Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2015

Stunning drone images of hidden islands and turquoise waters show Eastern Europe as you've never seen it before

  • Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis captures Lithuania, Croatia and Slovakia using an airborne camera
  • His work focusses on compositions that capture people going about their days such as commuting or relaxing
  • Before he made use of a drone, the photographer would seek out vantage points from rooftops and hot air balloons
By BECKY PEMBERTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:07 GMT, 24 July 2015 | UPDATED: 00:02 GMT, 25 July 2015

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Postcards from border country: Walls, waterfalls, a line in a library and the divider you can see from space are among some of the world's most unusual frontiers

  • While some border crossings are marked by signs, others are consist of heavily-guarded fences that span for miles
  • The border which separates India and Pakistan hosts a 'flag lowering' and gate closing ceremony each evening
  • In the Dutch town of Baarle-Nassau, a complex border with Belgium is clearly marked with iron pins throughout
By KATIE AMEY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:32 GMT, 21 July 2015 | UPDATED: 17:41 GMT, 21 July 2015

Saturday, July 11, 2015

9 tourist attractions that are dying

Death by tourism: 9 sites at risk

By Milena Veselinovic, for CNN
Updated 0448 GMT (1148 HKT) July 9, 2015

Dying tourist attractions 9 photos

Machu Picchu – "Tourism is not regulated well enough and the massive influx is putting a strain on sites all over the world," says Stefaan Poortman, executive director of the Global Heritage Fund. "The most well-known sites like Angkor or Machu Picchu are really swamped with tourism."
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Forget actually going shopping: At the world's most eye-popping malls you can ride roller coasters, go skiing and watch sharks

  • The Dubai's Mall of the Emirates is home to an indoor shark tunnel and enormous ski hill complete with chair lifts
  • In Minnesota, the Mall of America is known for its amusement park rides, pirate ship and extensive waterpark
  • The 48-storey Berjaya Times Square, in Kuala Lumpur, is named for the bustling iconic New York City intersection 
PUBLISHED: 07:51 GMT, 28 June 2015 | UPDATED: 15:45 GMT, 28 June 2015

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Những nơi bạn có thể đứng cùng lúc trên hai quốc gia

Thứ ba, 30/12/2014 | 19:00 GMT+7

Nhiều nơi trên thế giới có ranh giới giữa các quốc gia chỉ là một vạch kẻ mong manh và bạn dễ dàng cùng một lúc đặt chân lên hai đất nước.
Trên thế giới vẫn tồn tại các đường biên giới hòa bình khiến nhiều du khách khi ghé thăm đều thích thú chụp ảnh trong tư thế hai chân đứng ở hai đất nước khác nhau.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

New York, Paris and London are the most popular cities in the world when it comes to Facebook 'likes'... but Milan and Rome rank BELOW Tehran

  • List published of the world's top 50 cities according to Facebook 'likes'
  • Facebook's New York City page has more than 15 million likes
  • London was ranked in third position with 8, 546, 175 likes
  • Top ten has four North American cities and four European cities

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Life in the shadow of a Hawaiian volcano

In Hawaii, lava could take over at any time

Hawaii, volcano, KilaueaOne of nature’s most remarkable exhibitions
It was just before sunset and the constant flow of molten lava from Kilauea, the most active of Hawaii’s volcanoes, was glowing ever brighter. Plumes of smoke rose from the point where the red hot liquid met the Pacific Ocean; they swirled with the strengthening wind and occasionally cleared to reveal a distant waterfall of lava some 100m high. It was one of nature’s most remarkable exhibitions – an active volcano that refuses to stop erupting. (Sameena Jarosz)