JONGLEZ GUIDE

Let Secret Brooklyn guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Brooklyn guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing borough. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

All of the places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's second edition, Secret Brooklyn features 120 secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Brooklyn :One of the weirdest and most glorious museums this weird and glorious city has ever seen", one of only two trees that have been designated as New York City landmarks, the oldest building in New York City, the hobbit doors of Dennet Place, a park with only one tree, learn how to breathe fire, swallow swords, hammer a nail into your skull and charm a snake, the oldest subway tunnel in the world, world's smallest Torah, a secret museum built into the hallway of a Williamsburg apartment, a farm inside Domino Sugar factory site, world's first commercial rooftop vineyard ...

forfattere: Young m.Fl.
Publisert år: 2023
Utgave: 2Utg
Sider nr: 267

Let Secret Dolomites guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Dolomites travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing region. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Secret Dolomites features 120 secret and unusual locations. From ephemeral lakes in high mountain meadows, to rocky labyrinths hidden behind rock walls, ancient mining villages and abandoned hamlets, the prison of the Turks in the Dolomites, a proglacial lake, a rock that defies the laws of gravity, petrified bishops, dwarfs, gnomes and an elephant, caves, ravines and mysterious portals, breathtaking views of the highest rock walls of the Dolomites, a forgotten and enchanting forest, lost bivouacs on secluded high plateaus, solitary hermitages, stone books in an open-air library, the trails of Mesolithic hunters, a glacier set between blood-red rock walls and another with a bewitching turquoise gaze, vias ferratas to travel along in solitude, unknown summits that don't have names on topographic maps, a path inhabited by the spirits of the air...

Secret Dolomites is a guidebook designed for travellers who wish to stray from the busy and regularly overcrowded paths and set off to discover the countless unknown and often spectacular sites that these mountains can offer.

Let Secret Johannesburg guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Johannesburg guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

The magnetic pull of a rock which is so strong that a coin sticks, a Miniature Railway track, a lighthouse in the sky, get Married in a Boeing 747, the very first example of "Victoria's Secret," a fantastic private garden open one day per year and whose address is given by request only, a very surprising fine dining home restaurant in Alex, fly over the city in a plane that served for WWII in Egypt, South Africa's oldest monument, a waterfall in the concrete jungle, a fantastic private art collection that can be visited by appointment, the private home of one of South Africa's most prolific and famous artists of the 20th Century.... Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Johannesburg is still a reserve of well-concealed treasures that only reveal themselves to those who know how to wander off the beaten track, whether residents or visitors. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Johannesburg well, or who would like to discover the hidden face of the city.

Forfattere: Claire bell
Publisert måned: Feb
Publisert år: 2018
Utgave: 1.Utg
Sider nr: 256

Let Secret Prague guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Prague guide book and let local expert Martin Stejskal, share these well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

The places included in this guide are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Inside Secret Prague: A totally overlooked Art Nouveau masterpiece, secrets of the castle alchemists, the message in the hidden palindrome on Charles Bridge, the Kabbalistic mysteries of the Jewish ghetto, a thief 's shrivelled forearm hanging in a church, a statue revealing its intestines, the largest wind tunnel in the Czech Republic, a fragment of the Great Pyramid of Cheops in a pet cemetery, a clock that runs backwards, a house/museum painted blue to meet the needs of the partially blind musician owner ... Unmissable for lovers of architecture, from Baroque to Art Nouveau via Cubism, and the European capital of alchemy and esotericism in the 17th century, Prague offers a myriad of little-known marvels.

forfattere: M. Stejskal
Publisert måned: Okt.
Publisert år: 2023
Utgave: 3.Utg
Sider nr: 256