Category: Destination

Kin Sol Soleil Hotel, Maroma Beach, Mexico

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Kin Sol Soleil is at the center of Maroma Bay’s spectacular beach. It’s 25 minutes from Cancun International Airport. It has ten exclusive suites, beachfront ones, that give tourists the pleasure to be treated like family with the staff taking care of them very kindly and warmly. They seem to be private residences in a small village. The suite can have one or two bedrooms. The rooms are very well decorated, its architecture is elegant and the beautiful sea and beach complete the place to have a great vacation. It has a restaurant by the sea ‘The Pavo Real’ where you can have your breakfast and of course have your lunch or dinner everyday. There’s also a beach bar. You can find a gym, a spa, private swimming-pools and roof decks, furnished outdoor terraces with hammocks and you can do different activites like snorkeling, diving or fishing. There are other amenities like wireless internet, satellite TV, private parking, animals accepted, etc.

Tips

If you want, at your reservation, ask for the airport pick-up and drop-off.
You can also make private excursions booking at the hotel or have private transportation or a private guide

Botanical Garden of Padron, La Coruña, Spain

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The Botanical Garden of Padron is next to the N-550 road in the province ofBotanical Garden of Padron, autonomous community of Botanical Garden of Padron. It contains many species of plants, some of them highly developed and mature, being a rarity or a singular plant in Galicia. The garden date from the first decades of the nineteenth century constructed of a farm belonging to the Counts of San Juan. It was built in the pattern characteristic of the time, mixing Italian, English and French styles. The garden has a herbarium, greenhouse and new areas were added to the original structure. We find many monuments like the statue of the fourteenth century of the Galician troubadour known as “The lover” or another as the Castelao bust. There are almost 300 plant species that come from different parts of the world. Many social and cultural events of the village of Padron take place in the garden.

Tips

The garden is a beautiful place to walk, relax on a bench reading something or just enjoy nature and the variety of plants found there.

Blue Mosque, Istambul, Turkey

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The Blue Mosque or Sultanahmet Camii is a historic mosque of Istanbul, known as the Blue Mosque because of ceramic adorning the walls of its interior. It was built between 1609 and 1616, during the reign of Sultan Ahmet 1 who decide to build it to appease God after the unfavorable outcome of the war with Persia. It has the tomb of the founder, a school and a hospice. It is the starting point for caravans of Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, it has six minarets. Its dome 23.5 meters in diameter is supported by four massive pillars and buttressed by four semi-domes; 260 windows flood the light building. The interior is decorated with 21,043 tiles from Iznik in a dominant blue. The prayer hall is topped by an ascending system of domes and semi-domes, each supported by three porticos, culminating with the large central dome which has 43m high at its central point. The decorations include verses from the Koran. The floors are carpeted, with carpets given by the faithful and are regularly replaced when worn. The most important element in the interior is the mihrab made of marble. The yard is about as large as the mosque itself and is surrounded by a continuous, rather monotonous vaulted arcades. The central hexagonal fountain is rather small in contrast to the dimensions of the court. The monumental door, but wide, to the courtyard is characterized by the architecture of the arcade. Until recently the muezzin calling to prayer or had to climb a narrow spiral staircase five times a day to announce the call to prayer. Today a public sound system is used, and the call can be heard through the old part of the city, echoed by other mosques nearby.

Tips

The Sultanahmet Mosque has become one of the most popular tourist attractions of Istanbul. Large crowds of Turks and tourists gather at sunset in the park in front of the mosque to hear the call to evening prayer at sunset and the mosque is brilliantly illuminated by colored spotlights.
The large backyard has sanitary facilities on both sides.