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The Children’s Museum of Houston

The Children’s Museum of Houton is situated in North America. There are no houston museummore and no less than 14 exhibits, attracting annually hundred of tourists.

Children’s Museum had the purpose to  create an attractive place where children and tourists from all over the world can engage others around them and create a place where you can enjoy of this journey. Only children over 12 years old can come here. The building’s view is between a museum and a playhouse.

Museum’s things to visit are in touch with children’s life. A very interesting exhibit express the village of Yalalag. Another spectacular exhibit is called Tot Spot helping build motor skills among different forms of play.
The museum offers for tourists many special shows that must be planned during your visit here.
In the afternoon is when you most feel like having fun because then is the small chance when school trips crowds come here.

Posted on March 21st, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Travel Town Trains Museum

This museum is situated around the Los Angeles chain of mountains. The museum offers to tourists a small train to enrich the los angeles

beauty of the museum’s view.

It was built in 1940 as a important place for travellers to explore some old trains, and opened in 1952. Now, it has over 50

years old since it was constructed.

The  purpose of the great museum was to be a “railroad petting zoo,” to increase the number of tourists in such a beautiful

city as Los Angeles, a city of all opportunities.

We could say that on september 1952, Frederickson started the project of his dream in reality. He succeed in setting some works
to obtain the most famous Travel Town’s first exhibits.

Nowadays, this attractive place is one of the most recognized because of its great number of visitors. Annually, more over 1

million tourists come here, specially people who want to follow some of this examples given; a great art that should not be

missed.

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Dallas World Aquarium

dallas aquarium

Dallas World Aquarium is situated in Dallas, USA, being a very attractive place with an aquarium and a zoo. Here you will see unique plants and animals as monkeys, crocodiles, alligators and many other species of sea turtles which soon could disappear.
sharks, fishes and pinguins are the most recognized and well known by tourists and that’s why such an important attraction as Dalas World Aquarium has all of them. Practically, the aquarium has four areas: Aquarium, Mundo Maya, Rainforest and South Africa separated between them. The Aquarium section has a lot of different kinds of fish species from every corner of the world.
Another section of the great bulding is represented by the Rainforest. As you walk you will be surrounded by huge green trees, bushes, and many other plants.
The South Africa is located outside where are the sweetest animals as penguins. Just if you look at them, everything seems to be ok because their behaviour is really funny .
The Mundo Maya section includes jaguras, snakes, crocodiles, etc. Its has three levels as the Rainforest and each one of them has animals found in their own environment.
In just three hours you will see all the exhibitions from this attractive place. Try this kind of because it is worth to visit it.

Posted on March 17th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre

The Grauman’s Chinese Theatre from Hollywood was opened on 19 May  1927. HollywoodThere came a lot of people and even tourists to see the movie stars and other celebrities. It was amazing. The building is the most famous theatre from all over the world. Millions of visitors come here each.The great theatre was built by Sid Grauman, the man who also built the Egyptian Theatre and the Million Dollar Theatre.
The interior of the theatre is represented by architectural features as a huge dragon, two stone lion-dogs guarding the main entrance and many other features.
If you want to find the movie ticket’s price, go inside and at first, you will be fascinated by the interior of the building, and that’s why you will take your chances even if they are expensive or cheap. It really deserves to see such a beautiful masterpiece.
For years, the aspects of the Theatre were a little changed but the attraction remains the same.It has a huge space, there are 2.200 red seats and the red carpeting is kept in excellent conditions. The Grauman Chinese Theatre rises to 90-feet high and it has two huge coral red columns. Between them,there is a dragon made of stone.
The entrance in this spectacular theatre is presented by two gigantic dragons. This building was, and continue to be one of the most must-see theatres.

Posted on March 16th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Wet’n Wild

Wet’n Wild Water Park from Orlando, USA, is one of the most exciting places for wet'n wildtourists, children specially when they’re in a long holiday. I said that because it takes you a lot of time to visit every corner of this attraction. It offers a variety of multi-passenger tube rides. There are tubes even for two persons.Not a big deal. Its just like a cross between water skiing and surfing. It gives you adrenaline more and more when you get experience. Dynamic effects and lights will make you enjoy this journey.
Every year the Wet’n Wild Water Park hosts parties to increase the number of tourists. It was founded by the George Millay creator  from Orlando in 1977. Even nowadays the Water Park is considered the largest water park from United States. Wet ‘n Wild Orlando was international recognized as the first true water park. It was an area of around 240,000 meters square.
Around this attractive place you will find hotels, every kind of hotels from which you can choose because some of them aren’t so expensive. At just 200 meters away from the water park you will find the first hotel.
If you think to spend your holiday, or even just a day here, your ticket will be no more than 40 dollars. Think once, think twice because it really deserves.

Posted on March 15th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Santa Marie del Fiore

Santa Marie del Fiore is recognized since the Renaissance period and it was compleflorence dometed in 1466.
The building continues to be the third largest dome from the whole world, and it was no less than 4.000.000 bricks. If you want to get a fabulous view that you can’t so often see it, try to reach the top of the dome. The dome is situated nearby the Piazza del Duomo. The architect Filippo Bruneschelli constructed the cathedral’s cupola.
The arches raise to over 75 feet in the air being one of the most beautiful decorations inside the Duomo cathedral from Florence .
Another important and artistic event is that Donatello designed the glass window, depicting the coronation of the Virgin and many other works of significant artists.
For this reasons, Florence offers many spectacular views of the dome, things that tourists can see it just if they come here.
SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE basilica is recognized through its history. We all know for sure that travelling here means to turn back into the the history of Santa Marie del Fiore. Arnolfo di Cambio designed Santa Maria del Fiore as the greatest, the largest Roman Catholic Church that the world has ever known around 1294 year. We could say that its building was inspired from the Panthenon from Rome.
In conclusion, tourism in Italy it’s a chance that shouldn’t be missed once you did a holiday.

Posted on March 14th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Our Dynamic Earth

“Our Dynamic Earth” from Edinburh edinburghwas funded by the Millennium Commissionbuilt as a spiky, white tent-like structure. It attracts annually visitors to have a fabulous and also an
interesting journey through the planet’s history. It you have decided to visit the museum, it wil allow you to see the world in a new way. The journey begins at the State of the Earth, where video clips give updates on the latest weather and births. In The Restless Earth room, you will find news about the power of volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, glaciers and rain forests, everything’s about them.
Our Dynamic Earth has in special three questions: how the world was created, how it works and what’s wrong with it.
Travellers might take a tour back in the history and get in touch with the witness of the explosion of the stars, which had informations about it. It’s like the journey takes tourists into the history of the stars.
The separate galleries investigate themes such as the immensity of geological time compared to the human scale,why the dinosaurs dissapeared, the future of the Earth with unknown events.
Everyone should have a bit of courage to build such an interesting visitors attraction about the story of the Earth.

Posted on March 12th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Millennium Park

The Millennium Park is situated in Chicago, from USA and it was opened on 16tmillennium parkh July, 2004.  Is one of the most famous parks and most of tourists see it just when they look at it. It’s a very creative landscape that you should not miss it.  But at first, the park was originally conceived in 1997.
It’s a way how the surrounding area can develop its beauty. Besides that, there are restaurants, hotels that makes you to enjoy every moment.
The Millennium Park project started to be one of the most attractive millennium projects of the world. With monumental sculpture and landscape design of the most recognized  artists, architects as Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, etc we could say that a holiday here could be exactly what you need.
The Millennium Park’s most remarkable features include the Jay Pritzker Pavillion, the Crown Fountain and the Kappor Sculpture. It’s good to know this thing because it’s a way how you can develop your thinking. About the Pavilion we could mention that it has 4.000 fixed seats.
The Crown Fountain is situated on the west side of the Millennium Park.
The Fountain was designed by the artist Jaume Plensa being a part of the art collection.It consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool.
The Crown Fountain is the favourite of tourists that come here every day. In conclusion every part of the Millennium Park deserves to be visited because each one of them has its magic.

Posted on March 11th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The World of Coca-Cola

World of Coca Cola is situated in Atlanta and is also the most famous and popular sococa cola atlantaft drink from all over the world.
It has the largest collection of Coca-Cola drinks that you’ve ever seen and it is the best known drink of this century meanwhile its history began to be revealed . The World of Coca-Cola from Atlanta was opened in 1990  and it is visited annually by more than 1 million tourists even though this is an indoor attraction.

The attraction from Atlanta contains no more and no less than 1,000 Coca-Cola artifacts presented in chronological order. Travellers are invited to see every corner of the “world”  whose invention, of Coca-Cola, was by Dr. John Pemberton in 1886 .
You will find there exhibits which describe the birth of the Coca-Cola Company including the attraction‘s most prized possession: a 1915 prototype ‘hobbleskirt’ bottle with the distinctive contour shape that is now a recognized icon throughout the world.
As a result, we could mention that guests could have part by their favourite soft drinks. Coca-Cola classic, diet Coke, Sprite, Barq’s and Minute Maid Orange.
The entire first level is dedicated to everything’s about Coca-Cola drinks or including t-shirts, jackets, dinnerware, , lapel pins, Coca-Cola polar bear and many other toys with a limited edition of collection.
All I have to say is that there are three levels which could be seen better just if you take your chances and have decided to do a small trip inside of it.

Posted on March 10th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is situated in Missouri. Other people called it botanical garden “The Shaw’s Garden” . This attractive place was founded in 1859 being one of the oldest botanical garden from United States. The Garden is a center for botanical and scientist research. Its area has around 80 hectares and it’s near the Tower Grove Park, another important tourist attraction.
Every year come here a lot of tourists from all over the world to see this place devoted to many cultural festivals as the Japanese Festival and the Chinese Culture Days by the St. Louis Chinese Culture DC. During the festival travellers will see some elements of culture’s botanics like arts,music, food, etc. When the fesival began, it was known as  The Shaw’s Garden.
This Botanical Garden  is considered one of the top three in the world. rare collections of botanical and historical materials:  architecturally significant buildings, fountains, and the famed Seiwa-en Japanese Garden.
The dome of the botanical garden is 70 feet high and 175 in diameter, permitting tall palm trees to tower  above the tropical view of waterfalls. It deserves to be visited because here you will see around 1.200 different species of exotic plants and trees . Temperature are from 64 to 74 degrees and average humidity is 85 %.
While you visit it, every tourist feel like in a jungle when they see all these kind of flowers, orchids, etc.

Posted on March 9th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »