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Sime (Simon) is everything one would want in a tour guide: knowledgeable, fun, friendly, humorous... read more

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They’re walking tour is a must for people visiting the city. They are a wealth of knowledge about local trip options and very trustworthy. I have been traveling for three years and they’re the best travel agency I’ve come across. Ana ,Sime and the rest of the staff will give you lots of tips. You can trust them 100%. Their English is excellent and will give you the local Perspective

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Walking tour of Zadar conducted by Sime Botica who is the owner of Art & Nature Travel. We toured the city with Sime in a small group of 3 in June 2018. The tour was excellent and I have no hesitation in recommending Sime who clearly loves his city and his country. The tour was thoroughly entertaining and enlightening and gave us a great insight to the city and lots of places which we might otherwise have overlooked. Not to be missed.

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I was looking to go to Plitvice national park and everyone was saying that I had to go with a massive tour. Until I found these guys.. they gave me a much better option and treated me like a friend. Responsible travel and family business.. offer a great walking tour that I also did and wasn't expecting to do. Saved money and gain a great couple of days!!

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What wonderful experiences provided by the amazing team at Art and Nature travel in Zadar! Warm and friendly owners, extremely knowledgeable guides, professional in every way – just perfect! Indeed, I was lucky enough to stumble upon Art and Nature Travel purely by chance and what treasures I found! First, I took one of their walking tours, and it was simply perfect in every way. Then, I booked a visit to Krka National park through them, and following their advice had a most amazing visit. And, on a whim, I booked one of the wine tasting and food pairing event, and that was just lovely: small intimate group, superb local wine, great food and lovely conversation! These were by far my best experiences in my repeat visits to the city! When in Zadar, do yourself a favour and go to Art and Nature Travel: You will learn, you will laugh and you will end up feeling like part of the family!

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Travel: Prehistoric drawings can be seen in Ohio at Leo Petroglyphs

Humans have always been eager to leave a creative mark on the world, tangible evidence of an artist’s thoughts or actions that might educate, entertain – or perhaps bewilder – current and future generations.

Humans hadn’t even made it to the Americas when the earliest-known cave paintings were created more than 40,000 years ago in what is now Indonesia.

But, millennia later, prehistoric Americans did make their mark. Ohio has several sites where early artists or scribes left enduring evidence of their creativity.

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The state’s most well-known group of petroglyphs – prehistoric stone carvings – is probably Leo Petroglyphs and Nature Preserve in Jackson County, about 75 miles southeast of Columbus. (The site gets its name from the nearby village of Leo, not from one of the prehistoric artists.)

A large slab of relatively soft sandstone served as a canvas for the artists, who probably belonged to the Fort Ancient culture, a people who also may have created Ohio’s Serpent Mound (not to mention the earthworks for whom the culture is named).

Among the carvings are figures that seem to represent people, human footprints, birds and other animals, and a few enigmatic symbols.

Whether or not the carvings were meant to represent specific ideas, instructions or just the creative musings of the carvers is still a matter of speculation.

Erosion of the carvings dates their creation to around 1,000 years ago. Today, the carvings are protected by a modern shelter house that also provides a roof for visiting picnickers.

The nature preserve at Leo Petroglyphs protects about 20 acres, including a gorge where stone outcroppings contain other stone carvings.

A ½-mile trail makes a loop around the gorge, beginning and ending at the shelter house.

The wooded hike takes about 30 minutes and provides a glimpse of the kind of landscape that might have inspired those early artists along their way to and from the petroglyph stone.

Another well-known and easily visited example of early Ohio petroglyphs is at Inscription Rock on Kelleys Island in Lake Erie.

The rock, on the south shore of the island near the Kelleys Island Ferry landing, was partially buried when discovered by early settlers in 1833.

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The site is probably not as old as the Leo Petroglyphs, dating from perhaps 800 years ago.

Although Inscription Rock is also protected by a modern shelter, the rock has been so eroded that it’s hard to clearly see the carvings today. But an informational display at the site includes a depiction of the stone from a drawing made in 1850, showing more strange and enigmatic figures, animals and symbols that should provide a satisfying puzzle for any aspiring amateur archeological cryptographers.

Visitors to Kelleys Island should also be sure to visit Glacial Grooves Geological Preserve , an example of Mother Nature’s own artistry, carved by massive boulders dragged by glaciers during the last Ice Age.

Travelers who find themselves fascinated by ancient rock carvings should consider a trip to the American West, where several large sites display a vast array of petroglyphs covering a vast span of history.

One of the most popular and accessible destinations is Petroglyphs National Monument , just a few miles outside downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, where visitors can see one of the largest petroglyph sites in North America.

Short trails lead visitors past designs, both strange and familiar, carved into volcanic rocks strewn about like cyclopian Legos.

The carvings at the national monument are probably a bit younger than the Ohio sites and are credited to both Native Americans and early Spanish settlers from between 400 to 700 years ago.

Steve Stephens is a freelance travel writer and photographer. Email him at  [email protected] .