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Güell Park

The Güell Park started out with a development project. Güell opened in 1922 this place as a great tourist attraction for visitors. The Park Guell had one of the best Spanish gp1architects of that moment: Antonio Gaudi.

The park is a place where definitely you can relax, enjoy the sights that offer tourists great views of the Barcelona city. The best way you can travel is trekking. This is the way you can enjoy the beauty of the park with your friends or your family.

Güell Park is a fantastic land that combines the natural and the man-made. At first, the Güell Park was known as a residential garden built by A.  Gaudi for his patron, Güell .
Until 1922, the park hasn’t such a great fame, it had not enjoyed of an immediate success. The Park is located on  a hill,in the north part of the Barcelona city to give tourists excellent views of the city.

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Describing the park, we could mention it has some fantastic pavilions, stairways and columned halls. There is also a great  lizard that divides the grand stairway, being the most photographed thing of the park. The lizard is known as a small symbol of the Park.

As far as I know, most of tourists wanted to make more interesting their holiday and tried this chance.

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix

The Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix is a great touristic destination for your familylvmgr. It’s a place where you can eat, have fun, ride and race. Its has been voted as being the best attraction of Las Vegas city for a long while.

Las Vegas Mini Gran Prix has 4 interesting tracks which include the Go Kart Road Course, Kiddie Karts, Sprint Kart Speedway, and the Adult Gran Prix. This park has a super Tornado Twister and a Dragon Roller Coaster for tourists of all ages. There are several restaurant where you can eat some delicious food.

As well as parents can enjoy this and go karts, their children could play on the kiddie karts and junior roller coaster.

Definitely every tourist who come here will love this kind of adrenaline, a place where you can test your abilities, skills. This type of actions represents something that you can rarely do in your mini-holiday.
It is a must-see attraction because you can visit it  7 days per week beginning with 10:00 o’clock. Share your experience to your friends and make this destination more attractive and renowned all around the world.

Posted on April 19th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Santa Lucia Hill

Cerro Santa Lucía is a hill encountered in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Santa Lucicerro santa luciaa Hill (Cerro Santa Lucia) has an altitude of 630 m and a surface around  65.300 square meters. Its first name was Huelén, given by the previous inhabitants and it has been dating since 13 December 1541,  the day in which Pedro de Valvidia conquered the hill. This year was also called the year of the conquest.

Today The Santa Lucia Hill has several squares,statues, fountains,monuments, paths and a small church, things that travellers could visit in a small journey into the history of this place.
The Santa Lucia Hill gives you some amazing and interesting views towards the center of the Santiago city. There are many ways to find parts of the city’s beauty.

In the North area of the Santa Lucia Hill there is an incredible old fortress that today has become a castle, the Hidalgo Castle.

Many decorative objects that can enhance the beauty of the hill are situated exactly in the center of it:  spanish shield sculpted in stone, the gate of the main access and many others that you will see once you get there.

It is not a waste of money or time because the entrance is free and it is also a good way to spend your time. Good luck in your mini-holiday.

Posted on April 17th, 2009 by admin  |  1 Comment »

Atlanta History Center

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The Atlanta History Center is a must-see destination because of its incredible and interesting history. The center includes a museum, five gardens, a library and temporary exhibits. a

The center also includes community events, such as holiday events and summer camps for children. If you have decided to do this type of journey, make sure all attractions are available for you.

Most of the great changes that took place in the history center occurred between 1983 and 1991.  For example, the historical society decided to build new facility that would house a large museum and many other things based on professional growth.  That’s why its name was changed from Atlanta Historical Society in Atlanta History Center.

The center is renowned through different parades. A few years ago here have been brought some important collections of soldiers uniforms, several  weapons and different artifacts, attracting more and more tourists around the world.
The five gardens (Quarry Garden, Cherry Sims Asian American Garden, etc) are another touristic attraction. You could visit it in you free time. An important thing is what you see there, not what another people say about it.

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

City of Rhodes

The Medieval City of Rhodes is a  perfect destination which has a lot to say rctourists,an impressive history.  Tourists would like to visit one of the oldest buildings in the medieval city as the arsenal of the Knights.  The Rhodes city is a port and a trading center for agricultural products.

Your journey around this medieval city will give you different news and historical events that took place here, offering to your holiday a cultural image of the city.

Since its history about 2400 years, the Rhodes city has been always fascinating and impressing its visitors.

Nowadays, the city offers tourists attractive beaches to visit, modern buildings instead of medieval,  traditional fountains,Gothic churches, all you need in a perfect holiday.

The medieval buildings are situated in the old section as: Grand Hospital of the Knights and the Palace of the Grand Masters, and the modern buildings in the  modern section; it contains the government buildings, hotels,the theatre, etc.

The city today is situated near the place  where the ancient city of Rhodes was.

Posted on April 13th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Two Oceans Aquarium

toaThe Two Oceans Aquarium represents a wonderful view under the sea. It is located in Cape Town, South Africa. The main creatues you will find here are the colourful fishes, turtles,sharks even frogs.

In surrounding area there is apenguin pool where children love to come, they can even have fun on a beautiful child play area. Especially it is necessary in holiday. Besides penguins, there are more than 300 creatures, making the aquarium the largest and the greatest from South Africa.
The Two Oceans Aquarium is open every day for tourists. It is called like this because here the Atlantic and Indian Ocean meet.

The most important exhibits are: The Oceans of Contrast, Indian Ocean gallery, the Sappi River Meander, etc.
The aquarium is a great popular attraction and it also offers a unique chance for sports entertainment spending a while under the watchful eye of one of the aquarium’s divers.

The aquarium remains the most important touristic destination of  the city.

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

The Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is a monument-tomb which was built by the Shah Jahan Emperor. This indiabuilding is located in the city of Agra, in India. Nowadays, this monument is the most

famous and most visited from all over the world, attracting annually over 2 million tourists. It was built in 17th century and it has important and expensive stones, marble, which is in the building’s dome.

As a monument built for love, the Taj Mahal was finished after 20 years since the construction began.  The Taj Mahal  has the following dimensions: 186 x 186 feet with 4 corners truncated forming an octagon. Around the mausoleum there are many other buildings and behind it the Jamuna river.

Around the Taj Mahaj monument there are a lot of decorative flowers and may other plants giving a fascinate charm to the builindg’s beauty. The walls inside the monument are decorated with Islamic symbols.
All features of the Taj Mahal are included in your holiday plans, so don’t miss the opportunity to visit something you can rarely see.

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by admin  |  1 Comment »

The National Mall

The National Mall is located in the capital of the United States, Washington DC. Designed by L’Enfant in 1791, this building is about 1600 meters high.washington DC
This mall includes the area between the Lincoln Memorial and Capitolium.
This building from Washington DC is considered for many of tourists the center of holiday’s destinations from Washington DC. The area where the National Mall is situated stretches two and a half miles. Besides this, there are many renowned buildings as the National Museum of Natural History, the National Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian Institution building.
The National Mall has been dating since the capital exists.  Around the Mall there are many types of plants and fountains that enrich the views. The great Mall makes the city the most impressive because once you get there, you will realize it is a destination that is hard to visit. Getting photos from a very visited place in the world seems to be the same idea as in Disneyland .

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

CN Tower

The CN Tower is situated in Toronto, Canada. It is a great attraction, a must-seCN Towere destination where just courageous people can reach it. Just because it has more than 550 meters, the building’s height provokes you to eliminate all your fears because it is really worth.The CN Tower is the centre of tourism from Canada and it is the most famous and recognizable from this country. Once you reached the top, you will enjoy a spectacular view. Annuly more than 1 million tourists come here trying to see if they can muster up the courage to walk across the see-through glass floor.

If you saw all these things, try to relax a bit here. At first, you will find a restaurant, the only where you can eat from pleasure, enjoying city’s sight. It’s really interesting at this restaurant that from 70 to 70 minutes the restaurant beggins to rotate.  It’s really a famous tower because it won many titles as  World’s Tallest Building, World’s Longest Metal Staircase World’s Highest Wine Cellar.  The other employees take part to the realization of this amazing and attractive place making possible a free time spent in holiday, with a plenty of entertainments, must-see exhibits and other attractions of the city. There are more reasons why National Railway built  this tower but this is the most important.

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Alpine Zoo

Alpine Zoo is the most famous zoo from all around the world because it is situalpine zoo switzated at the highest altitude. Being situated in Innsbruck city from Switzerland, this zoo gives to the city a great number of visitors every year . Tourists who travel here would like to see such an amazing variety of wild animals of the alpine habitat.
This alpine zoo hosts more than 150 species of animals and over 1500 animals. When we say “alpine zoo” we think to the revelation of the alpine life’s history.
The great number of animals you will se is formed by lynxes, bears, capricorns, etc. The thing that these animals couldn’t be seen closer, gives you an unique fascination, a great holiday adventure.
The  is opened every day from 9 o’clock to 17-18, depending on the season. Numerous parking spaces are available for zoo visitors.
This kind of journey offers to you the chance to discover new things about animals wildlife, and also being here means to relax a bit with your friends.
Here come annualy even experts who know better this type of informations.You could be one of them if you follow them. Surely when you will get there you will understand why these animals should be released into the wild.
Here animals are educated and even if sometimes their behaviour seems to be a little interesting and funny , it means that their housing comes to an end.
Un unforgettable experience you will have once you came here. Don’t miss it and try to combine your joy with a great holiday.

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »