Sunflowers, Argentina

This breath taking picture highlights the beauty, displays the vibrant, strong sunflower as a recognized worldwide status symbol. Sunflowers are also an important source of food. Sunflower oil is a valued and healthy vegetable oil and sunflower seeds are enjoyed as a healthy, tasty snack and nutritious ingredient to numerous foods.

Sunflower is an important agricultural crop choice for US producers in the northern plains of the Dakotas to the panhandle of Texas through to Argentina.

Saint Lucia, Caribbean

 

St Lucia is a green, fertile, tropical, island with volcanic peaks, a rain forest and banana plantations, as well as some superb beaches, St Lucia is widely regarded as one of the prettiest Caribbean islands and is a popular choice for a wedding or honeymoon. Quite apart from the dramatic landscape and lush vegetation, in our experience the people of St Lucia are particularly welcoming and friendly.

Norway

Northern Lights, mostly occur at high latitudes. Northern Scandinavia and northern Finland are the best places to witness this enthralling phenomenon. In Northern Norway, the northern lights appear nearly every day. In the south of Norway it occurs only occasionally. 

The Northern Lights are created high in the atmosphere and it's not necessary to go on an excursion or guided tour to see the lights. Darkness and clear sky are a must so weak lights have to be eliminated. Winter darkness (polar night in December-January) allows nearly 24 hour observation. In the middle of the summer the lights can not be seen because of midnight sun or 24 hour daylight.

Sydney, Australia

 

Other places to visit include New South Wales and other breath taking scenery are plentiful if you journeys from Sydney. Why not drive the Pacific Coast Touring Route north to Brisbane past the Hunter Valley, Port Stephens and bohemian Byron Bay. Or head south to Melbourne via Jervis bay and take in its pure white beaches.

Check out Australia’s other cities and get ideas for the rest of your Australian holiday by searching online. Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road and Australia’s Red Centre are all possibilities on a relaxing holiday from Sydney.

 

Tulips/Windmill, Holland

 

Every March the sandy patches of fields turn into this dramatic landscape, like something from the Wizard Of Oz, truly fantastic. While there are a few different bulb-growing regions in the Netherlands, the most well-known area lies between the towns of Haarlem in the province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) and Sassenheim, just north of Leiden, in the province of Zuid-Holland (South Holland). This area includes the small village of Lisse, roughly 30 miles southwest of Amsterdam, home to the Keukenhof Gardens. Depending on which kind of transportation you choose, the trip takes less than an hour from Amsterdam, one way.