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People don’t ask us about our luggage anymore, but about what countries we recommend them to visit. That is very understandable, because for a regular person it is possible to take 10 to 20 trips like this one in a life time, so they’d better choose the right place from that long list of desired places to go. At www.way-away.com you will find our Trip Advisor. According to the days that you have, the time of the year you want to travel, your budget and your interests, we find the country suits your preferences.

However, you must remember that those are only instructions, because a trip consists, mostly, of feelings, and we still don’t know any guide able to express them. We want to give you a little present. Our treasure. All those places in the World that made us feel different sensations, special, those that made our adventure worth it. It is not about wonderful cities, or famous towns. Neither deserted beaches, nor crowded shows, not even monuments nor buildings (modern or ancient). It is 8 ways to see things that will probably be in the tourist guides as visits where you have to pay, but for us are priceless:

Petra, Jordan Lijiang, China Hakone, Japan

1. If you want to feel like Indiana Jones, exploring temples in the middle of the dessert, go to Jordan. Enter the cave of Petra at 6 in the morning, when there’s nobody there, and you will get to the Treasure alone. Then, go up to the Sacrifice Table and go down behind it, exploring each corner as if you were the first one seeing it in centuries.

Himalaya, Tibet2. If you want to feel like a Cold War spy, visit Tibet from Nepal after crossing the Himalaya in a 4×4. The best, when you get to the border controlled by the Chinese, where you will go from one country to the other crossing a bridge surrounded by narrow mountains and firm soldiers. When you get on your jeep again, you will feel like you are running away on a road that would make Alfred Hitchcock feel vertigo.

 
3. If you want to feel like you are in the furthest East, go to Tokyo, take the tube and visit its neighbourhoods where young people show the trendiest tendencies. Saturday morning don’t miss the Fish Market. Imitate the local Japanese and eat sushi in the morning as if it were brunch on Sunday or a hangover breakfast.

4. If you want to feel like a samurai, sleep one night in a Ryokan in Hakone, a little town with volcanic water and luxurious thermal baths. First, relax in an outside Jacuzzi, made in a big wooden jar, surrounded by a Japanese garden. Then, take a shower their way: sitting on a stool and using a little towel for a sponge letting the water fall on your neck. Finally, let a geisha serve your dinner on the same tatami where they will put the futon later to sleep with your kimono on.

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

5. If you want to feel like one of the millions Chinese, go to Beijing and go around the city riding a bicycle. Pedalling through its avenues and eating in its alleys, you will feel close to that country, which is not easy.

6. If you want to travel to the past, go to Lijiang, a little village in the inner China, the most beautiful place we have ever seen, with its medieval streets made of stone and hundreds of little bridges over crystalline streams of water where the red Chinese lanterns, hanging from every window, reflect.

Koala, Magnetic Island, Australia

7. If you want to feel like a kid, go to Australia and search for all their wild animals. From the kangaroos in the Kakadu Park, to the koalas in Magnetic Island, not forgetting the sharks in the Great Barrier Reef. Every time you discover them, you will get as excited as a kid.

8. If you want to feel that you are in another planet, enter the Watomo caves in New Zealand and try black rafting. When you are floating in a subterranean lake in the dark and see hundreds of fluorescent worms hanging from the cave ceiling, you will think that a new Alien could come out of one of those giant stalagmites.

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