Airplane: Airplanes can be chartered from Air Martinique. Tourist flights are offered by Heli Blue, ACF Aviation and Alizes Air Services, among others. Ship: There are several regular vedettes (ferries) between the main resorts and Fort-de-France. Places visited on the routes include Anses d’Arlet, Anse Mitan and Anse à l’Ane. Matinik Cruise Line has a ferry… Read More »
According to MICROEDU.COM, the island of Martinique is located in the Caribbean Sea and belongs to the Lesser Antilles archipelago. With an area of 1,128 km² and a population of around 450,000 people it is becoming increasingly popular for tourism. This is mainly due to the fact that Martinique is French overseas territory and thus… Read More »
Transportation Airplane: Cayman Airways as wellIcelandAir fly several times a day between Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman and between Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. Ship: There are none between the individual islands of the Cayman IslandsFerry connections. Car: Between the coastal towns and cities of the individual islands there is a relativequalityRoad connections.… Read More »
Chile is the land of extremes. Here are icy polar rains, soaring mountains and one of the world’s driest deserts. Chile consists of a narrow strip of land between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean that is over 4,000 km long, and only 200 km wide in places. The nature is very varied and is… Read More »
Cayman Islands arrival Airplane: The Cayman Islands’ national airline is Cayman Airways. It flies between Grand Cayman and Miami, Houston and Tampa in the USA and Kingston (Jamaica). British Airways flies direct to Grand Cayman from London. Lufthansa, Austrian and Swiss International fly to Miami from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in cooperation with other airlines, there are connecting… Read More »
Population: 81 million Capital: Tehran Language: Persian Iran is the world’s second largest producer of pistachios (the country’s second largest export) and is considered the capital of pistachios? Iran was once a pioneer in renewable energy and actually built the earliest known wind turbines? Iran’s history The academic king Cyrus II ruled Persia from the… Read More »
The three Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac are located below Cuba and belong to an underground limestone mountain range protected by coral reefs Cuba extends to the Gulf of Honduras. According to COLLEGETOPPICKS.COM, the Cayman Islands are a paradise for divers. Comparably beautiful Coral reef does not exist in the whole… Read More »
ECONOMY: AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND FISHING With an active population in agriculture of approx. two-fifths of the total (compared to 67.7% of non-urban population), Thailand can no longer be defined as a country with essentially rural connotations: the primary sector contributes just over a tenth of GDP. The main product, literally vital for the Thai economy… Read More »
Area: 331,690 km² Residents: 95,415,000 (2017 estimate) Population density: 288 E / km² Form of Government: Socialist republic System of Government: Socialist one-party system Neighboring countries: China, Cambodia, Laos Capital: Hanoi National language: Vietnamese Religions: 21% Buddhists 7% Christians 2% Hoa Hao 1% Cao Dai 0.05% Islam Currency: Đồng (VND) 10 Hào = 100 Xu Exchange rates: 1 EUR = 27,225.30 VND 10,000 VND… Read More »
Official name: Japan Form of government: Constitutional monarchy Capital: Tokyo Geographical details: Japan consists of an island chain on the east coast of the Asian continent. The island chain consists of the main islands Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and 6,848 other islands. Population: approx. 128.0 million area approx. 377,835 km² Languages: Japanese (official language), English… Read More »
Guadeloupe – island paradise of the Antilles Guadeloupe is the largest island in the Lesser Antilles. The cultural and economic center is Point-a-Pitre. Tourists can find many architecturally attractive structures in the city. The main attraction in the south of the island is a large Hindu temple. With a little luck you can also see… Read More »
Below you will find practical information in connection with trips to Germany Language: German Capital: Berlin Population: 80, 5 million. Religion: Roman Catholic and Protestant Currency: Euro Surface: 357 022 km2 Worth knowing Time difference There is no time difference between Germany and Sweden. Transport in Germany The buses in Germany are of a good… Read More »
Guadeloupe climate According to ANSWERRESUME.COM, the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe is a French overseas department and belongs to the Lesser Antilles. Guadeloupe has a tropical climate. This means that temperatures hardly change over the course of the year. Like all islands in the Eastern Caribbean, Guadeloupe receives fairly evenly distributed rainfall throughout the year, with a… Read More »
Read more about time difference, transport, price levels and more in connection with your trip to Vietnam. Language: Vietnamese Capital: Hanoi Population: 94, 5 million Religion: Taoism, Buddhism and Roman Catholicism Currency: Dong Surface: 331,210 km2 Worth knowing Time difference The time difference between Sweden and Vietnam varies, depending on whether it is summer or… Read More »
The Dutch territory has attracted man since very remote times, as evidenced by the numerous remains of human activity dating back to the Upper Paleolithic (in Drenthe, Overijssel, etc.). Starting from the second millennium a. C., due to its position of convergence within Europe, the cultural contributions that the country received were different: they came… Read More »
Guadeloupe: how to get there Airplane: the national airline in Guadeloupe is Air Caraibes. It flies between Guadeloupe and Cayenne (French Guyana), Fort-de-France (Martinique), Panama City (Panama), Paris (France), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Saint-Barthélemy and Sint Maarten. From Europe there are flights with Air France (departure airport Paris, also connections to Miami, Fort-de-France and Cayenne) and Corsair (Paris, Lyon, Brest… Read More »
It’s hard to hear anything under the beautifully decorated arches: high-waisted waitresses slam heavy glasses and mugs on the long tables and men in lederhosen suddenly put the alpha horn in front of their mouths and make the guests sing along in common singing. The old historic brewery Hofbräuhaus am Platzl in the heart of… Read More »
Sierra Leone, officially English Republic of Sierra Leone [r ɪ p ʌ bl ɪ k əv s ɪ erə l ɪ ə ʊ n (ɪ)], German Republic of Sierra Leone country in West Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, with (2019) 7.8 million residents – see ejinhua; The capital is Freetown. Politics Since 1961, an independent… Read More »
Transfer of accommodation and flight details Before entering the USA, the first address in the USA must be given, which is normally a hotel. If you fail to provide this address, you may be refused entry. Airlines flying to the USA are required by law to give the US border protection authorities access to all… Read More »
Airplane: When time is tight, air connections are your best bet. The domestic flight system is extensive and reliable, dozens of companies compete with each other, there are hundreds of airports and thousands of flights. Flying is usually more expensive than traveling by bus, train, or car, but it is much faster. The main airports… Read More »
The United States is a country that attracts millions of tourists annually. There are a large number of different sights and attractions here. Since there are such a large number here, you would have to write a whole book to list all the sights in the country. So just a brief top ten of the… Read More »
According to TIMEDICTIONARY.COM, the USA is divided into several natural regions: Atlantic coastal plain On the Atlantic coast, especially on the Florida peninsula and on the Gulf of Mexico, there is a flat plain with numerous large cities: on the Atlantic New York City and Boston, on the Chesapeake Bay Washington, in the southern states… Read More »
In March 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) found former Vice President Bemba guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentenced him to 18 years in prison in June 2016. In the same year a domestic political conflict escalated over the scheduling of the constitutional parliamentary and presidential elections. In September 2016, the… Read More »
In 1994 the radical Islamic Pashtun Taliban (“religion students”), supported mainly by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, intervened as a new military and political force in the Afghan civil war. The expansion of the Taliban also accommodated the strategic interests of various oil companies (e.g. the American Union Oil Company of California [Unocal], the Argentine Bridas… Read More »
6: The French intervention According to THEMEPARKTOUR.COM, ECOWA’s intervention in Mali was scheduled to take place in early September 2013 – for several reasons. They wanted to secure international financial support. They wanted a political process with Ansar to split them from AQIM and MOJWA , and they also needed a government partner in Bamako… Read More »
For a period, a security vacuum arose with looting, murder, rape of residents on mass flight. Three different Islamist groups therefore moved into this space of power and created a certain form of order, but also a strictly Islamic rule without roots in local religious traditions. This was the situation until the rebels again moved… Read More »
The terrorist attack on the gas plant in In Aménas in Algeria ended in tragedy. The plant was operated by the Norwegian company Statoil and British BP together with the state-owned Algerian company Sonatrach. 800−900 people worked at the plant, and they came from a number of countries. Among the hostages killed, we find people… Read More »
8: Central Asian IS fighters About. 4,000 Central Asian foreign fighters are in Syria. Many are part of IS, but most will be with the Nusra Front (now: Al Sham, which seems to distance itself somewhat from Al Qaeda ). A few Central Asians are also in Chechen groups. Although the tendency is to cut… Read More »
5: Radicalization of Chechen separatists Most Russian foreign fighters in Syria come from Chechnya and Dagestan in the North Caucasus. Rebels in Chechnya have been aiming for independence from Russia since 1991, much to the concern of the central government in Moscow. The first Chechen war (1994–1996) ended with the Russian authorities withdrawing troops and… Read More »
In January 2017, Turkish authorities arrested a man from Uzbekistan. He was a member of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and is now suspected of having carried out the terrorist attack that killed 39 people at a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve . The suicide bombers who blew themselves up at Istanbul’s… Read More »