Here’s an interesting point of view on Dubai and how Arabian people are spending money like water to build these massive, giant buildings to represent their wealth and power while U.S. stocks are plummeting to the bottom.
| Dubai is fast emerging as tourist destination of choice. Especially European tourists are flocking toward the sunny beaches and above average night life is Dubai. When I was compiling a list of places to visit in year 2009, City of Dubai was amongst the top 10 places to see. It is in-fact one of those cities, where skyline changes fast, really fast. If you take a look at this picture taken in 1990… It was nothing more than a barren land where you find nothing but blazing heat and dust. At that time, very few people believed that this wasteland could ever be transformed into one of the most successful cosmopolitan city in the world. |
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Here’s some good information on Cape Brton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, looks beautiful!
| Cape Breton Island was a separate colony until 1820 when it was merged into Nova Scotia against its will. It is the only place in North America where there is still Gaelic spoken, a legacy of the large migration (about 50,000) from the highlands of Scotland in the first half of the 19th century. There are also pockets of French, remnants of the Acadian history described in the Longfellow epic poem “Evangeline”, in towns such as Margaree and Chéticamp. There is strong island identity and sense of community, which increasingly unifies the Mikmaq population of the island as well. |
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Here’s a good review of Lumbini Garden, Nepal.
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The Lumbini Garden was the Buddha’s birthplace. In Sanskrit, Lumbini means ‘the lovely’. It was the family home of his mother, Mayadevi, and she returned here from Kapilavastu (25 km east of Lumbini) to give birth to Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha (‘Enlightened One’). The site was described by the Chinese pilgrim Fa Xian and re-discovered in 1896. In 1997 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and there is a master plan for a monastic zone by the famous Japanese modernist architect Kenzo Tange. Like the same designer’s plan for the Peace Park in Hiroshima, it seems to have been inspired by the Neo-Baroque. There is a long avenue and a circular canal. But the sacred pool remains a place of exceptional calm.
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Here’s a site that can tell you some of the cheaper ways to travel.
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Here’s some good information on how resellers are not paying taxes while we consumers are overpaying.
| Re-sellers buy blocks of hotel rooms (airlines seats, tickets, etc.) at a low price and package them for re-sale to us consumers at a higher price. The difference in cost represents their profit. The consumer is charged appropriate taxes based on our purchase price. |
| The underlying issue (behind all the procedural wrangling) has to do with a common re-selling practice. In this case, a number of online travel firms, including some of the giants in the online travel industry, have adopted a practice on remitting hotel occupancy taxes that is at odds with how the city of Atlanta believes taxes should be charged and remitted. |
| The travel companies have been remitting taxes based on the price the company paid, not the price charged and paid by the consumer, claiming that the difference is a service fee/charge and NOT taxes. |
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It’s a wonder that GPS systems are still not fully utilized in passenger airplanes these days, it could save so much fuel!
| The planned satellite-driven network, dubbed NextGen, would save fuel by ditching radar technology that is more than 50 years old and enabling GPS-equipped planes to fly the shortest route between two points: a straight line. |
| NextGen could save airlines at least 3.3 billion gallons of fuel a year — or more than $10 billion annually by 2025, based on today’s fuel prices, according to FAA projections obtained by The Associated Press. |
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