Showing posts with label Indian Ocean and Islands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian Ocean and Islands. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Bali...


Indonesian island of Bali as if it has been created for the lounge: about hundreds of hotels, entertainment for every taste and purse, fantastic nature ...

Hotels in Bali have one feature: they all built height of not more than a palm tree - that did not spoil the landscape. The only tall "exception" - a craze of the sixties. But the most "cool" hotel in Bali opened not so long ago. "New" is the name of "Sheraton Laguna" - this is the second hotel of "Sheraton" on the island, it is worthy of six stars, if such is appropriated.


Mountains of Bali - a magical beauty of stone necklace island. A very popular trip to the volcanoes. Even people far from poetry, will not remain indifferent to their gray tops. If you do not take the trouble and climb onto one of the highest mountains, for example, the sacred Gunung Agung (3170 m), then rises above the clouds and feel a sense of unprecedented enthusiasm. All your previous experiences will somewhere down there. You'll be closer to the sun and the stars above them.


No less interesting is the trip to the sacred monkey forest of Alas Kedaton. It lacks not only wild monkeys, and bats. When visiting the reserve must remove eyeglasses, earrings and chains, another monkey will help you faster than you think.


What can be bought in Indonesia? Quality it is jewelry, leather and textile products, which are quite inexpensive. Friends were going small gifts of silver, stone, wood. In addition, the rupiah fell, and even things of high quality are sold for a pittance. The most popular market in Denpasar - Pasar Badung. Here you can buy almost everything.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Maldives - the 'synonim' of a Paradise...



Maldives is a small state in the equatorial part of Indian Ocean, which has become synonymous with a paradise. Tours to Maldives are becoming more popular, and so there is a reason: Lost on the edge of the Earth in an oasis of unspoilt beauty of the chain of islands, as if descended from ads "Bounty" - a true paradise on Earth. Maldives - a dazzling white sandy beaches with the softest sand, gradually passing into the ocean. Tours to Maldives - is the endless turquoise-azure expanse of the Indian Ocean: in a sunset, they become violet, purple, bright orange ... Also, the Maldives are a paradise for divers: an amazing underwater world of the atolls attracts diving amateurs from different corners of the planet.

Vacationers are welcomed to Maldives with silence and tranquility: the republic's population is about 380 thousand people, and the island contains only 1-2 hotels and the beach. For active travellers the tours to the Maldives - is the opportunity to visit several islands.

It is believed that the Maldives' hotel prices are too high and only very rich tourists can afford themselves to have a rest here. This is not so: now you can buy not only standard, but the latest offerings in the Maldives, so to rest here can even ordinary people. In these special offers is no tricks: Maldives invite 365 days a year, the average annual temperature in the islands - 24-30 C, and water - 24-27 S.

Diving is only one of the few attractions which offer hotels in the Maldives. The most sophisticated guest, expectating not only a beach holiday will find attraction on one's taste: spa treatments, air walk on a helicopter or plane, cruise the islands with a stopover on a desert island, night fishing, barbecue on the beach at sunset, and even discos incendiary music all night long and lots of entertainment shows.


Tours to Maldives will not disappoint and gourmets: the majority of resorts offers both European cuisine with a hint of local and Asian cuisine. The Islands' Business Card - are fish dishes: baked fish with chili paste (fihunu mas), keemia (fish rolls gentle roasting) and kulhi borkihaa - melting in the mouth fish pie... For dessert take Bondi - delicious coconut sticks. Even you can catch a fish: barracuda, sail fish and swordfish, mackerel and tuna yellow trap the bait during the 2 hours of fishing, which offer all the hotels of the Maldives. Caught fish is immediately fried on the fire, right on the beach, and is eaten with gusto.

Those couples who come to Maldives with a wedding ceremony await many pleasant surprises. Most hotels ceremony has something in common: the bride and groom, dressed in traditional Maldivian costume, are taken  on the boat  to a desert island, symbolizing the beginning of life, where they spent an original and touching wedding ceremony, and then escorted to the bungalow or villa, decorated with flowers and palm leaves. The ritual is accompanied by lively rhythmic music of drums national "bodu-taking". Honeymooners receive a wedding certificate, exchange the rings, and then in addition to champagne drink milk from fresh coconuts. The tour operator will offer services of wedding makeup and personal team of cooks in the hotel, as well as the decoration of the marriage bed with beautiful flowers.

Hotels prices on liquor will somewhat surprise the visitors to Maldives: the Republic of Maldives is a Muslim country, prohibiting the importation of alcoholic beverages and drinks in undesignated places. Guests may have a drink only in bars and restaurants at hotels, where are working only comers from Sri Lanka and India. Citizens of the  Maldives, Sunni Muslims are prohibited to trade the alcoholic drinks.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Seychelles - a fantastic archipelago...






Once upon a time, Mark Twain called the island of Mauritius a model of paradise. Today, this wonderful island is overpopulated and "overassimilated", but dont be dissapointed - open up your map, look at her island of Mauritius. Just to the north of it lie the Seychelles. The great American writer, obviously, didn't get...

Each island of this fantastic archipelago, whether it is the capital of the island of Mahé, or former refuge of pirates - Frigate Island, an island of coconut palms, Praslin and La Digue fantastic, is attractive in its own way and has a beautiful natural beaches with white sand, picturesque hotels, perfectly blended into the landscape.
This is a country with astounding beauty and color which does not become a victim of mass tourism.

Seychelles Islands, or simply Seychelles - is an archipelago lost in the vast, deceptively gentle Indian Ocean. To the north of Madagascar, east of the coast of Tanzania - Seychelles, due to its location, were "opened" by the ancient navigators not only once. For Europeans, Seychelles were discovered by Vasco de Gama on his second trip to India, but they had to wait for mastering more than one century.

Perhaps this latest settlement made holidays in Seychelles what it has become today - anyone who had occasion to visit the prototype of the Paradise on earth, felt the aura of primordial, enveloping the atolls and the beaches of the Seychelles. Sometimes it seems that there may be something that can not be found anywhere else in the world - and no coincidence that the Seychelles were the scene of shooting of films like "Blue Lagoon" and "Emmanuel". The promise of something wonderful, unprecedented, hovering in the blessed air of the Seychelles, you can feel even in the cinema. You can imagine what impression will leave holidays in the Seychelles, isn't it?

People come to the Seychelles in order to enjoy the pristine nature. And here it is achieved immediately, thanks to ideal weather conditions, always warm sea with beautiful white sand beaches.

Located in the tropics and surrounded by emerald satin Indian Ocean, the coconut paradise defies the imagination riot of colors and variety of plants, the colorful underwater world, and with strange reserves, intricately indented rocks and coral atolls, a great many birds and giant tortoises, as well as Creole and its traditions , combining European, African, Indian and Chinese culture.