Tours To Formentera

Formentera fourth island of the Balearic Islands, In the Mediterranean. Just over 5,000 people by the latest data for 83 square kilometers. In this piece of land you will find beautiful beaches, which is great fun, but more control and less violation of nearby Ibiza.

Mallorca and Menorca are for tourists and upper-middle-age paid to visit, while flights from Italy to lead directly to Ibiza, where there are connections with ferries to Formentera, have a tourist numbers from 25 to 40 years desire to have fun but also with the desire to seek the beach and nature relaxing and restful.

In recent years, thanks to its wild places, white beaches and crystal blue sea, Has become a destination for VIP but especially Italian and English wandering the Mediterranean by boat, often stationed near the beach of Ses Illetas or Cala Sahona: Totti and his wife, Briatore and his wife, David and Victoria Beckham, Sting, Madonna and even the Spanish royal family.

Going to Ses Illetas transit from Las Salinas (easy translation) where you will see the salt lake where the artificially created water and the bottom take color from green to pink, also based on the position of the sun. The beach of "Illettes" is also very special because it is a spit of sand, must be explored on foot, which extends to Ibiza, no more than 30 meters wide, with the sea on both sides, which often is calm on the one hand and moved the other.
Other beautiful beaches are Migjorn, Platja de Llevant, Platja de Tramuntana, Platja de Sa Roqueta where you can also find nudist areas and do not necessarily separate, but thanks to the tolerance of bathers coexistence "with" and "no" costume does not create any kind of problem.

All these beaches are free, There are no services as we are accustomed to in Italy, found only bars and restaurants, kiosks, which are often only thanks to the arrival of Italian entrepreneurs of local aperitifs are transformed in venues for fun music and animation. To find out where to go, do not worry, the pr move to the beaches to inform what will be the local point of the evening. It starts off into the sunset with 'drink on the beach and until dinner time which is basically about ten o'clock in the evening, music, snacks and appetizers with games, group photos, encounters between people.

Despite the great tolerance towards tourists, the island is not granted to excess without any control, and fun fun fun but be aware that the rules must be respected, so if you want the total transgression is not the place for you, stop in Ibiza.

For the dinner you do not have an embarrassment of choice. In addition to those beaches that are very basic, there are the towns of San Ferran and Es Pujol, where there are still traces of the hippie community. The restaurants are different, you can eat Paella, grilled meat, grilled fish with very tasty sauces. The kitchen is very simple but very tasty with the spices used in abundance. Try the San Ferran Fonda Pepe Finca Sa, and Es Forn Can Pujol found Casa Anita, Pinatar, Sa Palmera and fireplace.

For the after dinner the choice is outdoor bars and discos open until late. We meet all of the trendiest places, just word of mouth.
As a last tip you can take a trip to Cap de Barbaria, extreme southern tip of the island where you can visit the lighthouse and find a lot of walking on the rocks geckos of the small pearl of the Mediterranean. Good holiday.

Farm Holidays Tourism Guide

For all those who live during the years of intense stress situations, the best vacation is in contact with nature. An excellent opportunity to regenerate

body and mind is offered by the farm.


The concept of farm

From north to south, plain or hill, Our Belpaeseoffers many opportunities to get in touch with nature and with the ways agricultural. Buildings used for accommodation for tourists are drawn from rural structures, As in Umbria and Tuscany, historic houses, In the Veneto and Lazio, or farms, As in South Tyrol.

The farm can taste the typical products directly derived from gardens and animals reared in the backyard. The farm is, by law, a genuine agricultural activity and, whoever leads one, not a businessman but a real farmer.

Where to go

When it comes to farm you immediately think of Tuscany, where there are thousands, especially in the area of ​​Chianti and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, between Siena and Arezzo, and Umbria. But the whole of Italy is dotted with structures. Starting from the area of ​​Parma, for example, there is an association (Parma Farm Quality) Grouping the farms quality. In the South Tyrolean Alpine panorama, including national parks and breathtaking landscapes dominated by Dolomites, Heritage, There are many farms, including the provinces of Bolzano and Brunico, Bressanone and Merano, grouped in the association Red Rooster. Many are located in historic and charming Emilia Romagna, Veneto and lower Lombardy, between Pavia, Mantua and Cremona.


The activities

If you decide to spend a holiday in one of these places can take the opportunity to do outdoor activities, such as 'riding or mountain bike, But also actively participate in the life of the farm planting seeds and harvesting the vegetables. The people, however, are free to choose what to do and not do, the programs are decided from time to time according to your needs and wants. Almost all structures organized many activities:

• Excursions to the nearby cities of art, or tours to places of natural interest;
• Hiking, horseback riding, or biking;
• Tasting of local products;
• Various courses in cooking, painting, decoupage;
• Shiatsu, reflexology, and other techniques;
• Activities on the farm.

Tour To Elba Island

The Island of Elba, the Tuscan Archipelago (Pianosa with, Giglio, Montecristo, Gorgona, Goatherd and Giannutri) is a piece of land in front of Tuscany. Easily accessible by ferry, are only a dozen kilometers from the coast, is a tourist destination from May to October for both temperature and beach sand into rock.

It 'really a paradise, Slightly larger than 200 square miles and thirty thousand inhabitants, which almost tripled in the summer, do you think in the central part of the island has a width of only 3 km and a half. You arrive in Portoferraio, the island's main town, located to the north west and from there you can quickly reach any other location.

Island rich in iron ore deposits located on the east (the name of the main center is one example) in the past exploited even by the Etruscans and many beaches has vanished for the reddish color, it has also become famous for exile Napoleon in 1814 after the disastrous campaign in Russia, but remained as a trace only two villas his residences.

You can find accommodation without problems thanks to the great accommodation both in hotels, apartments or houses for rent, but also many campsites are well equipped.


To find beautiful beaches you do not have an embarrassment of choice, from southeast clockwise Innamorata find the beach, where in July is celebrated a festival where it is lit at the beach and people in costume replicates the death of a noble woman who fell from a cliff (the girlfriend), beach pebbles and sand, suitable for snorkeling, then we move to the Gulf of Northmen, always mixed with the beach right to see the black background with little effort. Instead, in the Gulf of Lacona beach is white with pine forest, then for bathing suits families, but it is always nice for sunbathing. If you want a beach to walk, the longest is that of Marina di Campo of almost 2 km, always white sand.

After the road offers a beautiful panorama of the coast to the mountains coming down to the beaches of Cavoli, Seccheto (the smallest) and Fetovaia: the first is the trendy beach par excellence suitable for those who love the sea after the dance and drink on the beach The second and third are more familiar with the peculiarities of a luminescent sand in water has an effect of suspended glitter, crystal clear water and a small cave to visit, also suitable for making Diving.

The north west is mainly rock from St. Andrew Hague up to Marciana Marina. Procchio returned again to have sand. Last resort is to be reported with the Biodola mixture of stones and sand.

If you want to do some visit you can go and take a stroll up to Poggio a small village perched on a hill and take the cableway from Marciana, which takes you to the top of the highest mountain in the island, the Mountain Huts, Which goes up to 1019 meters high from where, on clear days, you can see almost the whole island, up to Tuscany, Pianosa and Corsica.

For the evening you do not have the choice of small towns with restaurants, taverns, bars and clubs open till late Capoliveri, Porto Azzurro, Portoferraio, Marina di Campo and well. There are numerous fairs and festivals with wine and sausage, if you like the genre.
Easy to get around by car or scooter, bike to the many challenging slopes, is for those who love climbing. If you still have a few days of vacation's worth a thought.

Tour to Gran Paradiso National Park

The National Park of Gran Paradiso is a goal, every year, thousands of people, who love the mountains and nature in general, that this reality is really fascinating and spectacular. It is, in fact, a alpine environment where once towered cold and huge glaciers that, over the centuries have given way to the valleys that can be seen now.

The park was founded in the early '20s, and together with the National Park of Abruzzo, is one of the oldest Italian parks; From the geographical point of view is located on a vast territory (more than 70,000 hectares), which includes the Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta, and its management is entrusted Ente Nazionale Gran Paradiso (Torino). This is a massive, which is 4,000 meters, it has come six valleys: Cogne, Valsavarenche Rhèmes, Orc, and Champorcher Soana.
The highest peak 4061 meters, is located on the dividing Valsavarenche Cogne.

The symbol of the park is the ibex, Animal and very easy to spread over the Alps, and onStambecco simbolo del Parco del Gran Paradiso all the rocky terrain, unfortunately, subject to abatement poorly controlled, because of hunting that allowed not only consume its tasty meat, meat extract also talismans and amulets, horns and "Cross of the heart." Fortunately in 1821 the then King of Sardinia, Charles Felix issued a Royal Decree which forbade hunting, since then, allowing the protection of the ibex. In truth he was the only one to give "democratically" hunting! Then spread the Vittorio Emanuele II had the same choice, I would say but very little hunting environmentalist, to the point that he decided to give a new face in this valley, to allow the comforts of a luxury hunting, constructing mule tracks (of which even today if has vision), and numerous hunting lodges, which are useful to him and all his troops.
If you want to walk part of the "real" way of hunting, just go to Colle del Valle Orco and Nivolet to observe closely the real trail, the home of the Grand Hunting Plan (now the refuge).

It was then that Victor Emmanuel III signed a decree that gave birth to the Gran Paradiso National Park in the 30's management came under the beam, which send them criminals, thieves and the rebels to the government to atone for their sins and punishments. In 1947 the Head of State Henry De Nicola, founded the Gran Paradiso National Park Authority.

The beauty of the park is enormous because nature is untouched and it is easy to fall in love, what happens to all and particularly to families who decide to "cleanse" the lungs in the blue and cloudless sky mountainous. Among the most beautiful and popular trees in the park are undoubtedly the larch, Above the valley floor, but you can also watch the spruces, or the rare silver firThe principles of the forest, then leave the space as they climb to an altitude of pastures, which in spring are covered with bright and fragrant flowers. But for lovers of the glaciers, rising to over 4,000 meters, you can admire them in all their spectacular meditative silence.

Inside the park a lot of alternate types of environments, from fragrant and green forests, the wetlands in the rocky, grasslands, and again rivers, streams, fresh streams and lakes. The most beautiful lakes to be observed are close to the neck area and are the Nivolet Lakes Nivolet (Artificial), close to the refuge Savoy, here comes the Savara which come together in Baltea. Other lakes (all natural) are the Lake Leite, Lake Rosset with a central island: both are the source of the river Orco, which results in Chivasso. Again we find in the Valley of Cogne Lauson lakes and Loie.

The city of Turin is highly dependent on Paco, as regards the supply of hydroelectric power, and specifically the countries of Locana Ceresole Reale and the Canavese.

In aquatic environments, animals and plants we find beautiful and interesting, such as certain species of algae such as duckweed, or the edges of rivers and wetlands, however, in the buttercup water lilies and poetic.

As for the flora in the park, you can enjoy cherry, hazel, aspen, chestnut, ash, birch, pine and so on. While, to finish, you can give away the wildlife viewing ibex, chamois, Wolves, lynx and marmots. And among birds hawks, crows, woodpeckers, tits, owls and tawny owls, eye, and not to sit on the nest for up to two feet high, the formica rufa.

Lapland Tour Packages

What better time than this to go see Santa Claus? Yes, because the home of Santa Claus, to the delight not only children, there really is. We must be up to the Arctic Circle, in the northernmost province of Finland, Lapland, land of ice and reindeer. The capital city which is called RovaniemiIn the Sami language (the Sami) Roavenjarga, and for six months of the year everything is covered with snow, during which time the temperature in the daytime is -13 °, but at night comes easily to -30 °. This is real cool!

The home of Santa Claus is just outside the town, the grand old man of course is not a citizen, just walk a few kilometers to the north and arrives at the North Pole. In this small group of houses, all in wood, with decorations and lights very characteristic, you can feel the "real" Christmas air. In Santa Park we find, in addition to a restaurant and shops to buy some Magyar remember, even an exhibition of ice sculptures. If you see a lighted wire suspended in the air, that's the sign of where it passes Lapponia da Babbo Natalehypothetically the line of the Arctic Circle.

Finally, if we go into the cave where he dwells, there is the Santa's Workshop, The Laboratory of the Elves, Where the room is kept throughout the year Santa's sleigh (A box of our parts), the Kitchen of Gingerbread, Where Santa's Elves and eat as they prepare to deliver gifts on Christmas Eve, then l 'Post Office, One of the most important of the world, who works mainly a month and the year very strongly. In this magical place all the letters of children come from all over the world with the demands of the gifts. A curiosity: the Italians are the second to send letters.

To the delight of the children are made of shows starring the Elves, or they can enjoy the playground. For adults you can take a trip on the ice with the sleigh, pulled by reindeer, to see the colors that the sun only in this place manages to create and then to stop eating a sausage to cook yourself on fire. Or even a visit to the zoo, where you can find lynx, eagles, owls, wolves and bears in their natural habitat.

If you love the cold, maybe during the return trip to Italy you can take a detour and go in Swedish Lapland, in a small village called Jukkasjärvi (Which seems to be the name of an Ikea chair), not far from Kiruna, Where every year in December, is built the 'Ice Hotel, Traveling around on ice, active until the spring, when it melts naturally. Everything is on ice; the rooms, bars, lounges and even a theater. Chairs, tables and lamps are also all in ice, as well as a chapel and an art gallery. Definitely spend a weekend is a special event, sounds and colors are unique. Of course, these are goals that are good for people who love travel details and not for those who can not wait to heat and sun and cover with cold in the first two sweaters. And 'but certainly an interesting experience, even if you are no longer children or you have been to the beach this summer.

The World's Weirdest Hotels

Soon there will be the Christmas holidays and for those who want to leave but is still undecided on where to go, and especially for those who want to stay different and special, you have created a website Unusual Hotels of the World, Where you can find all the most original hotels in the world.

For surely a holiday dedicated to originality, with a stay in the rooms really unusual, visiting this site you can choose between hotels in the shape of a dog or hanging from a crane, or hotels built on real trees, if you plan to spend Indiana Jones-style holiday. For those who do not want to give up relaxing on vacation, there is the possibility to opt for a comfortable and luxurious hotel in the clouds, or under water with a resort diver.

Let us see together what are the most unusual and original hotels that exist in our planet.

If you love cool places, and you do not mind the icy evenings, the place for you is in Quebec, where there 'sHotel de Glace, A structure built with sixteen thousand tons of snow and ice, and provided with all furniture and furnishings furnishing strictly ice. The hotel is only open from January until the end of March and is easy to understand why.

If you do not want to get away much, but you also want to freeze a vacation in the Alps of Friuli there are real igloo immersed in nature to minus 20 degrees, of course within these igloos will find all the amenities to survive the intense cold.

If you love animals so much that "take sleeping inside," here is a funny and original proposal; Dog Bark Park Inn, Playing a hotel built to scale a real dog. It is located in the United States, dell'Idhao in the countryside, and offers accommodation with all facilities and breakfast.

It has nothing to envy to others for comfort and relaxation the hotel Jumbo Hostel, A hostel housed in a jumbo-seventies. It is located at Arlanda airport near Stockholm, and has 25 rooms available, all super-equipped, as well as a relaxing and luxurious suite created in the cockpit.

If you love the sea and fascinated by its depths, you can book a room at the Jules Undersea Lodge, A charming hotel located just below the waters of the Florida Keys islands. In this original hotel you can enjoy a cup of coffee looking out the window tropical fish passing by. The only downside is that your room will be accessible only with scuba equipment.

If you are a real Indiana Jones and you have the spirit of fearless adventurers, the perfect hotel for you is l 'Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel which is located in Brazil, specifically in Manaos. The rooms are located between the trees, more than 20 meters in height, and are connected by a network of bridges, all in perfect style adventurer.

If the trees are not enough, you can always choose to stay in a hotel suspended by a crane, the Netherlands. From there the view of the harbor is nothing short of wonderful.


As we have seen strange hotels around the world there are many, just knowing how to choose one for you over and above that suit your particular preferences. As for prices, then, these vary greatly, we start from 200 euros per night including breakfast, up to many thousands of euros for one night only.

Good choice and welcome!

Valentine in Igloo

Valentine's Day is approaching and for those who want to take advantage of this special day dedicated to lovers to spend a few days away from home in a particular place is a good proposal are the igloo in snowy mountains is not Italian.

Certainly you should not fear the cold indeed must be a reason to stay close with your partner and indulge in pampering and sweet effusions that will surely heat up.

Among the proposals for a Valentine's Day to spend literally "squatting" and embraced not to suffer the cold and ice in an igloo decorated in a romantic way for the occasion to mention is that of 'igloos on the glacier of Val Senales, A well 2,850 meters above sea level. The Refuge Bella Vista, Maso Corto in Schnalstal has designed a package just for Valentine's Day, which includes transfer by cable car and chairlift up to the fact Refuge Bella VistaAnd then depart with a snowmobile to the igloos where lovers spend the night.

Of course, the small Ice houses are equipped with all the comforts required for a stay of the wealthy and romantic couple, in fact, is present in every igloo made of snow a double bed, soft sheepskin for warmth, a sleeping bag that stands up to the bed temperature of -40 °, thermal blankets and candles that you know make the atmosphere very romantic. Besides, for a total relaxation will be available to those who will also enjoy a spacious outdoor sauna, The highest in Europe.

For the dinnerThe Bella Vista shelter will prepare local dishes with hot drinks and of course the champagne, and breakfast the next morning will be served in the tea room in an igloo and even a hearty breakfast at a nearby restaurant. Regarding the cost, this is roughly around the 145 euro per person, including dinner and a shuttle service with a snowmobile.

In Friuli Dolomites, namely there is a Piancavallo Igloo Village, Where exactly do you organize a Valentine's weekend called Valentine Hearts 2 and 1 Igloo.

For the first day is expected to hotel, dinner, always with local products and the accommodation, for the second day after a hearty breakfast there is an excursion in the chair and visit the Igloo Village. Then after lunch, and dinner to the shelter and that is the highlight here is the romantic overnight in an igloo by candlelight always with all necessary amenities and then for a hearty breakfast the next day and return home. The fee includes the complete stay and excursions with the rental of various equipment is 259 euro.

For a truly memorable Valentine's Day by spending more in the cold for the heating effect of the pampering of your beloved / a here is a good idea in an igloo at 2,453 m above sea level, on top of the Muottas Muragl, Famous for its wonderful and panoramic views of the lakes.

This place is really spectacular and beautiful so that was discovered by artists and poets, and was, in fact, renamed "Mount of artists." It 'reached by the train that runs until late at night is wonderful and the view of the lights that are reflected in the lakes.

The 'Schloss Pontresina located in this magical place has created a very interesting and romantic package for all couples wishing to spend an 'unusual Valentine's Day. In two large igloos of 8 feet each decorated with beautiful ice sculptures every little detail is not left to chance, the stars and snow lit by candles, you can enjoy local dishes in a fairytale.

The package includes excursions and overnight stay included. For costs you to inform you on the website or by telephoning the hotel Schloss Hotel reception itself.