Chichen Itza is one of the world’s seven wonders. Some stories behind this place are hard to imagine, such as the belief that the loosers of a popular ball game, pok ta pok, were sacrifized to gods. Walking around the ballcourt, it is equally hard to imagine how the Maya managed to get the...
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Mexico has A LOT of pyramids, but the settings are different each time. We both found the ancien Maya site of Palenque to be the most beautiful one, as it stands in the middle of a jungle. Within an hour’s drive from Palenque there are some beautiful waterfalls, Agua Azul. Due to a chemical...
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After Mexico city, we went to Oaxaca, our favourite city in Mexico. We enjoyed the zocala, the numerous paved streets hidden everywhere in the city and of course, the visit to Monte Alban, an archeological site situated on the hills around Oaxaca.
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After a few days in Warsaw, Antoni and I took a night bus to Lviv, one of the biggest cities in the Ukrainian Carpathians. As in Asia, it was quite impossible to sleep more than 15 minutes in the bus so i was completely tired when we arrived to Ukraine. It didn’t change my...
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Discover our first pictures from Mexico. Before visiting other parts of the country, we spent a few days in the capital, Mexico City. We used this time to visit the « Zocalo », its historical center, the Archeological museum, Frida Kahlo’s house, the biggest stadium in the world and the archeological site of Teotihuacan and its...
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The last stop of our road trip through the south of the United States led us to Los Angeles, its Hollywood Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Venice Beach, Mullholand Drive and The Universal Studios. Discover our pictures of the City of Angels, the land of stars in America.
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During our road trip in the U.S., we visited Phoenix and San Diego, two cities in the south of the country, near the Mexican boarder.
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Probably the most famous road in the world, The U.S. route 66, also called « Mother Road » or « Main Street of America », doesn’t officially exist anymore. But some portions of the road are still there, such the one we found in California.
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The Monument Valley is the third among four National Parks we visited during our road trip (After the Yosemite, the Death Valley and before the grand Canyon). The particularity of The Monument Valley is that you don’t have so many things to do there, except horse riding, hiking or admiring the amazing beauty of...
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Kilometers and kilometers of road surrounded by the desert without seeing anyone… We are talking about the Death Valley. Second among the four National Parks we visited during our road trip (After the Yosemite, and before the Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon). Discover the pictures of our trip in the Death Valley, a...
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