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When Nature Meets Architecture

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by OpenMint.net | on February 2nd, 2012 | 0 comments

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They say Rome is city of eternity, New York is, and will always be, New York, and Paris is, well romantic. But the city break of the year, this year is Vienna. The Austrian capital is in fact one of the most vital, vibrant and cultured cities in Europe. And if this wasn’t enough this is the year in which the 15oth anniversaty of the birth of Gustav Klimt is marked. Vienna is not just museums though, as the city is also ...

Top Eco Resort Holidays 2012

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by OpenMint.net | on January 4th, 2012 | 1 comment

Ouch. You, too? Everyone back from the Christmas holidays is already in need for a detox vacation. Swap the spinning class for a tour of Tuscany with a bicycle – you’ll find pasta and vino is an excellent incentive for peddling up hills. Here are two links that can help you organize your trip to the country that makes people dream.. Italy that is! Casina di Rosa - a vacation rental in Tuscany and a wonderful opportunity for the independent traveller seeking privacy ...

Eco Lodge Concept Costa Rica

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by OpenMint.net | on October 31st, 2011 | 0 comments

How many times a week, do you dream of escaping to a tropical island and recharge away from the busy city life and the buzz of modern life? Ever thought about Costa Rica? Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east. In Spanish, Costa Rica, means “Rich Coast”, and besides being famous for having abolished its army permanently in 1949, ...

Experience untouched nature

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by Natura | on June 8th, 2011 | 0 comments

King Pacific Lodge is a luxurious eco lodge known for their commitment to sustainable tourism. It has been the first eco friendly resort in North America to commit to minimise the carbon footprint and every year they commit to minimise it more. Also, they commit to a 50 per cent discount to any guest who receives all vacation information paper free. But not only Kind Pacific Lodge is fantastic for its eco initiatives but the ...

Sustainable Tourism

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by Natura | on June 7th, 2011 | 0 comments

Green Tourism Week has started yesterday and will run till 12th June, it is an initiative launched by the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) in UK. There will be a lot of events during this week in England and an award ceremony on the 9th June in London celebrating green tourism. The website Green Tourism Week show us 50 green things to do during this week in order to save resources at home ...

Eco lodge in India

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by Natura | on June 4th, 2011 | 0 comments

The Sarai at Toria is a new eco-lodge in India, 400 miles east of Delhi and near the tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh. The owners have a passion of wildlife conservation, Joanna Van Gruisen, a wildlife photographer and Ragundandan Singh Chundawat, biologist specilised in snow leopards and tigers. This eco-lodge is located in an unspoilt countryside beside a small forest and the river Ken. So if you go there you will be surrounded by nature. Some of ...

Best US beaches in 2011

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by Natura | on May 28th, 2011 | 0 comments

Livescience has published on May 27th, the 10 US beaches in 2011. In the top of the list we find Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Florida. It is not surprising since it was already beach number two in 2010 and because it is the beach with the whitest sand in the world. It is a also place with a pleasant temperature clean and blue water, with small waves and a gently sloping in the Gulf waters, which makes ...

Natural dwelling: The Sassi of Matera

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by Natura | on May 22nd, 2011 | 0 comments

Would you like to visit an intact settlement of the Neanderthal period? In the town of Matera, you can find what it is called “Sassi” which are the caves made in the mountains where people live. These rock cut structures have been the settlement of human beings in the Paleolithic period and are still the house of some inhabitants at the city of Matera, an example of how over the years the natural environment has remain unchanged. It is also ...

Eco-experience: The Bosque village in Mexico

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by Natura | on April 25th, 2011 | 2 comments

The Bosque Village is an eco-tourist dream. It is a combination of camping, artistic retreat centre, permaculture farm and eco villages that give courses as well. It works sustainably without modifying the ecosystem and without the facilities of the city: they use rain water for most of its water needs, except for drinking, solar power or composting toilets. It is a living green place with outdoors entertainment, personal development and creative activities. It is located in a remote ...

Wwoofing: escape the stresses of urban living

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by Natura | on April 23rd, 2011 | 0 comments

Would you like to learn how an organic farm works? Would you like to have an organic farm and you do not know where to acquire all the knowledge? or you just would like to have different holidays? Now you can do it with WWOOF. World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms is a worldwide organisation for volunteers to work on organic farms in exchange for room and board. The duration can be from 4 weeks up to 6 ...

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