The Most Dangerous Path in The World is in China

You would have ventured to pass through the narrow pieces of wood nailed to the cliff at a dizzy height? Without insurance, no fence, only holding on to a steel chain, bolted directly to the rock at the breast? If so, you can take a chance and buy a ticket to China. Huashan Mountain (Huashan Mountain), which in Chinese means "Flower Mountain", lies 240 kilometers from Xian (Xi'an). This is one of the five sacred mountains of China, and here lies perhaps the most extreme tourist route in the world. If you need adrenaline, forget about rafting and downhill - try it yourself to climb Huashan. Climbing equipment is not needed - only courage, because the trail upward ("Trail of Death") is a board prikolochennye to the cliff hundreds of feet in height, but in the chain that can be grasped.

Read more »

Posted in: Travel

Biggest Cruise Ship Oasis

Biggest Cruise Ship Oasis

Biggest Cruise Ships: Titanic Shmitanic

The world’s most massive cruise ship when it was launched 100 years ago, the Titanic wouldn’t rank among the world’s 50 largest today. Here’s a look at the 10 most Bunyanesque boats, all built since 2000. For comparison purposes, we’ve ranked them by gross tonnage and also provided their lengths and passenger capacity.

Biggest Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas (also Allure of the Seas)

The world’s most ginormous ship is too long, too wide and too tall to fit through the Panama Canal. But with zip lines, rock climbing walls and Broadway shows onboard, you might not even notice whether the ship actually goes anywhere at all. Its 2,384 crew members are more than the passenger capacity of most ships built before 2000.

Biggest Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas (also Liberty, Independence of the Seas)

Royal Caribbean's Miss Congeniality is still so gargantuan that you half expect singer Celine Dion to write a syrupy ballad about it. There’s water, water, everywhere on this ship, from the ubiquitous swimming pools and Jacuzzis to the surf simulator to the ice-skating rink to waterfalls and sculpture fountains and the H2O Zone, a water park just for kids.

Biggest Cruise Ships: Norwegian Epic

Norwegian's heavyweight contender is so Brobdingnagian that it had to remove five lifeboats just to shimmy into New York Harbor for its christening last July. Twenty dining options including teppanyaki and 24/7 pizza delivery mean you never have to dine with your 1,000 closest friends. The Epic also contains the Svedka Ice Bar, made entirely of ice.

Biggest Cruise Ships: Cunard's RMS Queen Mary 2

Line 40 London double-decker buses bumper to bumper and they still won’t span the length of Cunard’s leviathan flagship. Or lie Big Ben on its side, and you’d still have room for a football field on either end. The world’s largest ship when it first set sail in 2004, the QM2 is still big on luxury. It holds just 1,310 staterooms, giving its guests plenty of room to stretch out.

Biggest Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas (also Explorer, Adventurer, Navigator, Mariner of the Seas)

The Voyager class is nine times the length of the Wright Brothers' first flight. This is the humongous ship that started the whole supersizing trend back in 1999, and the first to pack in no-need-to-leave-the-ship attractions like an in-line skating track, a TV studio and a concert arena. The 9-hole golf course is of the miniature variety, but that’s the only diminutive thing about this ship.

Read more »

Posted in: Interesting,News,Travel

Best Vistas Of The World

Best Vistas of the World: Milford Sound

The Maori attribute the creation of the New Zealand fjords, such as Milford Sound, to Tute Rakiwhanoa, who cut the steep-sided valleys with his adze. What other explanation could there be for these spectacularly steep, sheer cliffs that rise nearly vertically from the ocean? In 1883, explorer James Hingston wrote, "For thousands of feet upwards the eye looks upon straight cut rocky frontages, not worn smooth by time, or by wind or water, but as sharply defined and as fresh looking in all respects as if riven asunder but yesterday by the stupendous wedges of Titanic Masons.” Milford Sound is the best known of the fjords, running nearly 10 miles from its head to the open sea. But being here is just half the fun. The steep and sinuous Milford Road makes the 74-mile drive from Te Anau a stunning immersion in numerous viewpoints of alpine scenery and massive scale, all of which build to the joyous, breathtaking sight of Milford Sound.

Best Vistas of the World: Sahara Desert

Think of the size of the United States: that is the size of the Sahara Desert, which comprises 3.5 million square miles. No wonder Westerners often say “Timbuktu” when they mean “the middle of nowhere.” Eleven nations lie at least partly in the desert. Large swaths are utterly desolate, though the Sahara supports 2 million people, not counting those who live along the Nile and Niger rivers. And the extremes! As hot as 136 degrees Fahrenheit and as cold as 22 degrees; supporting sand gazelles and ants, palm trees and grasses; fairly flat, rocky terrain and the wind-sculpted dunes that loom over it; the vast, shimmering sky and the way it makes a person look inconsequential.

Best Vistas of the World: Olga Mountains

Once they see Uluru, many visitors are satisfied with their time in Australia's Outback, ignoring the Olga Mountains. But those who can stand the sometimes wretchedly harsh conditions are rewarded with the sight of the Olgas, just 15.5 miles west of Uluru. These 36 stunning peaks in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park were formed by rain and wind erosion. The light jabs and jukes at the rocks at sunrise, and you can see Uluru in the distance.

Best Vistas of the World: Iguazu Falls

Shared by Brazil and Argentina, Iguazu Falls is one of the most imposing natural wonders in South America. The indigenous Guarani people called this “great waters” long before Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca stumbled across it in 1541. The Iguazu River runs 745 miles along a smooth plateau, then reaches a series of faults that turn it into a semicircular thundering mass of mist. The falls are actually a group of 270 waterfalls with cliffs and islets. You can take a boat to the base of the falls and really feel the mist, or walk along two footbridges to revel in the panoramic view.

Best Vistas of the World: Oregon Coast

The Oregon coast is the People’s Coast, thanks to the 1967 Oregon Beach Bill, which granted free beach access to everyone. And the people make the most of their coastline, which stretches 363 miles from the Columbia River to California; there are almost too many activities, including hiking, sport fishing, cycling, kite flying, scuba diving, surfing, sand boarding, boating, camping, clam digging, surf fishing, horseback riding and body boarding. Many people are drawn by the scenery, the ghostly sea stacks emerging from the fog, the views from the many headlands of the rock and sand beaches and the sea cliffs; the historic lighthouses, most of which were built before 1900, commissioned to aid in navigating the Graveyard of the Pacific; and the marine life of seals, sea lions and migrating gray and humpback whales.

Best Vistas of the World: The Dolomites

Best Vistas of the World: Grand Canyon

Best Vistas of the World: Serengeti


Best Vistas of the World: Norwegian Fjords


Best Vistas of the World: Amazon Rainforest


Best Vistas of the World: Verdon Canyon


Best Vistas of the World: Mount Kenya


Best Vistas of the World: Cliffs of Moher


Best Vistas of the World: Lake Baikal


Best Vistas of the World: Three Gorges

Read more »

Posted in: Best Vistas Of The World,Travel

Boardwalks Across America

Boardwalks Across America- For Americans, boardwalks across America are really good summer dreams as in American history, boardwalks are the summertime place to go. Down on the boardwalk, out on the pier, along the riverbank; whatever you call it, it means sun, fun and plenty of summertime memories. Whether you seek the thrills and chills of white-knuckled wooden roller coasters rides and tilt-a-whirls, the delectable tastes of saltwater taffy at sunset and boardwalk fries or simply experiencing kids with dogs racing along weathered walkways.
James Lilliefors, author of “America’s Boardwalks, From Coney Island to California,” says boardwalks have always been “bright, alluring, loud, lucrative and very American.” Still, as Park World magazine reported in 2007, “In the 1920s there were more than 1,500 authentic seaside amusement parks in the United States, today there are less than two dozen.”
Lets take a look at some of America's great boardwalks.
 Boardwalks Across America: Atlantic City, N.J.

The Atlantic City boardwalk is the first of its kind in the U.S., and for the majority of the 20th century has served as a stage for the latest inventions and oddities. What started as a way to get sand off visitors’ feet and keep it out of the beachfront hotel lobbies has grown into the Atlantic City Boardwalk, the godfather of American boardwalks. America’s first boardwalk was actually a temporary structure constructed in 1870 to keep the sand off Atlantic City’s beachfront hotel carpets. But this boardwalk stretches four miles and has shops, hotels, casinos, food stands and arcades on its street side; a quick turn provides views of the beach and the powerful majesty of the Atlantic Ocean. Visitors also can enjoy a ride in a two-person rolling wicker chair, a means of transportation introduced in 1887.Each year brings the Thunder Over the Boardwalk air show; on Aug. 17, this year’s show features the Air Force Thunderbirds and Army Golden Knights.

Boardwalks Across America: Ocean City, Md.
Boardwalks Across America: Coney Island, N.Y.
Boardwalks Across America: Virginia Beach, Va.
Boardwalks Across America: Seneca Lake Pier
Boardwalks Across America: Navy Pier, Chicago
Boardwalks Across America: Mississippi Riverwalk
Boardwalks Across America: Kemah, Texas
Boardwalks Across America: Seaside Promenade
Boardwalks Across America: Santa Cruz, Calif.
Boardwalks Across America: Venice Beach, Calif.
Boardwalks Across American: Long Beach, Wash.
Boardwalks Across America: Waikiki Beach Walk

Read more »

Posted in: Boardwalks Across America,Boardwalks Across America: Atlantic City,Interesting,N.J.,Travel