Lowest point on Earth Dead Sea: At the lowest point on land, you will drink in air with the highest concentration of oxygen! Float in the Dead Sea: With the high buoyancy due to the high salinity, enjoy floating like a cork on the Dead Sea waters! Petra Petra: The Rose city – One of the New Seven...
Angkor Wat, Cambodia is the largest temple complex of the world. The city where the temple was built, Angkor (meaning city in Khmer), is located in Siem Reap, and was once the capital of the Khmer Empire. This city contains hundreds of temples. It is said that in its prime, Angkor had a population...
Christmastime is just around the corner, which means that, soon, Icelandic publishing houses will be releasing hundreds of new titles onto the Icelandic book market, commencing a unique tradition known as the jólabókaflóð, or the Christmas Book Flood. Throughout this bustling and much-anticipated yearly event, bookstores across Iceland resemble miniature concert venues, where Icelandic...
Christmas over these many years has always been about joy and celebration with friends, family, cakes, wine and presents… This time we were wondering about celebrating it with Santa at his home in Rovaniemi… We had always wanted to visit Rovaniemi and the Santa Claus Village to participate in a traditional Lapland Christmas. We all...
“Set-jetting” is about visiting the sets or locations where GoT was filmed.. It’s a modern iteration of the literary pilgrimage – remember how Stratford-upon-Avon for long thrived on the memory of its most famous dead resident, Shakespeare? Or the Lake District with its many literary greats like Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter?Iceland’s economy, from being...
Icelanders are known for being rather quiet, that is until they’ve had a drink or two. Then suddenly they’re at their expressive, hearty, embracing Viking best! Beer is the drink of choice for most of them… But surprisingly, beer was actually illegal in Iceland, all the way up to the year 1989! Now they...
Thinking of travelling to Norway? You can choose to travel either during the summers or the winters. The experience is completely different in both cases. Travelling during the winters will give you an opportunity to catch up with the celestial northern lights and the arctic adventures whereas the summers give you an opportunity to...
Our discovery of Cambodia for travel happens with Angkor Wat most of the time or most of us want to visit Cambodia for Angkor Wat. And why not? Angkor Wat is the largest temple complex in the world. This UNESCO site features in the bucket list for a lot of people. However, limiting this...
The Icelandic horse is the only horse breed from Iceland. Their ancestors were brought there in the 9th and 10th centuries by Vikings… And the breed is kept pure till now! They are the only breed native to Iceland.In the 10th century they banned importing horses into Iceland in an effort to keep the...
(Content and images by Amoghavarsha) Amoghavarsha is a photographer from Bangalore and he was a part of the Beyonder Group that travelled to Norway in January 2017 for chasing the Northern Lights or if I can say experiencing the Aurora Borealis phenomena. This was Amogh’s first experience of witnessing Northern lights and of course capturing...
