Mozart, Freud, Beethoven, Marx & Peter the Great have all stayed here. After all, ever since the 1500s, it was the place to go for relaxation, cleansing and healing. Doctors actually prescribed 2-3 week stays at this spa town, where guests typically didn’t bathe in the mineral waters, but drank them! They still do. Take a 2 hour bus ride […]
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Each spring divers collect conch egg masses and bring them to a hatchery in the Caribbean. There’s a larvae and metamorphis stage in there, where they are fed little pellets of conch food and grow into baby conch 2cm in size. After the baby conch mature to 8cm in special onshore nursery ponds, they’re moved out to bluer (subsea) […]
Accessible to tourists in the summer months only, this remote region requires a 4WD to withstand lava fields, ford rivers and reach the coolest areas marked by volcanic activity. Like this awesome place! Wander, if you dare, across this steaming mountain known by the locals as Witch Mountain. Where in the world is it? What’s your guess?
What they need is a little peace… Floodwaters have submerged this sacred site and the rest of the city for almost two months now. Buddhist temples, historic sites, parks, businesses, homes are all under water from excessive rains that are reported to be the worst since WW2, hitting this particular area the hardest with 90 deaths. There are […]