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Guatemala: Maya Spirits Say Hello
A country where there are more tourists in ancient cities than in modern ones. It is a mystic Mesoamerican locality famous for being a motherland of Maya civilization – Guatemala. Let’s have a walk around one of its ancient settlements lost in impassable jungles – around Tikal. Should you listen carefully, you can hear voices of spirits there…
05.02.2022 | Guatemala, travels
Wild, wild Africa... Part 2
We are continuing our narration about the most breath-taking national reservations in Africa! There are five more primordial world areas where time hardly slowed down its running being afraid of worrying the natural harmony…
Costa Rica: reasons to be happy
In a search of a perfect destination one could base on different principles. Being guided by the desire to see the life of exhilarating people, you should go to Costa Rica. This country is the leader according to the international happiness statistics The Happy Planet Index.
08.12.2021 | Costa Rica, travels
Kagoshima: City with kamikaze fame
Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!, Nietzsche exclaimed in a prophetic ecstasy. Gloomy pathos of the philosopher could be hardly understood by the residents of the Japanese city of Kagoshima, located at the bottom of the caldera Aira resulting from the explosion about 22 thousand years ago. Farmers were hoeing edges of the hollow from the Bronze Age, as usual fending off the ashes scattered in the air.
05.09.2021 | Japan, travels
Mayan megaliths: the sun if the third age
Mexican jungle hides Mayan Megaliths in Palenque from prying eyes. The Temple of the Inscriptions, the Tomb of the Red Queen, the Pyramid of Skulls - these names would remind the funeral cult to archaeologists. Some people believe that the elixir of immortality is concealed somewhere behind the debris of the Mayan civilization.
06.08.2021 | Mexico, travels
Cambodia: Floating police, dolphins in rivers and Angkor Wat
The Kingdom of Cambodiais the officialmodern-day name of the country in the southeast of Asia (Indochina). This destination is a great tourist alternative tomore glorious Asian kingdom of Thailand. Cambodia is betterat least because it is not mainstream. The Kingdom of Cambodia is not quite a fairy-tale, although it is very exciting...
08.07.2021 | Cambodia, travels
Innsbruck: Fabulous city framed by the Alps
Austria Tyrol area is very distinctive. It has its unique cuisine, and even its own style of singing. Here the centuries-old history is perfectly coupled with natural beauty and sport facilities. Top of diversity manifestation is small mountain town of Innsbruck. It is the administrative centre of Tyrol, as well as one of the cleanest places in Europe, popular sports resort and a world-famous centre of contemporary art.
17.06.2021 | Austria, travels
Gadames: The colorful area of the most famous desert
Fifty-degree Sahara is one of the most famous places on the planet, the biggest part of which is not absolutely suitable for life. However, today we would like to arrive in the sands to see the incredible city Gadames. During the thousands years its citizens have been living out in the environment of the heat, but this place has given the desirable accommodation for everyone in need.
14.06.2021 | libya, travels
Stellenbosch: The wine capital of Africa
OUTLOOK keeps introducing you to the most beautiful and unique cities of our planet. Today we will tell you about Stellenbosch located on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. This town is considered the continent’s premier address for wine production.
11.06.2021 | Africa, travels, RSA
Algeria – Bright Bird of Maghreb
Unusual monument to the Queen of Africa and French charm, hanging pedestrian bridges over an abyss and Sahara Desert, source of boiling mineral water and Byzantium-time ruins – all of these can be brought together in only one country of the world and this country is Algeria. Arabian saying goes: Maghreb is a bird with Algeria being its body, Tunisia – its right wing and its left one is Morocco.
27.05.2021 | Algeria, travels
UNESCO protected: Your breath is taken away here
Majestic and beautiful, contradictory and frightening ... The UNESCO World Heritage List includes into their ranks important works of culture, history, or objects of environmental importance. According to UNESCO rules, a heritage site must be a masterpiece and be of value to a specific era, contain information about unique traditions, reminisce about historical events, or include the habitat of rare species.
Postcards from Montenegro
Resale activist and entrepreneur Mariana Buialo and her father, a design engineer Viktor, brought unique impressions and hundreds of photos from a spontaneous but very inspiring trip to Montenegro. They gladly shared these photos with OUTLOOK, and we, in turn, share them with you.
Shy Hannover
What kind of city is the small Hannover, lacking the high profile of its German brothers top-popular among tourists? Hannover has repeatedly changed its outfits and its look, but preserved a piece from each era of its experience, without losing its identity and integrity.
11.11.2020 | Germany, travels
Basques: Between France and Spain
Visiting Spain, probably every tourist at least once heard about an intention of the inhabitants of a successful Barcelona and its neighbouring towns to declare independence. From time to time this topic comes up in international news, dragging attention and overshadowing history of the Basques - another special people in the Pyrenees.
29.04.2020 | Spain, travels
Berlin zest
Local residents distinguish tourists at a glance by their heads spinning non-stop towards all directions. There are spots where it is just worth doing. This is Berlin, a city changing day by day, every next generation brings something new, and not only debris of the famous Berlin Wall, but also all other ordinary walls keep disappearing stone by stone. The German capital is altering. It should be explored peering at every little detail, since in addition to architectural "crowns" and inexhaustible wall art, you can notice some inconspicuous "birthmarks" of the city.
10.04.2020 | Germany, travels
Golden Land of Solomon
Solomon Islands at the beginning of their settlement had a reputation of being far from the most welcoming place. And if the Florentines can warn about their craftiness, archipelago innocently enough stretches to the far distance of 1500 kilometres and excited the curiosity of generations of travellers with its specific location and legends of Eldorado gold.
07.04.2020 | Solomon Islands, travels
10 facts about Cuba
Iron and charismatic Fidel, great rum and famous cigars – this is probably the minimum set of every person’s knowledge on this planet about Cuba. We suggest we don’t limit ourselves to it because the famous Liberty Island is a truly interesting and unusual country that deserves attention. Our selection of curious facts about it is a nice opportunity to get to know it better.
01.04.2020 | Cuba, 10 facts, travels
If you have 10 dollars and you are in Yerevan
Armenia actively promotes itself in the international tourism market, which makes it known far beyond the borders of the Caucasus. To slightly orient future tourists in terms of prices, our journalist Korney Gritsiuk, who just returned from the Armenian capital, tells how and what can we spend our conditional and favorite $ 10.
20.03.2020 | Armenia, 10 dollars, travels
Soon to burst: cities that oppose tourism
We write a lot about travel and non-standard kinds of tourism, we tell you where to go for exotics, and how to usefully spend $10 in different cities of the world, but we rarely think about the fact that tourism has a downside. This time we decided to look at the crowds of tourists through the eyes of local residents and talk about the problems faced by the most visited cities on the planet.
21.09.2019 | travels
We were there: Batumi
We publish personal impressions of trips under the heading “We Were There”. Today we are posting article from e social networks of our chief editor Daria Kariakina, where she shares her impressions of a 5-day vacation in Georgian city of Batumi. Do not hesitate to read it if you also want to get your emotions from visiting this city!
TOP amazing little-known countries
Upon a cursory glance on a world map one can fail even to notice some states let alone if their names aren’t household words. But OUTLOOK believes that there is no such thing as unexciting place in this world… This is why today we came up with a feature for you about ‘how and what’ makes tick those states that you probably haven’t even heard of.
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