Travel Freak

This you see in photography is the house that has just bought Roman Abramovich, one of the richest people in the world, as well as owner of Chelsea, which has purchased this wonderful property for only 500 million dollars (about 315 million euros).

At this point the other property purchased by Roman for just 30 million dollars, which is located not far from Leopolda just become a kind of annexe for staff to its service.

La Leopolda, formerly belonged to Gianni (Agnelli) and Bill (Gates), is Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, not far from Monte Carlo and Nice. If you are precisely the curiosoni, you can also try to recognize with satellite maps of google.

Breaking the norms of fixed hotels, this Travelpod is a perfect accessory devised to help you in your outdoor escapades. Serving as a unique al fresco lodging, this mobile hotel of Travellodge hotel is the “world’s first mobile hotel room” that will hit the market soon.

This device can help in doing the camping activity in an ultra-modern manner by placing this mobile hotel instead of tents. This great news for all the travel freaks is a blessing after a long. Now, this will surely do away the B&Bs that were booked long before for the celebration of music festivals during camping holidays.

Preserved in a polycarbonate glass box, the functionality of the pod is similar to the conventional hotel rooms facilitating TV and air conditioning. Measuring 6 meters by 2.4, it includes a double bed,lights along the bed, well-carpeted floors, and a designer dressing table. The attached canopy will undergo testing over the next couple of months.

Via Utubelaughter

Global warming is increasingly becoming a threat to the existence of the highest peak in the world. It has changed the shape of the Mount Everest. The sons of the first people to climb this great mountain (The sons of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norway) regret this change and state that their fathers would not be able to recognize it as the base camp is now 132 feet lower than it was 53 years ago.

Base camp used to be at the altitude of 5,320 meters. This year it was at 5,280 meters because the ice is melting from the top and side. Base camp is sinking each year,” said Peter Hillary, who himself has twice reached Everest’s summit. The face of the mountain has been changed to a great extent as the glacier on which base camp sits has melted to such a degree that it is now at a lower altitude.

It has been anticipated that if the glaciers continued to melt, it would lead to devastating consequences. The melted ice will form huge lakes resulting in glacial lakes bursting their banks. This will prove to be catastrophic.

The floods of the past are nothing compared with the size of what we are threatened with. We must look for remedies to take care of our own world and the nature which god has given us. We all must endeavor to take measures from our own end to reduce the increasing pollution. United we can, and we will fight every threat.

Via Discovery

History repeated itself when the seven new wonders of the world were rechosen. India’s Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, Jordan’s Petra, Brazil’s statue of Christ Redeemer, Peru’s Machu Picchu, Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid and the Colosseum in Rome have now replaced the original wonders, most of which have long since vanished into the mists of time. The other original wonders, all since destroyed, were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the lighthouse of Alexandria.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was given the assurance of retaining its ancient status in addition to the new wonders when the egyptian officials vehemently stated that it was a disgrace to the great pyramid that they had to compete.
The great ceremony took place in Lisbon’s Stadium of Light and thshow was also televised. The great occasion was attended by egregious celebrities.
A private Swiss foundation launched the campaign in 1999. Almost 200 nominations were narrowed to a shortlist. The poll took place over the past six years but gathered pace only in recent months when the website was inundated by tens of millions of votes.
The money raised by the concerned organisation would be responsible for restoring the grace of these seven wonders of the world, and it will also be used to recreate the giant statues of Buddha destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Many countries showed their enthusiasm by encouraging people to vote for their respective monumemts. In india, a song was dedicated to the taj mahal, in china people were exhorted to flood the website with their votes, while in brazil it was done by printing bus-tickets.
This is just a way of making people love and respect their own culture and the culture of others as well.
Via timesonline