curly treasures
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Trust me, it’s paradise… this is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome.
Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.”
Alex Garland
“you hope and you dream but you never believe that something is going to happen for you, not like it does in the movies, and when it actually does, you expect it to feel different, more visceral, more real… i was waiting for it to hit me…
… i still believe in paradise, but now at least i know it’s not some place you can look for,cause it’s not where you go, it’s how you feel for a moment in your life, and if you find that moment it lasts forever…”
Orbital & Angelo Badalamenti – Beached
…not all those who wander are lost…
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by,
…and that has made all the difference ” – Robert Frost
Sanssouci Palace | Potsdam | Germany
The Sanssouci Palace was built in a period of two years, its name is derived from a french phrase, ‘sans souci’, which means ‘without worries’. An elegant summer palace surrounded by a large park in Potsdam, near Berlin. The scenery is spectacular , with architectural treasures scattered among exquisite gardens and vineyards.
Banteay Srei | Siem Reap | Cambodia
Banteay Srei, the jewel of Angkor
A jewel of Khmer art, the most beautiful temple in the Angkor area, dedicated to hindu lord Shiva, the destroyer. Built of red sandstone, the so-called lady temple or citadel of women, mostly due to its beauty and grace or the presence of the Devatas, celestial maidens carved on the walls.
Abu Simbel | Nubia | Egypt
Abu Simbel is a 12 th century temple complex built during the reign of pharaoh Ramses II. The main temple is dedicated to king Ramses II and the smaller one to his beloved wife, queen Nefertari. The temples survived through ancient times but were threatened to submerge in the Nile, with the construction of the high dam in Aswan. With an extraordinary engineering feat they were dismantled and reassembled to higher ground.
An astonishing event occurs in the main temple during a thousand years old astronomical ceremony. At dawn of February 22 and October 22 of every year, during the solar alignment, the rays of sun enter deep into the temple sanctuary, lightening only the statues of the gods Ra-Horakhty, Amun-Ra and that of the deified king Ramses , leaving Ptah, the god of darkness and the underworld remain in the dark….
Nazca lines | Nazca | Peru
A collection of huge ancient carvings, etched in the barren Nazca desert, near the panamericana coastal road in southern Peru. Geoglyphs, simple geometric designs as trapezoids, triangles and lines of many kilometers long. Biomorphs, figures of animals and insects – a spider, the hummingbird, the monkey, the whale but also anthropoids – the ‘hands’ and of course the ‘astronaut’, can make you believe in any theory…
Amazing in symmetry and detail, a big mystery, still no one has proof of who built them and for what purpose, just speculations… A magnificent enigma, one can only appreciate flying above the desert.
Tulum ruins | Quintana Roo | Mexico
Previously known as Zamá , meaning place of the dawning sun, this walled Mayan city is built on the edge of tall cliffs overlooking the emerald waters of the Caribbean. Tulum’s spectacular coastline – with all its white sands and jade-green waters makes it one of the top beaches in Mexico. Where else can you get all that and a dramatically situated Maya ruin?