Arabian Canal

A wonderful place to spend your holiday, see around the Arabian Canal, this canal will be the world's longest artificial canal, with 75 km long. The dig of the Canal will start near the Dubai Marina area smooth inland around the massive area for planned Jebel Ali International Airport and wind its way to enter the sea once again at the outer end of Palm Jebel Ali. Dubai Waterfront forms the first phase of the larger Arabian Canal effort.The Arabian Canal will give rise to some truthfully astonishing developments even by Dubai property standards. The delta forms the base from which Dubai Waterfront will extend several kilometres out into the sea, far away from Palm Jebel Ali. The Palm Jebel Ali will form about a fifth of the enormous reclaimed component of the project. The Dubai Waterfront took two years to plan and is bigger than Manhattan and Beirut in size. The first phase of the project will concentrate on building Madinat Al Arab, a downtown type metropolis.

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Big Pineapples

In the beginner of this year, I had the pleasure of being inside of a pineapple. This 17m huge fruit is located at Summerhill farm Bathurst, near Grahamstown. Eastern Cape. South Africa. I’ve enjoyed the experience, and I surprised my self when this week I saw on the TV that in Australia there’s also one.

It seams that this Big Australian Pineapple is a famous tourist attraction and is situated near Nambour, Queensland. And is 16m high, and was build originally in 1971.
Well, maybe next year on my next holidays I will visit this twin brother.

Africa UMOJA, The spirit of togetherness

Africa UMOJA, The spirit of togetherness. The Hottest shown in town, they dance like demons, sing like angels and drum like magicians possessed.
Want to enjoy a wonderful show? Take a break and watch UMOJA, The spirit of togetherness. It tells the story of the African tribes until nowadays.

Check the tour link to see if it’s on your country!
So far it’s planned for Hamilton, Canada on the 8 of Feb. and from the 12 of Feb. until beginning of Mar. and Paris from the 4 of JUNE to 8 JUNE 2008 at the Folies Bergère.

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Funny Airplane...

Are you planning to go on holidays shortly? and what if while reaching the airport the aeroplane that was waiting for you had this look?

Imagine that during your flight you meet this aeroplane. Even though having several years, this aeroplane still shows his beauty.

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Rand Airport, South Africa (12-2007).

Alquimia do Mar

Are you in Portugal? Near the beautiful city of Aveiro? Take a couple of friends and enjoy the pleasure of the Aveiro river.

Alquimia do Mar has to offer several services: River site seeing, sea side seeing, fishing on the Atlantic and nautical sport events.

Weather forecast for Portugal

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Special offers, only at - hotelreservations.com

Hotel Reservations
Either is hotels, flights, cars, cruises, vacation rentals or vacation packages, on the hotelreservations.com site you can find anything you want. Check out for pricing, always warranties low price at great offers. Go on, it’s very easy and cheep, you can book it online. Just need to select a country of destination, check in and check out day and the people that you want to take with you. If you don’t find the city or the discount hotel you are looking you can call the 1-800-447-4136. (US & Canada) or Worldwide (1) 817-333-5105. And all your needs will be attended.

Winter season…

Now that Winter season is establish at Europe it’s time to take some quality time with your family. Why not just for a weekend, take your small “most care” family group and rent a small house or apartment on the mountains, hill or forest. Think about, and enjoy it with your family.

Hotel Reservations and more...

Today I woke up with a will of doing something new for my Christmas holidays, thought a while and after reading my newspaper, precisely in the leisure area, I saw that they were doing publicity to a site of hotel reserves called hotelreservations.com. And according to the grapevine it seems that it’s reliable. We are going to have a look. A great advantage is the possibility of choose the Web Site in our language and currency. So let's look for a hotel in the city where I am going stay, select the city, the date of check-in and check-out, the nº of persons who go with me and this step is done. If you compare prices with other sites you will conclude that they are very competitive. For raisin the night it was very easy, now how do I arrive there? I need to catch an aeroplane, it’s easy, First of all what air company will I select? Second step choose my city and the city of destiny, date of departure and date of return. I can do the same with flights, do a simulation on several air companies and choose the best for my pocket. Now that I already have a flight, how do I manage to travel during my holidays? I am going to rent a car! Once again, thanks to this stunning site I can rent also a vehicle, indicate which city I intend to lift the vehicle, the day of the lifting and the day of delivery, the type of car and finally I just need to choose the rent a car company. I can always choose vacation rentals, or can decide for vacation packages; here I can find great benefit in choosing vacation packages. Pick a location: Cancun, London, Los Angeles, Paris or Rome, you name it. Indicate from when to when I will be there and search. Ways of payment, nothing easier than using Visa, mastercard or American express. After all that, can I ask more? Clearly not, I known that I can count on with the security of this web site.

Hotel Reservations
Hotel Reservations

Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom)

Admire this colossus, the Cologne’s Dom cathedral, also called High Cathedral of St. Peter and Maria, is the one of the attraction of Cologne and Germany’s tallest cathedral. Built in 1248 by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden orders, and on the exact place were in 870, a complete Carolinian cathedral stood. The reason for the new construction was that, in 1164, under Arch-bishop Rainald von Dassel from Milan the mortal remains of the three Wiseman were carried to Cologne to rest in peace. At the beginning of construction went quickly, but due to a lack of funds was forced to stop until 1842. and under the roules of the Prussian King who resume the construction. In 1880 Kaiser Wilhelm I dedicated the this building, it was at that time, the largest building in the world with 8,000 m² of floor space and 157 m tall. Since 1996, the Dom has belonged to UNESCO’s World Cultural Heri- tage listing. The Dom accommodates treasures of art, which anyone can see, for instance, the Gold Shrine with the remains of the Three Wiseman (c. 1200) and the Gero Cross (c. 970), a monumental cross and the oldest German Renaissance work in the west. There is also the colourful stained-glass, the beautiful choir chairs, the Milan Madonna or the Dom painting from Stefan Lochner (The Alter of the City Patrons from 1450) can not be passed up. recommends the treasure vault and climbing the 95m tall tower, where one can delight a magnificent view of Cologne.
You can visit daily from 6 am to 7.30 pm except on devine services. For more information about it please cheack the "Domforum" opposite the main portal.

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nicecity.de

WORLD’S LONGEST ZIP SLIDE!

Are you on vacation? Are you in South Africa? Are you at Sun City Resort? Great now you can test how far your adrenalin goes. With this exciting adventure activity: A ride on the PRONUTRO ZIP 2000, the longest zip slide in the world. The zip slide is 280 meters high, two kilometres long, and can reaches the speed of 140 kilometres per hour and guarantees a four minutes of pure adrenalin you have never imagined. The zip slide respect all necessary safety measures. Secured in a harness and suspended below a free running trolley that is attached to a steel cable experiences the feeling of flying and acceleration as you slide down the wire. At some parts of the track you can have 100m high and at others you will fly only at 4.5m above the ground. The cable runs from the top of the 280m high covering 2 km until the other side.
On the end of the ride, your speed will slow down as you go up the hill, and then roll back to the lowest point of the wire where you get off the ride. There are single or couple slides available so you can go alone or with someone to give you some courage… or not! This adventure activitie can be done by young people since the age of 12, making it more fun for the whole family. The start of the zip slide is about 5 minutes from Sun City Resort.
Try it.....

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tourismnorthwest.co.za

FRED OLSEN EXPRESS - The CANARIAS maritime revolution

Since the creation of "Ferry Gomera" company in 1974, Fred Olsen has keep his conviction by the development of the sea communicationses in the Canary Islands located on the Atlantic Ocean, Grand Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma

A dream of united them between his nearer points, at the greater possible speed, and offering the maximum comfort came through. In particular, on the 8 of July of 1974 with the inauguration of the line San Sebastián of the Gomera. And the Fred Olsen marine commitment with the canary community began. Over the years, and consolidating the service between Tenerife and the Gomera a stage of expansion by all Canary Islands began. For about 25 years needed, Fred Olsen, has managed with his marine activity the objective to be present in all the Canary Islands, offering what has been promised with his 5 vessels: Bonanza Express, Bencomo Express , Benchijigua Express, Bocayna Express and Bentago Express: comfort, speed and quality on watch. Nowadays, Fred Olsen Express works with five marine lines leading the interinsular market of passengers and load, transporting more than 2.700.000 people, 550,000 cars, and more than 200,000 vehicles of load to the year. A marine service composed solely by fast boats of last generation. A spectacular concept of transport that maintains unites the seven Canary Islands, turning to Fred Olsen Express in your Better Company.

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fredolsen.es

Greatest Places - Iguazu Falls

Iguazú Falls, called Foz do Iguaçu in Brazilian, and Cataratas del Iguazú in Spanish, lie between Argentina and Brazil border and are considered by UNESCO as World Natural Heritage Site.
Higher than Niagara Falls, twice as wide with 275 cascades with the form of a horseshoe extends over nearly two miles of the Iguazu River, Iguazú Falls are the result of a volcanic eruption which left yet another large crack in the earth. During the rainy season, between November and March, the rate of water flow over the falls may reach 450,000 cubic feet (12,750 cubic m) per second. It's the tropical location that makes him beautyfull. Four times the width of Niagara Falls, Iguazu Falls are divided by various islands into separate waterfalls. One of the best known is Devil's Throat, or Garganta del Diablo with its perpetual spray high over the falls. Other notable falls are the San Martin, Bossetti, and Bernabe Mendez.

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greatestplaces.org

Playas de Santa Eulária - Playa de S'Argamassa

For those who still have some holidays, they can find it in Ibiza what they are looking for.
Very close to Cala Pada and reached along the same route, following the signs on the road which leads from Santa Eularia. You can use for transportation your private car, bicycle, there are bus and launch services during the summer season, it's at 18 kilometres from Ibiza, 3 kilometres from Santa Eularia
This is a section of the coast flanked by marine banks, with different points suitable for bathing and a small sandy beach in the middle. this areas of natural sand are combined with rocky sections and There's a man-made protective platform suitable for sunbathing with hammocks and sunshades. Also of sand and rocks, very well suited for snorkelling. The gradient from the beach is gentle and the depth does not reach 2 metres until quite some way out.

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