to the Grand Canyon (Arizona)
At its deepest point (the part called Granite Gorge), the Grand Canyon reaches a depth of almost 1600 metres below the earth's surface and reveals millions of years of its past. It has been called the oldest and biggest history book in the world.
to the Nottoway Plantation (Louisiana)
the largest remaining antebellum plantation house in the South. Like something out of a fairy tale...
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on the Route to Chichen Itza and the Yucatan PeninsulaSurrounded by this Mayan past, I recreated in my mind, throughout Manuel's talk, the Yucatecan costumes and the legends of this people whose temples tell the history of their lost civilization.
to the Land of the Gauchos
Spend a day in an Estancia - A working estancia (ranch) preserves the traditions of the Argentine gauchos.
Uruguay
As well as its fashionable summer resorts and tranquil beach towns, Uruguay is renowned for its colonial towns, fortresses, and beaches dotted all along its coast, starting by Montevideo, Piriápolis, Punta del Este, jewel of the Atlantic Ocean. Continuing further east lie the tranquil resort towns of La Paloma...
to Istanbul and the BosporusToday I am in Istanbul, Byzantium, Constantinople: three historical names for one city, the only one in the world to be built on two continents...