huge leisure park.
This plane, made in 282 copies, was baptized Ohrid; it was sold in 1967 to JAT a Yugoslavian company. This plane flied for the last time in 1985. After 20000 hours of flying, it has been dismantled and moved toward les Voges in France.
Inside, you will enjoy an amazing white and blue décor, a bedroom with a shower unit, a living room, a bar near the cockpit. An unusual night is waiting for you!!!
More and more ski stations offer this kind of hobbies. You thought that diving was only possible in winter, God no!!!
In Tigne, France, they offer you to dive with a seasoned professional under ice diving; this is another way to have fun in a snowed area.
Under ice diving could seem extreme, actually, it is open to everyone: from amateurs to harden divers.
Fit up with a water proof wet suit, you will be able to take a look at the aquatic wild life: A unique experience under ice. Night dives are also possible.
About price, one dive is about 50 Pounds per person, and if you come by group, it will be 40 Pounds each.
This hotel offers the possibility to live like an Eskimo for a while. You will sleep in an igloo made of ice (in winter) or made of glass (summer). There are also, 32 chalets made of dried pin logs and a traditional nuptial haven.
You will be able to gaze a star-studded sky and aurora borealis (between August and April) from your igloo, in a warm place, even if outside there is a temperature of about -22°F. You should, still, plan to grab something warm to cover yourself.
The Kakslauttanen hotel is located on Arctic Ocean’s edge, nearby Urho Kekkonen Park. There are various activities available; some are feasible in summer and others in winter such as the biggest smoke-filled sauna, gold washing introduction, fishing, visit of a reindeer breeding stock, ice sculpture…
If you are looking for unusual holiday, you won’t be disappointed!!!
Ben Keene and Mark James, 2 English guys, founders of this ecologic project, have had the idea to change Vorovoro (a desert island in Fiji Island) to a place with ecologic and moral values.
This project is planned to end up in 3 years and it is named: “Sustainable development” or “tribe wanted”. It is based on an entire respect of nature, no wasting, a green energy, a better waste management, and a life without swimming pool nether air conditional.
An appeal was launch to anyone having some ideas to make this project growing. In 2006, 5000 participants are required, for a period of 1 to 3 years, full-fledged tribe’s members. They can follow the island’s progress permanently. More and more people feel concerned about this kind of tourism, also called ecotourism.
However, they can’t decide everything. They have to discuss it with Tui Mali: he is one of the fourth inhabitants on this island, with his brother and their respective wife. He has accepted to open his territory to bring more resources, especially in rising fishing and formation.
As project functioning, there are always 100 members out of 5000 on the island, honoring the golden rule: not spending more than 3 weeks a years in this future ecologic paradise. Politic on the island is democratic: 5000 participants, 5000 votes.
To compensate CO2 discharges, made by the plane which brought them to this island, they will have to support ecologic projects, such as sustainable energy funding.
This project will be over at the end of the year 2009, and a new island will be rendered to its inhabitants.
Impossible to miss it. Willem and Carla are the owners of this harbor crane located in Harlingen, Netherland, an hour away from Amsterdam.
This crane was transformed in a luxury hotel. Inside, everything is made for your comfort: In your room, you will find a stereo system, a plasma TV, a DVD player, toilet, shower… All of thit, made with a gorgeous decorating and design.
The ladder, which was used to access to the crane, was replaced by an elevator. The advantage of this amazing hotel is that it can swivel through an angle of 360° by means of a remote control. The only thing you have to do is going upstairs with the ladder from inside your room, and commanding this engine. There, you will also find a pleasant spot where you will be able to picnic with unobstructed view guaranteed.
About price, it will cost you about 300 Pounds per night with breakfast included.
The city of Venice disguises with its best masks to do justice to the traditional carnival. Venice is a perfect scenario for this celebration; even if there is no décor, its environment is as magic as real.
Venice is made of 120 islands, joined with 400 bridges, a city that fights against floodings to protect its singularity and its beauty nonpareil. The Venetian school had an influence on some artists such as Rubens or Velázquez and had molded the baroque style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque of the XVII century.
The spectacular yearly carnival is celebrated between the 13th and the 24th of February, and the beginning takes place at the St-Mark.
Throughout the XVII, nobility, already, used to dress up to be able to mix up with people going unnoticed. The carnival was enjoying its height through the XVIII century and manages to reach aristocrats and travelers from all Europe looking for pleasure and distraction.
It has been already 20 years that Venice became a huge cultural and touristic pole, where masks are the protagonists.
Travel to Venice to enjoy the 2009 edition and to live this magic that will bring you in a mysterious and fantastic world.
