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Burma – From the nugget to the Golden Rock of Kyaiktiyo
In Burma, religion is omnipresent. Applying gold leaf to a holy image is an ancestral practice carried out to earn the merits proper to the Burmese Buddhist religion. Everywhere, on dazzling stupas,...
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Palerme, le mille-feuille culturel
« Une ville en forme d’oignon » : dans l’un de ses livres, l’écrivain Roberto Alajmo utilisait cette expression efficace pour décrire la capitale sicilienne, trois fois millénaire. Un chaudron de...
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The Castles of the Vertigo
France, Languedoc – The castles of the Cathars suspended between rocks and sky an unforgettable trip to discover an intriguing medieval history surrounded by legends including the Holy Grail. Photos...
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Amazing Sicily
Influenced by Roman, Greek, Norman, Arabic, French,and Spanish civilizations, Sicily is a land rich in culture and tradition. With its eclectic mix of history, art, culture, and natural beauty,...
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Lalibela – The City of Faith
The ancient monastic city, jewel of UNESCO world heritage sites, has not only preserved, since the Middle Ages, its amazing set of monolithic churches, but continues to embody, for countless pilgrims,...
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Under the pole 2
« In the extreme North, through the most inaccessible and inhospitable frozen immensities, under the ice floe in the middle of winter, or in the melting icebergs in the summer… The submarine...
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Galicia, Spain’s Ireland
A different pilgrimage from the well-known Way of St Jacques, not for the remission of sins but looking for another Galicia, a Celtic feeling of this Spain’s Ireland where Iron Age forts and Atlantic...
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Turkey – The Turquoise coast
Discovering the wonders of the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Bodrum with a gület. A coastal cruise with a gület, a traditional fishing boat, is the best way to explore out of the crowd one...
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Belize –« Live and let live »
For longtime Belize has been a nearly unknown destination but every year more tourists come here looking for clear blue waters,the second longest reef in the world after Australia’s, the Great Blue...
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Once upon a ranch
Symbols of the great outdoors, and holders of a pioneering lifestyle ranches remain central to American mythology. Whether luxurious, hardcore or eco-bohemians, they offer an experience of contrasting...
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Brazil – Acre, the ancient spirit
Deep in the Amazon, where Brazil juts out into Peru, the Indians still live in harmony with the forest despite deforestation, pervasive agriculture and the massacres. Deep in the Amazon, in the State...
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The Rebirth of Pompeii
For the first time restorers worked on 86 of the carefully preserved plaster casts. Victims have been entombed in ash and now plaster for 1,900 years. Restored casts show harrowing agony of...
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Mexico’s Sierra Madre secret canyons
A step back in time, at the bottom of labyrinths of canyons,looking for the movies set of John Wayne, indigenous villages that still hide ancient religious syncretism, mines that seem hellish holes...
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San Sebastian – The 2016 European capital of Culture
In 2016, the European Capital of Culture will be Spanish. It will also be Basque. The Spanish will call it San Sebastián, Francophones Saint-Sébastien and the Basques Donostia. Photos and text by...
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In search of the world’s precious wools
Dominic Dormeuil travels the world in search of the rarest and most precious wools for the weaving of top-end fabrics. We follow him in his quest meeting with the wool peoples throughout the world,...
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Belém, porte de l’Amazonie
Cette ville complexe laisse des souvenirs forts : une architecture héritée de la colonisation portugaise mais aussi de son goût pour l’Europe et particulièrement Paris ; l’ile de Marajó, dont les...
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Badain Jaran – The singing dunes
Erg sprawling and little travelled in the heart of Inner Mongolia, the Badain Jarain shelters the highest dunes in the world, which hiss when trod upon. A pioneering territory riddled with salt lakes,...
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United States – 100 years of wild West parks
In 2016, the U.S. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. With more than 500 national parks,the inventor of National Parks set a worldwide record. Theholy grail of America’s...
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El Chepe – Vertigo in the Sierra
A legendary train that climbs the immense Copper Canyon, the Chihuahua al Pacifico takes the traveler, in the space of a few hours, into a still scarcely populated world. A refuge for cowboys and for...
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Uzbekistan, the pearl of the Silk Road
Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva… those mythical names fire our imagination and evoke the splendor and elegance of the Orient. In the heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan offers us a beautiful heritage waiting...
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