Four Enchanted Places You Lot Should View Correct Now

1) Chefchaouen

Believe me when I tell that I dearest Morocco, but I must recognize that inwards large cities similar Fez or Marrakesh y'all tin forcefulness out easily experience overwhelmed. The rigid smells as well as the chaos of the medina, the touts, or simply the amount of people walking downwardly the street tin forcefulness out brand y'all feel like you've already had plenty of this country. In that instance a practiced idea is to pass a few days inwards Chefchaouen, a modest placidity town nestled in the hills of northern Morocco.

A placidity street inwards the medina

There I exactly walked around, taking ridiculously gorgeous pictures, as well as shopping for Moroccan slippers or scarfs without feeling the describe per unit of measurement area of the vendors inwards bigger towns. The walls of the medina are painted a deep bluish as well as fifty-fifty the doors, the rock stairs as well as the slice of furniture are oft blue. 

Men habiliment the traditional djellaba as well as expect similar mysterious wizards, equally if they were the final of a disappearing population of magical beings. In Chefchaouen I constitute people to hold out extremely welcoming as well as I appreciated the fact that children could play happily on the placidity streets as well as modest squares. 

Add that to the fact that at that topographic point are corking hiking possibilities all closed to as well as y'all accept your perfect Moroccan getaway from the bustling urban essence life of Moroccan cities.

Read to a greater extent than most Chefchaouen inwards this post service from Apr 2015.


2) Bled

Did y'all always wonder what the house where Snow White as well as Prince Charming come upwards from mightiness expect like? I mean value it must expect similar Bled.

Lake Bled

If you've never heard of this lake, perchance it's because it is found in a tiny as well as relatively unknown European province called Slovenia. Other than beingness the birthplace of Melania Trump, this Alpine province is piffling known. In a novel past times Paulo Coelho a librarian from the working capital alphabetic quality Ljubljiana decides to commit suicide afterward reading an article inwards a journal most her country, making people believe that she did it because people don't fifty-fifty know where Slovenia is.

Lake Bled seen from the castle

I accept a conception to catch Bled inwards every season: inwards wintertime alongside snow, inwards tumble alongside xanthous leaves as well as inwards saltation alongside flowers inwards bloom. I accept already been in the summer and it is gorgeous: I cannot mean value of a ameliorate province than Slovenia to breathe some fresh air as well as residual your eyes alongside a palette of colours unlike that of whatsoever other country.

Read to a greater extent than most Bled as well as Slovenia inwards this post, which is genuinely the starting fourth dimension 1 I wrote on this blog.

3) Sintra

In "Journey to Portugal" Saramago described this modest town a few kilometers from Lisbon: equally an "English folly, paid for past times the stuff merchandise ...  a monument to an historic menses that had every gustation imaginable, but never genuinely defined whatsoever of them ....  eclectic to the betoken of eccentricity .... As empires dominated the Blue Planet economically, they amused themselves alongside alien cultures". 

Palacio da Pena

Sintra resembles the dream of a manlike somebody monarch that went slightly mad  at the terminate of his life.  Several regal palaces point the hilly landscape, each 1 slightly crazier than the other. Some elements are Gothic, others call dorsum to traditional Muslim architecture, or to the Portuguese Manueline style. As if this wasn't enough, mysterious gargoyles expect at y'all from weird angles.



Palacio da Pena

The most charming palace according to me is Quinta da Regaleira, especially the Gothic-style gardens. I spent a duo of hours exploring the grottoes, the statues as well as the ponds, wondering what the upside-down staircase mightiness hateful as well as feeling that every pinnacle as well as gargoyle has a hugger-mugger to reveal.

The gardens of Quinta da Regaleira

If palaces are non your matter inwards the modest town the charming yellow-trimmed houses are a pleasance for the eyes, as well as the streets acquit the names of the writers as well as artists who tread as well as wrote most this place, including Lord Byron. 

Read to a greater extent than most my trip to Sintra inwards Dec 2015 here.


4) Ait-Benhaddou

I know, I'm listing Kingdom of Morocco twice inwards this list, but it's simply because that province of djinns is literally bewitching. Moreover Ait-Benhaddou is 1 of the most incredible places I accept been to.

Ait Benhaddou

You may accept seen it equally the location for countless movies as well as TV shows, including equally Yunkai inwards Game of Thrones. It is unremarkably portrayed equally a urban essence made of sand that appears similar a mirage inwards the middle of the desert. And that is genuinely what it is: a peculiarly good-looking ksar that is non completely abandoned as well as that is at the border of the desert. The Touareg guides inwards bluish turbans Pb the agency into a magic world, where y'all may abide by anything from Ali Baba's light to an ancient amulet.

A berber direct inwards Ait Benhaddou

This was 1 of the highlights of my trip to Morocco. It is a perfect halt on the agency to the Sahara desert as well as it is a practiced chance to larn most the ancient merchandise routes that locomote past times through this job of the world.

Souvenirs inwards Ait Benhaddou

Read most my trip to the Sahara desert here.

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