I had been in Cuba in 1999, long before I rediscovered my passion for photography. These were difficult times for the island, right after the "special period", the time after the collapse of the Soviet Union that sent Cuba into famine and despair. I stayed most of the...
Tell someone "Madagascar" and the first thing that comes to mind is the lemours. Sometimes called the 8th continent because of its size and endemic flora and fauna, Madagascar is a land of diversity and uniqueness. We visited at the end of August (2013) for 12 days....
The 2011 trip to Tanzania was a life changing experience. I traveled extensively in many parts of the world but I had never been in Africa. Tanzania's culture, nature and wildlife are very interesting and radically different from anything I had ever seen and opened...
We were looking for a place to go in August and started wandering around the web for ideas to visit different distant destinations like Borneo, Costa Rica and Uganda. But we wanted to keep the trip length to ten days max, so we narrowed our search to places closer to...
I always wanted to visit India, so mystical and different than the west, a land of many attractions. We decided to do it in March 2012. The planning took longer than usual in order to combine some culture, a safari and the beach. Then I thought that it would be a pity...
Chios is a big - for Greek standards - island in the north east Aegean Sea, close to the Turkish coast of Izmir. We ended up a big party of five adults and five kids planned to spend our August vacation in the Chios and Ionia. Ionia, is a region with strong Greek...
The idea was to spend a week of leisure in Zanzibar. I had read about wildlife safaris and was intrigued with the idea to do it so I started researching. It seemed that the best beach in Zanzibar is in Pongwe and the lodge to stay, the Pongwe Beach Hotel, but the only...