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Varadero, Cuba

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Mar 162009
 

Varadero, Cuba

Varadero


Varadero is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean. Varadero is also called Playa Azul, meaning “blue beach” in Spanish. Varadero is foremost a tourist resort town, boasting more than 20 km of white sandy beaches. The first tourists visited Varadero as early as the 1870s, and for years it was considered an elite resort. In 1910 the annual rowing regatta was started; five years later the first hotel, named Varadero and later Club Nautico, was built. Tourism grew in the early 1930s as Irénée du Pont Nemours, an American millionaire, built his estate on the peninsula. Many famous and infamous people stayed in Varadero, for example Al Capone. Find a lot of travel deals and to Cuba on this travel blog.
GPS travel destinations: 23° 8′ 22″ N, 81° 17′ 10″ W

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Campeche, Florianópolis

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Mar 012009
 

Campeche, Florianópolis

Campeche


Campeche is a beach located on the south of the city of Florianópolis, on the south of .There used to be a proper airport which was inaugurated in 1924. Correio do Sul air planes used to land on the fields at Campeche neighbourhood. According to the information gathered at Florianópolis’ Air Base, a French pilot and writer -Exupéry, author of the classic “The ”, would have made regular landings on the area when was flying with Ligne Latécoère (now Air France).There are many houses to rent as well as pousadas (hostels), bars and simple . From any point along its 11,5 km the island of Campeche can be seen. Nice city .
GPS travel help coordinates: 27° 40′ 59″ S, 48° 29′ 30″ W

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Trinidad, Cuba

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Feb 262009
 

Trinidad, Cuba
Trinidad is a town in the province of Sancti Spíritus, central Cuba. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios, it has been one of UNESCOs World Heritage sites since 1988. Trinidad was founded on December 23, 1514 by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar under the name Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. Its one of the best preserved cities in the Caribbean from the time when the sugar trade was the main industry in the region. Tourism officials like to say Trinidad is a museum in itself. Those visiting the 500-year-old city will find Spanish colonial architecture, underscoring a colonial ambiance that marks the tiny city one of the country’s greatest attractions. Only a few square blocks in size, historic Trinidad is famous for its lovely, cobblestone streets, pastel coloured houses with elaborate wrought-iron grills, as well as majestic palaces and plazas. The city can be toured in a few hours, by foot or by horse-drawn carriage. The city’s is located near both the Escambray Mountains and the Caribbean beach. Find travel deals to Cuba.
GPS travel help: 21° 48′ 15″ N, 79° 58′ 59″ W

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Faro del Comercio, Monterrey

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Feb 192009
 

Faro del Comercio, Monterrey

Monterrey


Faro del Comercio is a monument designed by the accomplished Mexican architect Luis Barragan and constructed in 1984 by architect Raul Ferrara. It is a recognizable sight in Monterrey among many other modern manmade landmarks, such as Neptune’s Fountain (Fuente de la Vida), the Hall, the Papal Bridge (El Puente del Papa), and the Bridge of Unity (Puente de la Unidad) in San Pedro, connecting that municipality to Monterrey. These sites are intended on one hand to complement the city’s few remaining traditional landmarks, such as, the Bishopric Palace (Palacio del Obispado) and Museum, the City’s Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey), the Central Post Office (old Hall), and the State of Nuevo Leon Government building, on the north end of the Macroplaza. On the other hand they are also intended to project an image of a city that prides itself as being the most progressive large industrial city of Mexico. .
GPS tarvel help: 25° 39′ 58.3″ N, 100° 18′ 36.1″ W

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Kona District, Hawaii

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Feb 122009
 

Kona District, Hawaii

Kona District


Kona is the name of a moku or district on the island of Hawai‘i in the State of Hawai‘i. In the current system of administration of Hawaii County, the moku of Kona is divided into North Kona District (Kona ‘Akau) and (Kona Hema). The term “Kona” is also used to refer to its largest town, Kailua-Kona. Other towns in Kona include Kealakekua and Honalo. In the Hawaiian language, kona means leeward or dry side of the island, as opposed to ko‘olau which means windward or the wet side of the island. In Hawai‘i, the Pacific anticyclone provides moist prevailing northeasterly winds to the , resulting in rain when the winds contact the windward landmass of the islands – the winds subsequently lose their moisture and travel on to the leeward (or kona) side of the island. Kona has cognates with the same meaning in other Polynesian languages. Comment or write another review.

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Genovesa Island, Galapagos

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Feb 082009
 

Genovesa Island, Galapagos
Genovesa Island is a shield volcano in the in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The island occupies about 14 square kilometres (5 sq mi), and its maximum elevation is 64 m (210 ft). The horse-shoe shaped island has a volcanic caldera whose wall has collapsed, forming the Great Darwin Bay, surrounded by cliffs. Lake Arcturus, filled with salt water, lies in the centre, and sediment within this crater lake is less than 6,000 years old. Although no historical eruptions are known from Genovesa, there are very young lava flows on the flanks of the volcano. This island is known as Bird Island, because of the large and varied bird colonies which nest here. There are an abundance of frigatebirds and it is the best place to see red-footed boobies, masked boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, storm petrels, tropical birds, finches, and mockingbirds. Prince Philip’s Steps is an extraordinary steep path that leads through a seabird colony full of life, up to cliffs that are 25m high. At the top, the trail continues inland, passing more seabird colonies in a thin palo santo forest. Leaving the forest, you can overview a rocky plain. The storm petrels here are different from any others in the world because they fly around during daytime. To avoid predators, they only return to their nest holes at night. The smallest Marine Iguana in the archipelago lives here. review.
GPS travel help coordinates: 0° 19′ 0″ N, 89° 57′ 0″ W

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