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Kamis, 31 Maret 2011

10 cities of the world's weirdest

1. Sealand: a micronation on the waters of the North Sea


Sealand is a mini country located 10 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, England. Sealand is occupied by families and relatives of Paddy Roy Bates. Areas that can be occupied only about 550 m2.
Although the sovereignty and state power is not recognized by any country, this may be a mini state of the world's most recognized, and sometimes appear in the debate as a case study of how various principles of international law can be debated.

2. Thank you for Fucking, Austria

Fucking is a small town in Austria (population 150). Deikenal this small town named "Fucking" more or less since 1070.
The most popular in this city is road markings with the name of this town, sometimes a lot of English speaking tourists who stopped just to take photos. In fact, this one lane into the lane most often stolen in Austria. City residents have a special budget to replace the road markings were stolen.

3. A Museum Devoted to the Penis

The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavík, Iceland, is a museum dedicated to the phallology. The museum currently has 154 specimens displayed like hunting trophies, embalmed in formaldehyde, or dried in display cases. The museum attempts to collect penis specimens from every mammal in Iceland, including several species that are endangered or already extinct in Icelandic waters.


4. Erving's Location. Population: 1

Erving's Location is located in the province of Coos, New Hampshire. In New Hampshire location, contribution, districting, and purchases are separate from the province that are not part of the city and have limited self-government (if there are, many are uninhabited).
According to the 2000 census, one person lived in Erving. Some speculate that the census statistics for Erving could have been a computer malfunction.

5. The Mojave Phone Booth Lonely

The Mojave Phone Booth is the only phone booth in the Mojave National Preserve which attracted the attention of many people in 1997, because the location is not reasonable. Booth this one is 15 miles from the nearest highway interstate, and miles and miles from any buildings. People sometimes call this booth just to get a response, and several others traveled to the location of this booth to answer the phone, often there are camping in the vicinity. The story inspired the making of the movie Mojave Phone Booth, which was released in 2006. How come I never hear ya pelem blom yah?

6. The smallest park in the world: 452 in2

Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon is the smallest park in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. 'Park' is sized 610mm which in 1948 was aimed at was built for a light pole. The park is equipped with some unusual items over the years including a swimming pool for butterflies (complete with diving equipment) and the miniature Ferris wheel (plus a water faucet with regular size). Interested create beat this record?

7. A Christian Chapel decorated by the bones of 40.000 people

he Sedlec ossuary small Christian chapel, located under the Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czechs Republic. The ossuary contains approximately 40,000 human skeletons artistically arranged to form the decoration and equipment for the chapel.

8. Climb the World's steepest street

Quiet street in a suburb of Baldwin Street, in southern New Zealand city of Dunedin, is regarded as the world's steepest street.
At the maximum angle, the slope is approximately 1:2.86 (20 ° or 38%) - so that, for every distance of 2.86 meters horizontally, the altitude reached 1 meter.

9. Walcome to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales. Known officially has the longest place name in Britain, and in the world. Long Name is planned in 1860 on the pride of having the longest name of a railroad train in Great Britain, but is not considered an authentic word in Welsh grammar. When translated into the Indonesian roughly means "Church of St Mary in the valley of the white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio red cave".

10. The Rabbit's Hill Climb

Colletto Fava is a 1,500 m altitude hill in the southern Piedmont region in Italy. In 2005, a giant pink rabbit was built beside the mountain. Members of the Viennese artist who founded the group is not just hope people will pay attention to their work, but also for climbers interested in climbing and resting on it.

10 Weird Places in the world who Similar to Alien Planet

1.Victoria Land




It has a land surface studded with barren gravel, where it can be said to place on Earth most like Mars. A natural landscape is very memposona. This place is still in Victoria Land, west of McMurdo Sound.

Almost no snow here. but only a few steep batu2 only slightly covered in ice. This terrain looks not like a natural on this earth that exist in general.
In this place also has a uniqueness that is the frozen lake during bertahun2 length with a thickness of ice a few meters. where has the water under the ice that has a very high salt content which is inhabited by living things / organisms rare and mysterious.

2. Socotra Island (Indian Ocean)

The island is located in the territory of Yemen is a desert island inhabited around 40,000 people. Socotra name itself is taken from Sanskrit that means? Island of Happiness?. Many trees and plants on the island is included in the category of endemic flora, which means there will never be found anywhere else in the world except the island of Socotra. There are even some varieties that had been predicted to reach age 20 million years

Some of the reasons the island of Socotra shingga not become a tourist destination although the landscape is very interesting:
* Island of Socotra is an island that has a tropical climate of the desert. The heat can reach 40 degrees Celsius.
* Because the Island of Socotra is a protected island sustainability there is almost no roads built. The only road that was there, just built about 2 years ago. It was a tough agreement between the Government of Yemen and UNESCO.
* In order not to many tourists who come to the island of Socotra and for naturalness of Socotra island was still awake so do not expect to find a hotel or a resort there.

Finally, perhaps the island of Socotra is not the right destination and comfortable. After all much better if the island is not too much touched by humans, that there'll reduce habitat damage. we simply admire the oddity of this island through the pictures.

3. Rio Tinto (Spain)

This place was really menakjubkan.Landscape similar circumstances on the moon. It is beautiful when seen in the picture, but actually this place to save its own horrors. Rio Tinto entering Spanish territory, is a mining area which includes vast mountain and valley that had inhabited the area should be moved to another place, a new town built for the residents, not far from there.

Rio Tinto mining area it was no longer habitable, though there was no source of life. Water source of life which is already heavily polluted, the reddish color with low acidity distinguished PH 1.7-2.5, whereas the normal pH is 7. Abortion laden with heavy metals.

4. Kliluk, the Spotted Lake (Canada)

When the summer, the lake Spotted located in Canada, between British Columbia and Washington, dries so that shows the contents of the lakes that contain various types of mines. This lake is referred to as the highest content of eight types of mines including magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt), calcium and sodium sulphates, as well as silver and titanium.Konon, bathing in this lake will menyebuhkan many diseases.


5. Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)

Salar de Uyuni Bolivia perhaps one of the places which have stunning views of the world's largest salt dunia.Gurun, high volcanoes and hot springs are famous. It's all make this area like a strange place, as if we're not on planet earth. gan Khayangan rich world ....

6. Vale da Lua (Brazil)

Vale da Lua (Moon Valley) is a natural pool formed by water erosion. but unfortunately not much information about this place .

7. Blood Pond Hot Spring (Japan)

Blood Pond Hot Spring is one of nine "hell" (Jigoku) Beppu, Japan, the source of hot water is colored red with a very, very hot temperatures. High content of iron.

8. The Stone Forest (China)

Shilin in Chinese is a stone forest. Nature's creations are beautiful and fascinating. Looks very impressive and artistic. Stone forest is known since the Ming Dynasty and called as the World's First Miracle.

9. The Richat Structure (Mauritania)

One of the most spectacular places in Mauritania, the southwest part of the Sahara Desert. Very spacious, if viewed from above, like a giant hole with a diameter of 30 miles. Allegedly, the hole was a result of a meteorite falling to earth. But scientists believe that it happened because of erosion. But until now not been solved, its spinning.

10. Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves (Austria)

Stone cave ice is very unusual, other than that contained in the other parts of the world manapun.Ada strange feeling when squeezed in here. As if we were on another planet. There are many ice caves throughout the world, but Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves in Austria's largest and most popular. Being in Tennengebirge Mountains, near Salzburg.

Selasa, 29 Maret 2011

10 The most unique & Weird World

1. Guaíra Falls, Brazil-Paraguay border


Most people think Niagara Falls is the largest in the world. In fact Guaira Falls is the largest in the world by volume waterfall that reaches an average of 1.75 million cubic feet per-second. Compare with the Niagara Falls which is only 70,000 cubic feet per-second. Source Guaira Falls, located in perbatasasn Brazil-Paraguay, is the river Parana. In 1982, the water ternjun Guaira was built dams for power generation with the name of Itaipu Dam which is now the second largest dam in the world's largest electricity producer after Gorges Dam. Itaipu Dam supplies 90 percent of electricity to Paraguay, and 19 percent to Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

2. Iceberg B-15, Antartika
B-15 iceberg was the largest iceberg in recorded history. The wide reach 3100 km, making it larger than the island of Jamaica. Giant iceberg is due to fault Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. Then in 2003, iceberg B-15 was again split into several pieces, one of the largest is called B-15a drifting north, eventually crushed into the glacier in 2005, leaving a fault along the 8 km. This makes a big change in the map of Antarctica and demand must be revised (map).
Some washed up along the coast eventually foundered. In 2006, hurricanes in Alaska, menyebbakan ocean waves that pass up to 13,500 km for 6 days to Antarctica, and separating the fragments remaining fraction became more and more. Nearly a decade passed, the parts of the iceberg was still not fully liquid, the biggest part still considered sebagaii B-15a, with the vast field reached 1700 km. The picture above is an iceberg called B-15a after drifting into the Drygalski Glacier (bottom), his final break it into several pieces.

3. Don Juan Pond, Antartika
Which places the highest salt content? Surely people would call the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is world famous for its salt content is very high. Based on research, high salt content of sea water could be a medical therapy. No wonder that in many built near the Dead Sea spas for therapy, particularly health and beauty therapy. But it was not the terasin Dead Sea in the world. Precisely in the Antarctic is, exactly Don Juan Pond, a lake with the highest salt content in the world.


The comparison when juxtaposed with the sea in general, Don Juan Pond 18 times saltier than normal seawater, when compared with the Dead Sea, the Don Juan Pond 8 times more salty. Nah!


This location was discovered by Lt. Don Roe and Lt. John Hickey, in 1961, when they do research in Antarctica. The name of Don Juan Pond is also given by two researchers of this army, perhaps combining both names. The temperature in the pond-like most in the Antarctic region, is quite low, with lows can reach -30 degrees Celsius. But never until frozen like other places in Antarctica.

4. Rotorua, New Zealand

Rotorua is a seaside town south of the lake with the same name. Precisely at bay Plenty, north island of New Zealand. The uniqueness of the region is the number of pools of hot springs, especially Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, and mud boiling mud. The area was a unique and interesting, so much visited by tourists.
5. 83-42, Greenland
Strange and unique. But 83-42 is the only reliable pieces of land in the north. It's just 'a piece' in size about 35 mx 15 m and height 4 m. When viewed from above, like just a speck of land surrounded by broken pieces of ice. Unique! When the north pole is covered by ice, but the land is not. See picture! The uniqueness is once again toppled the previous record yaknu ATOW 1996. The uniqueness of 83-42 was found in 1998.

 6. Socotra, Republic of Yemen

Socotra place oddest and most unique in the world. Almost all who were there seem strange, from the shape of a tree and its environment, it's no wonder many are calling Socotra in the Republic of Yemen as one of the alien nest in the world. The place is very isolated, dry climates other than the other. This anomaly could be the cause of plant life or anything on there grew strange. Call it a well-known plants such as the Dragon's Blood Tree is strange, very unusual shape, looks like paying. This tree produces red sap. There also exist animals native animals, such as birds, spiders and other native animals. Not to mention also coral rocks, which form is not common and there on the island. With all the strangeness content of the island, do not be surprised if Socotra, an island at sea arab, entry in the World Heritage Heritage. 


7. The Great Dune of Pyla, France

All we know that Europe has no deserts, dunes, at best, only the ordinary. But this assumption is wrong. Europe has a unique dune Pyla ie, the length of 3 km, width 500 m and height of 100 meters. These dunes are very steep part facing the forest. This place is famous for being the place of paragliding activity. Besides the uniqueness of the dunes, which was also amazing was the surrounding scenery from the heights where we could see the ocean and forest. Because the dunes are much higher than the forest, so that the sand dunes that we could see everything. 

8. Meteor Crater, USA


Meteor Crater is a crater formed by meteorite fall. Located about 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert United States. The place was called Meteor Crater because it was close to the post office name. Meteor Crater was reputedly formed since 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene era when the local climate became cooler and wetter. At that time there was a vast prairie and forest inhabited by woolly mammoths, giant mashed slow loris, and camels. Perhaps the area was not yet in human habitation. A fallen meteor containing nickel and a crater of 50 meters. 

9. Mount Roraima, Venezuela, Brazil and Guyan
Mount Roraima is a wonderful place beautiful. Mount this stone shaped like a hood unique because the table that was in the clouds. The high 400 yards. The only way to reach the top of the roof of the table is to climb the ladder track that was already provided by the government of Venezuela. Another way that is not recommended is the usual rock climbers. There, the rain fell almost every day, wash away plant vines on the top of the roof. As a result, the roof of the mountain to be unique, because the net than anything .. aka as 'tables'.
10. The Door To Hell, Turkmenistan




This place is probably already all know, at least have read about or see the pictures. It's no wonder because the natural phenomenon in Turkmenistan is somewhat unique. People call it 'the Gates of Hell "because of the crater as wide as 70 meters out the fire which continuously since last 35 years. Starting from 1971 in which the geologist member region to look for mine gas. What happens then is a burst of fire from below the continuous, even swallowed all their equipment. The geologist was no one dared to go down into the crater poisonous. You can see it on Google Earth at 40 ° 15'8 "N 58 ° 26'23" E.

Rabu, 23 Maret 2011

7 Charming and Most Beautiful Aquarium in World

Aquarium Dubai in Dubai Mall 

• Stingrays ( ray fish) is swimming in Aquarium of Dubai [in] Dubai Mall.Size of the aquarium is 50 x soccer yard. The Dubai Aquarium consist of three decks and tunnel of glas which show the of exotic under water life
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Aquarium of Georgia, Atlanta


• Biggest aquarium in a world of located in Atlanta. A house amazing to lenih from 100.000 animals and 500 different sea species. With capacities 8,1 million gallon ( 31.000 m³) fresh sea water.


Akuarium Churaumi, Okinawa


Biggest Aquarium second in World, Churaumi Aquarium, part of Ocean Expo Commemorative National Government Park have, location to in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan have. Capacities to 7.500 m³ ( 1.981.290) sea water. One from some place where all visitor can see variation of amazing from creatures go out to sea like king sized shark.

The Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA)


AQWA, a adventure of world under sea which difficult to trust exist in Australian Part of West. of cool water to tropical heaven ocean south which comprise rock compose and coral in North.
AQWA is aquarium which is is formal to be opened as World Under Sea ( Underwater World) Perth at 13 April 1988 and in akuisisi now by new owner, Coral World International Morris Kahn and, at 1991. Later;Then change name become this time ( AQWA) at 1 January, 2001. This facility have accomodated more or less 400 sea animal species.

UShaka Marine World


• Biggest aquarium in African - USHAKA Marine World have, location to alongside plain between boundary settlement of port and coast in Durban. Kwazulu-Natal, African South; a inviting amusement centre and besides also as biggest aquarium of ke-5 by 32 water tanki. Sea animals which can be found from small sea-horse until shark and dolpin. The aquarium intend to be designed so that seen like part of sink ship cabin

 AquaDom, Radisson Hotel Aquarium


Development of The Aquadom opened in December 2003 and finish the expense of around 12.8 million Euros. acrylic Cylinder Glass of him woke up by America company, Reynolds Polymer Technology.
• its Cylinder Exterior is assembling on the ground from four cutting; inner cylinder of lift made in one cutting. The Aquadom is acrylic glass of biggest cylinder in world, with diameter as long as more than 11 metre and woke up by above fondasi as high as 9 metre 

Aquarium Virtual 32 million Dollar


Feel in under sea, that's which possible great friend feel when will enter one of the new mall stand up in Beijing. Because with roof of kanopi which in the form of screen of LCD fairish 250mx30m, besides for protection of sun heat, great friend also can witness typical atmosphere under sea. Screen of LCD as high as this 80 feet represent combination from 5 screen of LCD having wide of 7.500 square meters ( as wide of comparison of football ground only 5.500 square meters). But, don't ask its installation total cost, installation of screen of LCD this finish fund equal to $ 32 million