Bed and breakfast for naturists

Seaside, mountain or lake, every holiday is the same old story: the dreaded luggage!
Am I taking too many clothes? Or are they few? Elegant or casual? Is it gonna be cold or hot?
And this becomes a significant problem if you travel by plane and you have to respect the limits of size and weight per bag.
Not to mention the return journey, full of souvenirs and new purchases that inevitably you never know where to put.

At last the idea of a lovely Swedish lady has worked out all of these problems: she has opened the first bed and breakfast for nudists!
Guests can now leave behind any unnecessary frill such as clothing and enjoy a stay in touch with nature.
Strolls to admire the flowers and animals, sea bathing in the near beach, a greenhouse and even golf: you'll be really spooled for choice in how to spend your days in freedom. Not to mention the SPA and technology with free WiFi access.

These are the characteristics of the B&B "Hylteberga Gàrd Naturist", near Skurup, in southern Sweden, facility operated by a couple, Eva and Steffan, who will welcome you with a fragrant freshly baked cake and… completely naked.

No specific prohibition of wearing clothes, even the "dressed" customers can stay in the quiet of the Gàrd which, with only 4 rooms, also offers the needed privacy and customer care. Beware thought, who knows which manners could rub off on you!
The only recommendation is to schedule your vacation during the summer. Swedish winter is definitely not suitable for naturism.

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The crazy tree house in Vietnam

Aniko is an Argentinian writer, photographer and traveler. She is currently traveling around Southeast Asia and writing about all her interesting, bizarre and curious experiences in her blog Viajandoporahi

When I traveled to the town of Da Lat, in Vietnam, everyone kept mentioning a very bizarre place that I absolutely HAD to see: the Crazy House. Did they want to send me to some kind of mental asylum or crazy traveler’s institution? Fortunately no. As I found out later, this mysterious Crazy House is one of Asia’s most wacky, creative and unconventional hotels.

Its official name is Hang Nga Guesthouse, and at first glance, this curious hotel looks like Wonderland mixed with Winnie the Pooh’s treehut, with a magic touch of Antoni Gaudi and Salvador Dali style.

Once inside, you will discover that this surrealistic building doesn’t follow any architectural conventions or rules: there are stairs that lead to nowhere, handrails that look like intertwining branches, small tea tables put inside holes in the wall, long walkways that feel like caves, spider web shaped windows, slides and bridges that take you inside the surrounding nature.

This fairy tale house was opened to the public in 1990 and was designed by Hang Viet Nga, a Vietnamese woman who studied architecture in Moscow and was highly inspired by the work of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. Her father was president of Vietnam in the 1980s, however, it was very hard for her to get the approval from the government to build this hotel since they thought it was not in line with the socialist architecture of the country. She started building the guesthouse with private funding and finally got the approval from the local authorities to continue freely with her work.

Nowadays, the guesthouse also functions as an art gallery and can be visited by tourists. For those who wish to spend the night, there are 10 rooms to choose from, each one themed after an animal, from the “eagle-room” to the “kangaroo room”.

It was a very fun experience to get lost inside the maze of this tree house, meet wild creatures made of wood, come across giant mushrooms and play happily like a child.