It seems to be unclear from what distant planets these landscapes have been brought to the earth, but they clearly have no relation to our own planet. These miracles are constructed in a way that usually special effects are invented by Hollywood masters. However, there are plenty of places on the planet alien to...
10 Places to Spend Halloween
Halloween has a long story to tell. The ancient pagan holiday of revelry evil forces eventually became quite Christian “eve of all saints”, a very revered in the United States and Western Europe. Today, you can fly to different countries for feeling the real spirit of Halloween. There are several samples of interesting places...
Mandarin Oriental: A New Hotel in Las Vegas
December 4th is going to be the date when the new Mandarin Oriental hotel in Las Vegas will receive the first guests into its 392 rooms. Until February 28, 2010 the hotel offers special rates and gives one free night as a gift for each paid accommodation. Room prices start from $545. Each room...
Comfortable Sleep in the Transport
Travellers literally not only travel in transportation but sometimes do also “live” there. But their stay is in one of the unusual hotels, built in a train, plane or boat. Hotel-plane, Costa Rica In the national park Manuel Antonio, located in 160 kilometers from the capital, there are lots of nice hotels and bungalows....
World’s Best Aquariums
The impressions left by visiting the modern aquariums, can only be described as magical, delightful, unforgettable. Think how a simple 500-liter aquarium in the mall attracts passers-by. Now imagine the same, but in million of liters, and with sharks, turtles, penguins and divers. But there are tens of constructions of this scale in the...
10 Trips to Foreign Prisons
When traveling, tourists often appear in foreign prisons. For example, according to the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UK, almost 7000 people from thousand Britons were arrested and detained while traveling in the past year. And the fifth of the trials was related to drugs. As it turned out...
U.S. Plans to Impose Tax on Tourists
The European Commission is concerned with the U.S. government plans to introduce a tax on tourists. The fact is that the U.S. Congress is now discussing the possibility of imposing a tax of $ 10 dollars for travelers entering the country, followed by the Program Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). Introduced on January...
Smoking Regulations in New York City
Tourists, who intend to visit the United States of America, need to know that the country continues to restrict the rights of smokers. New penalties and restrictions are introduced for those who continue to persist in smoking. Thus, the mayor of New York decided to ban smoking in the city streets, in the parks...
10 Fatal Mistakes of Travelers
In the age of globalization, cultural differences between people seem to almost disappear, however, travelling the world, it’s so easy to be impolite or even accidentally offend the locals. Guardian.co.uk describes the most common mistakes travelers make. What we should not do during the tours in foreign countries? 1. Showing “thumb up” in Iran...
Tips – Where and How Much to Pay
Not only owners of tour agencies or hotels, but also ordinary employees of hotels and restaurants, whose income in many ways depends on tips, have suffered from financial crisis. People became greedier, now they try to pay precisely what is in the bill, not knowing, that tip can be sometimes the only source of...
Sharks Terrorize Spanish Beaches
Update: We saw a lot of attention towards this particular article, so this simple note for our readers’ awareness – we don’t have anything against sharks and recommend reading All About Sharks, Facts vs Myths, Is it worth to worry seeing a shark during diving, finally learn How to Protect Sharks From Extermination and may...
10 Best Places for Snowboarding
Snowboarding appeared in the world long ago and immediately found its place in the hearts of active people. Many of them take ski boarders with them for a vocation in the mountains. It’s always interesting to know which places other people like, which mountain resorts the former champion of Great Britain Chris Moran finds...
The Most Dangerous Runways of the World
Travel journal “Travel Leisure” made the list of world most dangerous runways. Every tourist can one day appear in one of these places, so we consider it our duty to warn you to travel with your eyes wide open; you might never again see such things. 1. Paro Airport , Bhutan All tourists wishing...
The Most Famous Black Sand Beaches
The sand on the beach may not only be gold or white but also black. And just by looking at the surrealistic contrasted landscapes it is almost impossible to call black a depressive color because the waves washing the ash-black shore look very attractive. It turns out that there are a number of shades...
The Most Extreme Routes of the World
In mountain skiing, as well as in life, the moment comes at times when foolhardily it is desirable to be beyond the ordinary frames of routine. And then the skier or snowboarder approaches the beginning of one of “black” descends, and reckless trembling of heart paints the grey monotony of everyday life in all...