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Fez, de machtig mooie oudste Koningsstad van Marokko. Wanneer je door de medina dwaalt, waan je je meteen in een andere wereld. In de smalle steegjes zal je zeker verdwalen, maar achter elke hoek is weer iets nieuws te verkennen.

Een verfrissende duik nemen in de helderblauwe oceaan, hiken door de jungle en wilde dieren spotten in de palmbomen: het kan allemaal in het prachtige Tayrona National Park, aan de kust van Colombia. Hoe je dit park bijna helemaal voor jezelf kan hebben en kan slapen in een hangmat met zonsondergang? We leggen het je hier allemaal uit!

Deep limestone gorges, green rice fields and high mountain peaks. This tour through the mountainous north of Vietnam takes you past the literal and figurative highlights of Ha Giang province. What can you see and how do you do this yourself? We will explain it to you.

An underground amusement park, that sounds like fiction, but in Romania you will find a salt mine full of attractions. In Salina Turda, in addition to admiring the salt stalactites, you can also take a ride on a ferriswheel or sail on an underground lake.

Enver Hoxha: perhaps the most distrustful leader a European country has ever known. He was so afraid of an invasion that he had thousands of bunkers built throughout Albania. And the remains of it? They are still visible.

Special cities, beautiful beaches, delicious food and a nice climate: Portugal has all the ingredients for a wonderful tour. What do you need yourself? A car or the train, a good playlist, sunscreen and a map. The rest will come naturally.

For the Vietnamese, incense is more than a scented stick. Incense has been burned here for centuries to connect the land of the living with the divine world. And just before Lunar New Year? Then this entire village is captivated by the colored sticks.

A neighborhood outside the city of Al Madam is gradually being reclaimed by the desert. Seventy kilometers from Dubai, these houses and the mosque have been left to their fate. A true ghost town, where according to legend the people left hastily for fear of plague spirits.

It seems straight out of a horror movie, this 'Hill of Crosses'. This mysterious place has stories that will scare the hell out of you. Where do all these crosses come from?

Towering red dunes and barren trees: a landscape that seems almost frozen in time. Welcome to Deadvlei, Namibia, where a dead swamp lies between the highest sand dunes in the world. An area so dry that trees are left black by the sun.

North Brother Island: an uninhabited island in the middle of New York. Sounds amazing, right? But behind this impassable place, including an abandoned hospital, there are a lot of dark stories. Thousands of people died here. This is the story behind the island.

On the Greek island of Chios they have a very unusual – and dangerous – Easter tradition that has been going on for hundreds of years. The churches fire thousands of rockets at each other during Rouketopolemos, literally translated: 'rocket war'. And that's exactly what you get.