November 27th, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Somewhere in Ethiopia, are the Simien Mountains, which are mazes of full deep gorges canyons. The mountains are home to the gelada, sometimes called bleeding heart baboons because of a red patch on the chest of the males. (They are actually not baboons, though they [...]
October 16th, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Have a reason to celebrate? A child’s birthday party, a graduation, an anniversary? Maybe, you don’t need a special reason and just want to decompress and escape city life, have a romantic weekend or want a quiet place to finish that novel you’ve been writing [...]
September 20th, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Hotels for adventure travelers don’t tend toward the stylish. Enter Basecamp, a new property in the town of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., which opened in June. The concept? To embody the spirit of a traditional base camp — where mountaineers swap equipment, advice and war stories [...]
September 17th, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Providing an escapist sensorial experience, The Surf Lodge encourages those who visit to slow down and unwind. Created as an expression of summer freedom, the atmosphere offers a haven in which to become present in one’s surroundings and clear the mind from the daily noise [...]
June 21st, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Lake Atitlán (Lago de Atitlán) is a large endorheic lake in the Guatemalan Highlands. Atitlan is recognized to be the deepest lake in Central America with maximum depth about 340 meters. The lake is shaped by deep escarpments which surround it and by three volcanoes on its southern flank. Lake Atitlan is further characterized [...]
January 3rd, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Today the Berlin-based Design Hotels group is staking the first big claim to the trend on the beach in Tulum, Mexico. The company’s founder, Claus Sendlinger, who moved with his family to Tulum last year, is spearheading the opening of Papaya Playa, a spiffed-up campus of cabanas once [...]
December 8th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Travel
If you decide to visit Reykjavik one day, your trip is going to be full of excitment. Though the sky it will be grey for most of the time spend there, your visit will be anything but dark and gloomy. Tweet
January 15th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Today the world becomes more populated and inhabited. Nevertheless, there are places where the sun, sand and sea gusts are the only one friends….Welcome to Hateruma, located near the Tropic of Cancer, part of the Yaeyama Island group, Japan. This coral island is clothed in banyan trees, Indian almonds, bamboo orchids and colourful hibiscus. Somehow it’s a blissfulness of remoteness [...]
September 5th, 2010 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Since I’m living in the city of Lyngby in Denmark what wouldn’t be more appropriate than advertise for the wonderful recreational area around it and inspire you to visit it. By giving you information and inspiring photos I hope that you would be able to [...]
April 22nd, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Few destinations have benefited from modern tourism quite like Bali, Indonesia. It makes them so sad: hundreds if not thousands of years of cultural evolution undone by a few decades of modern, Western-style development, much of it of the globalized luxury persuasion. Tweet
