Morgan's Rock...a barefoot luxury

I got impressed about this beautiful and quiet destination within Nicaragua's deep woods.

Morgan's Rock is an Hacienda & Ecolodge destination strategically located on the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua, built by the Ponçon, a french family engaged with nature's conservation.

It was opened barely two years ago. 1,800 hectares of tropical woods surround this breathtaking paradise. Morgan's Rock is specially designed in different levels to feast your eyes, starting with the lobby on top, to restaurant; from restaurant to pool, from pool to beach. It's decorated with the same range of colors and materials like: palms, rocks, clay, mud, and the most relevant, precious wood of tropical forest: Almond, mahogany, cedar, eucalyptus, guapinol, laurel and walnut… beautiful sounding Spanish names that have been worked into the structure of the Morgan’s Rock’s bungalows. The latter are all tropical woods that were used to build the fifteen bungalows at Morgan’s Rock Hacienda and Ecolodge. All proceed from responsibly managed logging sources or tree farming projects in Nicaragua, ensuring artistic yet ecologically responsible built bungalows.

(This is a 90 meters-lenght hanging bridge used to connect lobby and the restaurant among deep woods.)

Indeed, Morgan's Rock it´s the first upscale beach hotel offering a wide variety of tourism activities ranging ecotourism such as guided hikes or horseback riding excursions to agrotourism activities such as learning about reforestation. Likewise, the Hacienda and private nature reserve offers an abundance of different trees, plants, birds, insects and mammals. All of the guided tours support local community members and help the conservation of the forest and the acquisition of more land to be conserved and reforested.

So, if you are interested in going there, Morgan´s Rock has a variety of packages for lodging with them, like a familiar tour, or a honeymoon lodge. Keep in mind this ecotouristic destination, and remember that ecotourism is such a trend followed by responsible and nature's respecful travelers nowadays.

I'll provide you the contact ways if you are interested about it:

The main office it's located in San Jose, Costa Rica and the phone number is: 011 (506) 232-6449

Otherwise, the e-mail is: info@morgansrock.com

Scandinavia...Europe's unexplored beauty

This awesome region takes places in the two countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula, Norway and Sweden, plus Denmark, even though, some people include Finland and Iceland as part of this region arguing that these 5 countries speak Germanic languages.

Furthermore, Scandinavian countries share many similarities, but they are enough different to make a visit to each of them an unique experience. So, keep in mind these beatiful cities: Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki, Finland and Copenhague, Denmark. All of them are outlined for vikings.

Stockholm, Sweden

Now, I'm going to talk about this city, known as "city between the Bridges". It´s perfectly located among the Baltic Sea and one of the biggest lakes of Sweden, called Malaren, providing unique landscapes of this part of Europe. Regardless this city is a grouping of islands united by bridges, it's easy to move in it, mentioning that you can visit Stockholm downtown quietly on foot.

Where to lodge

There's a luxury hotel, called: Grand Hôtel across from the Stockholm's Royal Palace. The list of VIP guests includes: Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Gerald Ford and Bruce Springsteen.

Take a walk

Get a free city map at the main tourism office in downtown, and start exploring Gamla Stan (photo above), the oldest area of Stockholm, built in the 13th century. The Stockholm's Royal Palace, built in the 18th century, it's just here.

Snack time

Go to Sundbergs Konditori, the oldest coffee shop of the city, within Jarntorget Plaza in Gamla Stan. Taste a salmon bagel (about 7.5 american dollars) or a delicious prawn in rye bread (langostino en pan de centeno, for about 9.8 dollars).

An appetizer

Visit the Opera House bar, where in fashion people is joint. A glass of wine costs a small fortune, it's about 10 dollars, but it's funny to be seated on white leather chairs among the Stockholm's jet set.

Have dinner

Prinsen it's a popular restaurant of swedish cuisine with art decó decoration, where you can eat cheese sardines for 23 dollars or meat balls with wild berries for 22 dollars. Otherwise, you can ask for a typical plate, which is called: smörgasbord, meaning "bread and butter" consisting in an exotic array of herring, shrimp, pickles, salads, cold cuts and hot dishes. (yummy ,yummy!!)

A cultural afternoon

Skeppsholmen, one of the most prettiest islands of Stockholm holds the Modern Art Museum and the Architectonic Museum aside.

Delight your eyes

Go to Slussen, at Gamla Stan south, where the elevator Katarinahissen will take you to the top of this tower, to Gondola's coffee, up there, you can enjoy a hot cappuccino while observing all the city.

Go shopping

Ahlens is a huge departamental store, offering the best prices in items for home. Likewise, if you are looking for brand names apparel, visit Le Shop. But if what you are looking for is swedish designer clothes, you must go to Neu.

A must spot

Over the Northeast Djurgarden is located the impressing museum Vasa, where you'll find the boat Vasa, which was built in 1628 but it sank during its first trip; after that, it was taken to the surface and repared in 70's decade. Now, you can walk through this art treasure from 18th century. The museum opens from 10am to 5 pm daily, the ticket price it's about 11 dollars.

Finally, as you can notice, Sweden is an expensive country for tourism, but I assure you, it would be an unforgettable experience, so save your money and go right there. See you until then!!!

Sightseeing at...Romania

First of all, thank you for joining me at this blog, let me confess you that I am pretty interested in Tourism as a whole. I decided to start with this country, cause I've just received some stuff about Romania, so that I am going to share it with you.
(Below, you can see the Romanian Black Sea shore )

Romania is an independent country, whose capital is Bucharest. It's located between Greece and Turkish, in Europe... But, what travel guides say about Romania? And, why should you go to Romania? The correct answer is because it is one of the most beautiful countries of Southeast Europe. According to the Blue Guide, "Few regions offer a more dazzling display of cultural and artistic treasures than Romania", now let´s check this sentence : Considered by many, the most beautiful country in Eastern-Europe, Romania still claims regions that seem bastions of a medieval past long since lost elsewhere. (Can you get that?) Which means that Romania keeps its culture undamaged!

Adding to this paragraph, it's important to mention that Romania has majestic castles, medieval towns, great hiking and wildlife. So, this country offers a rich tapestry of tourism attractions and vacation experiences unique in Central - Eastern Europe.

Finally, no journey to Eastern Europe would be complete without visiting Romania and its landscapes!!!