Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Beautiful Travelling Places

Capitol Reef, National Park, Utah

 

Arches National Park, Utah

 

The Colorado river, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

 

Monnickendam, The Netherlands

 

Ein Ovdat, Israel

 

Thousand Islands, Canada and US

 

Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

 

Pisa, Italy

 

Arches National Park, Utah

 

Karlsbad (Karlo-Vivary), Czech Republique

 

Niagra falls, USA, Canada

 

Acoma ("Sky City"), New Mexico

 

"Treasure Island", Las Vegas, Nevada

 

French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Nara, Japan

 

Kyoto, Japan

 

Heidelberg, Germany

 

Naeroy Valley, Norway

 

 

Jerusalem

 

Half Dome, Yosemite Valey, California

 

Pinnackles National Park, California

 

Ovdat, Israel

 

Great Malvern train station, UK

 

Sacre Cuer, Paris, France

 

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

 

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

 

Great Malvern, UK

 

Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Spain

 

Gaudi's Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain

 

William Wallace memorial, Stirling, Scotland

 

The "Diving board" at Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, CA

 

Haifa, Israel, where I begun...

Miami Beach – Must Travel

Great Miami beach

Great Miami beach

Great Miami beach

Monday, August 2, 2010

Niagara Falls – Must Visit

Niagara Falls

Top Niagara Falls

Niagara falls at night pics

nice Niagara falls photo

Niagara falls visitor view

Monday, December 21, 2009

Las Vegas - must visit

Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latter-day El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on earth. At the start of the twentieth century, it didn't even exist; at the start of the twenty-first, it's home to well over one million people, with enough newcomers arriving to need a new school every month.

Las Vegas is not like other cities. No city in history has so explicitly valued the needs of visitors above those of its own population. All its growth has been fueled by tourism, but the tourists haven't spoiled the "real" city; there is no real city. Las Vegas doesn't have fascinating little-known neighborhoods, and it's not a place where visitors can go off the beaten track to have more authentic experiences. Instead, the whole thing is completely self-referential; the reason Las Vegas boasts the vast majority of the world's largest hotels is that around thirty-seven million tourists each year come to see the hotels themselves.
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Venetian hotel



VENETIAN LAKE

Each of these monsters is much more than a mere hotel, and more too than the casino that invariably lies at its core. They're extraordinary places, self-contained fantasylands of high camp and genuine excitement that can stretch as much as a mile from end to end. Each holds its own flamboyant permutation of showrooms and swimming pools, luxurious guest quarters and restaurants, high-tech rides and attractions.


The casinos want you to gamble, and they'll do almost anything to lure you in; thus the huge moving walkways that pluck you from the Strip sidewalk, almost against your will, and sweep you into places like Caesars Palace. Once you're inside, on the other hand, the last thing they want is for you to leave. Whatever you came in for, you won't be able to do it without crisscrossing the casino floor innumerable times; as for finding your way out, that can be virtually impossible. The action keeps going day and night, and in this windowless – and clock-free – environment you rapidly lose track of which is which.

"Little emphasis is placed on the gambling clubs No cheap and easily parodied slogans have been adopted to publicize Las Vegas, no attempt has been made to introduce pseudo-romantic architectural themes or to give artificial glamour or gaiety."
– WPA Guidebook to Nevada, 1940


Bellagio


Paris Palace

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Hamilton, Bermuda


Front_Street_Hamilton_Bermuda

Located 650 miles off the coast of North Carolina is a 21-square-mile island dotted with pastel-colored houses, pink sand beaches and narrow winding roads. As a self-governing British colony, Bermuda is comprised of 181 small islands and islets connected by bridges and causeways that resemble a fishhook from the air.


Bermuda is divided into nine parishes or "tribes," as they were called back in the 1600s when the island was first surveyed. The original eight tribes, named after prominent shareholders in the Bermuda Company, included Sandys, Southampton, Warwick, Paget, Pembroke, Devonshire, Smith's and Hamilton, and were divided by narrow lanes. While some tribe roads are remnants of the past, others exist today as shortcuts to major roads and footpaths found during walks around the island. St. George's, considered public land back in those days, is the island's ninth parish.

Each parish is unique. St. George's captures the island's past with structures dating back to the 17th century—now they are modernized, and pastel-colored buildings make up the government and shopping Mecca in Hamilton in Pembroke Parish. Nature reserves and scenic bays can be found in Sandy's.

St. George's (East End)

St Georges
Situated on Bermuda's East End, St. George's houses the island's first capital, the Town of St. George. Founded in 1612 when the Sea Venture was shipwrecked off the coast, the Town has experienced little change in the past 400 years and illustrates what life was like in past centuries. A current revitalization project—ensuring not to jeopardize the Town's unique historical character—will restore cobblestone streets, monuments and structures, as well as add a new Heritage Visitor Centre, waterfront promenade and boardwalk. In November 2000, the Town of St. George was named a World Heritage Site.


Also found in the Parish is Fort St. Catherine ; it is Bermuda's most impressive fortification dating back to 1613. Tucker's Town, in southern St. George's, is home to the most expensive luxury homes in Bermuda as well as the Natural Arches, a unique arrangement of caves and rock that united to form archways, sometimes called the "ninth wonder of the world" by Bermudians. St. George's also houses the Bermuda International Airport.

Cancun, Mexico


                                                                       Cancun, Mexico  

Hand-picked by computer, CANCÚN is, if nothing else, proof of Mexico's remarkable ability to get things done in a hurry if the political will is there. A fishing village of 120 people as recently as 1970, it's now a city with a resident population of half a million and receives almost two million visitors a year. To some extent the computer selected its location well. Cancún is marginally closer to Miami than it is to Mexico City, and if you come on an all-inclusive package tour the place has a lot to offer: striking modern hotels on white-sand beaches; high-class entertainment including parachuting, jet-skiing, scuba-diving and golf; a hectic nightlife; and from here much of the rest of the Yucatán is easily accessible. For the independent traveller, though, it is expensive, and can be frustrating and unwelcoming. You may well be forced to spend the night here, but without pots of money the true pleasures of the place will elude you. 
 

                                                                        Chichenitza


                                                                     Chichen itza III


                                                                   Copia de Verano