We left Huesca in the afternoon to explore the impressive castle we had seen from the highway: Castillo Montearagón. It was closed, but the light was perfect and after walking around it, we spent the night not far from the castle, with great views of the sunset and the lights of Huesca. The next day, …
We had spent the night and half a rainy day in Graus, where we could park next to the river and walk into town. In the afternoon the sun was shining again, and we decided to drive another gravel track to an abandoned village and further over the mountains. Once a prosperous town, but without …
2 abandoned villages, a dam in the middle of nowhere and the most amazing rock formations made us drive on gravel roads through a nice landscape to get to all this places. We were surprised to see how low the water level in this dam was, for sure 20 metres lower than it could be. …
We had spent the night at Arén, where we walked to some dinosaur prints, not far from our parking spot next to the cemetery. The sight is well-marked and has information boards and a walkway, that you can admire the prints from close without destroying them. That day we went on a gravel track going …
Still in the northern part of Cyprus, we reached Varosha, a suburb of Famagusta. It was once the number-one tourist destination in Cyprus. Many new high-rise buildings and hotels were constructed in the area. Between 1970 and 1974, it was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and was a favourite for celebrities …
The many checkpoints continued on the way north to the city of Babylon or the few remains which you can visit today. In Babylon stood once the famous Tower of Babel, which probably looked more like a Ziggurat than how it is depicted in the Western world since ancient times. Today there is just the …
Ten kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz lies Kolmannskuppe, a ghost town in the Namib desert, once a small but very rich mining village, until no diamonds were found here any more. In 1908, in what was then German South-West Africa, the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while clearing the railway tracks from sand. Soon after, German miners began to exploit …
We had spent the night in Jermuk, in front of the Gladzor hotel, which we wanted to explore more. It was a sunny day, so we walked to the “giant deer” and took the “rope way” up the mountain. We had spotted the deer from the town, and as it reminded us of the giant …
We made our way to Jermuk, where we went to explore the spa town which is known for its hot springs and mineral water which is also bottled in town under the brand Jermuk. Many hotels are waiting for tourists, others are not in use anymore, as we found some abandoned Soviet time buildings. We …
Tsqaltubo is known for its radon-carbonate mineral springs, whose natural temperature of 33–35 °C enables the water to be used without preliminary heating for balneotherapies. The “Spring No. 6”, the largest thermal bath and still open, was built in 1950 exclusively for Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union at the time. The spa was especially popular in the Soviet era, attracting around …
