Marvelous Dizzy Heights of Nepal

 If you ever have a chance to visit Nepal, never miss it! This is an amazing country with breathtakingly beautiful mountainous landscapes. So let's walk around some of the most picturesque Nepalese places and admire the nature.

The Museum Of Pears

In Japanese prefecture Totori there is a museum devoted to the 20th Century Pear sort.

This sort of pears is a pride of Totori prefecture, and looking at this building, one won't even think that it's a pear museum.

The exposition of pears from all over the world.

Owners of All Animals - the Masai

 The Masai are a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are nearly the most well known African ethnic group, due to their distinctive customs and dress. Today the Masai population is about 400.000 people. 

They have many in common with the other Kenyan people - Himba.

For example, they also build huts near the central court.

Masai use sticks and manure for huts construction.

Masai believe that they own all animals in the world. That was the reason for many conflicts with other people.

However there are some distinctions between Masai and Himba. Especially as to clothes. Masai wear more things, and they are of modern materials.

Locals sell souvenirs of their country.

To become a real man every boy has to leave his family at young age, build himself a house and live there for several years. Then he returns home to have here some rights.

Masai are known to be fierce fighters, but now they do not have any enemies and their one occupation is grazing.

Amsterdam: The City Of Bicycles

Amsterdam can be considered as the European capital of bicycles. It seems that here are more bicycles than in China. Everything is well arranged for bicyclists: special roads, traffic lights and parking places. Bicycle bells are heard

Sri Lanka - The World's Richest Country

 Besides the famous tea plantations Sri Lanka boasts its precious stones as well. It's one of the world's leaders in their extraction. The very process of extraction has remained the same since ancient times. It's still manual work. Mines are dug with the help of picks and shovels and are usually not far away from the bank of a river. The rock itself is lifted in baskets and buckets with the help of ropes and then washed in a stream of water or the nearest river.

Then special people start their work trying to find precious stones among other stones. Sometimes they find one, two or even a handful of them, but often

Seattle - Back to the Dirty Past

 Tours along the Seattle underground have been organized since 1965. In this way authorities tried to attract society's attention to the history of the city and save the old buildings located in Pioneer Square (the Seattle's oldest neighborhood) from demolition. So, let's have a walk along its underground and plunge into the history of the 19th century.

The expedition under command of Arthur Denny came to Seattle in November of 1851. He believed the history of this city had begun with his coming but he was wrong. A certain Doc Maynard had discovered and explored this place

The Garden of Awesome Proportions

 The Nongnooch Tropical Garden & Resort is one of the must-see places in Thailand. It's located about 20 km to the south from Pattaya. Among tourists it is also known The Park of Orchids.

It occupies a huge territory of some hectares in the picturesque valley surrounded by the mountains. This tropical garden with beautiful and always green landscape - achitecture compositions is a true masterpiece of the landscape design. The Nongnooch is also a botanic garden, one of the largest in Asia.