Annapurna Himalaya

Annapurna is a series of peaks in the Himalayas. The massif is 55km long and highest point Annapurna I stands at 8091m, making the 10th highest summit in the world. It is located east of a great gorge cut through the Himalayas by the Kali Gandaki River, which separates it from the Dhaulagiri massif.

There is also Annapurna II, which does not rank far behind Annapurna I. It is a fully independent peak, despite the close association with Annapurna I which its name seems to imply.

The Annapurna Conservation Area is a emerged as trekking region. There are three major trekking routes in the Annapurna region: the Jomson Trek to Jomsom and Muktinath, the Annapurna Sanctuary route to Annapurna base camp and the Annapurna Circuit, which circles the Annapurna Himal itself and includes the Jomson route.

Pokhara is well know town which is also a starting point for these treks, and is a good starting place for other short treks of one to four days, such as routes to Ghorepani or Ghandruk.

The Mustang district, a former kingdom bordering Tibet, is also geographically a part of the Annapurna region, but treks to Mustang are subject to special restrictions. About two-thirds of all trekkers in Nepal visit the Annapurna region. The area is easily accessible, guesthouses in the hills are plentiful, and treks here offer incredibly diverse scenery, with both high mountains and lowland villages. Also, because the entire area is inhabited, trekking in the region offers unique cultural exposure and experience.

Penang International Floral Festival

Penang International Floral Festival is very famous festival held in an island in Malaysia. This International Floral Festival in Penang is situated in the Penang Botanic Gardens, in one of the most beautiful gardens in the world. This festival is formed each year to display the floral collections through competitions and exhibitions. If you visit special exhibitions and workshops, you shall also get the scope to learn about the new and sophisticated methods which are used by the gardeners to grow these exotic flowers.

The Penang International Floral Festival will amaze you with its collection of flowers varying in color, size, fragrance and breed. Guests will be carried to the wonderland of beauty and aroma, rather the organizers utilize this opportunity to uphold the contribution of international participants bringing in their unique products.

The Botanical Gardens in Penang boast an array of incredibly rare flora. Besides their precious collection of trees, there are hundreds of species that are unique to the country, normally hidden away in its forests and highlands. As well as you will be surprised to know that it was the British regime that got Charles Curtis in 1884 to design a botanical garden at the base of Penang Hill.

Penang  is a state in Malaysia, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. Penang is the second smallest state in Malaysia after Perlis, and the eighth most populous. A resident of Penang is colloquially known as a Penangite.

Skuba Diving In Bunaken

Bunaken is an island, which attracts many scuba diving visitors. The island is a part of the Bunaken National Marine Park and has a tremendous biodiversity in the world. Bunaken is located at the north of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The waters of Bunaken National Marine Park are extremely deep (1566 m), clear and refreshing in temperature (27 to 29 °C).

The park has around 70 genera of corals; compare this to a mere 10 in Hawaii. Bunaken National Marine Park is such a treasure trove of biodiversity. A snorkeler or diver may spot over 33 species of butterfly fish and numerous types of groupers, damsels, wrasses and gobies.

Biologists believe that the abundance of hard corals is crucial in maintaining the high levels of diversity in the park. Hard corals are the architects of the reefs, without them, numerous marine organisms would be homeless and hungry. Whether you prefer wall dives, drift dives, night dives, muck diving, critter diving; whether you are an underwater photographer in search of the elusive pygmy sea horse, a fan of big fish; Rays, Sharks, Barracuda, Napoleons, Turtles or just enjoy diving in general, then you will not be disappointed with what you will explore in Bunaken.

Around 20,000 people live on the natural resources of Bunaken National Marine Park. At the  wmoment you arrived in Bunaken you will be charged to enter in the park, it’s a fee system, the first of its kind in Asia, and is being held up them as a model system by marine conservationists around the world.

The Capsule Hotel

Everybody that travels to Tokyo, Japan should experience this unique accommodation, at least once! In the capsule hotel, you will stay in a cell instead of a room. The capsule is usually only 2 x 2 x 6ft long.

Capsule hotels are popular with businessmen who have missed the last train home and for all the people coming to Tokyo on a short business trip. These  hotels are a unique type of accommodation, inspired by the pursuit of efficiency of space and creative spirit of the Japanese mind. For $29, you get a small locker and a capsule and enjoy several facilities like inexpensive restaurant, massage rooms and baths.

Africa Travel Guide

The Republic of  Madagascar is an island nation, opposite Mozambique. Antananarivo is the capital and largest city in Madagascar. It is also known its colonial short-hand form Tana. Due to its geographic position 1400m above sea level, has Mediterranean climate. Tana will surprise you with its numerous stairs up steep hills, palaces, cobbled streets and churches.
 
Tana is basically built on 12 hills and steep steps lead to the main Independence square in the town center. The architecture in the city is a mixture of old wooden houses, modern offices and French colonial style buildings. Most attractive place for foreigners is Zoma. This is a long series of bazaars in which thousands of people selling a very wide choice of handcrafts products.

There you will find huge variety of handcraft works.  Such as hats, bags, carpets, embroidery, dresses, silver jewels, curios, leather goods (crocodile, snake skin), wood sculptures, and many other interesting objects.

All foreigners coming into Madagascar are required to be in possession of entry visas. Passports are, moreover, required to be valid for at least 6 months beyond the date of entry into the country.

Specialize In Paris

Some people call Paris a ”living museum”. Paris is one of the world’s most visited cities and has been successful enough to last unmodified for a century and a half. There’s something in this city, a feat that would be impossible to recreate anywhere in the world. People want the city to stay it is – they’ll always have Paris.

Paris has a large metropolitan area with traffic snarls and pollution mushrooms. Two million inhabitants are crunched there. Today Paris is full of bobo artists, admen aspiring to artiness, young craftsmen and people who easy accepted the neighborhood’s cultural view. To get know Paris well, it’s advisable to live there (at least for 6 months). Then you will discover people there. You will find them marvelous and romantically beautiful. Elegant. I would say I’m quite attached to elegance. In Paris people pay attention in what they wear, how they talk and speak. So many ways.

Paris as a stylish capital has tons of people with very high sense and attention to style. And such a situations have influence on everybody. It takes people to a higher level. But if you go elsewhere in France you’ll be so disappointed. Really! In Paris there are many Africans, very stylish at all. The black man had this tradition of style, of being really well dressed. And also there’re all those ghetto kids, who wear their clothing like armor, like something to boast their identity on.

The Galerie Krio is one of the best place to visit for art and design and also the ToolsGalerie, which is more oriented into contemporary design, pieces, objects and little things. Both galleries show various young French designers like Oliver Sidet and Florence Doleac. And also if you plan to visit Paris soon don’t miss the flea market, whether at the Puces de Saint – Ouen or the Porte de Vanves.

If you are in Paris during the summer you have to go for a drink somewhere. Go in a restaurant called Le Grand Bleu (don’t eat there), just enjoy the location, it’s below street level, you will disappear totally from the city. It’s one of those places that offers an amazing atmosphere. You will never forget the city.

Laguna Colorada, Bolivia

 

It is a shallow salt lake in the southwest region of Bolivia, located at 4300 m above sea level and covers over 60 sq. km. The fiery red shades are caused by planktons that thrive in the water rich of sodium, magnesium, borax and gypsum.

Laguna Colorada also known as the Nest of the Andes. This place is home to some 40,000 flamingos of three different species. But the rare James flamingos have the highest concentration. They make this area their nesting spot and they are absolutely protected. There are also over 50 other species of birds that make their home here too.

Phoenix

I will lead on a journey through slow food and rapid development, just right in Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is a city of uniqueness of the horizon and desert light. This optimistic attitude, accompanied with the arid climate and low cost of living has brought many people to the Valley of the Sun.

The Phoenix metropolitan area is one of the fastest- growing areas in the United States. It’s a pity because the car is king there – driving is only way to move around in 9, 200 square miles region. In this world it’s hard to state the foot and the bicycle as much as the car.

Phoenix is a lesson in freeway nomenclature. The endless pavement and strip malls remind of a distant Los Angles. But there’s a beautiful iridescent horizon and a new light – rail system will soon take place and run.

But behind all these statements comes the good. There’s a quality cuisine, a thriving art scene and unique modern architecture. The creative landscape has three museum institutions. They have the Phoenix Art Museum, a wonderful new second edition, and the other museum SMoCA, which was transformed from a five-plex AMC theater to 20,000 square feet of gallery space. And you have the Nelson Fine Art Center that combines the hispanic character with rich collections of Arizona State University.

The city is a totally electric mix. There is Temple’s musical heritage with the Gin Blossoms. The arts are there. There’s also a place called Red Modern Furniture, which is a little tapas. The city also got Passage, a wonderful boutique that is just blowing everybody away. It’s the coolest fashion spot with a spectacular environment and stylish items. It’s amazing and it’s affordable, accessible and cool.

If you happen to be there on the summer hiking the loop trail around Piestawa Peak or the trail up Camelback Mountain. It’s a great way to see the prespective of the city. As well as biking on the canal system is another perfect way to glimpse a diversity of neighborhoods and history of the city. And at the end for gourmets audience – whenever you’re going to eat in Phoenix or just have a snack, a cocktail, it’s a fantastic experience.

Different Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a polarizing city and Wayfaring will show you one different side of the city. To some people the city is a paradise with its beautiful beaches, luxury hotels, bars and nightclubs. To others it’s a look of apocalypse with its air pollution, earthquake and wildfires. Los Angles is a kind of place that even though some people refuse to visit.

In order to understand the whole picture of Los Angles you have to understand how the city flows of its local landscape. Once you find out how the city operate – how it form a system – you will see the beauty of  it.

First of all I will begin from wastewater plant El Segundo. It’s actually the third largest plant in the country – behind Chicago and Boston. The city even offers tours to El Segundo, which is a great place nestled between LAX and Chevron refinery. You have got the Pacific Ocean to the west and  LAX to the north. You can even seen where its pipe extends. Then I offer you the other end of spectrum – Mt. Wilson – an observatory and antenna fields. It’s cool up there with a forest of huge antennas and you can run among the trees and the towers.

Another interesting building to visit is One Wilshire – a classic modernist Skidmore, Owings & Merrill building, at the crossroads of Grand and Wilshire but it called the most connected building on the West Coast in terms of internet bandwidth. It a telco hotel as well and has connections directly to Pacific submarine cables. In other words, it infrastructure, but it  also architecture. It got floors and floors of computers and then, occasionally, some lawyer office.

One of my favorite places is the gravel trench in Irwindale the Durbin trench and the Vulcan trench. Those are two adjacent gravel trenches in this huge complex of trenches, where much of the gravel out is that one, which the structures and the freeways in Los Angeles get made.

In this picture is the Cascades, which are a registered State Histor-ical Landmark. They are where the 338-mile Owens River Aqueduct terminates, bringing fresh water to L.A. The aqueduct construction, which finished in 1913, is a fascinating and murky tale of government corruption and outright theft. Los Angeles is, after all, maybe more than other cities, a complex blend of physical facts and interpretive fictions.

When the Mother – nature is drawing

It is reef naturally formed in the shape of a heart, located near Great Barrier Reef, Australia. This coral reef is the world most famous in the archipelago of the Whitsunday Island. The heart-shaped reef can only be appreciated from the air, but the view is definitely…