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Inspirations
If you are looking for regular travelogues, head for the Destinations page. If you want to learn more about the world around us, and how Sandalsand deals with it, look into the other pages in the Specials menu: Writing and publishing and Abstracts of the world. Did you know that Sandalsand is on YouTube?
The illustration above is an early morning view out the window on the night train from Yangon to Mandalay.
The Growing Puzzle of World Heritage “Locations”
UNESCO says there are 1,248 World Heritage properties. But look closer, and you’ll find they’re spread across at least 5,506 separate locations….
Tourist or Traveller: What is the difference?
What are the differences and similarities between these two terms: Tourist or traveller? The answer might be found by exploring perceptions,…
More paintings about travelling
You will now get to know more paintings about travelling. Several years ago Sandalsand published an article about this subject. Right here you will…
Poems and quotes on trains
Which poems and quotes on trains are you familiar with? Travelling by train does something to you, it stimulates thoughts, and afterthoughts. Here…
Hotels to remember – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
When you have travelled on and off for some years, you will have stayed at hotels that are easily forgotten. Other hotels have left their marks in…
Travel apps – Hotels, flights, transportation, communication, handyman
This is the second of two posts offering advice on which apps to use for travelling, near or far. This post deals with travel apps categorised as…
Travel apps – Maps, navigation and guides
This is one of two posts offering advice on which apps to use for travelling, near or far. We’ll first concentrate on the very basics: Maps and…
The elusive goal of visiting all World Heritage Sites
For many years I have worked consciously to visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites wherever I travel. I first choose a place or a country to visit, then…
A disintegrated Europe – what would it look like?
Is Europe on the road to self-destruction? Secessionist movements are gaining momentum, and history proves they will be successful. The forces of…
Where’s that plane heading?
Have you ever gazed up at the sky above, spotted a plane and wondered where it was heading? And more: Where did it depart from, what kind of plane…
Ticking places off a bucket list
Travellers have a tendency to set up a bucket list, meaning a list of things to do or places to go before they die, or “kick the bucket”…
The ultimate list of great travel movies
Find the ultimate list of great travel movies right here. This post sums up 40 movies worth watching. Read why and watch the trailers. I have used a…
Quotes
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
Traveling – it makes you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller.
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
