Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy Generator Update cookies preferences
Showing posts with label Tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tourism. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Paris: 10 Must-See Tourist Attractions


Paris

Paris, France is a city with a rich history and culture. It has been the capital of France for more than two centuries, and it is also one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Paris is known for its architecture, art, fashion, and food. The city is also home to some of the most famous landmarks in Europe, such as Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower.


Paris

Drawing of a french girl walking through the élysées parks image generated in midjourney


Parisians are known for their love of shopping, which is why there are so many stores and boutiques in the city. In addition to its shopping district – Les Halles – Paris also has a large number of department stores that offer a wide range of products from clothing to appliances. Some of the most popular brands in Paris include Lululemon Athletica, Saint Laurent, Chanel, and Hermes.


paris, france
Eiffel Tower sunset image generated in Playgroudai
The city's nightlife is renowned for being lively and exciting. There are numerous bars and clubs located throughout the city that offer a wide variety of drinks and entertainment options. Some popular venues include Le Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Casino, La Scala Theatre Company's Lyric Opera House, and The Moulin Rouge Club.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Site of Day: Fort of São João Baptista

Hello everyone, today its time for Portugal!!!!!!!
"This is a gorgeous place in the world"

Fort of São João Baptista

The fort of São João Baptista it's a hidden gem in Berlengas Islands of Portugal, the Berlengas is an archipelago, one that sits slightly Northwest of the coastal town of Peniche. The Berlengas Islands are a chain of islands off the coast of Portugal: are a rugged beauty, manmade architecture and raw nature; the Berlengas are one large island surrounded by several smaller ones and ragged rochks jutting out of the Atlantic. They are fairly unheard of beyond Portugal. The fortification belonged to a group of defensive military structures meant to protect the municipality located on the coast.
Porutgal-Berlengas
General view of fort

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Site of day: Whitehaven Beach, Astralia

Whitehaven Beach

Located

Whitehaven Beach its located in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, Whitehaven Beach is one of the World's most unspoiled and beautiful beaches. In 2013, it was named the number one beach in Australia by the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Beaches Awards. Whit its warm, turquoise-hued water and soft, impeccably white sand, Whitehaven Beach is simply heaven on earth.
Australia
Whitehaven Beach
Whitehaven Beach is a 7 km stretch along Whitesunday Island, Australia. The island is accessible by boat from the mainland tourist ports of Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour, as well as Hamilton Island. The Whitehaven Beach Ocean Swim is a 2 km open swimming competition held on the Beach in November each year as part of the Hamilton Island Triathlon Event,

Friday, January 30, 2015

Site of Day: A tourquoise waters in Protected Water Reserve "Cerro San Gil"

Cerro San Gil

Las Escobas

Location:

The footpath "Las Escobas" is located in Puerto Barrios, department of Izabal; notable for the diversity of flora and fauna inhabiting the place, which is frequently visited by tourists coming to Puerto Barrios by different cruise ships that dock in the Port of Santo Tomás de Castilla.
Guatemala
.
The idyllic park, centered around the Cerro San Gil mountain, comprises more than 7,700 hectares (19,000 acres) of lush rainforest. Bathed in rainfall throughout most of the year (averaging 255 in.) as warn, humid air rises over the mountains from the sea to elevations in excess of 3,900 ft(1,100 m), the preserve harbors an asounding level of biodibersity.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Tikal National Park, Guatemala.

Tikal National Park

The Tikal National Park, in the Peten region in Northern Guatemala, comprises an area of 222 mi² or 576 km². The park contains some of the most fascinating archaeological remains of the ancient Maya Civilization. Tikal is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, first saw Tikal in the mid nineteenth century, from the top of a sapodilla tree, obrserving various temple's roof combs in the distance and reported the ruins to a La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal. The Berlin Academy of Science's Magazine then republished the report in 1853. Archaeologist and treasure hunters then began visiting the forest. Today tourism to the site may help protect the rainforest.
Tikal National Park
Temple I or Great Jaguar around 1900's

Thursday, January 22, 2015

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's is a church in the Renaissance style located in the Vatican City west of the River Tiber and near the Janiculum Hill and Hadrian's Mausoleum. Its central dome dominates the skyline of Rome. The basilica is approached via St. Peter's Square, a forecourt in two sections, both surrounded by tall colonnades. The first space is oval and the second trapezoid. The façade of the basilica, with a giant order of columns, stretches across the end of the square and is approached by steps on which stand statues of the first century apostles to Rome, Saints Peter and Paul.
Italy-Vatican city
St. Peter's Basilica

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Arc de Triomphe (Paris, France)

Arc de Triomphe de I'Étoile

Is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the place Charles de Gaulle, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It should not be cunfused with a smalleer arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe("Triumphal Arch") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
Paris-France
Arc de Triomphe at night
The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806 and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Site of day, Castle Howard, England.

Castle Howard

History

Castle Howard was built between 1699 and 1712 to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd earl of Carlisle. The Site was that of the ruined Henderskelfe Castle, which had come into the Howard family in 1566 through the marriage to Lord Dacre's widow of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
The house is surrounded by a large estate which, at the time of the 7th Earl of Carlisle, covered over 13,000 acres and included the villages of Welburn, Bulmer, Slingsby, Terrington and Coneysthorpe. The estate was served by its own railway station, Castle Howard, from 1845 to the 1950s.
In 1952 the house was opened to the public by then owner, George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe. It is currently owned by his son, the Honourable Simon Howard, who grew up at the castle. In 2003, the grounds were excavated over three days by Channel 4's Time Team, searching for evidence of a local village lost to allow for the landscaping of the estate.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Site of day,Waitomo Glowworm caves

Waitomo Caves

The waitomo caves is a village and solutional cave system forming a major tourist attraction in the northern King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand, 12 km northwest of Te Kuiti. The community of Waitomo Caves itself is very small, though the village has many temporary service workers living there as well.
Visitor center
Waitomo Caves - Visitor Center Entry
The word Waitomo comes from the Maori language wai meaning and tomo meaning a doline or sinkhole; it can thus be translated to be water passing through a hole. The caves are formed in Oligocene limestone.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Site of day, Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia

Madain Salih, Saudi Arabia

Mada'in Saleh, also called Al-Hijr or Hegra, is a pre-Islamic archaeological site located  in the  Al-Ula sector, within the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. A majority of the vestiges date from the Nabatean kingdom.
Saudi Arabia-Tourism-Tourist
The site constitutes the Kingdom's southernmost and largest settlement after Petra, its capital. traces of Lihyanite and  Roman occupation before and after the Nabatean rule, respectively, can also be found. The Qur'an places settlement of the area by the Thamud people ofter Noah but before Moses, which can be  interpreted as the 3rd millennium BC.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Site of day, Eiffel tower, France.

Eiffel Tower

La tour Eiffel(French) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower, Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World´s fair, it was initially criticised by some France´s leading artist and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
Eiffel Tower-Paris-France-Tourist-Tourism

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Site of day, Big Ben

The Big Ben

The Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.
The Clock Tower-Big Ben-Elizabeth tower

Big Ben-Clock tower-Elizabeth tower
The Big Ben 

Saturday, July 12, 2014

A promotional film about El Salvador in the 1960s

A promotional film about El Salvador in the 1960s made by Esso. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

Monday, March 3, 2014

The Paradise of the caves of Lanquín

The Lanquin Caves National Park

You can see also: Semuc Champey

The Lanquin Caves National Park is a protected area consisting of a large limestones cave system located 1 km (0.62 mi) west of Lanquín in the department of  Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. The cave system Lanquin was declared a national park in 1955 covering an area of about 11 hectares (0.1 km²). Near the entrance passes a river also called Lanquín walking about 12 miles to the river Cahabon.

Grutas de Lanquín National Park
 Located 1 km from the municipal seat of Lanquín, on the road that leads to Coban, passes over the input Lanquin Caves, one of the first declared protected areas in Guatemala.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Utila a Beautiful tropical island for tourism

Utila Island

Utila is one of the three main islands of the insular department of Bay Islands of the republic of Honduras.
Map of the Utila Island
Map of Utila
Utila is the smallest of the islands that make up the department of the Bay Islands in Honduras Caribbean. Despite it´s small size (it measures just seven miles long by three wide), most of the island is uninhabited. It is in the Southeast corner, where your main town, Harbor Easter(or simply Utila), and most of the tourist facilities.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Semuc Champey a Wonderful place for tourist adventure in Guatemala

Semuc Champey, Guatemala.

Is a natural monument in the departament of Alta Verapaz, near the Q´eqchi´ Maya town of Lanquín(Municipality in the Guatemalan departament of Alta Verapaz). It consist of a natural 300 meters limenstone bridge, under which passes the Cahabon River. Atop the bridge is a series of stepped, turquoise pools, a popular swwiming attraction. Although it can be difficult to get to, semuc is very popular with travelers.

Semuc Champey, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Semuc Champey, Guatemala

Monday, January 20, 2014

Machu Picchu tourist

Machu Picchu the lost city of the Incas.

Machu Pikchu (Quechua machu old, old person, pikchu peak; mountain or prominence with a broad base which ends in sharp peaks, "old peak") is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District inPeru. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cusco and through which theUrubamba River flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of Inca civilization.

Machu picchu


The Incas built the estate around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of what the structures originally looked like. By 1976, thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored. The restoration work continues to this day.