The Fortress of Kuelap fulfills all the requirements for a just-do-it-before-word-gets-out holiday. These ruins are testimony of a pre-Incan culture that was conquered by the powerful Incan Empire. The fortress dates to the 6th century and once was the stronghold of “The Warriors of the Clouds”. Mysterious enough?
Inland New Caledonia is not exactly what you’d expect of a South Pacific paradise. It is shrubby and, specially in the west, much drier than the rest of the island. Here, a very peculiar cowboy culture has emerged, the Caldoche. Descendants of the original French settlers, the Caldoche manage large cattle ranches and feel at home on horseback.
The adage that it’s about the journey not the destination, was never truer than aboard the Vaka Motu, a traditional canoe that sails between the islands of Vanuatu. Emerging as a project to find green and sustainable transportation in the archipelago, the Vaka draws from local traditions and is true to the designs of old. Not only that, but the trips are full of symbolic and cultural significance.
Blue caribbean waters meet lush jungles that reach toward the sky to turn into misty forests, full of ancient ruins and isolated tribes. Sounds like something out of an explorer’s log, an impossible place in this day and age. More so because Tayrona has been practically ignored by mass-tourism and travellers seldom venture to this wonderland in northeastern Colombia.
Skellig Michael – once a little-known sixth-century monastic stronghold in a quiet corner of County Kerry – is now home to an influx of Jedi enthusiasts, each itching for the chance to stand on the latest Star Wars film set
An endless desert with majestic, conical structures rising from a sea of sand. Thinking of Egypt? Think again.
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