World Strangest Signs and Titles

By Angel | November 27, 2007 6:35 am |
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Sightseeings

Dear friends and travellers, today I have made an exuberant title of my post, so now I feel the necessity to explain what it is all about. While visiting various countries I made 3 types of photos: photos with me as a main part of any shoot (sometimes I even succeeded to outshine really huge buildings :-) ), photos with lively scenes, landscapes and stunningly beautiful places and the last category is about photos not the type will be likely to show up in a glossy brochure or site about tourism. Namely, these photos I’m going to show you, some of them are mine and some I have seen but failed to capture. So, please, enjoy!

The 1st one was taken in Egypt – it tells us: “No diving!” Actually, it was no use to, ’cause it was seen with the naked eye, this swimming-pool was not more than 0.5 m deep.

 No diving in swimming pool sign

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Glamour Snezhik as a Symbol of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games

By Angel | November 14, 2007 4:26 am |
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Countries,News

 snezhik

The Sochi 2014 Winter Games is a chance for the Russians and the Russian Federation, to prove – they are able of achieving great successes in both economic  situation and sport. But, let’s keep our eye single, Russian sportsmen are not bad, and their school of figure skating is a legendary one.

So, the symbol of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games is still unknown. Some people claim it to be a Cheburashka or a Mammoth, others believe in Olympic Misha triumphal return. But, I want you to get acquainted with one more competitor – a glamour Snezhik. A father of this creature is Andrey Chesnokov, Snezhik is a non-official symbol of city Snezhinsk.

snezhik_picture Snezhik is a close relative of a Snowman and a Big-foot. It was born in 1997 and occupied the 2nd place in the contest for the holiday symbol of Snezhinsk-city. But, this small funny white creature from snow, turned to be a very popular guy in Russia, so Andrey made cartoons about it and people even made a monument to Snezhik – people adore it. Snezhik  is a happy small boy with an irresistable smile. He makes people laugh and their mood definitely goes up. This small boy even has 2 own sites, the 1st one is devoted to Snezhik – his life, adventures and friends. Also, there everybody concerned can find cartoons about Snezhik. And the 2nd one is about Snezhik promotion. Many people want it to be the official symbol of Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

The official contest are reported to be announced late in November. According to Andrey, Mammoth advertising campaign is tough and covers almost of all mass-media means. But, the founder still believes he and Snezhik has some chances. Andrey has no money and no VIP-friends, but, Internet-voting is already opened, so choose, please!

The Most Dangerous Roads in the World

By Angel | October 24, 2007 9:18 am |
Categories:
News,Travel guides

Driving can be one of the most exciting day to day activities for the average person, but no matter what vehicle you’re driving or how skilled your technique is, there are some roads that you just have to wonder who is actually skilled enough to travel them. Taking a look at the following list will give you a good idea of whether your skilled enough to drive it or perhaps rich enough to make it safer for the rest of us.

  1. North Yungas Road, aka “Road of Death”, Bolivia: This road cuts through the Bolivian Andes, running almost 70 km from La Paz to Coroico. It travels nearly 3,600 meters down and is comprised almost entirely of narrow hairpin curves. Unfortunately, their is no safety net below off the side of the road, and as you can see from the picture, the drop is quite severe. While you’re smart enough to read about this road before attempting to travel it, between 100-200 people a year over estimate their driving abilities, leading to their unfortunate death. Constructed in the 1930′s by Paraguayan prisoners, it would be easy to assume that they built it to be this treacherous on purpose. North Yungas Road is most frequently traveled by trucks and busses, which makes it’s span of merely three meters wide almost as terrifying as looking out the window when on it. If you still don’t fear the “Road of Death” be warned, these conditions are only what you would experience in the dry season. Let’s hope you don’t get stuck there in the rain.

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New Type of Travelling and Tourism – Quest Tour

By Angel | October 22, 2007 3:43 am |
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News

I suppose, everybody knows, that there are different types of rest and travelling, but the world constantly undergoes the process of changing, so new types of tours appear.

Today, I would like to tell you more about a very interesting type of travelling – a quest-tour. It is a brand new technique of travelling. A quest tour is an adventure that contains a scenario of play , a so-called quest. Truly speaking, it is a new kind of an active tourism, but the role of sport plays a logic play. There are no analogues of this tour in the world!

Quest tour sunset under the Red Sea

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Olympic Mammoth – Will be Cartoon Hero

By Angel | September 28, 2007 5:41 am |
Categories:
News

On the 26the of October was announced, that in Russia will be released a brand-new cartoon about Olympic Mammoth, though, the symbol of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi is not officially announced, some people predict it to be a Mammoth. 22nd Olympic games mascot - Olympic Mammoth

This cartoon will be made because of the Organizational Committee request. Mammoth will be an official mascot of the Russian Olympic Games. The authors of the cartoon are sure, that it will help to make the image of mammoth popular and tell to rest of the world, that mammoths didn’t die, they just fallen asleep. Plot of the cartoon has strong connection to sport. “Even if our mammoth flies from St. Petersburg to Sochi on board the plane, he will be wearing skis, for instance”, said Ilkovskij (one of cartoon makers).

Animators are going to create more than 100 short series. The first cartoon is going to hit Russian TV screens in the middle of November. It will tell about mammoths in Russia and their sport preferences. Various music will be used it the cartoon and composer Oleg Popkov is going to write main song to it.


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