10 Places to enjoy Chocolate

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Apparently chocolate lovers browsing while traveling and still not escape roll brown smelly stuff in place they stopped, ranging from shops, factories and even museums. In this article there are ten countries included in the list of top 10 visits chocolate lovers. All summed up in the travel website IgoUgo.com. Who knows, one day you will visit and taste the chocolate sensation different in each place.


1. Oaxaca, Mexico

In this country, chocolate is not only consumed, but also in many processed foods such as chocolate bars, chocolate sauce, and even very popular as a beverage. Local chocolate manufacturer, Mayordomo, has two stores in the city center. The trip to Oaxaca can be enjoyed with a travel package visit the Nestle factory and chocolate museum in Mexico.

2. Ghana

In this country has always held the National Chocolate Day, which aims to memperllihatkan the world that Ghana is a quality producer of cocoa beans. This time, the theme of National Chocolate Day "Chocolate Consumption for Health".

3. Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Presenting cows could sing to accompany the children to visit a chocolate factory, no exaggeration if Hershey claimed the region as the 'sweetest in the world'.

4. Philippines

In the northern region Filifina, Baguio is a popular tourist destination with brown culinary de Batirol. Are named like this because the chocolate is heated in a container or jar made of clay, making melting chocolate melt in your mouth with the scent of burnt land. There are also attractions in Bohol chocolate hills, but it was not to be enjoyed but to be seen. While in the south, in Davao called brown fields, there is a tradition where every mealtime always comes a chocolate dessert.

5. Zurich, Switzerland

There is no place that can produce delicious chocolate than in Zurich. Lindt, Sprungli, Teuscher, Suchard; just a few places to start your tour of chocolate.

6. Bocas del Toro, Panama

Cocoa beans directly from the islands of Bocas del Toro seared in a little chocolate, which is the local custom. Studies show custom panama can maintain health. Another bonus gained from visiting this area is that you can pass on the cocoa plantations uphill route.

7. Cologne, Germany

In the German capital, the chocolate museum more often praised for its historical exhibits, family recreation, look at the river Rhine, and of course a giant brown showers can be enjoyed for free.

8. New York, NY

Newyork people know everything about chocolate, how how to process them, how to sell and how to perform them. Visitors can enjoy a tour trip and attended a chocolate brown and can also sleep in chocolate. You can also quality products including the world also serving hot chocolate at Jacques Torres shop.

9. Bruges, Belgium

This is the best place for the lovers of chocolate. In this city there is a special area contains a row of well-known chocolate shop. It is said that among all those stores, the best according to the narrative of the visitors is the Chocolate Line for selling high taste.

10. Barcelona, ​​Spain

Barcelona has long been a supplier of chocolate since many centuries ago, and made it a natural fixed by building a museum to preserve it. Museum 'Museu de la Xocolata' mengahadirkan brown of the various forms of sculpture to hot chocolate. After that you can end with a trip to the boutique chocolate.

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Cat Festival At Belgium

Cat Festival At Belgium

Once in three years, the City of Ypres in Belgium, site of Kattenfestival. Although it sounds funny and unique, this cat festival based on a tragic past rituals related to this cute animal!

Hearing his name, Kattenfestival, which terbesit festival in your mind must be a funny and adorable cats. It is true, in mid-May and is held once in three years, the City of Ypres enlivened by trinkets and cat-themed parade. But who would have thought, is based on the cat festival ritual hundreds of years ago which is quite tragic.

Tragic story of the cats in the city of Ypres began in the 12th century. When the local people believe that cats are a form of evil spirits. As a result, the way they drive away evil spirits is by throwing live cats from the bell tower in the city!

This sadistic ritual lasts long enough, until finally in 1817 a total stop in the past. Since the 1930s, local residents began to use cat doll as a symbol of evil spirits. Until now, you can still see the stuffed cat thrown from the top of the bell tower at the festival city of Ypres.

Apart from the rituals of the past is quite sadistic, Kattenfestival the traveler is obliged to hunter destination festival. You see, at this moment really Ypres town with fur!

Stores that sell knick-knacks lined smelly cat, and the parade that was held on the streets of his city enlivened by a cabaret. Both children and adults, all wearing colorful costumes cat.

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