Travel Guides: Amazing Barcelona

Posted in: Featured, Travel by Theo Grigore | October 26th 2010 | no comments

Being the second largest city in Spain and having a population which exceeds 1,620,000 inhabitants, Barcelona is certainly one of the most beautiful tourist attractions in Europe. Holding some of the most interesting sights to be seen in the world’s oldest continent, Barcelona is a destination [...]

Travel Guides: Oman

By Gabriel Popa | March 12th 2011 | no comments

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west and south-west Yemen. The coast is formed in the southeast of the [...]

Travel Guides: Maldives

By Gabriel Popa | March 12th 2011 | no comments

Maldives is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-west of India in the Indian Ocean. The 26 atolls of the archipelago form a territory containing 1192 islands of which 250 are inhabited. From the third century Buddhism was [...]

Travel Guides: Pakistan

By Gabriel Popa | March 11th 2011 | no comments

Pakistan is situated in Southeast Asia, in the Indus basin and it is bordered by Afghanistan to the northwest, China in north, India in east, Iran to the west and has exit to the Arabian Sea in the south. � The capital city of Pakistan is Islamabad. On the [...]

Travel Guides: Singapore

By Gabriel Popa | March 11th 2011 | no comments

Singapore consists of 63 islands, including mainland Singapore. There are two man-made connections to Johor, Malaysia - Johor-Singapore Causeway in the north and the Tuas Second Link to the west. Jurong Island, Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the largest [...]

Travel Guides: South Ossetia

By Gabriel Popa | March 11th 2011 | no comments

South Ossetia is located in the Caucasus Mountains, most of the territory being situated 1,000 meters above sea level. The region is inhabited mostly by ethnic Ossetians who speak a language close to Farcical, the language of Iran. Ethnic Georgians are less than one [...]

Travel Guides: Palestine

By Gabriel Popa | March 11th 2011 | no comments

Palestine is a territory located south-east of the Mediterranean Sea. The notion of Palestine had over time geographical and geopolitical significance. Although its historical and geographical boundaries have not been and currently are not coincidental with those of [...]

Travel Guides: Saudi Arabia

By Gabriel Popa | March 11th 2011 | no comments

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Jordan to the north, Iraq to the north and north-east, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman to the south and south-east and south is Yemen. It also has [...]

Travel Guides: Tajikistan

By Gabriel Popa | March 10th 2011 | no comments

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan is a landlocked mountainous country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north and east is China. Tajikistan is also located near Pakistan but is [...]

Travel Guides: Taiwan

By Gabriel Popa | March 10th 2011 | no comments

Taiwan is an island in East Asia off the coast of China being located in the Pacific Ocean. By the name Taiwan are represented all territories under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, the political status of disputed territories, China considering them part of it. The [...]

Tavel Guides: Sri Lanka

By Gabriel Popa | March 10th 2011 | no comments

Sri Lanka is an Asian island country located in South Asia, in the Indian Ocean. It has coastlines at the Bay of Bengal in the east, Indian Ocean in the south and west and in the north-east the Palki Strait, which separates it from India. Sri Lanka’s [...]

Travel Guides: Thailand

By Gabriel Popa | March 9th 2011 | no comments

Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia east, bordering with Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south and the Andaman Sea and Myanmar to the west. The state’s capital is Bangkok. The word Thai means “freedom” in the Thai language. It is also [...]

Travel Guides: Uzbekistan

By Gabriel Popa | March 9th 2011 | no comments

Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia. It borders Kazakhstan to the west and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east and to the south with Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. There are two main geographical areas: in the west is the Turan [...]

Travel Guides: Turkmenistan

By Gabriel Popa | March 9th 2011 | no comments

Turkmenistan is a Turkic country in Central Asia. The country’s name is derived from the Persian language, meaning “country of the Turkmen people”. Ashgabat is the capital city translating approximately as the “city of love”. It can be said that [...]

Travel Guides: East Timor

By Gabriel Popa | March 9th 2011 | no comments

The Democratic Republic of East Timor is an island nation located in the south-east Asia, occupying the eastern Indonesian island of Timor. It also lies on two smaller islands (Palan Atarno and Palan Jaco), including the enclave Okussi, west of the main island [...]

Travel Guides: Yemen

By Gabriel Popa | March 8th 2011 | no comments

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen is a country in the Middle East located in the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia. With a population of about 23.58 million people, Yemen is bordered by Saudi Arabia in the north, in the west by [...]

Travel Guides: Vietnam

By Gabriel Popa | March 8th 2011 | no comments

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a state in south-east Asia. Its economy has one of the largest growth rates in this region of the continent. Vietnam aims to become a developed nation by 2020. The Vietnam War caused great loss of lives on both sides, atrocities against the [...]

Travel Guides: Riga

By Gabriel Popa | March 8th 2011 | no comments

Riga is the capital of Latvia, situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Daugava River at 56 ° 58 'N - 24 ° 8' E. Riga is the largest city of the Baltic countries, being a major cultural, educational, political, financial and political center of the area. The [...]

Travel Guides: Reykjavik

By Gabriel Popa | March 7th 2011 | no comments

Reykjavik is the capital of Iceland, the largest city in this country and the world's most northerly capital, being located very near the Arctic Circle. It is situated south-west of the country, in the Bay Faxaflói - a region with many peninsulas, [...]