Traveling on the couch

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What’s happened

On March 11, WHO announced the Pandemia of Coronavirus. The countries closed the borders, and the whole world sat in quarantine. And this means that the real trips that we love with you remained in the past.

Okay, what to do?

First, leave a panic and relax.

Secondly, observe the insulation mode. The whole world was in the same boat. And the more conscious we will be, the faster we cope with the epidemic.

Thirdly, travel. Without getting up from the sofa ..

Read in our collection how to see the world without leaving home.

We look at the steep trance -documents about places in which we are unlikely to be found out in the near future

Photo: Antarctica
Photo: Frame from the movie “Our Planet”, Netflix, 2019

“Sea tramps: travel to the ends of the world”

A crazy documentary story about a team of amateur yachtsmen who went in search of adventures from New Zealand to Patagonia.

“Wild magic of Colombia”

Beautiful documentary about the wild nature of Colombia. Amazon jungle, exotic animals, snow -capped volcanoes, Indian tribes, five -color river Canyo Crystales – it is difficult to break away from this work of art.

“Everest. Reaching the impossible “

The dramatic story about how in 1953 New Zelandets Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgee ascended the highest peak of the world.

“Our planet”

Netflix mini-series starred in 50 countries. The film crew spent 4 years to show the unique beauty of the planet and the influence of climate change on it.

“Burning Man”

Soul report from Anton Ptushkin from the Nevada desert about the crazy festival of the world.

Looking at your favorite places through webcams

Photo: Venice
  • Empudged channels of Venice
  • Inexhaustible energy of the Niagara waterfall
  • The creation of the architect Gustav Eiffel and the symbol of America is a statue of freedom
  • A map of the places where you can see the northern lights
  • Crying Wall in Jerusalem
  • Coals, Polar Bear, Penguins and Panda from the San Diego zoo

And on the website Earthcam collects webcams from around the world.

Listen to the opera and watch the ballet online

Photo: Opera
Photo: Igor Bulgarin / Shutterstock.com

Vienna Opera. Free daily online shows of past performances. In the nearest program – “Summer on a Summer Night”, “Figaro’s Wedding” and others. Schedule of representations until April 30 on the Opera website.

Metro-Opera, New York. Free daily streams of Live in HD. The broadcasts begin at 19.30 et and are available within 23 hours. Among the next performances are “Count Or”, “Madame Butterfly”, “Cavalier of Rosa”. Schedule of shows before April 26 on the Opera website.

Berlin Philharmonic. Free access to all archival concerts for 30 days on Berlinphil promotional code.

Royal opera, London. Free opera and ballet will be broadcast every Friday on the YouTube channel and Facebook page.

The Bolshoi Theater also began online broadcasts of performances from the Golden Collection on its YouTube channel. The Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Boris Godunov and the Nutcracker have already been shown. Next in turn: “Hero of our time”, “Katerina Izmailova”, “Don Quixote” and “Sadko”. The schedule is available in the official group of the Instagram Theater.

Traveling on book pages

Photo: Around the world in eighty days
Photo: frame from the film “Around the World for Eighty Days”, 2004

Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”. Autobiographical drama about wanderings in the USA and Mexico two friends. Their everyday life is filled with alcohol, drugs, sex and kitchen philosophy. And the road became a life in which there are many beautiful places and amazing stories of people.

Robin Davidson, “Travels never end”. At 26, Robin with four camels and a dog for 9 months crossed the desert of Central Australia. The heroine passed 2,700 km, studying the lives of the Aborigines, enjoying the beauty of the dangerous Australian continent.

Ilf and Petrov, “One -story America”. A travel sketch, written by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov in 1935-1936, during their trip to America. The book does not describe attractions, routes or beautiful places. Instead, a bright humorous acquaintance with the American people, their life, culture and thinking.

Jules Verne, “Around the world in eighty days”. You cannot imagine childhood without adventure novels Verne. It is especially pleasant to re -read the story of Fileas Fogg and his servants to the Paspart, who go around the land for eighty days on the dispute. The dangerous journey of Fogg and Paspartt begins in England and passes through France, Italy, Egypt, India, Japan and the USA.

Ernesto Che Guevara, “Motorcyclist’s Diary. Traveling in Latin America “. A book of memoirs of the future revolutionary about traveling in Latin America, on a motorcycle that lives his age. For seven months, Ernesto Che Guevara and his friend traveled Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. The poor-romantics spent the night in the forest, worked as a loaders, washed the dishes and treated the peasants.

We go to unusual museums with Google Arts & Culture

Photo: Museum of Modern Art
Photo: anton_ivanov / shutterstock.com

Traditional Peruvian costumes of Cuzco residents in a series of portraits of Mario Testino. Here she is the Peruvian “high fashion.”

Museum of Georgia O’Kiff – the mother of American modernism. One of the few artists of the 20th century, who received glory during life. A unique opportunity to consider in detail the paintings, the cost of which reaches $ 44 million.

The Museum of the Museum of Solomon Guggenheim made from the provincial Bilbao Star. The avant -garde building with complex architecture is visited annually by millions of people. But while the museum is on quarantine, we admire the contemporary art online.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMA) will please the masterpieces of painting of the XX century in detail: “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh, “Nadezhda II” Gustav Klimt, paintings by the field of Cesanne.

The online exhibition Katsusika Hokusai is a Japanese artist Ukiyo-e, illustrator and engraver. You probably saw the famous “Big Wave in Canagava” or its copies in the Metro Museum in New York, the British Museum in London, in the house of Claude Monet in Zhiverni in France. According to one legends, Vincent Van Gogh wrote “Star Night”, inspired by this work.

Text: Dubkova Maria





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