Traveling to Lose the Misery

“In the north-west of the country between wooded hills and small hidden lakes, the great Cistercian monastery Maulbronn. Large, firm and well preserved are the beautiful old buildings and would be a tempting place of residence, because they are gorgeous, inside and out, and they are in the centuries, with its quiet beautiful natural grown together elegant and intimate. Who wants to go to the convent, passes through a picturesque, the high wall opening door to a wide and very quiet place running. A fountain there, and there are ancient, solemn trees there and on both sides and old stone houses and solid at the back of the front page called the main church with a late Romanesque porch, paradise in a graceful, charming beauty beyond compare. ”
As idyllic as Hermann Hesse in his novel “Beneath the Wheel” Maulbronn has described the Cistercian monastery still presents the visitor. The intoxicating effect of the ascetic Cistercian architecture, we can only escape is difficult. For the Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse, who – as Johannes Kepler and Friedrich Hölderlin before it – has visited the Protestant monastery school of Maulbronn, school life, despite the beautiful surroundings but a pain: After a few months fled Hesse in the spring of 1892 from which he hated, yet existing school today. (more…)

The former Palatine residence with the euphonious name of Heidelberg stands not only for the world famous Heidelberg Castle, but also for the beautiful old town. Heidelberg has now become a scientific and economic location in Germany. In addition, the city boasts the only way, with its historic streets and the Ruprecht-Karls-University, as Germany’s oldest university town with many beautiful and ancient bridges, the famous St. Peter’s and the castle park. The city now enjoys an international reputation and has a lively cultural scene, which is also designed very versatile.

Each year it attracts more people under the spell of the university town and this is certainly not just the students who come to all parts of the world, but the attractiveness of the city of Heidelberg. Very popular stopping off in Heidelberg is the venerable Hotel Zum Ritter.

The city looks back on 800 years of history, a testimony of this is certainly the Holy Spirit Church in Heidelberg, which should definitely be on the visitors from the town.

Heidelberg climatically and geologically considered, is a very large subject, but can generally be regarded as a very young landscape and designated. Heidelberg is located in the so-called Upper Rhine Valley between Mainz and Basel. This trench is lowered below particularly from Heidelberg. The so-called Heidelberg hole is one of the drops

The geographical composition of the Sinai has helped promote this kind of tourism in the deserts and valleys of the Sinai.  Several programs are run safari tours in the beautiful mountains of Sinai, particularly on St. Catherine.

Indeed, the region most famous for this kind of tourism is that the barrel colored, composed of a series of mountain rocks characterized by rare bright colors and multiple. Other mountains attracts tourists who like safari tours, such as: the mountains of Wadi Watir, near Ein Fortaka Noweibaa on the road, Sainte Catherine, Mount Wadi Orada, true site of attraction for hundreds of tourists , lovers of safari and camping. Other programs provide Safari Tour of valleys and some water sources celebrated as the source of Al Kadirat Al Kassim, the source of Om Ahmed, the source of Fortaka and water sources and the valleys of the Firan Oasis. (more…)

Colombia’s nearness to the Equator lends many visitors to consider they can go everywhere in the country wearing a pair of shorts and flip flops. These people fail to account for the mountainous topography that covers a good swath of the country, including Bogota and El Cafetero, the coffee area.

Manizales is a small town built on hillsides, a five hour truck trip south of Medellin. Located at an elevation of 2,100m, it is the central jumping off point for trips into Parque Nacional Natural de los Nevados to see the forceful, snow-covered Nevado del Ruiz volcano. The 5,300m volcano is even high sufficient to have a few glaciers.