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Of course, modern breakfasts in many countries look like coffee, coffee again, a sandwich or a sweet bun. However, if you get the chance to try a traditional breakfast - agree without hesitation!

1. Hello sweet tooth! The Swedish breakfast often includes a pancake known as Pannkakor. For complete beauty served with jam.



2. Breakfast in Cambodia - Kuy Teav - rice soup with noodles, meat and vegetables



3. For breakfast, the Frenchman usually has tea or coffee, juice, hot chocolate and muffin, a lot of muffin - “eat these soft French rolls”.



4. In Lebanon, it is customary to have Manakish breakfast - tortillas with spices, cheese and tomatoes.



5. Japanese breakfast is of two types: Wafuu (traditional) or Youfuu (western). The first usually includes rice, fish, miso soup, beans and seaweed. Second: toast, eggs, coffee and potato salad.



6. In Brazil, they prefer "cheese bread" for breakfast - you’ll just lick your fingers!



7. In Poland, a frying pan is “baked” in the morning - a traditional omelet with sausage is prepared there



8. A breakfast common in southern India includes idli and sambar, vegetable stew with lentils and rice bread. Many also have breakfast dosa, crispy pancakes with spicy potato filling.



9. Philippine breakfast includes rice with dried meat and scrambled eggs or sausages longganisa. And often a lot of local fruits.



10. Turkish breakfast consists of omelet, cheese, olives, honey, jam, bread and fruit.



11. The basis of a nutritious breakfast in Venezuela is arepa, thick corn tortillas stuffed with vegetables, ham, chicken or fish.



12. Nihari - this is the name of a typical breakfast in Pakistan. This is a spicy meat served with naan cakes.



13. A popular breakfast in Israel is called Shakshuka - eggs "drowned" in tomato sauce.



14. Typical Italian breakfast - a lot of coffee with milk and fresh bread. What else is needed for happiness?



15. Famous American breakfast - homemade pancakes with blueberry syrup with the addition of several slices of bacon.

Exotic Australia is curious and seduces adventure seekers. This is a distant and mysterious world where everything is different. No, they don’t go upside down here, but the New Year is celebrated in the summer on the beach, it’s not people who are fighting in the street, but kangaroos, lizards grow to the size of an adult man, and in the morning you are awakened not by a rooster, but by the laughter of a little kookabur bird.

1. See the dawn and sunset over the sacred mountain of Uluru

Uluru or Ayers Rock is a monolithic chameleon rock. During sunrise and sunset, its color changes from red and orange to purple and dark brown. The rock stands in the middle of the Australian desert, as flat as a table, which only adds to its mystery: it is hard to imagine how such a giant could appear in the middle of nothing. Someone said that it was a huge meteorite that fell on the plain thousands of years ago, and someone - that this was the work of the ancient giants. The mystical version of the origin of Ulur is believed by the local Anang tribes, who consider the rock sacred. They treat her like a nurse, because for many years the local caves served as their refuge - this is evidenced by the petroglyphs depicted at the foot of the mountain.

2. Pet kangaroos and koalas, as well as meet the echidna, platypus, wombat, dingo, kwokku, emu, cockatoo and Tasmanian devil

80% of animals in Australia are endemic, they are found only in this country. The most famous are sleeping koalas and pugnacious kangaroos sleeping in an embrace with eucalyptus. To see the first, you need to go to a koala park or reserve, for example, in Lone Pine Koala, where at the same time you can walk among other "Australians" - echidnas, emu and wombats. It is not difficult to get acquainted with the kangaroo: in Australia, these animals are twice as many as people. You can meet them even with a neighbor in the garden! But if you want to play it safe - for new friends to you on the island of Kangaroo.

3. Drive a car along the Great Ocean Road

Imagine a road along the ocean, embracing rocks from all sides and passing through rainforests. Built by soldiers who returned after World War I in memory of their fallen comrades, the Great Ocean Road is the best way to get to know the nature of the south-west of the country. Breathtaking views, wild beaches, surfing at sunset, walking through the bush to hidden waterfalls and cycling along the ocean - such a road trip can only be in Australia!

4. Swim with the inhabitants of the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, which, unfortunately, may disappear by the end of this century. This is a mandatory item in the program of all followers of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and diving and snorkeling are just some of the ways to get acquainted with this natural miracle. Fishing, boat trips and cruises are suitable for those who are not interested in diving (but at least snorkel!), And diving safaris with sharks - for thrill-seekers.

5. Try the wine that Dom Perignon himself envies

Wine appeared in Australia immediately after the arrival of the First Fleet with immigrants in 1788. Since then, Australians planted more than 100 types of grapes in 65 wine regions and earned an honorable place in the top ten recognized producers in the wine market. Gourmets and simply wine lovers must visit the valleys of Barossa, Hunter and Yarra, where they enjoy the best varieties of Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Merlot, Semillon and Pinot Noir.

6. Get into the "eternal" summer

On the east coast of Australia from Melbourne to Cairns, from 340 to 360 sunny days a year!

See how artist Rich McCor from London changed his mind about travel photography. Cardboard figures, a little imagination, a good angle ... and a new original picture is ready!

Human civilization, originating somewhere in the heart of Africa, slowly spread over the Earth over several millennia, destroying the natural primordial nature of our planet. New Zealand is the last place Homo Sapiens got to and didn't manage to spoil anything! And now it’s not going to, because the 21st century is in the yard, and ecology rules the civilized world. In this article, we suggest that we go with us to a distant archipelago and explore all the most unusual and fascinating, which appeared before the eyes of researchers travelers only in the last couple of centuries.

Heat of the earth

After the catastrophic eruption that occurred 220 thousand years ago, the Rotorua caldera remained on the North Island of New Zealand. This is an almost round spot with a radius of 11 kilometers. The smell of sulfur is the first thing that will herald you of approaching the caldera. Inside it you can observe more than six dozen geysers and countless boiling puddles rich in minerals, as well as gurgling sources of bubbling mud and vaporizing cracks in the ground. Around all this, spa complexes are now rebuilt. By the way, the most powerful and tallest geyser on Earth, in the entire history of recorded observation, beat up only ten kilometers southeast of Rotorua, in the Waimangu region. In 1902, in one eruption, he raised up to 800 tons of water to a record 450 meters, but already in 1904 ceased operations.

Fjords of the southernmost seas

As if collecting the best from all over the planet, the nature of New Zealand will show its guests samples of the fjords, the most famous of which is Milford Sound, which regularly takes cruises. Overboard you can watch an unimaginable collage of white water cascades, green cliffs, tall peaks and dark cobalt waters, accompanied by flocks of dolphins and fur seals basking on the rocks. Even the rains here are a joy, because they transform everything around. The slopes protruding above the fjord at these moments are covered with hundreds of temporary waterfalls, and the surrounding peaks of one and a half kilometer height slowly open through the shimmering layers of rainfall. Having once visited Rudyard Kipling, it was not in vain that he dubbed the area the Eighth Wonder of the World. And by the way, this is where one of the most beautiful trekking, that is, hiking trails in the world takes place! The famous Milford track. However, you can’t just fly to New Zealand and immediately go to this track. All routes and shelters here are booked for six months in advance! It’s not possible to get in: environmental organizations strictly restrict access. However, a five-day itinerary is pre-booked for the Travel Club Expedition. And by the way, our group will spend the night not in ordinary huts, but in much more comfortable rooms with double occupancy, plus three meals a day on the entire route. Maximum comfort.

Magic dungeons

Is it possible to fly to New Zealand and end up in space? Easily! It is only necessary to go by boat to the underground kingdom - Waitomo cave complex on the North Island. The boat, quietly gliding along the surface of the water, appears under the ceiling, dotted with myriads of luminous points. This is Arachnocampa Luminosa - fireflies that try to attract insects in this way. The brighter the firefly star shines, the more hungry it is. Do you remember that in the open space of space, in a vacuum, there are no sounds, only absolute silence ?! It’s the same in Waitomo’s dungeons: if tourists start to sparkle with their lanterns, make noise and vigorously admire, the illusion of “travel between the stars” immediately disappears. The components of natural underground illumination are frightened by external stimuli and lose their luminescent properties.

Heart of mordor

The Tongariro National Park is located in the very center of the North Island, the tracking in which confidently holds the status of one of the best day-long walking trips in the world. The alien landscape of the highlands is diluted with three breathing and smoldering volcanoes. When the clouds scatter, glimmer of emerald lakes and the vast Central Plateau to the very limits of the horizon appear to the traveler. This place is frightening and mesmerizing at the same time, just like Mordor, in whose role Tongariro starred in the trilogy The Lord of the Rings.

Giant toys

A tiny fishing village and a former whaling station on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand bears the name Moeraki, which means “place for daytime sleep” and gives a complete picture of the pace of life in the vicinity. But here one of the secrets of the universe lurks, attracting a variety of specialists from geologists to ufologists. It seems that on a beautiful sandy beach near the village, a giant kid was having fun and left his toys in the sand. For 300 meters, perfectly round stone balls are scattered, with a diameter from half a meter to two and a few meters. Many of them are covered with cracks and green algae like a bloom of antiquity. Some are even broken. Who, when and why created them? Or is it the result of natural processes? Unclear. It is only clear that a visit to this beach is best planned at low tide, and even better at sunrise.

Chronicles of Moving Cities

Glaciers always ran down the gorges from high mountains. And the closer the mountains to the poles, the lower the glaciation zone begins above sea level. New Zealand is one of the southernmost and closest countries to Antarctica, therefore, here, at an altitude of only 240 meters above sea level, you can touch, touch and take a walk on a real mountain glacier, framed by a humid forest. Bulky and sparkling ice bridges, arches, pedestals and entire miraculous palaces slowly crawling down, obeying the laws of gravity and thermodynamics. Slowly - it is up to 2 centimeters per day, which is actually very fast for glaciology, and by this indicator turns the New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier into a world record among glaciers. And, even if on the map you see the name of the Austrian emperor as a name, local Aborigines tell a touching legend about the girl Hinehukateré, who adored walks through forests and mountains. Once she called with her lover, but he died under a landslide, and the glacier is a girl’s tears frozen in boundless mountain.

Residents of the country of the Great White Cloud

It’s time to tell about the aborigines who live not in New Zealand, but in the country of the Big White Cloud, as they call it. For the first time (according to archaeologists), they landed here from their canoes somewhere in the 13-14 centuries. Europeans, however, arrived in such a way as to thoroughly, only at the end of the 18th-beginning of the 19th centuries. Moreover, to the extreme opposite of neighboring Australia, it is always noted that these were not convicts. A clash between the two worlds could ruin the natives, but in the 19th century the British already thought less in terms of slavery and profit. Yes, and not the one attacked, the true legends go about the militancy of the Maori. Two completely different cultures mutually enriched themselves, while the lifestyle, traditions, and the most spectacular - Maori dances and tattoos - have survived to this day. On our expedition, we will talk with the elders of the tribe, prepare traditional hangi in the land, and, of course, we will dance the hack. A ritual Maori martial dance designed to frighten all rivals before a fight. The planet’s strongest rugby team has contributed to the worldwide fame of this incredibly awesome dance, recitative and grimace composition.

No matter what city of Morocco you are in, you can not predict for sure what awaits around the corner: an abandoned wasteland or a luxurious riad, a herbarist shop or artisan workshop, a royal palace or a palm grove.

Even an experienced traveler will tremble when he sees Marrakesh wake up at dawn and the first rays of the sun illuminate the horizon of the Atlas Mountains. As all shades of pink creep with every minute of sunrise and gradually turn from pale to bright - terracotta. When he first gets to the old bazaar of Fez and feels a vigorous mixture of aromas of spicy spices and fresh bread, and then gets lost in six thousand labyrinth alleys of the medina - the old part of the city, built in the ninth century in Arab times. Out of habit, the crowd of the city will knock down, and from the booth of dark-skinned Moroccans he will lay his ears, but he will get used to it. You can’t get used to it.

Why go?

1. Look at the fountains framed with colorful mosaics - an echo of the Portuguese Azulejos - which had been working all over the city some ten years ago, but because of the rapid population growth (many began to move from villages to the city), Fes began to suffer from acute lack of water.


2. Learn not to miss the desired turn - the one behind which is hidden a luxurious riad, stretching over several floors. Translated from Arabic, “garden” is a traditional Moroccan house or palace with a courtyard, from where natural light penetrates into all rooms of the house. Moroccans thus “hid” privacy from prying eyes.

3. See how city minarets turn into anthills. Five times a day, the herald muezzin calls on all the inhabitants of the city to pray: whether you are in at least Fez, even in Marrakesh, even in Casablanca or any other city in Morocco - prayer yells at the loudspeakers that are placed around the perimeter of the medina. An unprepared traveler will flinch from surprise, and more than once. As for the pilgrimage, then everything is prosaic. At the same time, everyone is ringing a phone with a reminder, in case they haven’t heard the call: so that there is enough time to wash, change clothes, and put everything in order.


4. Surprise incomprehensible. In order to photograph a person, you need to ask him for permission. Sometimes you can also buy coffee or give some amount of money. When asked whether this habit is associated with superstition, opinions diverged. Someone says, locals believe that the evil eye awaits them, and someone just does not want to "wander" through the expanses of social networks. Like, this is my personal space, please, do not violate it.

5. Find out what truly gastronomic delight is. Friday family couscous is a holy tradition for every family. Not only is this an occasion for everyone to get together and discuss what happened to someone over the week, but also to cook dinner together. And couscous is not just cereals cooked in one way or another. This is a full hearty dish - with vegetables, meat, seafood - for every taste. But not one couscous: Morocco is famous for tajine - made from meat or chicken, and fish in honey sauce with dried apricots, and numerous salad sets for every taste (from baked peppers to spicy pumpkin) and, of course, desserts.


6. Try to stay on your feet at the conditional intersections of Marrakech, since there are no traffic lights and pedestrian crossings in the center, and go ahead, despite the fact that cars and mopeds are rushing from all sides. And to accept that the Russian arrogant “where you go” is just an ordinary show off, in which there is no sense. To stop the endless stream, you need to raise your hand and quickly and quickly cross the road. There is still an option to wear a suit. Yes, yes, in this case, the Moroccan at the wheel will worry: they say, are you a cop? Better to give in.

7. Look in the herbarist's shop and try healing tea: perhaps green with spices, and possibly with the addition of other secret ingredients. In any case, only the owner of the shop will know the recipe and, of course, wink conspiratorially. Like, how are you?


8. And, finally, to find out a fact that may not be useful in life, but the piggy bank of memories will be replenished. After all, the oldest university in the world is not Oxford and not the Sorbonne, but Al-Karaouin, located in Fes al-Bali.