Quixoticguide
Hi, I’m Maarten Van Den Driessche, a curious human, aviation enthusiast, vexillophile, world traveler, and food lover with over 14,000 days of life experience.
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🇮🇷 Iran: Discover the Soul of Persia
Iran: The Persia You Don’t Expect Iran defies stereotypes. It’s a country of immense culture, curiosity, and warmth — a destination that challenges and rewards travelers in equal measure. Here, poetry meets politics, hospitality meets history, and every conversation opens another chapter in one of humanity’s oldest stories. Tehran — Chaos and Character The Iranian…
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Venezuela: The Land Where Nature Still Dreams
By QuixoticGuide A Country of Extremes Venezuela is a land of impossible contrasts — Caribbean beaches and Andean peaks, sprawling plains and jungle plateaus, waterfalls that seem to fall from the heavens. For years, it slipped off the traveler’s map, eclipsed by turmoil and headlines. Yet beneath the surface, the same beauty that once drew…
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How Emerging Markets Are Redrawing the World Map
By Maarten Van Den Driessche | QuixoticGuide.com The world map is shifting — not through wars or borders, but through power, trade, and influence. The age of the unipolar world is fading. In its place emerges a new mosaic: nations once called “developing” now defining the tempo of global change. From Lagos to Jakarta, São…
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I Watched Atlantis Leave Earth
On November 16, 2009, I stood among hundreds of awestruck visitors at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, eyes fixed on Launch Pad 39A. The countdown reached zero, and Atlantis — mission STS-129 — roared to life. A brilliant flame pierced the Florida sky, followed by a deep, rolling thunder that shook the ground seconds…
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Lanzhou: Where the Yellow River Meets the Silk Road
Set in a narrow valley carved by China’s mighty Yellow River, Lanzhou feels like a place suspended between past and present — a river city where camel caravans once stopped to rest, and high-speed trains now race toward Central Asia. Long before highways and pipelines, this was a lifeline of the Silk Road, a vital…
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The Map Beyond Time
A QuixoticGuide Original Story🌍By Maarten Van Den Driessche 🕯️ Part I — Dinner of Discovery In a candlelit library where maps float like stars, three men from distant centuries meet: They share a table covered in scrolls, sketches, and compasses.Battuta speaks of the scent of spice markets in Delhi; Leonardo sketches flying machines on napkins;…
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- Providing practical tips and itineraries with a focus on cultural experiences.
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” –
Ibn Battuta
Maghrebi traveller