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Edinburgh Festival Ghost Hunting

Dec 24, 2010

Want to occasionally enjoy a holiday full of tension and atmosphere of horror? If you have the guts and deep pockets are, please fly to Scotland. State fraction of this kingdom provides unique tour packages, ghost hunting.

Hunting here is not capturing the ghost, but visiting a number of buildings inhabited by spirits. Edinburgh Scotland's capital city is as the gateway into the supernatural. Based on the information Ghost events site, in earlier times, there was massive mutilations in Edinburgh. As a result, the city became a ghost town.

Country that has university of Edinburgh as the favorite college is divided into two sections, old and new city. Dark city built around the 1980's is located below South Bridge, Edinburgh's main street. The average building in the two areas inhabited by the spirit haunts. It is said that tourists who visit there was to find some strange phenomena.

Day trips to Edinburgh, you should be careful because of the way many of which resemble a maze. If they are separated from the group, you will be lost and may be difficult to find. There is a little girl ghost that often appear among tourists. Or, fraudulent ghost who sometimes threw stones at visitors and those shadows on the walls of buildings. Flights around this ghost town about 55 euros per person.

Travel to Castle Menzies which was founded 400 years ago was tense. He said that tourists can hear the cry of a man near the bedroom. In every room you will hear the cries, laughter, whistling, and footsteps of children. If lucky, you can run into three female ghosts who toured the castle. Entrance to this building is 49 euros per person.

If you are interested, the site could be a reference Ghostevents horror tour package. A visit to Castle Menzies held on 16 July and 22 October. Meanwhile, around the city of Edinburgh on 25 September, 27 November, and December 4.

If you want to Edinburgh, you should know everything about Edinburgh tourist attraction such as Edinburgh parks, Edinburgh Theater, airport Edinburgh, Edinburgh hospital, Edinburgh museum and also Edinburgh accommodation.

Here is short information about Edinburgh that you should know:

The best hotel in Edinburgh:
1. The Chester Residence
2. Holyrood Aparthotel
3. Atholl Brae Royal Mile

The best restaurant in Edinburgh
1. Hanedan
2. Dubh Prais
3. The Cellar Door

The best tourist attraction in Edinburgh:
1. Royal Yacht Britannia
2. Camera Obscura and World of Illusions
3. Royal Botanic Garden

The best tour and entertainment in Edinburgh
1 SANDEMANs Edinburgh Free Tour
2 Afternoon Tea Tours
3 Rabbie's Trail Burners -Day Tours

Perfect Travel to Tuscany

Nov 30, 2010

Tuscany (Italian: Toscana) is one region in central Italy. This region is borders with region of Lazio in the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Linguria in the north, and Tyrrhenia Sea in the west. Tuscany, one of the most popular regions in Italy, extending from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Apennines.

Its main cities are Florence, Pisa, Siena, Lucca, Arezzo and Livorno. Visit the amazing variety of historic buildings with a car, for example the cathedral of Florence, Uffizi Gallery and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Or, take the tour and drive your bike through the rows of olive trees and vineyards. Do not miss the towers of San Gimignano or serene city on the hill to the north. To enjoy a more modern holiday, visit one of the most prestigious club in Florence, such as Space Electronic.

Toscana is often regarded as one of the most beautiful parts of Italy. The capital city of Tuscany is in Florence. The interest of tourist places in this area, including Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Maremma, Crete Sensi, Chianti, Casa Toscana, Montepulciano and Siena. All incluede Tuscan hills, the historical vilage, the view of nature and also villa Toscana. Remember to buy map of Tuscany for the enjoyable holiday.





In addition, the Tuscan is the first area in which the Italian Renaissance began to show results. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci was born in Toscana.
Father of physics, Galileo Galilee also from Tuscany. Total population is 3,516,296 inhabitants (2004).

If you want to visit Tuscany, it will be easy to find the flight to Tuscany and you can book any hotel, Toscana villa and there are many Tuscany apartments if you want to stay for long time. Here are some information that can help you find the right Tuscany Travel Agent and Tuscany holidays.

The best Hotel in Tuscany
1 Aia Mattonata Relais
2 Hotel Vecchio Asilo
3 Hotel Davanzati
4 Hotel David
5 Villa Marsili Hotel

The best restaurant in Tuscany
1 Bar 500
2 La Bucaccia
3 La Buca di Enea

Great things to do in Tuscany
Tourism object
1 Piazzale Michelangelo
2 Italian Language School Il Sasso
3 San Gimignano 1300

Tour and entertainment
1 Wine Tour in Tuscany
2 500 Touring Club
3 Taste Florence

Gran Canaria

Oct 22, 2010

Where is Gran Canaria?
Gran Canaria is an island of Canary Island (one of island in Spanish archipelago). This island located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometers off northwestern coast of Africa. Besides that, this island also located about 1350 from the Europe. Gran Canaria is the second popular island in Canary Island beside Tenerife. The largest island in this Canary Island is Tenerife, then Fuerteventura and then Gran Canaria.

Tenerife is famous with the beach, which was the best in the Europe. The beach's name is Las Teresitas which has white sand and blue water. Besides that, you can also find palm tree in the beach, a curving bay of golden sand sheltered by mountains. Its sounds perfect, and indeed it is – even though the sand was transported from the Sahara.





Back to Gran Canaria, this island called Miniature Continent because its different climate and we can find many of landscapes, with any view of golden beaches endless dune of white sand. Besides that, Gran Canaria’s beaches also have green ravines and also picturesque village. UNESCO protect third of this island under the A third of the island as Biosphere Reserve.


With 2.2 million of annual visitor, this place has famous home stay area, which is located in south of island. With the best of Gran Canaria weather, this part has less rain and sunnier than the north. There are many public facilities in this part, such as airport, shopping centre, Bird Park, and also resort communities. One of the famous communities is Maspalomas Gran Canaria which include some areas.


Flights Gran Canaria also easy to find, because the airport is in the south part of island.

Some of famous tourist objects that can you find as traveling destination are:
  • The "Dunas de Maspalomas", in southern Gran Canaria
  • Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pino, in Teror
  • Las Canteras beach, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Puerto de Mogán
  • Casa de Colón y Pilar Nuevo
  • Chira Reservoir
  • Palmitos Park,
  • Cocodrilos Park, Roque Nublo
  • El Dedo de Dios

You can also find the picturesque village referred to Little Venice.

Hungarian Parliament Building

Oct 3, 2010


The next beautiful place in the world is The Hungarian Parliament Building. Yes, this is one historical building in Hungary, also becomes the largest building in that country but on the second places in Europe. This is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It’s located in Lajos Kossuth Square, on the bank of the Danube, in Budapest.


This building was built in 1873 and worked by about one thousand people on its construction. But on 1890, National Assembly resolved to establish a new, representative Parliament Building, expressing the sovereignty of the nation. Nowadays, this building is used for Ethnographical Museum, the other as the Ministry of Agriculture.


One of the famous parts of the building is the hex decagonal (sixteen-sided) central hall, with huge chambers adjoining it: the Lower House (today the National Assembly meets here) and the Upper House (until 1945). The Holy Crown of Hungary, which is also depicted in the coat of arms of Hungary, has been displayed in the central hall since 2000.

Further features include the stained glass and glass mosaic paintings by Miksa Róth.
Due to its extensive surface and its detailed handiwork, the building is almost always under renovation.
During the Communist regime, the government added a large red star to the central steeple at the dome of the building, but after its downfall, the star was removed from the steeple

The Mezquita of Cordoba

May 15, 2010

This mosque also known as Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. This is one of Roman Catholic Cathedral that located in Andalusian city of Córdoba, Spain. This building originally built as a mosque approximately 600 AD, but the previously use for Christian Visigothic Church.



It is regarded as perhaps the most accomplished monument of the Umayyad dynasty of Córdoba. After the Spanish Reconquista, it was turned into a church, with a Gothic cathedral inserted into the center of the large Moorish building. Today the entire building is used to house the Cathedral of the diocese of Córdoba in Spain.

The Louvre Museum

May 4, 2010

France has any beautiful places that can attract visitor. Eifel is one of them, and beside the romantic Eiffel, France also has The Louvre museum. This is one of the largest museums in the world and also become a central landmark of Paris, France. The museum is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st district.


This museum show up any object from 10 August 1973 with an exhibition of 537 paintings. The collection is about 380.000 objects and display 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments. The collection from prehistory to the 19th century is exhibited over an area of 60,600 square meters (652,300 square feet).
These all collection consist of Egyptian antiquities, Near Eastern antiquities, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, Islamic art, Sculpture, Decorative arts, Painting and also Prints and drawings.

Louvre Palace is the house of the museum; this palace was which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace.

In 1672, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.

Giant's Causeway

Mar 22, 2010

This beautiful places was declared as one of the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, Giant's Causeway is area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. This is one of beautiful places in United Kingdom, located on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, County Antrim.

The tops of the columns disappear under the sea, its form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 12 meters (36 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 meters thick in places.
The Giant's Causeway is today owned and managed by the National Trust and it is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland.

The site first became popular with tourists during the nineteenth century, particularly after the opening of the Giant's Causeway Tramway, and only after the National Trust took over its care in the 1960s were some of the vestiges of commercialism removed. Visitors can walk over the basalt columns which are at the edge of the sea, a half mile walk from the entrance to the site.

On the more cynical side, man of letters Samuel Johnson said, when asked about the Causeway, "Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see."

Mont Saint-Michel

Mar 14, 2010

This is one of beautiful places in France. Mont Saint-Michel is an island that located on the bay, approximately one kilometer off the country’s north coast, at the Couesnon River near Avranches, Normandy, France. This is a historical place in France, because it was used as an Armorican stronghold of Romano-Breton culture and power.
Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and that at the beginning was connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. In 1879, the land bridge was fortified into a true causeway. This prevented the tide from scouring the silt round the mount.

In prehistoric times the bay was land. As sea levels rose erosion shaped the coastal landscape over millions of years. Several blocks of granite or granulite emerged in the bay, having resisted the wear and tear of the ocean better than the surrounding rocks. These included Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombelaine (the island just to the north), and Mont Tombe, later called Mont-Saint-Michel.

Now this island becomes one of UNESCO World Heritage Site and was opened for commune tourist object.

Sagrada Família

Mar 10, 2010



The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família or often simply called the Sagrada Família. This beautiful place is located in Barcelona, Spain. A massive Roman Catholic church is still under construction in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This church construction began in 1882 and lasted until this day.

The church was originally designed by Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926), who worked on this project for 40 years, devoting the last 15 years of his life to this great project, started from 1883 and which is scheduled to be completed in 2026.

On 1926, Gaudi was died and this project continued under supervision until Sugranyes Domenech and was suspended from the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

The Baikal Lake

Mar 6, 2010

With blue sea and the sky, the mountains, this beautiful place is very suitable for your honeymoon and traveling destination. The Baikal Lake is located in south of the Russian region of Siberia, near the border with Mongolia. This is the world's second most voluminous lake, after the Caspian Sea.

Baikal Lake consist of a habitat with more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world. The Lake also called "The Pearl of Siberia", now famous as tourist object and drew investors from tourist industry as energy revenues sparked an economic boom.


For the increase of tourist, The Lake was also declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims

Mar 4, 2010

Notre-Dame de Reims located in France was built which on the site of the basilica where Clovis was baptized by Saint Remi, bishop of Reims, in AD 496. This building replaces the older church in Rome that was destroyed by a fire in1211. and now, this beautiful building famous as the Roman Catholic cathedral of Reims, where the kings of France were once crowned.



The exterior of this building consist of the three portals that are laden with statues and statuettes; among European cathedrals, only Chartres has more sculpted figures. Rose window surmounts the central portal that was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This cathedral size about 138.75 m long, 30 m wide and 38 m high in the center.


The Colossum

Feb 24, 2010



This was Roman inheritance. Colossum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.

Construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperor Vespasian in around 70–72AD. The Colosseum is an entirely free-standing structure. It derives its basic exterior and interior architecture from that of two Roman theatres back to back. It is elliptical in plan and is 189 meters long and 156 meters wide, with a base area of 24,000 m2. The height of the outer wall is 48 meters. The perimeter originally measured 545 meters. The central arena is an oval long and wide, surrounded by a wall high, above which rose tiers of seating.




Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. As well as the gladiatorial games, other public spectacles were held there, such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. But today Colosseum becomes a major of tourist object and travel destination in Rome. There is now a museum dedicated to Eros located in the upper floor of the outer wall of the building. Part of the arena floor has been re-floored.

Bora-bora Island

Jan 22, 2010

This beautiful place’s Origin name was Pora pora, Tahitian language that mean First born, but early 19th century change to Bolabolla or Bollabolla. This island is one of Leeward group in the Society Islands of French Polynesia in Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 kilometers (140 mi) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef.

In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 metres. Bora-bora is one of travel destination in France, and the development is mainly dependent on tourist. Many resort and bungalows was built around the lagoon. But although the characteristic of the tourist destination are aqua centric, especially on the beach and lagoon, but it is possible to visit any attractions on land such as WWII cannons.

With the narrow island, the transportation on this island is limited. There just a single bus that goes halfway around the island, and back approximately every hour, so for those of you who want to visit this island, bicycle is the recommended method of transport.


Bora-bora is predestined for snorkeling and scuba diving in and around its lagoon. Many species of sharks and rays inhabit the surrounding body of water. There are a few dive operators on the island offering manta ray dives and also shark-feeding dives.

In addition to the existing islands of Bora Bora (called Motu in Taihitian), the new man-made motu of Motu Marfo has been added in the north-eastern corner of the lagoon on the property of the St. Regis Resort.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Dec 25, 2009

This beautiful place located in the Plitvice Lakes municipality, in the mountainous region of Lika, Croatia, east Europe. This park are contain of mountains, forest, waterfall and lakes. Surrounded by three mountains part of the Dinaric Alps, Plješevica mountain and the Mala Kapela mountain, this park lies in the Plitvice plateau.

The beautiful view of lake, which are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae and bacteria so make the water colourfull, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.



The Plitvice Lakes had become a major tourist attraction in the late 19th century. In 1949 the communist government of Yugoslavia nationalized the lakes and made them a national park. The park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 in recognition of its "outstanding natural beauty, and the undisturbed production of travertine (tuff) through chemical and biological action".





The Plitvice Lakes are today one of Croatia's biggest tourist attractions. In 2000, the national park was expanded by a further 102 km².

(source wikipedia)

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Dec 22, 2009

This place popularly known as the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed, located in Red Square, Moscow. This Cathedral was built on 1555-1561, on the order of Ivan IV of Russia to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the geometric center of the city and the hub of its growth since the 14th century.

Trinity Church or Trinity Cathedral is the name of original building of this Cathedral, which is contained of eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of Intercession; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local Fool Vasily. The building's design, shaped as a flame of a bonfire rising into the sky, its looks like the building in Aladdin animation movies.

From 1583, this building was renovated several times, so the condition of the building well maintained and stay colorful. The cathedral has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928. It was completely secularized in 1929 and, as of 2009, remains a federal property of the Russian Federation. The cathedral has been part of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.



Fjords and the Preikestolen Cliff

Dec 7, 2009


This cliff located in Norway, 600 meters above the sea level. Very amazing view with valley and mountains, but very danger so be sure to wear appropriate shoes and do not try to walk alone.

A tall cliff in the Lysefjord, sometimes known in English as "Pulpit Rock" or "Preacher's Pulpit". Some footpathes lead to it and you can look down 600 meters without a railing.It is the biggest natural tourist attraction in Norway.





One the unique part of the Fjords, it's called The Kjeragbolten