Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, located at the border of California and Nevada. The lake is famous for its world famous ski resorts and its beaches. Here are some must do activities in Lake Tahoe.
See Lake Tahoe From A Hot Air Balloon For those who are little adventures and have seen it all and done it all, you can experience a birds-eye view of Lake Tahoe from a hot air balloon. Considered by many as one of the most unique air balloon rides in the world.
Hike to Eagle Falls When it comes to scenery, the Eagle Falls trail offers some of the most beautiful landscape the Lake Tahoe Basin has to offer. Cascading waterfalls, large granite peaks, lush vegetation, and most of all, lots and lots of evergreens. There really isn’t a more perfect hike to start with than the short jaunt to Eagle Falls.
Heavenly’s Ridge Rider Mountain Coaster First opened in June 2016, the gravity-powered mountain coaster located at the top of Heavenly offers an adrenaline packed ride alongside amazing views of the lake. Sweeping around natural rock formations and descending 300 vertical feet while racing down a 3,400’ track, you’ll come back with memories AND a grin. Also available in the winter!
Attend the Summer Concert Series Lake Tahoe’s climate in the summer is almost perfect with beautiful sunny days. As such, it’s a no brainer that the shores of Lake Tahoe host the ULTIMATE outdoor summer concert series. Combined with perfect weather and the biggest names in music such as Paul Simon, Lady Gaga, and the Who, you’re in for the ultimate treat for your ears.
Here are some reason, why you should visit Tunisia for your next holiday
From fascinating sandy beaches drenched in sunshine to grand ancient ruins and the vast, rolling dunes of the Sahara, Tunisia encapsulates everything that’s enticing about North Africa. Located just a stone’s throw from Europe, Tunisia sits on the Mediterranean coast, midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nile Delta. So what are you waiting for, pack your bag and come to Tunisia!
01 | A Thousand kilometers of stunning beaches Most sun-seekers head to Tunisia to enjoy its sea and gorgeous Mediterranean beaches. They never get really crowded – there is enough golden sand for everyone. Tunisia’s coastline is 1,148 kilometers long!
02 | Towns brimming with historical charm Tunisia is more than a typical seaside destination. If you feel terrified about staying in a hotel which is surrounded by nothing but never-ending desert, you are safe in Tunisia. Here cities worth exploring are never too far away!
03 | Mediterranean climate with lots of sunshine Tunisia offers sunshine throughout the year. The coast is dotted by resorts and is under the influence of pleasant Mediterranean climate characterized by warm and sunny days. The swimming season runs from May until October.
04 | Experience the Sahara, world largest desert The enchanting sands of the Sahara stretch over ten countries including the south of Tunisia.
05 | Jaw dropping archeological sites Tunisia is a country with a long and rich history. A wide number of archeological sites demonstrate the historical role of Tunisia – an important crossroads of civilizations. The country hosts the most impressive Roman ruins outside Italy.
06 | International cuisine with amazing seafood The food in Tunisia is quite awesome. And if you are into seafood, you will enjoy it twice as much. The local specialty is grilled fish that they call “poisson complet’. Yummy as well! Tunisian cuisine offers a variety of tastes. It combines elements of Turkish, French and Mediterranean cuisine. Fruit, vegetable and olives are present in most meals.
Sharjah’s unique appeal lies in its celebration of heritage and traditional Emirati culture. Today, the emirate has made clever use of its landscapes and history to offer a wide variety of activities and attractions that meld together the historical and the contemporary.
Below are our top 8 picks, which you should not miss when in Sharjah:
RAIN ROOM
After being launched in London then visiting New York, Los Angeles and Shanghai, the Rain Room, an immersive art installation created by Random International is now permanently housed at the Sharjah Art Foundation. When visitors enter the Rain Room, they are directed to navigate intuitively and carefully through the dark underground space in order to protect themselves from a downpour of rain. As they continue to walk through the art space, which uses 1,200 liters of self-cleaning, recycled water, their movements trigger motion sensors that pauses the rainfall when detecting movement. The tickets for Rain Room are sold online and at the venue. Timings are Saturday-Thursday, 9 am-9 pm and Friday, 4 pm-11 pm.
EYE OF EMIRATES
One of Sharjah’s most instantly recognizable landmarks situated at Al Montazah Park, provides tourists supreme panoramas over the city’s major attractions and famous markets such as the Central Souq, Al JubailSouq, Al Majaz Waterfront, Khalid Lagoon, The Flag Island, Al Noor Island and Al Noor Mosque.
SHARJAH CENTER FOR ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCES
The center aims at developing and promoting education about astronomy and space sciences in the Arab World in general and the UAE in particular in order to be a destination for science, research, heritage, education and tourism for students and university students, researchers and families of all ages.
AL MAJAZ WATERFRONT
A perfect family destination with a huge range of world-inspired cuisines, the Al Majaz Waterfront has changed the face of dining and leisure in the emirate. There are old favourites interspersed with more unusual hangouts for visitors who would like to try new flavours in the world-class restaurants and cafes. Sit in any of the appealing waterfront restaurants and enjoy the lagoon view and the Sharjah Fountain show. In addition, the Al Majaz Waterfront offers a sculpture park and children’s park as well as a recycled tyre jogging track and mini golf.
AL QASBA
A more sophisticated foodie vibe can be found at Al Qasba which has become a premier tourism, cultural, business, and entertainment landmark. Reminiscent of a Venetian canal, Al Qasba’s unique architectural design includes pedestrian bridges across the canal and boats to take visitors onto the adjoining Khalid and Al Khan lagoons. Visitors will find many independent restaurants supported by well-known culinary franchises. Here Lebanese cuisine rubs shoulders with American brands and cafes, encouraging you to enjoy relaxing by the water.
AL NOOR MOSQUE
With its stunning location, overlooking Khalid Lagoon, Al Noor is one of Sharjah’s most beautiful mosques and was the first to welcome non-Muslim visitors. Designed in classic Ottoman style, Al Noor’s cascade of domes and two soaring minarets embellish the skyline of Sharjah. The interior is just as spectacular, with calligraphic inscriptions from the Holy Qur’an and intricately decorated domes, arches and pillars. Visits to the mosque are free of charge and guided tours are hosted every Monday with private tours available by appointment.
AL NOOR ISLAND
Surrounded by azure waters just off the coast from Sharjah’s bustling downtown, Al Noor Island offers visitors the perfect antidote to the city with multiple attractions that meld nature, art and entertainment in 45,470 sq. metres of beautifully landscaped grounds. Amid stunning art and sculpture, a plant-covered butterfly haven houses around 500 captivating exotic butterflies while the Literature Pavilion provides book lovers with a serene spot to relax and read. The island also hosts a spacious children’s playground, a pontoon and boat docking area that allows easy access for visitors to and from Al Majaz Waterfront, Al Qasba and The Heart of Sharjah.
SHARJAH CLASSIC CARS MUSEUM
This museum is an ideal destination for classic cars lovers. It draws tourists and visitors from all around the world. It is a one of a kind museum in the region, as it displays more than 100 vintage classic cars of different brands dating back to the 20th century, in addition to classic motorcycles and bicycles. The oldest car showcased in the museum dates back to 1915. Here, visitors will be able to get an up close look at classic car models and their specifications including Rolls Royce, Ford, Mercedes, Chevrolet, Bentley and many others.
Let me present you some of the private islands that can explore when travelling to Central America. Explore these incredible private islands where you can get indulge in luxury and peacefulness. So next time you visit central America, keep these in mind.
1) ISLA PALENQUE – PANAMA The Villa Estate at Isla Palenque is designed in the style of an expansive seaside villa with outdoor walkways in lieu of hallways. A truly untouched tropical island experience. An undiscovered, faraway place that will energize you, refresh you, and send you back home anew. This is the heart of Isla Palenque. Our 400-acre, private, tropical island resort in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama in Central America. It is a rare place. Rich in primary forest, 7 secluded beaches and a sacred history of archaeological significance. Isla Palenque resort is right out of a page of your favorite, fantasy island novel.
2) GLADDEN PRIVATE ISLAND – BELIZE A swirl of turquoise and aquamarine lagoons cradle Gladden, an island fringed with coral and white sand in the heart of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System. This island jewel harbors your own private sanctuary, a casually elegant villa designed for just one couple, with the all-inclusive service of a luxury resort.
3) CALALA ISLAND, NICARAGUA A luxury, ultra all-inclusive, private Island resort hidden in the undiscovered Caribbean. This island invite you to experience the coming together of unspoilt paradise and barefoot luxury. With only 4 private beachfront suites , exclusivity comes as standard on this petite private island hideaway.
4) EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE VILLA – PANAMA Discover this little gem in Bocas Del Toro, an exclusive and unique private villa. This 20.000-square foot property offers 7 bedroom, and full luxury service. Enjoy this very exclusive private villa , where paradise and luxury come together as one.
5) CAYO ESPANTO – BELIZE Discover your own private island at Cayo Espanto where paradise and luxury come together as one. Cayo Espanto is an intimate, five-star, World Class resort created for the discriminating few who demand the best life has to offer. This private place invite you to spend enchanting evenings and unforgettable days overlooking the Caribbean.
Either way, it won’t be just your clients relaxing on an Australian holiday – you can too in the knowledge that we will be taking very good care of them while they are in-country. Here are some very unique ideas of wellness while you are travelling in Australia. Unique, amazing and a memorable one.
PERSONALIZED EQUINE THERAPY
Did you know that spending just 20 minutes with a horse will make your heart beat in time with theirs? Horses are incredibly intuitive and connecting with them can promote change and personal growth.Aside from horse-riding along Australian beaches or in bush-land.
AN ABORIGINAL HEALING & KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE BY E-BIKE
Travelling by e-bikes, this immersive, indigenous experience offers you the opportunity to touch and feel a timeless, spiritual landscape alongside traditional knowledge and healing. You can experience an exclusive private access to the historic Forestier Peninsula where first contact between Tasmania’s First People and European Explorers took place. This Aboriginal adventure blends a smoke and energy healing ceremony with cultural knowledge as we explore a wild, powerful and historic Tasmanian coastal landscape.
LEARN THE ART OF RAW FOOD IN A PRIVATE WORKSHOP Join a raw food chef in a beautiful location as you learn the secret techniques & tips used to create delicious meals using unusual, nutritionally dense, gluten free, dairy free & refined sugar-free ingredients.
UNPLUG FROM THE DIGITAL WORLD Digital detox – it’s the buzzword of the year and the good news is that Australia is so vast there there are still plenty of places yet to plug in which makes it super easy to put your phone away. At Bullo River Station you will find cute little wooden boxes with ‘offline is the new luxury’ gently coaxing you to leave their phones alone. At Mt Mulligan and Lizard Island there’s no wifi in the villas so at night you can spend time focused on your partner rather than stare at the phone. At Arkaba Conservancy, Bamurru Plains and Sal Salis there’s simply none at all, allowing for a fully immersive experience.
OCEAN THERAPY FOR BODY, MIND & SOUL AT ELYSIAN RETREAT Elysian – the most secluded island retreat in the Whitsundays and the first entirely solar powered resort on the Great Barrier Reef – launches Elysian SoulScape Wellness Retreat this November with more planned quarterly for 2020. These five-day serene sojourns in the tropics seek to provide a wellness prescription for life.
At its core, Elysian SoulScape Wellness Retreat lays the foundation for a journey towards uncovering the happiest and healthiest version of yourself. With daily yoga and meditation, sound and crystal bowl sessions, evening fire circles and spa treatments on offer in addition to snorkelling and a day out to explore the Whitsunday Islands – these retreats have something for everyone.
Retreats include activities such as the following: Yoga 1 to 2 times daily | Meditation / relaxation | Workshops – Kombucha / Fermentation | The Happiness Prescription Workshops | 1 x 60-minute Spa Treatment | 1 x Natural Therapy Session | Outdoor mineral pool | Day Trip to Whitehaven beach & Exploring the Whitsunday Islands.
The cappuccino was invented by a Capuchin monk, Marco D’Aviano, while he was in Vienna, His coffee was too bitter so he asked for cream. The barman noticed a resemblance with the weird drink and the color of the habit of the monk and exclaimed: “Kapuziner”
The Italian lifestyle: Italians would never drink a cappuccino after 10 AM. Any milk-based drink is meant for the morning.
Follow these five simple tips to help get better sleep each night.
1. Follow the sun
Sunlight is essential to calibrating our body’s circadian rhythm, which not only dictates our sleep cycle, but also affects hormone production, digestion, the immune system and many other bodily functions. Exposure to artificial light disrupts this natural process. One way to get back into natural sleeping patterns is to rise with the sun and expose yourself to sunshine as much as possible in the day. Light filtering in through a glass window isn’t enough: you need to feel the rays, take off your sunglasses and refrain from long hours in bright indoor lighting and blue light interference from gadgets, wherever possible.
2. Dark and cool sleeping conditions
The photoreceptors on our skin can detect even the smallest amount of light, which can disturb sleep patterns. Switching off any electronic devices, putting your alarm clock on sleep mode and using black-out curtains are simple ways of reducing your exposure. Studies also show that cooler temperatures, between 15-20 degrees Celsius, encourage a deeper sleep. Ensure your clothing and bedding are made from light, natural and breathable fibers so you can stay cool.
3. Look after your heart
According to Oriental medicine, insomnia is caused by the disturbance of the shen, or ‘spirit’. One way to settle and calm the shen is to strengthen the heart. This can be achieved through meditation and by avoiding stress and anxiety-inducing environments. Taking herbal medicines, such as suan ren (sour jujube), ren shen (ginseng) and long yan rou (longan fruit), can also help calm the heart and spirit. Consult with a professional herbalist to find the right formula to suit your body’s needs.
4. Watch what you eat before dinner
During the three- to four hours before you go to bed, it is best to avoid food and drink — especially alcohol. Having an early meal and switching a glass of wine for a calming herbal tea will help induce relaxation and ease into slumber. Easily digestible cooked foods, such as vegetables, sweet potato and rice, should be eaten at dinner. Spicy, greasy, sugary meals should be avoided, as they can result in excess phlegm which disrupts the stomach.
5. Consider your liver
According to the Chinese body clock, the hours between 1.00am and 3.00am are when your liver is most active, which can cause wakefulness. This is only exacerbated by stress. If you find yourself awake around this time, consider taking advice on a liver detox, as well as finding ways to reduce stress through meditation to calm an overactive mind.
This accessory for your mobile is perfect because it is portable, rechargeable and it gives a peculiar effect to your skin and eyes, it is a must-have for the beauty vloggers. It will certainly become your favorite gadget for those selfies camping in the forest and almost any night photo.
2. Flexible tripod
Using your arm as a selfie stick is the most common thing to capture a photo with your friends, but this could be a challenge if you want to include many people to the frame. On the other side, if you are planning a solo trip and you want a perfect photo in that beautiful landscape, it could be also a little problem. But this flexible tripod adapts to any surface to take creative pictures.
3. Waterproof case
There are many models of waterproof cameras, but this case for your phone is a great accessory to take photos underwater. To select the best option for you, just make sure about the distance you can submerge it.
4. Handheld stabilizer
This gadget is perfect for the ones who love recording everything for their Instagram stories, you will have clear and great shots. The best characteristic is that is very light and you can always carry yours in your backpack.
5.Lenses
A little accessory for your cellphone’s camera will give you a different perspective to take amazing pictures. One of the favorite lenses is the fisheye because you can have a peculiar frame, perfect to photograph a big building or a huge landscape.
Portable photo printer
It is a great compliment, you can print your photos anywhere and thus give your friends a little gift of that moment together. This kind of printers has the perfect size to carry yours everywhere. There are more and more models and they all offer some unique characteristics like water resistance, black and white printing, printing on adhesive paper. There are many possibilities!
Are you ready to capture photos of your best travel moments?
Here are some secrets for you, if you are planning a trip to South America.
Walk with penguins in Ushuaia, Argentina.
Ushuaia is the last city of the world just before you enter in Antarctica. Interact with the penguins in their habitat! This place has a colony of 3000 pairs of Magellanic Penguins, 16 pairs of gentoo Penguins and 155 pairs of rock cormorants.
You can walk with Penguins for an hour. Part of a scientific experiment on the effect of humans on the penguins, this walk is among Magellanic penguins. After it, enjoy the Acatashun Museum and in the return observe the iconic flag trees.
Iceland is the perfect destination for families with kids – children love the freedom and space, and for the parent´s ease, Iceland is one of the safest country in the world, with low crime rates and a very security system.
Hiking and trekking for all levels is very popular in remote areas and less remote. The highlands of Iceland are only possible to drive to from mid June until September, and many choose to drive across Iceland over the highlands on a big jeep. Road is not comfortable at all and not all rivers are bridged, but this is a great fun and unforgettable experience for couple of days. It is even possible to travel on horseback for few days in Iceland.
Glacier hike and ice climbing is all year´s activity but visit to natural ice caves in the glacier is only possible in winter.
For skiers, there is cross country or mountain skiing – and fantastic heli skiing from March – Iceland is one of few countries in the world where you can ski from mountain down to sea.
The new and ambitious activities inside the volcano (summer only) and into the glacier (all year) have been a huge attraction since they opened few years ago – these places are unique in the world.
Then are the more ordinary activities like whale, puffing or seal watching, horse back riding or dog-sledding , AVT squad driving, snowmobile tours, kayak or zodiac boat tour on the glacier lagoon, lava cave exploration – and more challenging activities like river rafting, snorkeling or scuba diving, surfing in the Atlantic Ocean, rock climbing, salmon fishing or sea angling, play golf in the midnight sun – and last but not least is to enjoy the number of geothermal bathing sites around the island – the Blue Lagoon being the most famous.
What children especially love is to stay couple of nights at a typical Icelandic farm, but you still have a choice of many old fashioned small farms with cows, sheep, hen and horses, where children can help out taking care of the animals.
So be prepare with your up-coming travel to Iceland.
