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Russia and Monte Elbrus

Sergio Sousa — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:41:07 +0000

A trip to Russia… a climb to Mount Elbrus… spectacular images!

Another photographic adventure!

Take a look and enjoy the photos we chose to share here with you!

Fantastic nature – by Marcos Lapa

Cris Berbert — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 21:56:45 +0000

Marcos Lapa manages to capture fantastic images of nature scenes and animals that leave us jaw-dropping! And so, we invite him to share only a few of them here with you!

As he himself says # thanks

Travel to New York City with crisber24x7 – November 2019

Cris Berbert — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 21:35:04 +0000

In November 2019 we will be in New York City showing the best experiences of the city in a unique way!

I will do the personalized monitoring, proposing tours according to the profile of each one, showing the most interesting places, the latest news, some corners, local bars or restaurants, sempre linkando as diferentes dinâmicas da cidade com histórias e “causos”.

The points to visit were studied and specially selected. The vision and experience I had there, me dão o suporte necessário para te apresentar uma New York City diferente.

I will be doing this monitoring of 14 a 18 November 2019. Is already planning to go there during this period and wants to enjoy these tours? Send me a message and I'll tell you how to do it!

Won't be there in this period? Okay!! I can help you set up your trip to New York City! Want to know how? Contact me here!!

Let's live this experience?

Kisses Cris!

Germany and Switzerland – trip to my origins – Part 1

Cris Berbert — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:21:18 +0000

Uma das coisas que gosto de fazer é “criar” temas para minhas viagens.

Any theme can inspire you to take a trip! It could be an adventure trip, or passing through major European capitals or historic cities. Maybe a trip to clubs or shopping, or finally “enlightment” trip, em busca de iluminação e evolução.

Just like that book (which later became a film), Comer, To pray, Amar; where the main character, Elizabeth, buscou um tema para cada parada de seu ano sabático.

[For those who don't know, in Rome she dedicated herself to Eating - without guilt!!!, in India she focused on meditation and the search for the spiritual, and in Bali he went after a sage in order to acquire knowledge and ended up finding a romance and his great love]

A few years ago I started researching my ancestors, who were the first immigrants to bring the name Berbert to Brazil, quais as famílias que entraram na minha árvore genealógica e de onde eles vieram.

Thanks to a wide range of material (due to a lot of research on the internet) on German and Swiss immigration in the region of Nova Friburgo in the Serra Fluminense (RJ), I managed to find Peter and Anna Margareth, the Germans who brought the surname Berbert to Brazil, and map all my ancestors from them. As 7 generations, and all the bonds of marriages with other families such as the Marchons, os Klein Brusts e os Jaccouds.

From there, I discovered where their families came from in Europe, and traced the map of my origins (of this part of the family of course!), passing through the cities and former villages of Germany and Switzerland. The result is this:

Then you saw! It became a travel theme to want to know all these places!

I set up the travel itinerary from my origins - Germany and Switzerland!

The Berbert hometown is Erzhausen, a small village between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, in the Hesse region. Definitely the starting point should be here!

The trip would have to be by car, because many of the places were rural villages in 1824 (when immigrants came *) e continuam a ser até hoje.

*historic break - around 1824, D. Pedro I stimulated the immigration of people from the region that today is Germany (border with France) and French Switzerland. This was largely due to the origins and relationships of Empress Leopoldina. These future colonists wanted to escape the famine and Napoleonic wars, and believed in promises of land to plant and a prosperous future in the new world. Parte das famílias saíram de Freiburg na Alemanha e parte saíram de Fribourg na Suíça e por isso a colônia instalada no Rio foi nomeada de Nova Friburgo.

Therefore, we already rented the car (diesel and with GPS) at Frankfurt airport, and we set out on the road!

We did a preliminary planning of which cities to pass, and which ones would be good for overnight stay. But we have not made any prior reservations for hotels, because the decision of where to stay would depend on what we discovered on the road, e o que cada cidade poderia nos surpreender.

Preferably hotels would be outside cities, ease of arrival and departure and easy parking. We chose the Ibis and Ibis Express chain, pois tinham o melhor custo x benefício.

The departure was from Frankfurt, going north to visit Cologne, going down the Rhine and resuming the route to the south passing through the Black Forest towards Switzerland. On the French side of Switzerland, we went down to Geneva on the French border and then up again, agora em direção à Zurique cruzando os Alpes.

The car was returned in Zurich, ficamos alguns dias por lá e depois voltamos pra Frankfurt de ônibus.

All this in 20 days and more than 2,000km run!

The description of this trip, the coolest points and the discoveries I am posting by parts. Wait!

And you? They are also curious about their origins? They would like to put together a thematic script?

LA and SanFran Hotel Tips – by Elaine Fazzio Kapp

Cris Berbert — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:47:37 +0000

share your experience – Elaine Fazzio Kapp wanted to share with us the pleasant surprises that were the hotels in San Francisco and Los Angeles that she and Renato stayed on their last trip to California. Hotels at a legal cost (to USA) and with access advantages and / or amenities (amenities)!

In San Francisco we stayed at Beresford Arms, that is 3 blocks from Union Square, easy access to everything! It had included a modest breakfast but it was good enough until lunch.

The thing about the cat is that they had a free cheese happy hour, petit fours, white and red wines, which led us to not have dinner one day. We were going to the room after the happy hour… Incidentally the huge room, two double beds, mini kitchen, huge bathroom. O hotel era antigo mas os quartos são reformados.

Already in LA, we stayed in Hollywood Orchide Suites, which is located right behind the Hollywood Highland Mall where the Dolby Theater is, in addition to having a lot of bar options and restaurants.

Leaning against the hotel was a direct ticket to the mall and Hollywood Boulevard with the subway station and bus stops next to it, making it possible to do many things on foot and by subway / bus. Including going to Santa Monica by subway. Pegamos uber só para Disney porque era mais longe e demoraria muito com ônibus.

The hotel had three floors and looked like a beach hotel, but room was enooorme, clean and with a well-equipped kitchen. Breakfast was included and very good, with yogurt, fruits, thousand breads etc… cool!!

Jalapão – simply amazing!

mini_Val — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:44:56 +0000

Jalapão is one of the itineraries of Brazilian ecotourism that will surprise you. Located in the state of Tocantins it is a tour that I recommend doing with local agencies, because roads only accept cars 4 x 4 and sometimes you have to change your route to reach your destination. Better to avoid any unforeseen with paths and just go to enjoy, because in that Jalapão will not disappoint you!

Saws, waterfalls, lovely dunes, sunrise and sunset, crystal clear water and boiling water, many boilers.

This I would say is the main attraction of this script. It's an experience unlike any other involving water.

Diving into a water fountain is like fighting gravity! It is practically impossible to sink within a.

In addition to the feeling of being inside a giant whirlpool that can exfoliate you.

Simply incredible.

Mil palavras não explicarão.

But as I said, Jalapão is not only made from the water boiler…

It really is a beautiful place, magical, relaxing, full of adrenaline and very rich in the beauties of our Brazil!!

São Paulo of Fairs!

Save money — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:26:56 +0000

From second to sixth – market! É feira que não acaba mais.

It's free market, trade fair, dawn fair, book Fair, roller fair, nations fair. And until Saturday and Sunday there is a fair. But these are already traditional in the city. There is the antiquity fair, craft fair, bargain fair, vinyl fair. The Calixto fair, Bixiga fair, Masp fair, of the Republic…

E quando vê já é segunda-feira novamente.

And they say that "FAIR" comes from Latin and means "day of rest".

So we should rest all week!

At least since Bishop Martinho de Braga (Portugal) ordered this change in the Portuguese language from the beginning it was to be only in the week before the ‘Holy Week’ but which perpetuated. Contradizendo os pagãos do mundo que na “ordem semanal planetária” ou de “divindades” continuam a se empenhar em labutar “sem descanso”.

Oh and I could never fail to mention the most famous of all, the FAIR PASTEL! “The Paulista Pira!”

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New Zealand: visiting it is much more than the search for adventure sports!

Edilson Fazzio — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:52:38 +0000

I just returned from a four-week trip through New Zealand or Aotearoa according to the Maori, where I was able to visit with due tranquility 5 the 9 regions of this small (270 mil Km²) and wonderful island country, formed by 2 main islands (North and South), belonging to Oceania and with a population of 4,5 milhões de habitantes.

Touring in New Zealand makes it possible to always be present in a pleasant landscape and sometimes even “breathtaking”, such as the region called Fiordland (southwest of south island) leading the vast majority of people to a state of “sublimation”. Even rural landscapes, transformed by man to implement economic activities such as sheep farming, wood, cows, horses, etc. and apple crops, kiwi, grapes, etc. are very well looked after, beautiful and worth visiting. At least recommended, visitar alguma das inúmeras fazendas produtoras de lã de ovelhas assim como alguma das inúmeras vinícolas distribuídas por quase toda a Nova Zelândia.

And the cities? All I visited are clean, organized, welcoming, safe, beautifuls, some of modern architecture others more bucolic and always with a very wide variety of attractions for the tourist and all without exception with good accommodation infrastructure, alimentação e transporte.

Just as an example, whatever you are in Auckland (1,5 million inhab.), Wellington (400 mil hab.), Christchurch (380 mil hab.), Queenstown (25 mil hab.), etc. you will “bump” at one or more tourist service points (i-SITE Visitor Centre) e receber informações atualizadas e precisas sobre “o que e como fazer aquilo que lhe interessa”.

Generally, the sea elements, Beach, lago, rio, Mountain, volcano, thermal waters, forest, cave, winery, wool and leather products, Maori culture, european culture, Asian culture, culinária com produtos frescos e as atividades correspondentes aos elementos citados estarão a disposição do turista no seu dia-a-dia na Nova Zelândia.

For a period of approximately 4 weeks in New Zealand, I suggest for example choosing the cities of Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington on the North Island and Christchurch and Queenstown on the South Island as accommodation points and get to know these cities and their surroundings well through a round trip., using regular bus or tour bus lines or even rental cars, de acordo com o seu perfil.

Hiring / buying any of these transport and / or guidance services is very simple in New Zealand and can be done even at tourist service points(i-SITE Visitor Centre). For those who do not care much about doing several check-in / check-out during a trip to lodging and if the trip is in the summer, you can also include the cities of Nelson and Dunedin as places for overnight stays and consequently know more 2 the 9 regiões turísticas da Ilha Sul.

Finally a tip and / or alert, that is, do not accept to know New Zealand, “Just like a flight stop”, of a trip to Australia, as offered by several tour operators / agencies here in Brazil. New Zealand, as I tried to show you always deserves a “visita exclusiva”.

The following images will try to illustrate a little bit of New Zealand (100% Pure/New Zealand).

Queenstown scenes and natural beauty!

Congratulations ! (=welcome)

Our family vacation in Japan

Beatriz Berbert — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 21:07:45 +0000

Here in Australia schools teach different languages as a second language. The most common are Italian, French, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, the latter taught at the boys' school. Why not take advantage of the fact that we have “translators” and go to sushi land?

Needless to say,, just like I didn't learn anything in the English classes I had at school in Brazil, the boys' Japanese was far from fluent… But the Japan has the great advantage of having all the signs and maps in Japanese and English, making travel much easier than I imagined. The funny thing is that the boys learned (or decorated!) some little songs in Japanese and people were delighted to see western kids singing in that language. Isso atraia admiradores e eles ficavam “se achando”.

We planned our trip so that we could balance visits to temples and historic sites with rides suitable for children and circulated by train and subway throughout the period there. Multiple-day ticket options exist in addition to the Japan Rail Pass, indispensável para as viagens pelo país.

We started in Tokyo (http://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html). THE Ueno Park is in northern Tokyo and is a nice walk with pagodas, temples and shrines, que abriga também o Jardim Zoológico.

Also in northern Tokyo is the Templo Senso-ji. Destroyed in World War II, it was rebuilt in the Edo style and remains sacred to Buddhists. Super tourist, with shops along the large access corridors, is a “point” for the kids. Meninas desfilam pelo local em trajes típicos tirando fotos com turistas.

The statue of the Hakiro dog, who would wait for his owner at the exit of the subway every day, even after his death (there is a film with Richard Gere that tells this story - very sad indeed – Always by your side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFY8vW5IedY), which is in the neighborhood of Shibuya and has one of the busiest intersections in the world, foi um dos passeios que as crianças adoraram.

Both Disney and Universal have also established themselves in Japan, but as our focus was not to visit theme parks we opted for one and our choice was Universal in Osaka.

The visit to Monte Fuji need to be in the script, but as we went in the summer and the top had almost no snow, it was a little frustrating. But at the foot of Mount Fuji is the city of Hakone, where we enjoy the cable car ride and cross the Lago Ashi num barco pirata.

This was the only tour we bought with a travel agency. I booked online a few weeks before the trip - just to be sure?

One of the historical tours that the boys enjoyed and 10 e 12 years old enough to understand, was Hiroshima. The city is very small, in one day it is possible to visit the A-Bomb Dome (photo below), the Peace Memorial Park and the Peace Memorial Museum, que diga-se de passagem foi o museu mais interessante – embora triste – que visitei na vida.

In Hiroshima Bay there is Miyajima Island. In this World Heritage Site, cutting trees is prohibited, which provides native forest for the deer to live and circulate safely throughout the island. It's Bambi everywhere! What child is not enchanted?

In addition to a wonderful view, there are trails to access the temples and shrines that are up the hill. Unmissable!

Going to Japan with children and not looking for ninjas and samurai is not worth it!

In Iga-Ueno, a small town in the middle of the countryside, They are Iga Ninja Museum. You know that little circus where the trapeze artist sells the ticket, the juggler takes the ticket at the roulette and the clown sells the popcorn? Yeah, there it is well like that. I would say that if it weren't for the kids it wouldn't be worth it, because you end up wasting all day given the distance and so many train changes - getting smaller and smaller - to get there. But they liked it, So… tá valendo.

I o Samurai Museum in Tokyo, that we discovered by chance walking in the Shinjuku region, has numerous original samurai battle armor on display and guarantees fun for adults and children. With presentation of sword handling techniques and the possibility to try one of the armor, esse lugarzinho ganhou nota 10.

Another highlight of the trip was the visit to the Toyota plant on the outskirts of Nagoya. Did you know that the original name was Toyoda and started as a weaving? It was Mr's son. Toyoda who, on a trip to the United States to explore textile techniques, was enchanted with automobiles and changed the family. With an English tour of the museum and factory, this tour was sensational!

In fact, our visit to Nagoya had as main reason the Sumo Tournament. Sumo wrestlers are national idols and the first one we saw up close was a Brazilian! Kaisei Ichirō – nascido Ricardo Sugano, from Sao Paulo, é o nosso representante na modalidade.

No word describes this experience better than SURREAL!

Our favorite city was undoubtedly Kyoto, the former imperial capital. The old town is a stroll through history, the modern train station is a sight for architecture lovers, The Nijo Castle it's amazing, the temples and shrines are beautiful, the Golden Pavilion does indeed look like a jewel and the Toori portals are breathtaking!

We love Kyoto ( https://kyoto.travel/en )!

But one of the biggest concerns I had about traveling to Japan with children was food. And if they didn't like the food? I was prepared to try everything and to our surprise the boys were not embarrassed. They tried everything, didn't necessarily like, but hunger has not passed and we adults are delighted!

In Hiroshima be sure to try the Okonomyiaki. Dish based on cabbage and noodles, it doesn't look very appetizing but it's from the gods!

From the stack of plates they liked the sushi…

They say the best time to go to Japan is in the spring, when temperatures are mild and the cherry trees are blooming, or in winter for those who like to ski.

We went in the summer and suffered a little from the heat and humidity 24 hours per day, but it was definitely an unforgettable trip.

We would go back? Assurance!!!

Troy – por Kelen Magri

Cris Berbert — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:49:05 +0000

sh | y | X – Share your experience – Conheçam Tróia com a Kelen Magri

Acesso às ruínas de Tróia. Acredite: existe um local que julgam ter sido a cidade que foi cenário da Guerra de Tróia da obra Ilíada de Homero. Hoje há camadas de ruínas das 9 reconstruções da cidade. O arqueólogo Heinrich Schliemann encontrou os vestígios em 1871 e, na fúria por encontrar tesouros para benefício próprio, trabalhou com tratores e explosões destruindo mais do que evidenciando.

Felizmente hoje a área está sendo preservada por verdadeiros arqueólogos.