GreatEscape2008, the around-the-world travel competition is looking for fifty globetrotting adventurers to take A Blind Date With The World™ and compete for the annual title of The World’s Greatest Travelers™.
The Global Scavenger Hunt™, scheduled for next spring can be your ticket to fulfilling a dream adventure by offering the most intrepid of global travelers a three-week around-the-world travel adventure. Travelers will race from Los Angeles to New York-the long way!
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Post date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 18:37
When we speak of Mexico the picture of bullfights, remnants of the Mayan and Aztec civilization and the Spanish culture comes to our mind. Now Mexico has a new addition to its series of attractions quite alien to the Mexican peppery culture - an ice skating rink and that to the largest in the world.
With much trepidation, the Mexicans used to the warm climes are flocking to the new holiday destination in Mexico City. The rink measures 40 meters by 77 meters with 74 kilometers of tubes feeding...
Post date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 18:36
Indonesia is a Muslim dominated country but that didn’t stop the country from having one of the tallest statues of Jesus. The 32-meter-high statue was built by Ciputra, a real estate developer in one of its residential estate in the North Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. The statue was built over three years with 25 tonnes of metal fibre and 35 tonnes of steel and cost five billion rupiah($540,000).
The statue of white-robed Jesus stands tall with his upraised hands beckoning people to take his...
Post date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 18:35
Some people would do anything to get a drink and that I mean in a very positive way. They can travel long and hard and find the most unusual location to make sure that their days do not end up dry. In fact there is nothing like the will of a man in love and a man looking for a drink. Well, that may not be the best comparison to make but it’s true. So the people of South Africa have found a unique and very special destination to quench their thirst with a mug of beer. They have found it in a...
Post date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 18:28
Fancy a meal with the dead? If yes, then don’t forget to pay a visit to the New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad, India. Apart from its eclectic menu which includes milky tea and buttery rolls, its claim to fame is the presence of the graves between the tables!
The restaurant dates to the 1950s, where initially K.H. Mohammed opened a tea stall outside the cemetery. Krishan Kutti Nair was his partner and he helped to operate the outlet. Nair says the business gradually grew and the stall kept...
Post date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 18:27
So are you ready to get in a hotel and have some eatables over there which gives you a feeling of death and if you have not seen such hotel in your life, now here is one such hotel for you guys in China. You can experience a completely different world by coming in this particular hotel.
A Chinese lady has started a hotel which have gives you a feeling of graveyard as a result visitors of that hotel likely to have a thought of death.
It was mentioned in a recent published report that -
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Post date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 18:26