clipped from everything-everywhere.com Despite being in the middle of the desert, the people of Coober Peady haven’t let that get in the way of getting in a round of golf. Coober Peady is home to an 18 hole golf course. What makes it different is the total lack of grass. There isn’t a blade of grass within hundreds of kilometers of Coober Peady. If you look closely you’ll notice under the sign that the ball is orange and there is a small square of artificial turf. The ground rules for the course allow for putting the square of turf under the ball for each stroke not on the “green”, so you don’t hit a rock when taking a swing. The “green”, you can see in the background, is really “black” and is sand..

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Funny Grass-less Golf Course in Australia.

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clipped from matadorabroad.com As a college student, you’re expected to understand class material. You’re used to analyzing and making sense of things—and being required to do so. Suddenly immersed in a new culture, however, you will come across things you simply don’t understand, and trying to analyze everything will just give you a headache. Studying abroad will teach you to live with mysteries, and to appreciate the beauty of an unanswered question.

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Valuable Lessons to be Learned Studying Abroad

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clipped from www.travel-wonders.com The sacred district has the most significant and ma sites of the complex. Walking from the Temple of the Sun towards Huayna Picchu, you arrive at the Principal Temple (PT on the map). This three sided temple boasts some beautiful stonework (though some has subsided with earth movement) and an elegant stone altar. In this same area is the equally distinctive Three Windowed Temple (3W) with characteristic trapezoidal-shaped windows and superb stonework. Note the rock on the near side as part of the closest window has ten sides, yet fits neatly like the most perfectly formed jigsaw.

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clipped from blog.ratestogo.com Many of us immediately recall memories of mountains and hillside when we look back upon family vacations and scenic landscape. We sometimes forget, however, the incredible impact that nature has had on the planet over time. The natural erosion of the earth, caused by winds and harsh weathers, has resulted in the creation of some of the most incredible rock formations on the globe.

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Spectacular Rocks of the World!

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clipped from www.simplyleave.com I once got a piece of pizza in Rome that was so good it probably should have carried a warning for “pregnant women, small children, and people liable to faint when eating really good pizza.” Italian restaurants have great treasures to offer. However, their delights can easily be ruined by a few unexpected charges on your bill. To help preserve these culinary wonders here is a quick overview of what to expect from Italy’s havens of food. OK, so here is a part where you pay less at an Italian restaurant than an American one. The 15% or so tip that is common in the US is rarely done here. If there is a service fee, don’t tip. You already paid for service. If there isn’t a service fee, tips are sometimes left in the 5% range. All in all you usually just pay about what they ask you to.

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clipped from www.trifter.com Located in Peterborough Ontario, the Peterborough Lock is #21 on the Trent Severn Waterway System. Although there are lifts that are higher, at 65 feet it is the worlds highest hydraulic lift. The lock works using a counterweigt system and is not dependant on any external power supply.

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It’s easy to do, simply look for people (most of them Mexican) who are handing out nightclub flyers on the main strip.

If you ask them if they have any specials for the upcoming weekend or night, they can sell you discounted coupons which will usually get you $20-$50 off the usual entrance fee.

There, there’s a simple tip for your next Las Vegas outing.

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How to Get Discounted Nightclub Tickets in Las Vegas!

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clipped from www.chiangmai-vacations.com This section is dedicated to showcasing our favorite Chiang Ma Hotels, Chiang Mai Boutique Hotels and Chiang Mai Resorts.  We also have selected our favorite hotels for Southern resort destinations (Phuket Hotels, Krabi Hotels, Koh Samui Hotels) and our recommended Bangkok Hotels.  With several of our hotel partners we have developed some fantastic packages and high value promotions designed to offer outstanding hotels, outstanding services and outstanding value.  As a destination, Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand is profoundly beautiful; perfect for vacationers, family travel and becoming increasingly popular for business meetings and conventions.

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Hotels in Northern Chiang Mai

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clipped from www.duntonhotsprings.com Dunton Hot Springs is a small and exclusive resort nestled deep in the San Juan Mountains of the Colorado Rockies. This perfectly restored ghost town thrives on contradictions; hand-hewn log cabins exquisitely furnished, a life-worn saloon serving food of startling quality, lung torturing trails followed by pampering massages, sensuous hot springs beneath shimmering snow banks. Free of cell phones, this romantic old mining town still provides high speed wireless internet access and video conferencing to the comforting sound of a tumbling waterfall.

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Dunton, Colorado Hot Springs!

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clipped from www.hotelchatter.com Heerim architects are looking to build the Star Wars staple in, of all places, Baku, Azerbaijan. They’re hoping to bring this design, called the Hotel Full Moon, and another, the Hotel Crescent, to one of the fastest growing economies and will rightly call the area Full Moon Bay. Both hotels will overlook the Caspian Sea but again, these hotels still seem like pipe dreams so no word on when they will actually open, or if they will be destroyed before they are fully operational by a young jedi pilot who use to shoot wamp rats on Tatooine.

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clipped from www.chiangmai-luxuryhotels.com What is a Boutique Hotel? There are many opinions about what comprises a boutique hotel and really no clear definition. What we do know is that Chiang Mai is world renowned for high caliber boutique hotels and we are pleased to feature them on our website. For our definition of Chiang Mai Boutique Hotel we focus on style, distinction, warmth, and intimacy as key elements in the architecture, design and operation of the hotel. This page features those hotels that attract a niche of customers looking for a unique experience and a uniquely differentiated property.

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clipped from fullvaluereview.com With out a doubt, this Hotel Indigo brand is a winner for the twenty and thirty-somethings who are looking for a great hotel at a great price. This brand is ran by the Intercontinental Hotel Group, the same group that operates fine brands like Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels. I say cheers to Hotel Indigo as I go to get ready for a night out on the town in Claremont California at The Press.

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clipped from search.japantimes.co.jp The love-hotel industry is one of Japan’s most profitable. It accounts for more than ¥4 trillion a year, a figure nearly four times than that of the profit of Toyota Motors, double that of the anime market, and a trillion yen more than the annual takings of the Japan Racing Association. Supporting this are 30,000 love hotels nationwide providing places for the 500 million visits that take place each year. Some 1,370,000 couples use a love hotel daily (1 percent of the total population of 127 million people on any given day), and one research project has calculated that half of all sex in Japan takes place in a love hotel, and that consequently a large part of the country’s offspring is conceived in one.

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clipped from www.lonelyplanet.com What do Oprah Winfrey, Mitt Romney, ZZ Top and the CEO of a major Japanese corporation have in common? They’ve all winged their way down to ol’ El Paso, Texas, AKA ‘boot capital of the world’, for some fine-fittin’ custom cowboy boots. To the uninitiated, the number of bootmakers doing business way out in west Texas can be as daunting as the number of styles available. Do you go to showy custom studios, authentic vaquero hole-in-the-walls, factories or big-name outlets? No need to get your lasso in a knot - we’ve put together a primer to help.

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How to Buy Boots in Texas!

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clipped from www.startbackpacking.com I heard an American girl excitedly telling her tour group in Beijing’s Silk Market. Aaaah! She was ruining it for the rest of us! I wanted to tell her that she hadn’t saved 7,800 RMB with her amazing bargaining skills. 8000 RMB is the price for some faceless dumb tourist… if you let the vendor’s starting price influence your assessment of the product’s worth, you are the overpaying idiot.

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clipped from www.indiamarks.com India is the seventh largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country in the World with over 1.12billion people. 70% of this population live in rural areas while the other 30% although in recent decades migration to larger cities has led to a dramatic increase in the country’s urban population. Traveling to rural India is an experience in a great number of ways. It best shows the way of life of the most common people and the roots of all Indians. The way of life is simple and at times difficult. So traveling these areas can be quite an experience and vastly different from other European or American Countries.

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