Traveller guide

Published: 8.3.2013

How does one of the greatest and most important Japanese cities look?

Published: 3.3.2013

We will visit some of places popular for their wide and mixed options how to enjoy winter. There are many high-quality ski slopes, white trails, even adrenaline localities for everyone. Today we will focus on the longest alpine ski slopes in the sequel of the article from last Sunday.

Published: 2.3.2013

Pergamon King Attalos II gave the city its name after wife of Mysius Telephus, the founder of Pergamon Empire, Hieara. The city has thermal springs, the oldest is named Apollonis, in tribute to mother of a king of Pergamon.

Published: 1.3.2013

Today we move to the world’s other end, to Australia to see one of its most important cities.

Published: 25.2.2013

Are you looking for a quite, mysterious and, from a tourist point of view, attractive place in nature? Do you want to discover interesting yet basically unknown parts of land? Visit an attractive nature trail in the most western corner of Bohemia, the trail “Na cestě k Trojstátí (On the way to Threestates)”.

Published: 24.2.2013

Lets look on places worth visiting with skis, snowboard or other winter sports equipment. Which are the longest ski slopes offered by European ski resorts? It the main topic of our travel to interesting places.

Published: 23.2.2013

Profane language and pornography shouldn’t be on the Internet. We would certainly agree with that if only this wasn’t just a cover for endless clutch of the Chinese Internet censorship. Under the cover of a protection of national cultural heritage, and public interest and prosperity the Chinese government tries to hide its rough cleansing.

Published: 19.2.2013

An equivalent for Swiss Verkerhaus could be perhaps the National Technical Museum in Prague but it is no competition for the larges museum of traffic in Europe that is located in Lucerne.

Published: 17.2.2013

Kind of mysterious land of České středohoří offers many interesting things worth visiting. Even us are glad to come back to the land under Milešovka mountain to get new experiences and se something new. In our today’s article we will visit the town of Třebenice and the ruins of Košťálov castle.

Published: 16.2.2013

A small town Troy is located in Turkey, in western Anatolia. According to a mythos Troy, the Achaeans founded the town lying on the bank of the Scamander River. In front of the town’s entrance, on the parking lot with many free spaces, in a box office you can buy a ticket required to enter the town.

Published: 15.2.2013

In the new part of our series on the North Korea we return to Pyongyang and we will also look into its underground.

Published: 12.2.2013

The capital of the Canton of Lucerne, a city that already in the middle-ages used to be called a city of bridges. Today it has the same nickname. Everything stayed same. During your first walk through the city it will come to your mind that the citizens have sufficient amount of bridges. Maybe you will think that this is the most beautiful city you have ever seen.

Published: 9.2.2013

We all got used to all these superlatives surrounding China. I wouldn’t exaggerate if I said that she achieved some primacy every week.

Published: 7.2.2013

In the eastern part of the High Tatras in the end of Zelené pleso valley there is the Cottage by Zelené pleso. This popular place is often called “Brnčalka”. The cottage lies by an emerald green lake surrounded by massive peaks of the High Tatras. The history of the cottage began towards the end of the 19th century. Come with us and learn about this cottage in the middle of mountains.

Published: 5.2.2013

We arrived in a great style – in a carriage - at a Benedictine monastery, in Titlis Valley, that stands there since 1120 stands there since. On a carriage there was a young Czech woman that tries to earn some money in Switzerland.

Published: 2.2.2013

«To the Prado Museum, to which I owe so many hours of happiness».

Published: 29.1.2013

Engelberg, Angel’s Peak, is a cozy alpine town located right in the center of Switzerland, in the Canton of Obwalden. Switzerland has 25 more cantons, or rather regions, that are autonomous.

Published: 28.1.2013

One evening six years ago I saw a very good documentary film in TV - The Beauty of European Shore. Among every destination presented my attention attracted the Aeolian Islands located in southern part of Italy right next to Sicily. They consist of seven populated islands.

Published: 27.1.2013

Krkonoše are the highest mountains in the Czech Republic and for many Middle-Europeans also the most visited. Krkonoše boast with many ski resorts, alpine resorts or some small alpine villages where metaphorically foxes give goodnight.

Published: 26.1.2013

We had many formal meetings during our journey in China with government officials or top managements of some companies that tried to make themselves more visible through us, European journalists. In a hurry after these precisely scheduled meetings I always gathered prepared business cards and carefully placed them to my notes.

Published: 25.1.2013

As it was promised at the end of the last article, today the text will be about some of Pyongyang’s monuments.

Published: 24.1.2013

Perhaps every one of us has visited the High Tatras. Beautiful enchanting nature, noble and sharp peaks of mountains or crystal clear lakes give the place its unique feeling that you wouldn’t find anywhere else. Today alpine cottages enrich this scene. We will examine their history on the following lines.

Published: 21.1.2013

The Great Wall of China. The Long Wall. The Endless Wall. There are many names for the same wall, the wall that everybody knows wherever he/she lives. If you are Chinese, it is THE wall. You are proud of it because it is a national symbol. As Mao Zedong once said: “Who never got on the Great Wall of China is no man.” Or Chinese.

Published: 19.1.2013

We have all this Christmas martyrdom behind us, more or less. New Year’s eve after-effects are the past now and everyday life came back again. Far in the east of our planet the holiday season is getting to its peak.

Published: 18.1.2013

In south Asia lies a communist regime with such a cult of personality that it surpassed a cult that had Joseph Stalin.