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Showing posts with label Travel and Tourism. Show all posts

Mechanical Elephant Walks Through London: Weird news at Its Best

Did you ever feel the world weighing down on you? Then you should have been in the streets of London when a ten-ton mechanical elephant was seen walking through the streets lighting up faces and towering down upon your tiny presence before it. This wacky invention is the work of Francois Delaroziere who was asked to make it as a celebratory token for the death of Jules Verne. Standing at the height of roughly a building, this piece of abomination needs as many as twenty two people who pull and push a combination of  hydraulic levers and buttons to be able to control the mammoth machine and make it move. The strange bit is the fact that the mechanical beast can actually imitate a real elephant and spray water from its huge mechanical trunk.
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Top 10 Best Swimming Beaches in the United States

01. Siesta Beach
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Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Fla., rates as the top beach in the United States,  Siesta Beach, with its fine, white sand and clear, warm waters, often makes the cut on Dr. Beach’s annual top beaches list, but this is its first year in the No. 1 spot. For 2011 here is the list of top ten best beaches of America according to coastal expert Stephen P. Leatherman. “Dr. Beach,” as Leatherman is known, is the director of Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research. 09 more top 10 best swimming beaches in the United States, after the break...

Coober Pedy - The Underground Town in Australia

The Australian town of Coober Pedy has a population of around 2,000 and is famous for two things. Firstly, the town is known as the opal capital of the world because of the quantity of precious gems that are mined there. Secondly, and the reason for this gallery, Coober Pedy is renowned for it’s underground residences, mostly in refurbished mines.


The severe desert climate made a lot of residents move to live underground, in caves. In summer temperatures on the surface can reach 40-50 degrees Celsius (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit). A cave home usually has three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and lounge that are excavated out of the rock in the hillsides. Such homes don’t require air-conditioning, because they remain at a constant temperature.

15 Awesome Mazes and Labyrinths

Mazes and labyrinths are found worldwide and are important cultural works, provides valuable information about our history and the human psyche. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth designed by Daedalus to confine the Minotaur, the labyrinth, but it is a symbolic meaning, too. "Walking the Labyrinth" is said to be a profoundly personal and revealing meditation by which a person gains insight into his true nature.

Labyrinths, by contrast, are designed to be a strategic issue, which is one of humanity's original physics puzzle games. Unlike a maze, which is designed to be contemplative, but easy to fill, a labyrinth is deliberately difficult to navigate. Both mazes and labyrinths symbolically reveal two sides of the human spirit: the complexity and simplicity of design and mystery, intuition and sensory experience. They are emblematic of the eternal philosophical tension between free will and destiny. Here are some of the most complex labyrinths, beautiful and creative and labyrinths worldwide.


Dole Plantation
The world’s longest maze is at the Dole Plantation on Oahu, Hawai’i. Comprised of 11,400 tropical native plants and covering 3.11 miles. More after the break...

Top 10 Most Traveled Cities In The U.S.

10. Portland, OR
 Population: 2.14 million
% commute by walking: 2.8%
% commute by mass transit: 5.9%
Average commute: 25.3 minutes
Number of parks: 39.5
9 more Cities after the break...

Nong Nooch Tropical Garden

Nong Nooch Tropical Garden

The foreign tourists call this farm as The Park of Orchids, but I called it as a replica of heaven. why, what does not, which covers several hectares of garden has beautiful views and spectacular gardens order anyone who viewed it. 11 images after the break...

world's 9 Favorite Places For Honeymoon

Favorite Places For Honeymoon

For those seeking a quiet vacation, Napa Valley is a good option to consider. You can learn the art of wine in the hundreds of Napa Valley vineyards. There is a largeni scale and boutique wineries to dipertimbangkan and  to explore the Napa Valley by bicycle to pick up the beautiful California scenery. Do not forget the picnic basket. More after the break...

Incredible Pictures Of Montserrat Exclusion Zone



Incredible Pictures Of Montserrat In The Exclusion Zone:
In 1995, the city of Plymouth on the island of Montserrat has been evacuated and the exclusion zone was set up because of an imminent volcanic eruption. In 1997, the volcano erupted, burying the city in 40 feet of ash. Since then, residents are prohibited from entering the rear. Here are some pretty crazy pictures of the buffer zone in Montserrat, which is one of the few windbreaks around the world. via. more images after the break...

6 Sites in Asia Pacific New Only Defined As World Heritage

Recently re-released the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site to date. Of the 15 new sites crowned as world heritage, the six of them located in the Asia Pacific region that were located not far away with Indonesia.

Each year, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), announced a variety of new places in the world that belong to the list of World Heritage Sites (World Heritage Sites).The program which began 16 November 1972 that aims to list, naming, and preserving the places that are very important in order to become a world heritage and can be enjoyed by generations to come.

This is the sixth World Heritage Site in the Asia Pacific.

1. British prison colony in Australia.
 
British prison colony in Australia

The United Kingdom to build thousands of jail in Australia during the 18th and 19th centuries.UNESCO set 11 of them as a World Heritage Site, which are located in Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle. Prisons were used to detain thousands of Europeans who were sentenced by the British government. Selecting it as one of UNESCO World Heritage Site as a monument to transfer prisoners in large numbers and signifies the European colonial expansion. More after the break...

Aerial Photography Of America By Cameron Davidson

Aerial Photography Of America By Cameron Davidson:
Photographer Cameron Davidson began his career in 1980 aerial photography by taking snapshots from National Geographic and asked a local pilot to help him get an aerial view, and has done since.

With images taken from an aircraft flying at low altitude and helicopters, each image of Cameron Davidson takes the viewer on a dynamic course of a wide range of landscapes and topography. Ocean wind farms meandering rivers and central urban core, this collection celebrates Cameron Davidson wide variety of terrain that the world has to offer in high definition with great detail.
 
New York City
Aerial Photography
More after the break...

Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is 10 thousand Buddhas Monastery famous and unique place, which is the illusion in other parts of the world. Look at the pictures wonderful world, we hope you enjoy it. Inside the monastery, there are about 13,000 small Buddhas on the walls with different facial expressions. In the center, large golden statues.
27 more images after the break...

12 Coolest Malls In The World

1.Mall of America(Minnesota, USA)
Large mall has a park and a wedding chapel, in wheremore than 5,000 couples have married since its opening. Mall of Americaopened in 1992 and is the third largest mall in North America.

This mall has a gross area of ​​4.2 million square feet available as retail space. That's the equivalent of seven Yankee stadiums in it! Mall of America is the center of the most visited shopping mall in the world with more than 40 million visitors annually (or roughly eight times the population of the state of Minnesota). if you are in the store for 10 minutes then you will spend more than 86 hours to complete visits to all stores at the Mall of America. This mall has a cinema, a theme park with Nickelodeon Universe, aquarium, adventure golf, flight simulator, and home comedy. watch more cool malls after the break...

Necker Island - A Private Island

Necker Island

Necker Island is a private Island which belongs to Sir Richard Branson, Necker Island is located in British Virgin Islands, the beautiful, unspoilt Caribbean. A 74 hectare estate is located on an island surrounded by turquoise waters, coral and adorned with beautiful white sand beaches. more images of this nice place after the break...

Atlantic Road - A Beautiful Bridge in Norway

Atlantic Road

Atlantic Road - A Beautiful Bridge in Norway :
Atlantic Road is 8.3 km (5.2 miles) long section of County Road 64, which covers an archipelago of Eide and Averøy in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Located on the northern part of the coastal zone Hustadvika, it connects the village with Kårvåg Averøy Vevang in Eide on the Romsdal Peninsula on the mainland. The road is an alternative between the towns of Molde and Kristiansund, via the tunnel under the Atlantic. The internal connection between these two cities are Krifast system bridge / tunnel. More images and info after the break...

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