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Matanzas – Athens of Cuba

Matanzas is located between Havana and Varadero and is little noticed by tourists. The city is only 20 kilometers from Varadero Airport (Aeropuerto Internaciona...

Yaxchilán (Chiapas/Mexiko): Enchanted Temples in the Rainforest – Verwunschene Tempel im Regenwald

The most beautiful thing about the ruins of Yaxchilán (pronounced ʝaʃtʃiˈlan) is their location: far away from roads and settlements, in the middle of the rainf...

Progreso – Largest Port in Yucatan

Progreso is the largest port in Yucatán. The town has about 40,000 inhabitants and is located 35 kilometres north of Mérida on the Gulf of Mexico. Many visitors...

Pura Vida! Relaxed in San José, Costa Rica

Pura Vida! Pura Vida! This is the standard greeting in Costa Rica, in English »pure life« or perhaps better »real life«. A trip to Costa Rica starts in San José...

Mérida and Monumento a la Patria in Yucatán

How Mexican is Yucatán? Mérida is the capital of Yucatán. The federal entity has two million inhabitants, more than half of whom live in the greater area around...

»Callejon de Hamel« in Havanna – The Spirit of Rumba

Rumba – Spectacle and Devotion Rumba shows are an important part of the tourist offer in Cuba and like to fulfil all the clichés of the visitors. But as superfi...

Izamal in Yucatán, Mexico

One of the oldest Monasteries in the New World Izamal is located between Valladolid and Mérida in the north of the Yucatan Peninsula. Today Izamal is a small sl...

The Dark Side of Rouen – Die düstere Seite von Rouen

The Dark Side of Rouen As I was preparing this post, I noticed that @leaky20 had already published something about Rouen in travelfeed last year: I can only rec...

Limone sul Garda in Italy

The world's northernmost lemon orchard – Weltweit nördlichster Zitronengarten Limone is a little town on the western shore of Lake Garda at the foot of steep cl...

Introduce myself – Los geht‘s – Here we go

Corona hält die Welt in Atem, Twitter sperrt Accounts, Youtube unterdrückt Kanäle, Amazon schaltet Server ab und Facebook hat sich gleich mit ganz Australien an...

Cuban Vintage Cars

Nice cars in the streets of Cuba In the last few years my wife and I did some travelling about Cuba. Because of the United States Embargo against the Caribbean ...