TRAVEL WARNING Country-specific safety information The number of thefts against tourists remains high in both Windhoek and the province; The attacks are particularly frequent in the run-up to Christmas. In isolated cases, armed robbery occurs. Greater caution is therefore advised even with short stopovers: For example, travelers should only stay overnight in guarded accommodations, keep vehicle doors locked from the inside and keep an eye on valuables even when traveling…
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ON THE GO Traveling by plane SAS (SK) flies to Stockholm Arlanda from almost every domestic airport in Sweden. BRA (DC) (Internet: www.flygbra.se) and Norwegian (DY) (Internet: www.norwegian.com) fly to domestic airports. On the way by car / bus According to youremailverifier, Sweden has a good road network and traffic jams are rare. In remote regions you should drive particularly carefully and carefully because of the game movement (especially moose).…
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ON THE GO Traveling by plane TAP Portugal (TP) flies to Lisbon, Faro, Madeira, Porto Santo, Porto and the Azores. The airline SATA (Sociedade Açoriana de Transportes Aereos) (SP) (Internet: www.sata.pt) connects the individual Azores islands with each other, with mainland Portugal and other European and non-European cities. ATA – Aerocondor Transportes Aéreos (Internet: www.aerocondor.com/) offers regular domestic flights and international charter flights. In addition, charter flights from other providers.…
Read MoreTransportation in Cyprus
GETTING THERE Arriving by plane According to youremailverifier, there are several direct flights to Cyprus from several German and Austrian airports, including from Munich with Lufthansa (LH) and from Vienna with Austrian Airlines (OS). In addition, several international airlines offer daily connections to Cyprus via Athens and London. For Austria there are direct flights from Vienna several times a week with Austrian Airlines (OS). Charter companies fly non-stop to Larnaka…
Read MoreThe ten longest rivers in Europe
Much of the earth’s surface is made up of water. Europe is also covered by many water surfaces and rivers. You can easily find out which are the ten longest rivers in Europe here! 10th of the longest rivers in Europe: the Rhine As one of the few masculine rivers, the Rhine, with a length of 1,233 km, ranks tenth of the longest rivers in Europe. The Rhine originates in…
Read MoreMadeira Overview
Shopping Cheap or country-specific goods, souvenirs Local souvenirs are white embroidery and other embroidery, basketry, flowers, postage stamps with beautiful images and traditional clothing such as goatskin boots and knitwear, but also Madeiran liqueurs and candied fruits. Shop opening times Monday – Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Sunday: closed Currency The national currency in Madeira is the euro = 100 cents. The following banknotes are valid and in circulation…
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The Balearic Islands – The Germans’ favorite destination They are called “Illes Balears” in Catalan and “Islas Baleares” in Spanish: We are talking about the Balearic Islands, a wonderful archipelago that covers an area of around 5,000 km² east of Spainspreads in the Mediterranean. The Balearic Islands consist of the Gimnesias in the north, which include Mallorca, Menorca and Cabrera, and the Pitiusas in the southwest, of which Ibiza and…
Read MorePublic Transport Sydney
The public transport in Sydney are mainly from various trains, buses and ferries. With them you can get to all parts of the city and sometimes even to the area around the Metroploe. In addition, there are private bus companies, taxis and car rentals with which the sights of the metropolis can be easily visited. Most residents use the car as a means of transport, however, as the urbanized area…
Read MorePhoenix, Arizona Travel Guide
Like Phoenix from the ashes, the city will rise from the arid desert of Arizona – this was predicted by the first settlers of the now vibrant city of Phoenix. Since then, the capital of the US state has become a lively trend metropolis in the heart of the Grand Canyon State and one of the most important cities in the southwest of the USA. Phoenix offers all the advantages…
Read MoreBrexit: Causes and Consequences
The term Brexit corresponds to Britain Exit – an expression that means British Exit and which gained wide worldwide repercussion with the result of the plebiscite of June 23, 2016, after the victory of the yes by 51.9% of the votes, as a result of the option of population by leaving the United Kingdom, mainly England, from the European Union . Brexit Causes The victory of Brexit occurred mainly in…
Read MoreCalifornia
Forgotten by its European discoverers for centuries, to the point of appearing on numerous maps of the 17th and 18th centuries as an island, California has become one of the most developed regions and with the highest standard of living in the world. The state of California is the third in extension in the United States, 411,049 km2, only surpassed by Texas and Alaska. It is limited to the north…
Read MoreCairo
The city of Cairo is the capital of Egypt and is located on the east bank of the Nile River , about 150 km from the Mediterranean Sea. The largest city in Africa has six million and three hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the last census, with the population of its metropolitan area already exceeding eight million. The city of Cairo today began approximately two thousand years ago, when the…
Read MoreMexico City
Mexico City, as its name suggests, is the capital of Mexico, being located in the southern portion of the Mexico Valley, two thousand and three hundred meters high. Considered the largest city in the world, the Mexican capital has more than twenty-two million inhabitants in its metropolitan area. The metropolis was built on top of the Aztec capital during Spanish colonization, which took advantage of the existing buildings to found…
Read MoreThe Legal Occupation of the Amazon
Amazonia of yesterday and today Colonization and exploration The occupation and settlement of the Amazon are the result of a long historical process that began with colonization and was marked by countless conflicts between indigenous peoples and explorers. The way of life of the peoples of the Amazon, in the past, was based on forest collection, fishing and subsistence agriculture. The exploitation of natural resources was limited, providing for its…
Read MoreThe Problems of the Amazon
The main current problems in the Amazon are listed below: The large public or private projectsthat developed after the creation of Sudam (Superintendence for the Development of the Amazon), such as, for example, the large Carajás project, the Manaus Free Trade Zone and hydroelectric plants, mainly the Tucuruí project, in addition to the projects agriculture, among others. Land ownership conflicts. Sudam was created in 1966 to attract capital for regional…
Read MoreAgriculture in Developed and Underdeveloped Countries
Agriculture in developed countries With the agricultural revolution of the 20th century ( green revolution ), rich countries began to employ less and less labor in rural activities. In this group of countries, agriculture is modern and uses advanced production resources, such as the intensive use of pesticides , fertilizers, mechanization, biotechnological resources and adequate methods of soil management. The result of this is high productivity and large agricultural production.…
Read MoreNATO and its Objectives
Interested in containing an eventual Soviet threat, the USA and its allies entered into a series of political-military alliances aimed at strengthening and unifying the Armed Forces of anti-communist nations, both in Western Europe and in other regions of the world. The first and most famous of which is the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization – NATO, in English defined by Abbreviationfinder), established in 1949 and whose founding members were…
Read MoreThe Struggles for Land in the Amazon
The Amazon , through regional planning, has always been seen as the frontier of natural resources in Brazil, represented by the following proposals: ⋅ projects encouraged by Sudam, aimed at the exploitation of wood and agriculture; ⋅ Grande Carajas Project, for the extraction and export of minerals; ⋅ hydroelectric plants that exploit the water potential of rivers. The policies responsible for this regional planning have turned the Amazon into a…
Read MoreThe Three Industrial Revolutions
1st Industrial Revolution According to loverists, the First Industrial Revolution took place in England, in the 18th century (1780-1830). England was the first country to go through this revolution. Around 1830, the Industrial Revolution was completed in England, and from there it migrated to the European continent. It arrived in Belgium and France, countries close to the British archipelago. Around the middle of the 19th century, it crossed the Atlantic…
Read MoreThe Most Beautiful Beaches in Mauritius
The sea shimmers from turquoise blue to emerald green in front of the magical beaches of Mauritius. With the blaze of color, it is often difficult to decide which beach to explore next, after all, you don’t want to miss anything. The icing on the cake among the beach paradises on Mauritius is what I present to you today in my travel magazine. Today I have the honor to introduce…
Read MoreMain Hydrographic Basins in the World
We can highlight in each continent some hydrographic basins of great importance for human use. American continent America has land in all climatic zones, with the exception of the Antarctic glacial zone. For this reason it presents a dense and quite varied hydrographic network. Depending on the use and the degree of importance for transport, we can highlight: – North America – The Mackenzie and São Lourenço rivers, in Canada.…
Read MoreAmerican Belts – Agriculture USA
American agriculture has its great prominence in the high level of mechanization. The region of greatest importance in the sector is the belts , where there are extensive ranges of cultivation of products such as wheat ( wheat-belt ), in the North and in the center; corn ( corn-belt ), in the Northeast and in the center; cotton ( cotton-belt ), in the South; in addition to the dairy belt…
Read MoreEconomic Blocks
The economic blocs are associations of countries that aim to strengthen and privilege trade relations and improve the economy among themselves, in addition to boosting relations with other blocs and countries. The end of the Cold War acted as a stimulus for the regionalization of the economy and the formation of blocs organized based on commercial interests. The dispute for hegemony started to be determined by commercial competition, and the…
Read MoreNAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (short for NAFTA by Abbreviationfinder) was signed by the leaders of: Canada, Mexico and the USA on October 7, 1992, but only came into force on January 1, 1994 after a troubled confirmation process by part of the USA, where xenophobia, ethnocentrism and prejudice from certain political sectors offer formidable obstacles. NAFTA has created a free trade zone in which tariffs and certain other…
Read MoreFTAA – Free Trade Area of the Americas
The FTAA was created to be the largest free trade area in the world, with trade agreements that would affect all aspects of the lives of the citizens of the Americas. The FTAA was launched by the leaders of 34 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The effort to unite the economies of the Americas in a single free trade area began with the Summit of…
Read MoreBritish Commonwealth of Nations
Between 1649 and 1660, Oliver Cromwell’s government already used the term Commonwealth in England , in reference to the community of peoples that made up the British kingdom. Denominated in English The Commonwealth of Nations or simply The Commonwealth, the British Commonwealth of Nations is an association of sovereign states formed by the United Kingdom and some of its former colonies, which spontaneously decided to maintain bonds of friendship and…
Read MoreEconomic Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific – APEC
The APEC Economic Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, was created in 1989 in Australia as a talk forum between the member countries of ASEAN (United Nations Association of South – East Asia) and six economic partners in the Pacific region, as US and Japan. However, it was only in 1994 that it acquired the characteristics of an economic bloc at the Seattle Conference, when members pledged to transform the Pacific into a…
Read MoreHolidays in Jamaica
In addition to Jamaica’s chalk-white beaches and turquoise seas, the beautiful greenery is perhaps the best feature of the island nation. Here you will find a fantastic flora and fauna with 3,800 different kinds of plants and a rich bird life with over 200 bird species. There is so much to see and do in Jamaica – the country offers not only beautiful nature but also a rich cultural and…
Read MoreMercosur
The Southern Common Market – Mercosur – began to form in 1988, when Brazil and Argentina closed agreements that provided for the reduction of customs tariffs between them. Block history In 1991, with the accession of Paraguay and Uruguay , the Asunción treaty was signed, officializing the existence of Mercosur. In the 1990s, Chile and Bolivia also signed association agreements with Mercosur, becoming privileged trade partners in the common market.…
Read MoreAsian Tigers
The Asian Tigers correspond to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong (ex-English territory and current Special Administrative Region of China) which experienced a rapid industrial process, receiving the name NICs (Newly Industrialized Countries – New Industrialized Countries) . The expansion of industrial activity after the Second World War reached Southeast and East Asia, regions that have always had agricultural prominence, with rice production in the gardening system or in…
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