Not our name, but our passion
Uzbekistan with its Silk Road heritage, wonderful people and spectacular architecture is near the top of my travel bucket list, I am looking forward to teaching Alex about this country. The first recorded settlers in what is now Uzbekistan were Eastern Iranian nomads, known as Scythians, who founded
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Levada do Moinho in Porto Moniz, Madeira is one of the many levadas on Madeira island. In Madeira, the levadas originated out of the necessity of bringing large amounts of water from the west and northwest of the island to the drier southeast, which is
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The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra) gathers the historical scientific collections of several units of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal. It includes the collection of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th century of
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The Monserrate Palace is a palatial villa located near Sintra, the traditional summer resort of the Portuguese court in the foothills overlooking the Atlantic Ocean north of the capital, Lisbon. The cultural landscape of Sintra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. New photo by Wanderlust
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The Palace of Sintra, also called Town Palace, is located in the town of Sintra, in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It is a present-day historic house museum. It is the best-preserved medieval royal residence in Portugal, being inhabited more or less continuously from at
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