Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Sakaiminato, Japan - Comics city

Sakaiminato is the port city of Tottori Prefecture - southwest of Honshu, Japan. Sakaiminato will remain quiet as many other coastal cities without the cartoon characters appear throughout the streets.
Many people visit Sakaiminato just a few hours while in transit at the port for awaiting unloading cargo ships. Many of them surprised where drawings on the walls, statues, posters, banners and all kinds with the same theme is comic.

"It seems streets for children" - Detlve, a German tourists astonished when he first arrived in Sakaiminato. When waiting for a taxi, he also saw the street lamps shaped like giant ball of eyes watched the movements of the people. Everything is funny shapes from ice cream to the water tank.
300 km away from Osaka, Sakaiminato is only less than 40,000 population and still have little information you can find on the internet. This is where the fishing boats returning from a long voyage offshore and marine products from both major contributors to the city's industry.
Sakaiminato is the hometown of famous artist Shigeru Mizuki. Step into the streets, go to the station, the Mizuki’s characters are painted on chairs stay on the ticket counter. At supermarket, you can also find food items on the shelves with the outer shell is vivid drawings inspired by the works of Mizuki.
You will be familiar with the character images in the series GeGeGe no Kitaro Kitaro, he had long hair and ears covered obscured one eye pretty cute. But if you take a closer look and realized the other images of Kitaro with long tongues can wrap around the other creatures, that's when you have to come closer to the Mizuki and Sakaiminato city.

Monday, March 7, 2016

Abu Dhabi luxury and safe city

Abu Dhabi is a green, luxury, safe city. It has a lot of luxury building such as: $3 Billion Emirates Palace Hotel. They have a lot of effort to energy efficiency, waste reduction, water protection. It is great place for tourists. If you have chance, you need to visit it one time.
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Sunday, March 6, 2016

Experience with winter in Korea



Travelers often think of the red path in the fall or the petals of cherry blossom when spring comes. However, the Korea in winter also makes people shaken by quiet and dreamy whiteness of the snow.
Korean winter is from December to May. Weather is cold and dry, it below minus 100 degrees Celsius sometimes, that is why all over the streets of Seoul becomes strangely quiet at Lunar New Year. Korean Lunar New Year holiday is only 3 days is 30, 1st and 2nd.

These days, they often return to reunite with family, visit relatives and relax after a hard working year. However, a number of shopping malls and amusement parks, or some palace remains open for visitors. Nami Island is one of them. Located at Chuncheon, 50km away from Seoul, Nami Island does not seem to lose bustling.

Nami island
As the filming of the popular TV drama "Winter Sonata", Nami Island is gorgeous in winter with tree-lined streets, towering ancient trees stand out among the clear sky. Traces of rain landed on Nami's snow dunes snow deposited on the pretty little bridges, the wooden steps in front of the restaurant or on the traditional porch welcomes visitors right from the entrance. Tourists can enjoy photography with the snow or try the feeling walk on a frozen river.
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The couple, newly married couples who helped put together walking arm in arm under the trees or leisurely on the bike to enjoy the romantic atmosphere, dreamy at this island. Some fathers, mothers take their children to come here to play the traditional games of Korea as Shuttlecock or yutnori ... After having a relax day, they gathered inside the fireplace or looking into the cafeteria to enjoy a warm bowl of seaweed soup or grilled chicken.

If you want to try the game campaign with snow, visitors can find entertainment venues and it is famous Everland park. Located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, about an hour from Seoul by car, Everland park is indeed "entertainment paradise" when overwhelming to anyone first visit by the majestic and its lively.

With relatively high ticket price of about 48,000 won, but this place is still crowded with visitors, because visitors can play any game which they like. Winter Play Time is one which attracts the children in the Everland park. Active not only by the performance of the famous cartoon character, visitors can try out the limbo games, shaking round play ... or many other games.

However, the most attractive point in the winter at Everland is ski. Unlike other games, ski at Everland always attracted visitors because it is seen as an activity that every Korean people can not be ignored in the cold days. The boys, girl in warm clothes, the colorful wool hat pulled together to enslave tingle up huge ski area, pushing each other on the cars themselves skiing or sitting on the buoy to experience snow game.

Friday, March 4, 2016

7 unique food festival in the world

Below is the seventh festival of food that you should take the time to attend in your travel itinerary.

1. Lobster Festival
 
Lobster Festival is organised as an annual event in Shediac, Westmorland, Canada in July for which will take place on 4 days. Participating in this festival, tourists can visit a place where the lobster was keeping, and know how to caught and process lobster. Moreover, tourists can enjoy the delicious lobster which is the world's most expensive. But on top of that is a chance  to compare your skills in the contest about eating lobster. The festival is an opportunity for Canada to promote their fishing lobster industry. Addition, tourist can see a statue of huge lobster.
 
2. Garlic Festival

Every year, on June, the garlic festival is held in California, USA. As Like other cuisine festivals, garlic festival was held to praise the value and honor people who plant it. Come to here, visitors can enjoy a lot of delicious food which made with garlic as main spices such as garlic pizza, garlic bread, ect... Moreover, the festival has some special foods such as garlic creamy or garlic chocolate .

3. Mushroom Festival

Mushroom festival, is held at the Italian Piedmontese, is the time for the native farmers have a chance to introduce their special and delicious mushrooms. Therefore to this festival, visitors not only can visit the booth mushrooms but also can buy them and bring it to the local restaurant to ask them processed for their dinner. Guests can also buy many kind of the precious and expensive fungus in here.
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4. Oyster Festival

If having an to come to Galway, Ireland in September, visitors will be participating in the unique oyster festival. The festival has a lot of interesting activities such as "the world champion oyster expansion" competition or Miss Oyster Pearl. Holding from 1954 up to date, oyster festival has become one of the oldest festivals in the world. Every year, this festival attracts about 30,000 visitors.


5. Chocolate Festival


Although chocolate festival is held in many countries around the world, the most famous chocolate festival is in its homeland: the beautiful country of Belgium. In this festival, Guests can visit the museum of chocolate or taste the chocolates in more than 2,000 stores. This festival is also known as the festival of "Enjoy chocolate do not know the day or night."

6. Canned meat festival 

Canned meat festival, is held at the beautiful island of Hawaii, where attracts more than 20,000 visitors per year. This festival was born by Spam from 1937, a famous canned meat maker of American. Joining this festival, visitors can enjoy all of Spam as meat products, sauces, sandwiches clamp ... On the streets there are many models with two blue boxes yellow flesh to serve photography needs of people.


7. Watermelon Festival


On the last Sunday of August, watermelon festival was held in the Salmanovo village, Shumen Province of Bulgaria. This is an exciting festival with many exciting games which is related to watermelon such as how to find a biggest or smallest watermelon, watermelon eating contest, blindfold put melon ... However, the activity attract the most participants is the volleyball in the water which is replaced by a watermelon.


Thursday, February 25, 2016

Explore 10 greenest cities in the world



You will have a pleasant experience, a great vacation. If you choose the destination is the greenest city in the list below.

1. Vancouver, Canada

Ranked number one of the world's greenest city is Vancouver in Canada. The strict implementation of action plans to become the world's greenest city by 2020 has brought about this result for Vancouver. As part of the plan, the local council and city residents have attempted to create drastic changes on the issue of waste disposal, ecosystems and carbon management.
2. Cape Town, South Africa
As a result of the application of energy efficiency programs, Cape Town achieved second place in the ranking of the greenest cities in the world. The goal of the program is to reduce energy consumption in urban areas. The city implemented strict regulations on energy reduction, improved transport and street lighting.

3. Abu Dhabi, UAE
Abu Dhabi has made the list because of their efforts to promote waste reduction, water protection and energy efficiency. The city is in compliance with the evaluation system was designed specifically for PRS standard environment and climate. PRS for support to improve the life of people, social and cultural development and the values of the city.

4. Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide is one of Australia's most beautiful cities and one city of Green compliance rules. The city has 29 parks and green hotels. It is also famous city of more than 500 bikes with bike rental for free.

5. Dallas, Texas
Other US cities are also present in the rankings. Dallas is one of the first cities in the United States required to apply green building standards. Up to October 2013, all construction projects commercial and residential construction are required to achieve green building code of the city.

6. Copenhagen, Denmark
Besides the tourist attractions, famous, Copenhagen also has name as one of the greenest cities in the world with the commitment to comply with the high standard of living close to the environment.

7. Portland, Oregon
America's greenest city is Portland, Oregon. This city is increasingly focused on developing environmentally friendly. People in Portland helps this place more famous with local cuisine, materials recycling, carpooling and LEED building standards (International Standards on green architecture).

8. Oslo, Norway
Oslo can be one of the most populous city in Norway, but also the green city. Although the number of population is increasing, but the city authorities still maintain the goal of keeping the green of the environment and the pursuit of sustainable development. Over the years, Oslo is also known as one of the most expensive cities.

9. Freiburg, Germany
What makes Freiburg to become a sustainable green city because the streets here without a car. This may seem surprising for a developed world nowadays. But this city has its own way of managing to maintain a lifestyle as medieval. The city is surrounded by green hills and is famous for spectacular scenery, high standard of living and warm weather all year round.

10. Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt is a beautiful town and charming Switzerland. Located at the foot of the Matterhorn, Zermatt is an ideal place for hiking, climbing and skiing. It seems this city is against the development of a modern infrastructure and transport needs are increasing. Until today, you just met on the streets of Zermatt pedestrians, cyclists, carriages, trolleys and a few electric cars.