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Tourist SIM card in Thailand

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Thailand boasts of verdant and thick forests, and white beaches lapped by a beautiful sea of ​Phuket and Koh Samui. It has a rich exotic wildlife hub, beautiful Buddhist temples, archaeological sites, and a varied and delicious cuisine. Here are the main ingredients that distinguish Thailand. It is a marvelous land inhabited by friendly and hospitable people. Thailand is the perfect place for a unique holiday. Cut according to your needs, it is always varied and able to enrich the eyes, the heart, and the spirit. A country of oriental charm, which is now an increasingly popular tourist destination, Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles. Perhaps because it is so beautiful that you just have to look around to find peace and serenity. There is the warmth of its people, who are always welcoming and smiling. Thailand is a country so devoted to tourism and so full of accommodation for every need that it is not hard to please everyone. The area to the north is rich in forests and vege...

Travel Diary of The Traditions of Mysore Dasara

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Mysore was not in my plans as my intention was to travel to Goa, an area with beaches. But when I started looking at trains, I saw that they were all full and my only option was to take a bus. So we decided to spend the holidays in Mysore in Karnataka. I had heard many things about the beautiful Mysore, a city that treasures a palace of an exquisite and unusual design, and that made me agree to the stories like the one thousand and one nights. We took the plane from Cochin to Bangalore at 10:30 in the morning. In the airport we find a taxi to take us to Mysore. It's 170 kilometers and 4 hours of travel. On the way, we have stopped to eat a special Diwali thali offer for 180 rupees. In the evening we arrived in Mysore and as always a Tuc Tuc took us to what would be our new home. We stayed in the most luxurious hotel of our entire stay, with beautiful views of the palace and the city. When I arrived, I was greeted by the rain that had been falling all night. Diwali, the festival of ...

Footsteps through Clouds of Shimla

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The breathtaking views capture me as the car begins its descent in altitude from Manali on the way to Shimla, through the slopes of the Himalayas that finally stand before my eyes, with an excellent visibility thanks to the nice clear day. Shimla, the famous capital of the summer holidays of the British elite and an assiduous Bollywood location is so beloved that it risks dying from an excess of passion. Although the car drives downhill from where we start, the track does not appear to go down, except amidst small and picturesque valleys. The landscapes changes often as the barren hills soon get replaced by more robust green trees lined up on the sides of the winding hill tracks carved into the rock along the river Beas. This is an incredible road and just a spectacle of nature. Gradually we enter Shimla, which elevates its gods above everything as the Monkey God, Hanuman stands out from the greenery around Jakhoo hill. We weave through the British buildings, bazaars, temples an...

Kullu and Manali: Journey through Valley of Gods

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It is from the day when we left the much coveted Manali, that whoever we meet we talk about Manali as if it should be the most spectacular stage of the entire trip to Himachal Pradesh. Located around 250 km from Shimla, 310 km from Chandigarh and 285 km from Kalka Railway Station, and only a 45-minute drive from Kullu, Manali is one of the best places in India where you can rest and unwind after a tiring day of the journey. With the warm atmosphere, a visit to Manali is suitable for all ages, where families will find spaces, activities and entertainment and youngsters will be spoiled for choice among the multitude of adventure activities that can be practiced amidst the natural wonders of the nearby valleys. Through the first part of the mountains, we have the impression of stepping into it and to become a part of some way of the same mountain. The track gradually bends as we feel the smell of the air, the glistening dew in the trees, the wind in my hair and that elusive sense of freed...

In the footsteps of the Vikings in Newfoundland

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Yes, before the British and the French, it was the Vikings first who arrived on North American lands, 500 years before Christopher Columbus! And this discovery only dates back to the 1960s, when a Norwegian couple unearthed the remains of a camp in northwestern Newfoundland, now known as L'Anse-aux-Meadows. Is it not incredible to imagine these Vikings coming from Scandinavia to venture further than Iceland and Greenland to this mysterious region that Erik Le Rouge's son, Leif Eriksson, named Vinland?   In late September, I was able to explore this part of Newfoundland for four days to discover the Viking Trail. It is the most important tourist route that extends from the Gros Morne National Park to the Anse-aux-Meadows. There is 450 km of varied landscapes along the ocean and the Long Range Mountains.   The access point to the western region of Newfoundland is the Deer Lake Airport, which has some funny ways of translating the baggage. Luggage Claim becomes the baggage claim....

Friendship Day Weekends and Memories

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Thinking about friendship day and the friends that I cherish always seems ideal. We always would have difficulty coming to agreement on the program because everyone has a different idea. While Abhi wants a romantic evening in a tavern, Rohan wants to explore the streets of the places that we go and Ruhi wants to just have dinner in the room, while watching TV, I always found myself at the crossroads as it was impossible for me to choose. I would spend my days in between the three of them and every day it would just begin over and over again. There would be times when we would spend weekends at each others place and I would console Rohan thinking about his ex, while Ruhi feel jealous as she sees her boyfriend talking with other girls. And as I would pass the evenings consoling them, Abhi would throw tantrums for refusing to go to the disco. A house with four people inevitably gets dirty quickly and in the kitchen piled up the dirty dishes. When we lived together we set the rules. ...