
Armenia OVERVIEW
Specialists in religious studies and those looking for some spiritual enlightenment will find Armenia a truly eye-opening and informative place to visit.
Specialists in religious studies and those looking for some spiritual enlightenment will find Armenia a truly eye-opening and informative place to visit.
The Garden of Eden must have looked like the idyllic Samoa, at least this is the ambience you experience once you unpack your cases and start tramping into the amazing interior.
A weird creation it is, albeit pristine and unruffled.
A South Sea paradise of palm-fringed coral islands barely surfacing the ocean waters, peaceful life somewhere among thatched cottages and a totally laidback pace defined by coconuts dropping to the ground and waves crashing against the sandy shores, Tuvalu is the world's fourth-smallest country with just 26 square kilometers and the most isolated independent nation.
Vanuatu stretches for almost a 1000 kilometers dotting the Pacific Ocean with 83 islands.
Why would a place be named Christmas Island if the only associable thing is the snow white feather of the endemic
sula sula
, gracefully called red-footed boobies (sic!)? Passing this tiny speck of land on 25 December 1643, Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary decided to dub it accordingly, but years had passed before the first extensive exploration determined the island's future a phosphate extraction site.
Never heard of BIOT and Diego Garcia? Rest easy as few could call you ignorant on that point, let alone for not knowing that the former is short for British Indian Ocean Territory and the latter is not an Argentinian soap star.
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