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Kandovan Village, a Rocky Architectural Oddity in Iran

Kandovan Village, a Rocky Architectural Oddity in Iran

Kandovan is an extraordinary ancient village in the province of East Azarbaijan, near the city of  Tabriz, Iran. With its at least 800 years existence, this remarkable place is inhabited by 670 people and offers scenic beauty for its travelers. With homes carved inside rocks, some of them 700 years old, the Kandovan village is...
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Iguazu, the Curse of an Eternal Fall

Iguazu, the Curse of an Eternal Fall

An ancient legend tells that a god planned to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipi, who fled with her mortal lover Taroba in a canoe. When the god heard about that, he became very angry and with an unmeasurable rage, he sliced the river creating waterfalls, condemning the two lovers to an eternal...
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Sand Sculpture Festivals, Creativity Takes Shape

Sand Sculpture Festivals, Creativity Takes Shape

The beach and the sand always remind us of our childhood and the endless time spent on giving birth to our imagination, to build castles and mermaids, and in the end to show the stunning creation to our parents. We all are undiscovered artists and some childhood passions still hunt us today. Lately,...
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Plitvice Lakes, Croatia, a Spectacle of Vitality

Plitvice Lakes, Croatia, a Spectacle of Vitality

Croatia is an European country with a lot of amazing landscapes and one you should definitely turn to when planning a trip in Europe. For today we chose to show you one of the most talked about places in Croatia, which is the Plitvice Lakes National Park. Photograph by Jack Brauer 16 beautiful lakes interconnected...
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White Sands in New Mexico, a Different Type of Desert

White Sands in New Mexico, a Different Type of Desert

Contrary to all beliefs, this is not snow, but a fantastic natural landscape called “White Sands”, located in New Mexico, USA. White Sands is  world’s largest gypsum sand dune field — 275 square miles of fine white sand, spread forming surreal looking white dunes. Visiting Details: “A car is pretty much the only...
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Nature can Sting: Tsingy Needle Formations in Madagascar

Nature can Sting: Tsingy Needle Formations in Madagascar

The Tsingy Formations are located in northern Madagascar and they are a world renowned natural reserve. Imagine a miniature world, lost somewhere on a calcarous coast, composed of stone needles resembling daggers which rise up 30 meters above the ground and you will get a glimpse of what the Tsingy Formations are all...
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Beauty all Around: Cliffs of Moher, Irland

Beauty all Around: Cliffs of Moher, Irland

Depending on the visiting moment, this amazing location can seem either friendly and inviting or mysterious and cold. In any case, the Cliffs of Moher are a place of breathtaking beauty, one that captures you completely. They basically have you at “hello”. “Rising slowly from Doolin they ascend to over 700 feet (213...
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Norfolk Island, a Remote Place of Scenic Views

Norfolk Island, a Remote Place of Scenic Views

Embracing the wonders of life with one breath, drinking the brilliance of the nightly skies with a blink of an eye , smiling with the turtles into the crystalline water could be only a few experiences in Norfolk Island. Pine forests, smooth green grass, beautiful landscapes, smiley faces are more than beautiful sights, they...
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A Subjective Hitchhiker’s Guide to Milan

A Subjective Hitchhiker’s Guide to Milan

Because “Tourism on the Edge” strives to come up with information that is both practical and thrilling, for today we’ve decided to concentrate on the “unusual traveling” part of the blog and I put together a few small, but important conclusions of my last (and yet only) trip to Milan several months ago. As you...
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Auroville-The City of Hope

Auroville-The City of Hope

Existing in a community where everyone is different, where the nationality is not a measurable scale for splitting people by their skin or language, a place where “my values and goods are also yours” its apparently an utopic imagine in these days. Why did I use “hope”? Cause we need an optimistic point...
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