More Zebra action…
Wandering around La Paz yesterday I started noticing that there are also tons of murals about the Zebras de La Paz. Couldn’t resist 🙂

Wandering around La Paz yesterday I started noticing that there are also tons of murals about the Zebras de La Paz. Couldn’t resist 🙂

When you start researching things to do around Sisimiut you very quickly come across excursions to Assaqutaq – an abandoned settlement about 10km away. The Hotel Sisimiut offers a boat tour to and from the settlement, but what I really wanted to do was take a boat out and then hike back. I contacted Jan from Sisimiut…
Besides Yerevan, the only other things we had time to see in our extremely short sojourn in Armenia were two monasteries. Haghbat Monastery (975AD) This is a medieval monastery complex with several structures, the largest of which is the cathedral of Surb Nishan. With its dome supported by 4 large pillars, it is a typical example…
Poked my nose into the municipal library in Camagüey and it was like going back in time. No computers. No flexible furniture. Blackboard. Really not that many books. And card catalogues! Love it that Fidel has a whole drawer for himself 🙂
One of the best recommendations I can make is that if you are visiting a country for a while, join the expat Facebook group(s) associated with that country. I have been a member of Discover Chile for several years now, and when I knew I was coming to Ecuador for an extended stay I joined…
Much closer than Cerro Vizcachas, in fact just below the road where it passes below the 3.6m telescope, are the rock engravings, or petroglyphs, of La Silla. I visited these a couple of times when I first arrived at La Silla about 15 years ago, but haven’t been back since. Given I was wandering…
Greenland is a land of artists. I’ve written several times about how Greenlandic music is some of the best music you’ve never heard of, but the country also has a plethora of amazing artists. In Nuuk, I would often visit the Nuuk Art Museum, Nuuk Local Museum, Katuaq Cultural Centre, and Groenlandsbanken (yes, really) to…