What is the cost of traveling around the world?
What the cost of traveling around the world
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Cost Of Traveling Around The World
Monday, July 30, 2012
Where To Party In The US
When and where to party in the United States
Las vegas crazy party
New York
I had never been to New York before but I had listened to the song “Empire state of mind”. It was even better than that! The city that never sleeps is one of the most exhilarating cities in the world. Whether you’re looking for a palatial club with world-renowned DJs, or a chic bar after work, a live jazz band or a comedy show late at night you’ll not be disappointed.Los Angeles
Movie stars, funny vintage models and rock bands keep Los Angeles at the top of the cities with outstanding night scene. Silver Lake offers a wide range of live music for those are into it, while the film industry has one blockbuster-style party after another in West Hollywood. This friendly city also boasts an impressive range of art galleries and museums, that is if can stay awake during the day.Las Vegas
Enough said. “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas.” That’s where I had my wildest nights! Some of the best casinos with free drinks, roller coasters to keep your adrenaline high (personal advice: don’t try this after partying, try to do so BEFORE drinking) and live shows that will satisfy even the most pretentious of you. Once you get there, you’ll realize that the famous quote lives up to its expectations
My last stop, Miami
It is such an amazing place that actually kept me awake during the day too. For partying doesn’t stop all day long! You gotta love South Beach, it’s like a natural place for parties. From huge mainstream clubs to beach parties and barbeque feasts, looks like you’ll be partying nonstop. But don’t you worry ‘cause you’ll experience first-hand that there are lots of beautiful people (in my case, women) willing to help you make it through.Due to lack of time and company, I couldn’t make it to visit plenty of places I’d like to, such as Atlanta and San Diego, but plans are on their way so expect to see me surfing soon!
Friday, July 27, 2012
Best Cocktails Around The World
Best cocktails around the world
During a vacation, discovering a new cocktail can help you discover what are the traditions and flavours that distinguish cities and nations. Some cocktails are often made with ingredients found only in specific parts of the world, which makes the taste of these drinks, quite interesting. Enjoy your cocktails in countries like:
Havana
The Cuban tourism is experiencing a time of great prosperity and some research have shown that among the cheapest flights in travel portals like British Airways and Scyscanner, are the flights to Cuba which you can book easily and cheap. Havana despite being known as the birthplace of the Caribbean rum is also famous for cocktails like the Cuba Libre, Mojito and Daiquiri. The second of these is one of the most respected and popular cocktails in the world and to experience the best, we recommend going to La Bodeguita del Medio, always surrounded by local personalities.
Cuban Rum Seller
Cuba Libre
Paris
Here in the capital of France where you can try the absinthe, the best of which is available at the Bar Cantada on Rue Moret, where it is has a great selection. Finally, for those looking for an original taste and unique cocktails in the world, the Hemingway Bar is recommended, because you can try such a Lemon Charlie or the special martini with black truffles and raspberries; yammiiii!!
Bar Cantada on Rue Moret
Hemingway Bar – Martini
Venice
Italy is also known for its juicy cocktails. At Harry’s Bar was born, for example the famous Bellini, the prosecco drink with peace. This place has also historical figures such as Guglielmo Marconi, Arturo Toscanini and Georges Braque.
Pouring Bellinis at Harry’s Bar, Venice
Its Spritz Time in Venice
New York
The Big Apple is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world and therefore it is not strange that the mixing of cultures, has led to the creation of a large number of cocktails. Among the best places we can remind the Pegu Club, which is widely regarded as one of the most avant-garde experimentation of cocktail, where the old formulas made fantastic drinks.
Pegu Club Cocktail
Cocktail Mixologist New York
Manchester
Not many are aware that Manchester is a city where you can drink the best cocktails in the world. One of the best places to try is the exceptional Keko Moku, the Polynesian-style place where you can find the Mai Tai, the Zombie and the unique Seven.
Keko Moku
Bar lights in Manchester
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Kiss Me Around The World
Kiss me around the world
Kissing has been used to show the passion of love, affection, reverence even betrayal. Kissing has a special place in our hearts and on our vacation photos. Here are the most known romantic places where you can feel your passion:
Paris, France
The city of love and light could not be missing from the top destinations of lovers. Paris is known for its romantic atmosphere that’s why most people think it’s the temple of kissing. In Paris there are many places that seem perfect for hugging and kissing; just try to find your own.
Kissing under the Eiffel tower
Love in Paris
Ride the Lightning
Venice, Italy
Let us not forget that this magical city has been the site of action of the most popular lovers in all time of Casanova and the beautiful canals brought up sensuality and romance over centuries and also it has been the place of action for the most romantic movies. The most famous ritual for lovers is a kiss on a gondola ride at sunset.
Kiss of Life
A Kiss in Venice
Usual day at old Venice
Blarney Castle , Ireland
It is not sure how this started but according to an Irish legend, those who make the effort will be rewarded with the ability to flatter even the most difficult persons. In the castle you will not kiss your partner but a stone! If you choose to kiss the stone, you should be at your back, stretching back your head into a deep crack, and kiss the stone upside down while holding your hand with two iron bars.
Blarney Castle
Blarney Castle Front View
Blarney Castle Grounds Bench
New York, USA
The history of New York is filled with unforgettable kisses. From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the main entry point for immigrants coming to the U.S. There was the place that families could meet again after years and exchange kisses of joy, that’s the reason why it is called <THE PLACE OF KISSING>
Tonight I will Love, Love you tonight
Sunset in New York
Love at top of the rock
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The romance in Brazilian culture enjoys the respect of all and KISSNIG is just THE rubber stamp of the romantic mood. Do not rush to criticize Brazilians. KISSING is just the culmination of the romantic mood which brings them closer to the Brazilian culture. ROMANCE IN BRAZIL IS RESPECTABLE. LOVE IS CONSIDERED TO BE A MAGICAL POWER.
Love in Rio de Janeiro
Rio at Night
City of God
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
10 Weirdest Sports For This Summer
10 weirdest sports for this summer
This summer you can be one of those boring types who play backgammon, racquetballs or volleyball on the beach. However, you might want to do something different. If you want this summer to try something new and unforgettable, you should try one of the following sports:
Zorbing or Rolling Plastic Stones
- Water Zorbing
What is a better way than descending a hill in a plastic ball? Now that summer is coming it is even more fun in the water…
Foot Volleyball on a trampoline
- Foot Volleyball
A mix of volleyball and football on a trampoline. It’s totally crazy!
Polo on elephants for riders that want to improve their balance.
- Elephant Polo
After the normal polo, the water polo and the bike polo, the challenge comes from the elephant polo. It’s supposed not to make you bored with the same old polo.
Cheese races or cheese hunting
- Cheese Races
Instead of eating fat cheese chase it on a downhill.
Water Jet Packing
- Water Jet-PackWater Jet-Pack
The Jet pack wearers are young Rescuers. Not only do they walk on water, but they do fly many meters high by pressing a button.
Hockey under water
- Water Hockey
Instead of being burned by the sun on the golf ground hockey, you can transfer the game under the water. In a cool pool and you can use special sticks for clubs and balls that do not float.
Trike Drifting
- Trike Drifting
A bicycle without brakes and the adrenaline goes above red.
Ping Pong without Racquets
- Ping Pong without Racquets
This summer you have to prove to yourself that you can play Ping Pong with your bare hands only.
Pole Climbing (something like pole dancing)
- Pole Climbing
Nowadays, the new fashion on beaches is to climb columns. The difficulty rises when the column is full of sun cream.
Fish-throwing competition
- Fish-throwing
In Australia there is a national sport festival with tons of fish. The fish – throwing record is 25 meters.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
World's Most Colorful Towns
World's most colorful towns
By Ryan Murphy | Budget Travel – Tue, Jul 17, 2012 4:49 PM EDTMORE AT BUDGET TRAVEL
Manarola, Italy (Jenifoto406 / Dreamstime.com)Manarola, Italy
Manarola is the oldest of the Italian towns known as the Cinque Terre—the Five Lands along the country's northwestern coast that cling, lichen-like, to the rugged rocks above the Ligurian Sea. All five localities—Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso al Mare—are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized for its "harmonious interaction between people and nature." UNESCO obviously knows its color wheel: The sea's rich blues complement the sunset-colored shops and Genovese-style tower homes of Manarola with panache, and the buildings appear almost cultivated, like a flower garden tucked into the craggy slopes. Particularly stunning is the vista from the narrow rock ledge across the harbor at Punto Bonfiglio, when the retiring sun deepens and perfects the town's palette.
Jodhpur, India (Plotnikov / Dreamstime.com)Jodhpur, IndiaThat wash of blue on the horizon isn't a sunny sky (though Jodhpur has plenty of those, too—with barely a foot of rain each year). Rather, the wave unfolding from the foot of the massive fortress Mehrangarh is a cornflower-colored settlement, aptly termed the "Blue City." The color may originally have had social and cultural significance, indicating the habitations of upper-caste Brahmins (today, it is less prone to indicating religious boundaries). Few communities are this coordinated: Steady blues give the settlement an airy, fantastical look, like a magical town drawn from the spiritual pages of the Hindu Bhagavad Gita. Towering Mehrangarh completes the mythological look. Begun in 1459 and expanded over the centuries, the fortress is now open to visitors and provides panoramic views of the old city's heavenly patchwork.
The La Boca neighborhood in Buenos Aires (National Geographic / SuperStock) La Boca, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFrom its humble beginnings as a slave settlement in the 16th century, Buenos Aires's La Boca neighborhood has become one of the capital's most culturally diverse districts—and certainly its most colorful. Paint-by-numbers conventillo homes, built by Italian immigrants and daubed with vibrant primaries, give the neighborhood a lively air. Caminito Street, La Boca's most popular drag, is particularly rich in these shared tenements—but it's also rich in oglers. Away from Caminito's throngs, the colors might not be quite as loud, but creativity abounds throughout the district—painters and sculptors of all stripes have transformed the neighborhood into an artistic hub. For a look at modern La Boca art, head for the galleries at Fundación Proa, which also offers a library, restaurant, and rooftop terrace for a birds-eye perspective on Buenos Aires's luminous playground.
The candy-colored, barn-like homes in Ittoqqortoormilt, Greenland (Arctic-Images / SuperStock)Ittoqqortoormiit, GreenlandScattered across the bleak lunar landscape like a handful of candy drops, the barn-like homes in Ittoqqortoormiit (pronounced it-doc-cut-door-meet) lend a surprising touch of domesticity to one of the world's most desolate regions. Even the interior of the circa-1928 church is as richly colored as its façade. Perched dramatically on a fjord-laced peninsula, the town is the entryway to Northeast Greenland National Park, the world's most northerly and flat-out hugest national park—topping 240 million acres, the park could accommodate more than a hundred Yellowstones. But even without wandering into the beyond, Ittoqqortoormiit provides a keen glance into frontier life in Greenland. The 70 colonists who arrived in the area in 1925 speckled the rugged coastline with houses painted in burnt ochers and royal blues. With a winter that never ends—the sea here is frozen seven months of the year—those warm colors aren't just pretty, they're a psychological necessity.
San Francisco's Chinatown (Jeff Whyte / Dreamstime.com)San Francisco, CaliforniaDiverse and unrepentantly eccentric, the City by the Bay wears its colors proudly, from the displays of elaborately embroidered cheongsamin Chinatown windows to the Seven Sisters, the famous lineup of delicately-tinted Victorian homes on Alamo Square. For more freestyle paint jobs, check out the murals at Clarion Alley, a narrow sliver connecting Mission and Valencia Streets. A multiplicity of art styles drawn in innumerable hues covers the walls and fences of the alleyway, providing the (mostly) consenting community with a dynamic gallery of homegrown creations. If that's still too restrained for your tastes, join a million other revelers at the annual San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade (usually held on the last full weekend of June). It's the biggest LGBT event in the country, and, as such, one of the biggest tsunamis of color on the planet.
Willemstad, Curaçao (Federico Donatini / Dreamstime.com)Willemstad, CuraçaoFrom a distance, Willemstad's waterfront looks positively unreal, like a doll city plunked down into the Caribbean. The oldest section of Curaçao's capital dates back to 1634, and the commingling of Dutch architecture and a Caribbean palette has resulted in a riotous cityscape rivaling the town's own Carnival for vibrancy. One island legend claims that the painting began in earnest when a Dutch governor proscribed white houses, believing the tropical sun's powerful glare a medical risk. See the buildings up close and then cross the Swinging Old Lady (the local name for the pontoon-supported, 1888 Queen Emma Bridge) for a view from the across the river. Gouverneur de Rouville restaurant has a terrace with the perfect vantage point (the wide selection of rums is also a plus).
Longyearbyen, Norway (Science Faction / SuperStock)Longyearbyen, Svalbard, NorwayAt Longyearbyen's latitude, about the only warm things around are the rusty reds of many of this coal-mining town's homes. The capital of the Svalbard archipelago lies a full 12 degrees north of the Arctic Circle—which means it's not just Nordic, it's the most Nordic of all Nordic lands (according to its proud inhabitants, anyway). The rows of identically constructed homes—done up in rich, Crayola oranges, blues, and reds—stand out starkly from the snow-strewn hills and crevasses of Longyearbyen's otherworldly surroundings. The entrances to some defunct mines remain open to visitors, with Mine No. 2B being particularly endorsed. "As a matter of fact," Norway's official tourism guide blithely asserts, "this mine is where Santa Claus lives." Those rosy homes? That's where the elves work.
Cape Town's Bo-Kaap district (Photononstop / SuperStock)Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, South AfricaSettled by the successors of African and South Asian slaves brought by the Dutch beginning in the 1500s, and subsequently influenced by the migration of Islam, Cape Town's Bo-Kaap district has over time developed into a candyland of lemon, lime, and grape-tinged houses. For more on the neighborhood's past, head to the Bo-Kaap Museum, housed in a historic building largely unchanged from its original 1760s form. Then trek up Wale Street and turn off onto Chiappini Street for a particularly striking row of Dutch and Georgian terraces, cheery aquas and pistachio greens, and glimpses of the surrounding cloud-draped hills.
Gdansk, Poland (Travel Library Limited / SuperStock)Gdańsk, PolandA millennial city that wears its age proudly, Gdańsk has a dazzling collection of preserved structures that tower above the cobbled streets of the Główne Miasto (Main Town). While the Baltic port has more than its share of stoic structures (check out St. Mary's Church, which, with its 256-foot tower, is purportedly the largest brick church on earth), parts of the city are draped in surprisingly upbeat tones. The sentinel-like mansions along Długa, the main pedestrian drag, form solid walls of peach, olive, and mauve. Their combination of jovial colors and dignified sculpture and ornamentation reflects Gdańsk's split personality: Centuries after the height of its prosperity as a trading hub in the 1500s, the city fell hard under the spell of collectivism. The Solidarity movement that eventually helped topple communism in Europe began in the city's shipyards, and today Gdańsk is still on the ascent after its postwar dreariness.
The neighborhood of Quiapo in Manila (Hrlumanog / Dreamstime.com)Quiapo, Manila, PhilippinesAt the center of the Philippine capital, the market-rich neighborhood of Quiapo packs in a bewildering variety of cultural, culinary, and corporeal colors that makes the rest of Manila pale in comparison. On any given day, the rugged streets fill beyond bursting with vendors hawking traditional gold-trimmed barong tagalog shirts, sweet sun-yellow mangoes from the island of Guimaras, and fierysiling labuyo (birds-eye chilis) in Christmassy reds and greens. But the real star of Quiapo's dappled streets is the classic Philippine jeepney. Modeled after American army jeeps, the flamboyant minibuses are ubiquitous on the capital's crowded roadways, and each is a unique work of art. The vehicles are painted with slogans, patterns in blaring primary colors, and gaudier-than-life portraits of pop stars and cultural icons—think Mother Mary riding shotgun, with Madonna bringing up the rear.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
10 Great Lakeside Retreats
10 great lakeside retreats
By Anne Bannas | Smarter Travel – Wed, Jul 18, 2012 4:06 PM EDT
Whether their waters are glass-like or rippling towards the shore, lakes have a calming effect and make for an ideal vacation base. So launch your canoe or settle into an Adirondack chair and get ready to take in the glistening views. From rustic luxury in the woods of Maine to down-low waterside cabins in Washington, these 10 lakeside retreats are sure to mellow you out all summer long.
Lake Huron (Mackinac Island), Michigan
Great For: Island seclusion
What's Relaxing: The simple pleasures of a bygone era
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Things to Do: Because no cars are allowed on the island, you have to get around by foot, bicycle, or horse-drawn carriage. No matter how you explore the island, head to the Mackinac Island Butterfly House, admiring blooming lilacs or lady slippers along the way, or shop for handmade fudge in town in between strolling through the many shops lining Main Street.
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