Unforgettable Vacation

Known for its biological wealth, the Galapagos Islands tourism faces permanent damage if not controlled. This is the opinion of the nature protection activists. On the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, director of the Darwin Foundation, said only a decade left to avoid ecological disaster. In an interview with the BBC, Gabriel Lopes asked that the number of tourists to the region is limited. Last year, the number of tourists reached 173 000, quadrupled in the last 20 years.

“Galapagos is still the most protected area in the world. However, we bet if this trend continues is the Galapagos will be lost. Galapagos Islands will remain, but the wealth will be lost.”

Increasing numbers of tourists cause an increase in the amount of the construction of the Hotel and goods imported from Ecuador. The result is a sharp increase in the number of foreign species that arrive in these fragile ecosystems: 112 years recorded in 1900, but the year 2007 increased to 1321. In the largest port city of Puerto Ayora, the port workers seem to move boxes and bags of rice and maize flour from ship to ship the cargo to be brought to the mainland. On the island of Baltra airport, which serves the islands, sometimes serving six flights per day – flight numbers doubled in the last eight years. Aircraft cabin was sprayed before landing, but there are many insects that escaped into the area. One of the most ferocious insects is small, but fire ants have a painful bite – which is an example of evolutionary principles of natural selection: who is stronger she survived. In a field outside the village of Bellavista, an insect expert Henri Herrera cleans up the garbage collection of leaves to show that fire ants are ferocious.

In the era of the internet today, we are easy to match the hour – so long as there is internet connection automatically in our computer clock will be adjusted to the time server that some very high accuracy. Click and go!

But hundreds of years ago when the computer (especially electricity) is not yet known to us, how do people reconcile hours? in Edinburgh, each at 1 pm will be heard cannon fire from the top of Edinburgh Castle and Edinburgh residents will be crowded-crowded hour of each match.

Tradition One O’Clock Gun was officially started on June 7 1861 as the standard time for kapal2 that rely on the Port of Leith and who sailed on the Forth of Firth. One O’Clock Gun is not the actual standard was the first time in Edinburgh – nine years before the population of Edinburgh and the sailors will be looking at the top of Calton Hill, where there is a monument at the top to hang a big ball that will fall each at 1 pm. But foggy weather had hindered visual observation to the top of Calton Hill, the One O’Clock Gun is diciptalah. To this day, we can watch the white ball on top of Calton Hill will be slid down along with the explosion of the cannon from Edinburgh Castle.
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Visiting Cairo is like a journey of “life itself”. Starting from the “ruins” are in commercialized and vertigo modernization of its inhabitants. From the religious to the “pessimism” may all gather in the capital, the land of Egypt! The image of exoticism and high civilization of plural and if we follow one of the tours are littered offers various options, like throwing us into the past but also a nightmare because of the aggressiveness.

Citadel is a beautiful old city with a touch of European architecture like a dull picture significantly. Unkempt and shabby impressed! Chaotic with traffic jams and the sound of screaming people around.

Along the way, do not be surprised if someone suddenly crosses the road without looking left or right so we need tremendous energy to the brakes of an oncoming car less than 60 km / hour.

Tracing the edge of Nile, just enjoy the dish on offer, the boulevard is full with young couples or husband and wife and some people chatting with their friends.

Peak area known as the place is cool and fresh and full of natural mountain areas so that became one of the major tourist attractions in West Java. Such a situation is very different from the conditions of the capital Jakarta, which is full of pollution, hot and uncomfortable. This makes the peak area as a vacation spot for a while, especially on weekends by many citizens of Jakarta. Not a few residents of Jakarta who choose to have a villa in this area. In addition to a cozy, Peak area also has an interesting attraction to visit. But remember, the atmosphere will wrap Peak jammed on weekends. One of the interesting activity is eating roasted corn at night in Puncak.

Tea plantation area has been famous since the first as the major tea producing areas in West Java. This area is managed by PT Perkebunan Nusantara how much so. In this place, you can see the tea production process of tea picking up the processing into dried tea leaves ready for consumption. Activities walk around the tea garden is a pleasant experience and to relax the tense mood by avocation in Jakarta. The most exciting moment is when the tea leaves at harvest time had come. Read the rest of this entry »

Iquazu waterfall is a spectacular natural phenomenon and the most beautiful. Both of the Argentina side, especially from Brazil will be more beautiful and a wider outlook. Although to visit Iquazu have to travel far, because it was behind the hemisphere. Indeed, precisely Iquazu located in South America, not far from the point of three borders: Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.

The phrase, the water will fall into the cesspool seems applicable also to this Iquazu. According to geological records, hundreds of thousands of years ago, in this place occurred the transformation of tectonic friction that creates a huge gorge or canyon. This makes the fault that caused the riverbed height difference, causing birth Iquazu waterfall. Iquazu name is derived from the Guarani Indian language, meaning “big water”.

Iquazu formed a horseshoe-shaped canyon. Here are Garganta del Diablo or Devil’s Throat. The volume of the largest water falls from a height of about 90 meters, forming a crater in the riverbed. Rainbow often appears in this place, so full of spray mist.

Iquazu river discharge by an average of 1800 cubic meters / sec. Canyon cliff 3.5 kilometers along the bumpy, there are many bumps rocks and trees, the waterfall tongue disjointed, not just form a waterfall, but around 275 fruit waterfall with different altitudes between 40 and 80 meters.

There is also a terraced waterfall. Not surprisingly, thousands of travelers arriving every day just to watch and capture the majesty of nature through millions of photos. In 1986, Iquazu attractions listed in the list of UNESCO as a natural heritage for the entire Mankind.

The waterfall is surrounded by a forest grove. On both sides of Argentina and Brazil do maintenance environment, with established national parks to preserve the ecology of the entire flora and fauna. Various wild animals and various birds flying around, especially a variety of colorful parrots. Dozens of animal species included in the list of animals conserved. This is an added value for a world tour.