Since October 3rd was a monday as a public holiday this year, the first weekend in October was predestined for a city trip. Since we liked Stockholm so much, this time we decided on a combined trip Helsinki & Tallinn.
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Our world is so incredibly beautiful and versatile and we want to explore & experience as much of it together as possible. We are Sandra and Michael from Darmstadt – commuters between full-time jobs and 30 days of vacation per year. There is a lot of wanderlust in between. And that’s why we keep pulling out into the wide or near world. Since 2012, we have been on our smaller and larger holidays by 78 Countries On travelled to all 5 continents and blog with a lot of passion about our countless adventures and experiences in our travel blog – be it from dreamlike islands, in cities of millions, on mountain peaks, in the pure wilderness or even in the depths of the oceans. Travel is our great passion and we love to get to know and write about new countries, places and cultures.
Strasbourg – Tourist Attractions, Things to Do & Photo spots (France)
Our day trip to Strasbourg was very spontaneous: Friday was predicted in the news super weather for the whole weekend and on Sunday at 9 o’clock we sat in the car and entered Strasbourg as a destination in our navigation system. From Darmstadt, Strasbourg is only about 200 kilometres away, so it took us just under 2 hours to get to the city. And the weather forecast was also true: it was bright blue sky and the sun was already …
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We’ve been earning a long time at Miles & More. And there it is always a good time to look at the side of mileage snippets to be inspired for a weekend destination. When we saw that Stockholm was on the list, we slammed and booked for the last weekend of July.
» Read the full blog postKomodo National Park – Komodo Dragons on Rinca Island (Indonesia)
The visit of the Komodo Dragons on Rinca Island in the Komodo National Park we had prepared for the last day of our holiday, because we could not dive today anyway. Ideally, there should be 24 hours between the last dive and the flight and we always try to keep that.
» Read the full blog postFlores – Diving in the Komodo National Park (Indonesia)
Today our first two boat dives to the spots Siaba Besar & Tatawa Besar in Komodo National Park were on the program.
» Read the full blog postFlores – Diving on the house reef of Angel Island Resort (Indonesia)
For our stay at the Angel Island Eco Resort on the island Flores we had already decided in advance for a diving package, which means that we will have four diving days with 2 dives each. The advantage of the package is the slightly cheaper price, an included night dive and unlimited diving on the house reef without A Divemaster.
» Read the full blog postFlores – Angel Island Eco Resort in Labuan Bajo (Indonesia)
From the port in Labuan Bajo we were taken by transfer boat to our hotel. Already from the boat we could see the great location of the small private island Angel Island and were very happy to the small Angel Island Eco Resort booked there.
» Read the full blog postBali – Stopover in Denpasar & onward flight to Flores (Indonesia)
After 13 wonderful days in Australia we arrived today at around 9pm with Air Asia from Perth at the airport in Denpasar in Bali.
» Read the full blog postPerth – The Koalas in the Yanchep National Park (Australia)
As beautiful as the last few days have been… Exmouth was unfortunately our last stop on our journey through Western Australia. Now it was time for us again: back to Perth! And here we wanted to visit the Yanchep National Park, where you can find a lot of koalas.
» Read the full blog postExmouth – Diving at the Muiron Islands on Ningaloo Reef (Australia)
We had already done 2 dives on the southern part of Ningaloo Reef in Coral Bay. Since we wanted to dive the Ningaloo Reef again in another place, we booked another 2 dives at the Exmouth Diving Center for today.
» Read the full blog postExmouth – Swimming with whale sharks & mantas (Australia)
We were already looking forward to today, because we have booked a tour where you can swim with whale sharks on Ningaloo Reef.
» Read the full blog postExmouth – The Cape Range National Park (Australia)
In order to take full advantage of the day, we started again quite early today in Coral Bay and drove to Exmouth, about 150 kilometres away.
» Read the full blog postCoral Bay – Diving & Snorkeling at the Ningaloo Reef (Australia)
After our trip to Denham and Monkey Mia in Shark Bay, our journey continued up the west coast to the small village of Coral Bay.
» Read the full blog postMonkey Mia – The wild Dolphins in the Shark Bay (Australia)
Today we went to Monkey Mia, about 25 km from Denham, about 25 km away, because every day dolphins come to the beach to watch.
» Read the full blog postDanham – World Heritage Drive & the Shark Bay (Australia)
Our goal today was Shark Bay, a protected area of the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the west coast of Australia about 800 kilometres north of Perth.
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