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I have to admit this: i am an addict!!! An addict to everything that is new and unknown to my eyes and senses....my life has no meaning if I spend much time without discovering other place or other new thing....I just canīt get enough of it!! =)
And what I like about VT is that I donīt feel alone in this world!!! There are many others with my same problem I have!!! =P
Here are some lists of momments and places I collect...hope to keep these lists growing as the days go by....

- Lovely momments passed, recorded in my memory and breathtaking scenarios I wish to see again:
1. Unforgettable views from a plane:
a) over Cayo Largo, Cuba - the view of the large reef barriers and all the thousand shades of blue, over a russian cargo plane....
b) over Los Roques, Venezuela - a blue miracle before your own very eyes...
c) over Phang Nga, Thailand - the strange rock formations over the green sea, slightly revealed on the mist....
d) over Bali, Indonesia - on the take off, prepare to get a glimpse of a perfectly shaped volcano, so huge that a third of it is above the clouds...
2. Floating with the dolphins in Lovina beach, Bali;
3. Close encounter with a baby elephant on the sidewalk, in the middle of the crowd, in Bangkok;
4. Best lodging sites ever:
a) sleeping on the edge of the cliff, in the Castro of Chora, Folegandros, Greece;
b) waking up with a broken, wet tent as blanket, after being destroyed by the wind of Torres del Paine, Chile;
5. Finding the ornitorrinco way cuter than the koala, in Sydney;
6. Watching countless turtles emerging from the water in Arraial dīAjuda, Bahia, Brazil;
7. Waking up with the morning prays, in Istanbul;
8. Getting wet in Iguazu waterfalls, Brazil/Argentina;
9. Boat ride inside the caves of Kleftiko, Milos, Greece.

- Cities I love!!!
1. Athens, Greece;
2. Rome, Italy;
3. Edimburgh, Scotland;
4. Buenos Aires, Argentina;
5. Puerto Natales, Chile;
6. Sidney, Australia;
7. Bangkok, Thailand.

-Special Natural Wonders:
1. Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela;
2. Torres del Paine, Chile; Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre, Argentina;
3. Iguazu countless falls, Brazil/Argentina;
4. Cayo Largo, Cuba;
5. Cliffs of Folegandros, Greece;
6. Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil;
7. Ilha Grande, Brazil;
8. Phang Nga and Koh Phi Phi islands, Thailand;

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Special gastronomic momments:
1. The best pasta I ever ate, in Rome;
2. Eating grapes right from the vineyard, in my granfatherīs house, Portugal (I also thing homemade green wine is the best ever);
3. Fetta cheese, from Greece - Iīm so sad because itīs hard to find fetta where I live....=(
5. I discovered I have never really eaten yoghurt, till I went to Greece....
6. Turkish tea, from Istanbul....divine!!
7. Dessert with caramelized rice and cocconut milk, from Bali;
8. "Stolen" cherries from a tree in Argentina;
9. Bananas from a plantation near the Atlantic forest, Brazil (yep, I realised stolen fruits have this special taste!!! hehehe);

1. Dive in Bonaire;
2. visit La Tortuga, in Venezuela;
3. enter the pyramids, in Egypt;
4. get lost inside the market of Marrakech;
5. see the strange rock formations of Canarias Islands;
6. visit Machu Pichu, in Peru;
7. taste the soil of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia;

Well, thanks for visiting this simple page......

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." - Krishnamurti

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a pretier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton