The Art of Travel

At present Seattle, WA, is a very famous destination, as this city offers numerous events all throughout the year, for example International Film Festival, Seafair, etc. Travel by car will be among the preferred ways to travel to Seattle. Yet if you settle on car journey you ought to have contact details of auto repair Seattle services, in the event something unpredictable happens during your trip. Definitely, in Seattle you won’t have troubles in finding a high-quality car service.

One of the most frequent services on the road is windshield repair or replacement. Here you will find several useful recommendations on safety precautions for damaged windshield before you get to Seattle’s car service center. It ought to be pointed out that if there are only insignificant damages total replacement of the glass is not a necessity. Though don’t believe to those who say that windshield repairing can entirely eliminate the damages. Read the rest of this entry »

Watching the flat landscape of crops and green fields go by, dotted here and there with sheep and cows and edged in a horizon of tree-draped mountains, I was reminded of my own Willamette Valley back in western Oregon. Occasionally, I could imagine the train I was on to be just outside of Junction City or Harrisburg or Wilsonville. But then I would be shocked into reality as an old shirtless man cutting in his field by hand with a scythe or a string of horse-drawn carts laden with watermelon suddenly flashed by amidst the passing scenery. I immediately knew I was a long way from my Willamette Valley home, both in distance and, it seemed, in time. I was only an hour out of Bucharest, Romania, but in that short hour it appeared I had stepped back a century or three.

I had been working in Bucharest for nearly two months by this time, but, because of a certain amount of language-challenged trepidation, I kept delaying my explorations beyond a hard-earned comfort-circle I’d carved out for myself within a now semi-familiar Bucharest.

My work in Bucharest wasn’t exactly conducive to familiarizing myself with the Romanian language. I was a copy editor for an English business/tourism magazine there. I spent my days trying to polish the native Romanian writers’ attempts at Romanian-to-English translation. The literal translations I often received ranged from the humorous and easily corrected, “Music has the power to coagulate people,” to the extremely obscure and difficult, “An art museum looks like a warehouse. This can be understood if we attribute to the word the qualities of man’s DNA. These qualities could reach the apogee in this case.” Often, without the writer there to help me more clearly comprehend the ideas behind these esoteric passages, I was left on my own to make a good guess. Read the rest of this entry »

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A horse-loving all the great outdoors, Horse Adventure offers an incredible immersion into the daily lives of Kazakh eagle hunters. Emotions guarantees during this journey leads to the equestrian tradition of Altai. Lovers of authentic encounters, but not only… Starting February 14!

At the heart of the Mongolian winter, you are welcomed in true friends from the team with which Kazakh Horse Adventure hike for over fifteen years. Their family camp is the starting point of your daily CAVALCADES on the ridges of Altai, against a backdrop of vast steppes of snowy valleys, rivers and frozen lakes. Every day breaks Homestay bring regenerative heat the stove and the consolation of a milk tea burning. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lands of Adventure offers adventure to cut the breath of the year for passerlafin dansune natureidyllique and breathtaking!

A fantastic ride a sled dog, the heart of national parks in the valleys qu’emprunterent hordes of Genghis Khan. An invitation to explore this kind of more wild, or evolve harmoniously pastoralists, fauna and flora. Led Alaskan husky dogs and a musher accompanied by french passionate, you push through huge and stunning landscapes asleep, plunged into complete silence intensely blue sky which is the single echo.

Day 1: Arrive in Ulan Bator – TereljArrivee transfer to the international airport. Visit the city and the great monastery Ganden, the largest of the capital. After lunch, transfer by car to our base camp in Terelj. Installation in your yurt. Free time, stroll through the neighborhood… Wild nature, nomadic, before joining the warmth of the yurt.

Day 2: KentiiTransfert by car, up Uliin Bulan, at the junction of the rivers and Terelj Tuul; So started the adventure by sled. Several families of nomads living in this valley. The wildlife is never far away, and silence reinforces the cold atmosphere creates a very unreal. You reach for the night Bosgiin Guur or Enkhtaivan Mungoo and have established their winter camp. Night in a nomad camp.

Day 3: Bosgiin Guur – UsDepart Khar Khar Us You can reach for mid-afternoon after camp Khar Us (black water), or live four or five families, gathered to cope with the rigors of winter. This camp is the last of the valley, then only the wild haunts these beautiful places. You are greeted by Tsodoo and his family for the night.

Day 4: Khar Us – Khagiin River Junction – Khar USLE circuit this day takes you into some more mineral mountains, always closer to the black lake Khagiin. There are more mobile in this area, but it is not unusual to find riders who cut through the mountains to move from one valley to another. A stage of 40 km to reach the junction with the Tuul Khagiin, A place of incredible natural beauty. Back to winter camp Tsodoo for another night in the yurt. Read the rest of this entry »