The Dinner in the Sky

 

 

In Las Vegas, there is certainly an activity that is a must-try. This is the Dinner in the Sky, or the opportunity to dine, at 55 meters in height.

It may sound like a normal setting, but the catch is that, you will dine at 55 meters outdoors! The chairs are tables in where customers are accommodated, is secured from hooks and lifted from the ground.

Each dinner has a maximum of 22 persons, in addition to the 5 waiters. The cost of this unique experience is $249 per person and includes a welcome drink, a champagne toast, and the dinner itself .

The Loire Valley in France

A journey of 600 kilometers IS far reserved for tourists who like to take a bike to appreciate the sights, sounds and scents of the lush Loire Valley in France. This suggests the  support of tourism and different ecological sites in the Loire. They encourage tourist to venture on bike paths that is fully equipped and furnished in the beautiful valley. You can also witness the river that bathes the most famous castles in the world.

Paths of different lengths and difficulty: from 7 to 150 kilometers of trails for those who want to discover the land of castles and riding to the ocean to the mouth of the Loire. You can start in Orleans, Blois, Tours, Angers and Nantes, and maybe try to use some of the services designed for tourists on two wheels, like the Cyclopedia. A cyclopedia is a browser that is rented in tourist offices (in the stretch of 65 km between Gennes and Montjean sur Loire) and allows you to precisely follow the paths, taking advantage of information and guidance that have been specifically charged.

Cruising in the Patagonia

If you like to travel in details and indulge in a travel that is full of emotions, then a beautiful cruise on the ice of the Chilean Patagonia might be for you.

One option is to explore the Quintupeu fjord, the old and unique bed of a glacier surrounded by mountains, with lush vegetation. The travel starts from the Chinquihue terminal to navigatating through the archipelago of Llanquihue and the pace of Queullin. Stop for the night at the point where the German ship Dresden dropped anchor in the First World War. On the next day, you can go through the Hornopirén Canal, then visit the village of Rio Negros. Still at sea through the Gulf of Ancud and the Canal Chidhuapi, you can finally sail off to the town of Calbuco.

Aboard the Skorpios II, while admiring the Chilean coast, you can also taste the local gastronomic delicacies: wine, fish, poultry and red curanto (a dish of meat, seafood and potatoes flavored with rhubarb and cabbage cooked in a hole in the ground).

The cost of cabins range from $171 to $238 for the inner double suites.

 

The Brooklyn Folk Festival

The Brooklyn Folk Festival has come to the 4th edition of the wave of enthusiasm last year, when rows of spectators were expected to enter the premises where live bands played.

Bands of musicians, and groups of girls, dressed in long skirts for the occasion, dance to the rhythm of the traditional American music. But since in New York, where much of the population is of Hispanic origin, the festival is multicultural. There are also performances of Latin music, such as the involvement of the Conga Libre Radio Jarocho.

This year, the Brooklyn Folk Festival has moved, and will be held in downtown Brooklyn, with the presence of more than 30 bands to play live folk music of all types (old-time string-band music, folk, blues, bluegrass, klezmer, Caribbean and Balkan folk music).

The District of Shibuya in Tokyo

The district of Shibuya is one of the most famous neighborhoods of the capital. It is known for the great mass of young boys and girls who crowd the streets for its trendy shops. The district of Shibuya is also a crossroads for the world’s most photographed, and a the perfect place for hotels and night clubs that animate the nightlife.

Shibuya Crossing, across the station of the same name , is a “scramble crossing”, where it stops traffic vehicle, stops coming from any direction, and pedestrians can cross the streets in any direction, even diagonally. Shibuya has developed especially in the last 30 years, in the wake of some shopping malls and fashion stores. Perhaps the most famous of all is the 109, where there are about 100 fashion stores in all of its 10 floors. This served as the backdrop to the emergence of some urban culture, such as Kogal.

A City that Looks Like a Kingdom in India

Udaipur is fashionable. Chosen as destination choice of 2009 according to the magazine Travel & Leisure, Udaipur surprises with its magical atmosphere between lakes, canals and palaces that seem taken from a story.

Udaipur looks like a small kingdom, immersed in all its magnificence in a city dominated by the huge silhouette of towers, forts and palaces.

At the foot of the mountains Aravalli, in a colorful valley south of Rajasthan, Udaipur is known as the City of Lakes or Venice of the East, by the way the city adapts to rivers, canals and mirrors of water. But besides the natural beauty, Udaipur amount varied wonders of the past architectural domain Rajput, a period where many palaces were built.

Udaipur is famous for its palaces along the many lakes, or even in the midst of them. The current hotel Lake Palace is an example of adaptation to changing times, a housing estate on the Lake Pichola. Other palaces of Udaipur remain accessible to the public as museums such as the magnificent City Palace Udaipur, a number of palatial buildings along the lake with balconies offering unsurpassed panoramic views.

Udaipur is accessible by road, rail or air, through an airport 24 kilometers from the center, connected to major cities in India.

A Hill with 863 Temples in India

Hill Satrunjaya in Palitana (India) is the most sacred pilgrimage sites of the religion of Jainism , present in India Eastern, Central and South West. Jainism, Palitana is a sacred place where the hill is literally covered with temples in many shapes and sizes:

The Jain religion is the seventh number of the faithful in India , and his teaching promotes among other guidelines that all beings are worthy of respect, therefore the greatest sin is to cause harm to a living being, as well as land or the souls of the water or air.

There are hundreds of temples in Palitana every year visited by millions of tourists, scattered on a hill of 67 meter high average elevation, the sum total amounts to 1,250 temples. The complex concentrates more than 27,000 stone Jain idols and marbles decorating the derasar, or temples of Jainism.

The derasar , are generally of marble, especially the newer ones, the target clear as possible. Derasar temples are characterized by its many marble pillars carved to perfection. As a visitor, the rules of access to derasar are often strict: laundry and almost no use, do not chew, do not have any bleeding wound, among others.

The temples on the hill of Shatrunjaya are carved in marble, and were built by generations of Jains over 900 years. The number of temples is amazing, and being an abode of the gods, no one is allowed to spend a full night in the place.

A Temple Carved into the Mountain in India

In neighborhoods of the city of Ellora in India, there are a number of temples and caves completely carved into the side of a mountain belonging to different periods and religious groups and remain as an impressive example of architecture troglodyte. The most impressive temple is Kailassa, considered the world’s largest sculpture carved from a single stone.

Just to “emerge” Kailassa Temple ( Kailash), some 200,000 tons of stone were removed, carving chisels, which delayed the finish of the work for a century.

The religious complex dedicated to Shiva, a Hindu god, includes a sanctuary with interior rooms also carved into a mountainside, and symbolizing Mount Kailasa, the abode of Lord Shiva in the Himalayas.

The construction techniques are derived from other temples without end in the environment. According to research, the techniques used were terracing blocks from above, while the rocks removed, were probably sold in order to afford the work.

The construction method is very reminiscent of cities like Petra in Jordan, excavated and carved in stone.

 

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