Break Your Duck in Travel

Seeing The Bright Side of Darkness

The saying goes you never know a good thing until you lose it. Most humans use their eyes more than any other sense to interact with the world. However when you’re blind, you need to rely on all your other senses so much more.

To help us to experience first hand the challenges that the blind must undertake everyday and also to discover the beauty of opening up our eyes (pardon the pun) to our other senses, Lisboa Sensorial in Lisbon, Portugal provides blind tours of Lisbon, led by the blind.

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Watch Crocodiles If You Ever Want to Sneak Up on Someone

They pointed out the crocodile in the attached photo, which I petted. I was concentrating, you will understand, on the croc I was touching and didn’t see the other crocodiles approaching from behind until I later saw the photo.

Keep Insomniacs Busy at The World’s Weirdest Hotels

After my stay in the great Ice Hotel near Quebec City, Canada which was uncomfortable but nevertheless cool (pun intended of course), I found the below list for some more of the weirdest and most wondrous hotels in the world, with accommodations ranging from tree houses to helicopters.

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Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Educational Museums

Everynow and then I find odd museums when I travel such as the museum of marzipan in a little town in Germany and a museum of puppets in Prague. 

Still, I think this Lonely Planet journalist has certainly done their homework with a list of absolutely odd museums.  I would definitely check out some of these just for the sheer novelty (and of course education) of it all.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,22612750-27977,00.html

How much adrenaline can you handle?

Here is an article that list the top 10 thrillseeking adventures across the world. 

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,25917,21658237-27977,00.html

Some of these are definitely on my to do list !