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On 7th June 1980. MS Zenobia, 178 meter long ship started it decent to the bottom of Mediterranean sea Now it lays on the bottom on 42 meters, around 1.5 kilometers off shore from Larnaca, Cyprus. Zenobia is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 recreational dive sites worldwide by various portals and magazines. It was build by Sweedish company and she sank on her maiden voyage from Malmo, Sweeden to Syrian town Taurus. She arrived at Larnaca with a ballast problem just to be dragged out of harbor. Boat capsized five days later and 200 millions worth of cargo sank with it. No one was hurt as all the crew aborted the ship hours before the worst. There are a lot of myths and controversies about it, one of the stories is that it smuggled weapons from Yugoslavia to the middle east. In any case its a very big wreck that offers different types of dive and is considered biggest underwater truck graveyard. It offers diving on upper levels for intermediate level divers down to engine room for very experienced technical diving. I wanted to visit Zenobia for years now and had several failed attempts to go and check […]
Getting from Puerto Viejo to Bocas del Toro cheapest way possible There are several web pages regarding the trip from Puerto to Bocas that we found online, but what we also found is that not all of them show the cheapest solution and it looks not all have been updated with latest information. Some things changed but also it looks like some people compromised with a “not so cheap but direct” bus from the border to Almirante. It is a fairly easy trip and it will save you around 20-25$ per person, we did it with a 3 and 1/2 years old boy and a baby + stroller and 5 backpacks. Complete list of busses/walks/boats you have to take is next: Puerto Viejo – Sixaola (bus) Border (walk) La Paz – Changuinola (bus) Changuinola – Almirante (bus) Almirante – Bocas (boat) Getting to the station and buying tickets It seems that some people think this bus goes from Lemon or Manzanillo, important is to know that it doesn’t pass on the main road, it goes from the main station in Puerto Viejo. Bus goes hourly and the schedule changes frequently so its best to go one day earlier and to […]
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Traveling Brazil and Argentina in pregnancy with a two year old – preparation, buying tickets, research After four winters spent in South East Asia (which we love and feel like home) we decided to make a change – to try something new. For start we didn’t have any particular destination, we decided to search for the cheap flights and see what are the options. First thing we wanted was South Africa – flight straight from Belgrade for 380eur but we decided to skip because Uk transit visa and South African which we would have to get in Bulgaria. One week after we fount tickets Rome – Sao Paula – Rome for 315 EUR per person. Decision was instant. We will go to Sao Paulo and we will make itinerary afterwards. We often find cheap tickets for far destination but the departure point is not Belgrade but somewhere from Central Europe and the problem is that trip to that place, lets say Zurich, can often be more expensive than flight from lets say Zurich to Mexico. This time we made a cheap connection Timisoara Rome for 27 Eur round trip via WizzAir. We like when we have a connecting flight in […]
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Singapore Singapore is one large, exciting, tidy and interesting city… but also very expensive. We find it an excellent destination to travel with kids, not just because of superb metro system but also because the whole infrastructure is adapted to the people with disability, which means also for us – people with strollers. We can even say its the best we ever saw anywhere in the world. It is possible to move from point A to point B without using your arm muscles or your back to move the stroller. Just bare in mind that when you are entering a public bus you have to fold it as it is mandatory. The city itself has a lot of content for the children, the zoo and the aquarium are one of the best of their kind in the world. Also there is fun island of Sentosa. We decided to visit Singapore because of its proximity to Thailand and also because its on the top of the lists of best cities in the world. It was definitely worth visiting when we were so close. We bought one way tickets directly from airasia website. Flight was from Phuket and it lasted around an […]
Soon after our baby Relja was born, when we had our assurances that he is healthy, strong and developing well, we decided to take our first trip with him once he turns three months and to make it somewhere “local” meaning in South Europe. Our decision felt on Cyprus and for the end of October. We picked that location for two reasons: 1) it has the longest season in the Med 2) We found extremely low prices on Wizzair website. End of October was the choice because what we researched online is that there are no rules regarding when is the baby “too small” for the plane. Some companies don’t have regulations some require it to be at least two weeks old. But there is another problem: newborns have very fragile immunity and in airplanes the a/c has the same air circulating from all parts of the plane into single system meaning that everyone is breathing what other people exhale, therefore a lot of babies get various sorts of infections form the flight itself. We know of a baby that was on a plane when she was three weeks old and she got a conjunctivitis. Advise is that baby should […]
We won’t write much about previous travels as we want this blog to be focused on traveling with a kid, but also because other destinations are pretty much mainstream. One trip that was specific to be was the last years trip to Philippines. One that makes this one different is that I was second month pregnant with my baby boy Relja and that trip took around 30 days. I didn’t planed to take that trip pregnant but as you can’t plan things in life we made our baby from strike one, and we bought those ticked for a very good price months before that. We found out I was pregnant one months before the trip and didn’t exactly know should we cancel it or no. So first thing first was to visit my gynecologist (that labored be later in July) to confirm the pregnancy and to let me know if its safe to travel that far. He confirmed and said that its ok and with normal sense of percussion there is no reason why not to go. Still I had double thoughts and I was very nervous, especially because our ininerary was very complicated. I had to take […]
I was pregnant just couple of days before our Philippines trip so I had to research about diving and pregnancy. My husband is a scuba diving instructor and I am a PADI rescue diver, we met on diving six years ago so for us this is a big thing that we do together! Scuba diving in the Philippines is one of the best in the word so I was super excited about this. When I found I was pregnant I wasn’t sure if I was suppose to be able to go diving or no. Bojan knows that diving and pregnancy don’t go together, but we didn’t know the official advice. We first started from the beginning – our association – PADI official advice: PADI says that there is not enough data out there to prove if its risky or not They would like to learn move via survey if you have dived while pregnant. Ok.. so PADI doesn’t have real official advice so we turned to the second and maybe more relevant organization DAN (divers alert network). DAN has more elaborated text on the subject, but also starts that there are simply not a lot of data. More are needed […]
We are newbie mom and dad with a 1 and 1/2 month old baby That’s how much he has at the moment of writing of this post. We came to idea to write our own blog because we are traveling couple entering their 30s. We visited over 50 different countries so far and as you can imagine we don’t want to change our lifestyle. After we got our baby a lot of people told us something like “aahh, baby, great, now you guys will stick to one place for couple of years”. Our reaction was “uhhhh, yeah…. right…”. Yes, some changes need to be made but we don’t really want to stop traveling. There are some sources on-line with a lot of useful information but probably not a lot. That’s why we decided to keep track of how our baby grows and all the places we will see with him. If you are following our baby traveling blog there are couple of things to know about us First thing one should know about us is that we are from Serbia. It’s one of poorest countries in the western world. Despite of that we managed to travel some of the countries like Thailand, Japan, Philippines, […]