Valentia Island, under the lucky star of the west (Ireland)

- 30°C at Havre-Saint-Pierre (Canada)
Some waves with thousand lines, frozen in motion, some fisherboats rooted in the ice... The Saint-Laurent offers a surprising background each wintertime. In Havre-Saint-Pierre, bordering the estuary, the petrified giant is even more impressing...
Abitibi (Canada)
After the "gold fever" which happened in the area at the beginning of the century, the Abitibi seems sleping under a thick lay of snow. But it is underground in the producting mines that the locals are working...
Along the Lot (France)
With a long story, a river which the locals always knew to live in harmony with. To cast off is enough to become mariner, captain and lock keeper...
Amazonia, about garden... (Colombia)
The immobile jungle, noisy. Gigantic and meandering rivers. Lakes without banks... Far from being the green hell of explorers of yesteryears, the colombian Amazonia arouses unreservedly admiration...
Arequipa, a white city of volcanic stone (Peru)
The whiteness of the stones is a fundamental trait of the architecture of Arequipa, giving rise to the sobriquet "white city"...
Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)
It was "The queen of the Indies". and today is the most fascinating baroque city of Colombia. Cartagena has kept its majestic architecture which still reminds the Eldorado myth ...
Machu Picchu (Peru)
It was a religious centre with over 200 buildings of carved stone and its architecture is admirably blended into the landscape...
Mahdia, the wonder of a city (Tunisia)
Is it the sea, omnipresent around the peninsula, or its inhabitants, fishermen, wavers, jewellers, owner of an ancestral art ? No one would escape the fascinating power of Mahdia...
Matsue, in the heart of japanese legends (Japan)
A charming little city situated between the lake Shinji and the lagoon Nakaumi, Matsue covers a fortress castle from the XVIIth century where the irish-greek writer Lafcadio Hearn took refuge...
Medieval Troyes (France)
The city of Troyes has hundreds of timber framing houses dating from the Middle Age. A unique architectural patrimony all over the world...
Montreal, cosmopolitan and polyglot (Canada)
Bringing importance to its history, Montreal is proud of its identity. It is also a north-american metropole turned to the future...
Mount Aso, land of fire and delights (Japan)
Biggest active volcano in the world, the mount Aso, on the island of Kyushu holds five peaks among them, the formidable Nakadake, with its benefactor hotsprings...
Providence Island (Colombia)
Away from any colombian coast, nested in its treasures, Providence Island watches over its patrimony. It keeps traditions while opening the door to modernity...
Quebec in wintertime (Canada)
If the climate is hard, wintertime is therefore the best season to discover the "Belle Province". Covered all over with snow, Quebec keeps then its vast spaces to nature and silence lovers...
Sunrise on the Rigi (Switzerland)
In summer, watching the Mount Rigi at dawn is unforgettable. The sun glitters, the horns blow and some cows for a short time stop grazing the rich pastures of the alpage and listen...
Swakopmund, a city isolated by sands (Namibia)
It reminds a pionner city with a “western atlantic” style. Therefore, it is the favorite seaside resort for the high social class of Windhoek, the namibian capital...
The andalousian road (Tunisia)
Expulsed from Spain at the end of the XVIth century, the muslims got back to the land left before. Many of them settled down on the tunisian coast, recreating a refined world, impregnated with both cultures...
The forgotten gods of San Agustin (Colombia)
Some three hundred enormous sculptures stand in the heart of the Andes. Remnants of a precolumbian civilization, they are now classified in the World Heritage List of UNESCO...
The romantic Bern (Switzerland)
It is not by chance if Bern is inscribed in the World Heritage List of UNESCO : the charm of its historical center has equal only splendor of the alpine decoration which surrounds it. Visit of a capital with a human size...
Valentia Island, under the lucky star of the west (Ireland)
First relay of communication between America and the Old continent, Valentia benefits of all the favors according to its strategic geographical position : "the most western inhabited island of Europe"...

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