Things to do in Amsterdam

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 Amsterdam Every year, to celebrate my birthday, I travel somewhere, in 2019 I went to Morocco , in 2020 to Israel and this year (2022) I decided to visit Amsterdam. It was a long time since I wanted to visit this city and there I have a friend that I wanted to see, so with these three points combined, I decided to visit Amsterdam in winter. I spent five days in Amsterdam and I visited the city plus some places outside like Zaanse Schans, Zandvoort and Haarlem. One important thing is that I forgot my camera so all the pictures were taken with my phone, maybe the quality is not high but I think they are anyway beautiful. Amsterdam is the capital and the most populous city of the Netherlands, with a population close to a million. It is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the north" due to the large number of canals which form a UNESCO world heritage site since 2010. Amsterdam was founded at the Amstel, the city's name derives from the Amstel dam, originating as a sm
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Kyrgyzstan Diaries #4

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 Сары-Челек

The last week was quite intense, we had a development in our project: we found two possible locations for our events and we started to renovate them.




The first one is a house just outside Bishkek, with a big garden and a relaxing atmosphere. We put in order the garden and cleaned where need it. Our Idea is to use it for big workshops, or maybe weekends workshops. 


The second option is my coordinator studio, we think that it can be useful for regular events, maybe art therapy for kids. I liked the afternoon we put in order the studio because we were trying to understand where to put the different art and installations, which was very interesting.
We had a meeting in this place with artists and planned the future activities, I think we are on the right way with our project.

During the weekend, I visited Sary-Chelek national reserve, there there are several lakes and we saw most of them with a really nice hike, and we swam in two of them.
The trip was really beautiful: I knew amazing people and saw wonderful landscapes, even if half of the hike was done under the rain.






We travelled on Friday night and reached the guest house on Saturday morning. After breakfast, we started the hike that gave us the possibility to enjoy the national reserve and see stunning landscapes, we also swam in the lake you can see in the last picture, just before the rain comes.



On Sunday we came back to Bishkek, stopping at other amazing places like rivers, canyons and the lake you see in the first picture, where some of us swam. 
We had some technical problems with our bus on the way back, during our stop we were near this yurt where some nomads live and sell horse milk called Kumis.
Till now this is the trip I enjoy the most and the place I liked the most, but let's see in the next month what will happen and where I will go.
Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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  1. Unknown13 August 2021 at 10:35

    Wow. The place looks absolutely mesmerizing.

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  2. Lindsay Vine13 August 2021 at 11:58

    Wow the scenery here with the lakes just looks incredible!

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    1. Flavio13 August 2021 at 14:48

      Thank you! Yes one of the most beautiful landscape I've ever seen!

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