Great trips: the pleasure of travelling out of season
When planning a long trip, one of those that will remain in our memories forever, it is important to be guided by the time of the destination and not by the classic holiday periods. A trip to a relatively nearby European country, where the temperatures will influence the landscape but often not the content, is not the same as a trip to countries marked by more extreme seasons.
Eurovacation trips, an agency with almost 40 years of experience in the sector and with a consolidated name as an organizer of guided small group trips from Barcelona, offers you a wide range of great trips for this first half of the year.
We take the map and look for the antipodes of Catalonia, the point on the earth's surface located diametrically opposite us. Have you found it? It is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, near New Zealand. This year with Eurovacances we will not get there, but we will get quite close. At the beginning of May they are planning a trip toAustralia, eighteen days touring the so-called The Land Down Under due to its locationbelowthe other continents, or also with the affectionate nickname Oz, a nickname given to it mainly by Australians themselves and which evokes a magical world. Honestly, I think there is no better way to describe this continent than the word magic, not only because of the area surrounding the sacred mountain of Uluru, located in the very centre, but also because of the unique beauty of the seabed of the Great Barrier Reef, the spectacular nature of the Twelve Apostles – located on the Great Ocean Road, the highway that connects Melbourne with Adelaide along the coast – and Eurovacances over Sydney, by Danish architect Jørn Utzon.
We are still in the Pacific, but we are getting a little closer to home. It is essential to have our big trip to the Pacific well planned.Indonesiaif we want to know as much as possible about this archipelago, made up of more than 16,000 islands! Of course, of residences only There are approximately 6,000 of them. It is impossible to visit them all in a single trip, but with Eurovacaciones you can experience the cultural diversity of the country on the island of Sulawessi with the Toraja people, and in the temples of Pura Besakih (Unesco) in Bali, and contemplate the natural beauty of Bromo National Park and the fauna of Komodo Island National Park.
We are getting a little closer, not only geographically, but also historically, linguistically and culturally, due to its Spanish colonial past. Let's talk about thePhilippines. The tour around the amphitheater formed by the rice terraces in Batad will leave us speechless, as will the impressive El Nido, on the island of Palawan, famous for its hidden lagoons, accessible only by kayak or boat; its imposing limestone cliffs, and its paradisiacal white sand beaches. On a cultural level, it is worth highlighting the colonial center of Vigan (Unesco), the unique hanging tombs of Sagada and the diversity of its modern and vibrant capital, Manila.
We continued to approach and landed onThailand. You may think that you have already seen everything about this country, which was one of the first to open up to tourism in Southeast Asia. Take a look at the trip proposed by Eurovacances and put it on your list of great trips, again. This agency has three offices in Barcelona, Granollers and Girona, where they will help you to resolve any doubts and guide you in your choice. We continue on the Asian continent. Do you want to visit the Himalayas but avoid more classic routes?Sikkim and Bhutanis your journey. On this itinerary you will have a view of the second highest peak in the Himalayas, the impressive Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling (located 99 km from Sikkim). In addition, the nature of Bhutan is very protected and this makes its mountains especially pristine and little explored. This particularity, and the amazing Buddhist temples, - such as the Taktshang Goemba, known as tiger's nest, hanging in the middle of an imposing cliff that rises 900 meters above the Paro River valley – make the trip an unforgettable experience. And if heights make us dizzy, Asia also opens the doors to countries likeSri Lanka, the former Ceylon, where inland we have some altitudes of just over 2,000 metres that give us a landscape of impressive tea plantations such as Nuwara Eliya, the rest of the country is quite flat or undulating, with altitudes below 300 m. We invite you to discover why it is called the pearl of the Indian Ocean.
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We change continents with another great trip, a classic of the house, the trip that goes throughBotswana, the Republic of South Africa and Zimbabweto see the spectacle of nature at Victoria Falls and in the Chobe and Kruger National Parks, learn first-hand the history of apartheid in the dynamic, transformative and multicultural city of Johannesburg and discover Cape Town, the most interesting colonial city on the continent, The Mother City.
This year, in addition,Eurovacation tripsHe tries to make three trips that we could describe as unprecedented:Xinjiang, Saudi Arabia and Papua New Guinea. Unpublished each in its own way. The first because although this 2025 It's fashionable Discovering the Silk Road as it passes through Uzbekistan, with the majestic Bukkara and Samarkand (a trip also scheduled for May), the section that passes through the lands of northwestern China is not as popular. The second, unprecedented because it has only recently been opened to non-religious tourism. The opening of Saudi Arabia to commercial tourism is marked by the ambitious Vision 2030 plan, promoted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which began in 2019 when they issued electronic tourist visas so that visitors from more than 50 countries could enter for non-religious reasons. Objective? Diversify the Saudi economy by not depending solely on oil. And the third, Papua New Guinea, unprecedented because it offers a unique experience, far from traditional tourist routes, one of the least explored destinations in the world, with spectacular landscapes, rich biodiversity and intact indigenous cultures.
Do you already know what your next big trip will be?
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EUROVACANZAS Barcelona / Rambla Catalunya, 124, 5º 1ª / 934152300
EUROVACANZAS Granollers / Catalonia, 12-18 / 938611228
EUROVACATIONS Girona / Ferreries Velles, 11 / 972225344