Hawaii travel

When it’s cold outside and you warm yourself with hot tea or coffee it’s so nice to dream about soft beaches, tender ocean waves and sunny weather. You can keep dreaming or you can turn your dream into reality and visit one of popular travel destinations that offer a whole year summer. Hawaii is perfect for winter travel - wonderful weather, heartbreaking sunsets and high-class hotels.

If you plan to make a trip to Hawaii, most probably you will be offered to stay in Honolulu, Hawaii’s capital city. Honolulu is really gorgeous – best hotels, amazing nightlife, fantastic beaches, great shopping and all these just in one city! Restaurants deserve long and independent review as in Honolulu there are several world-class and award-winning restaurants. Menus that include many exotic dishes from world cuisine, high-class service and patio seating will never leave you indifferent. When you explore the city, explore nature of the island as you can find here volcanoes, mountains, waterfalls and many other places of interest.

I’d recommend you to get the most of your stay in Hawaii and explore many attractions like sailing, dancing, scuba diving and visiting museums. If you like surfing, then winter is your time to visit Hawaii and catch the biggest waves. Usually tourists enjoy visiting Halona Blow Hole or Japanese Byodoin temple or go to pineapple plants or nut farms. Night is a time for great shows, where you can see traditional dances, fire twirlers and magic tricks. (more…)

Sony PRS-505

If you enjoy reading books, you will certainly fall in love with Sony PRS-505 e-book reader. This slim and stylish looking device is a second generation of readers with 166 dpi resolution and popular E Link Corporation display format.
This e-book reader allows using not only MS Word and Adobe PDF files, but also MP3 music format and JPEG images. Device has its own standard 192 MB memory that is enough to store approximately 150 books. Music and huge PDF files lovers will certainly find memory card slot to be of a great help, as this Sony e-book reader can hold Memory Stick Pro Duo or SD Memory card types with capacity up to 8GB.
Device comes with all needed software allowing PC synchronization, upload and download features. Soft is easy to use, in most cases you can use drag and drop feature to put all media to your reader. Sony has its own digital bookshop that is much like famous iTunes where you can make fast and simple titles search and find the book you want to read.
Sony PRS-505 looks gorgeous. Reader has cutting-edge design and weights less then most paperbacks, so you can use it anywhere. Navigation is easy and intuitive making reader usage simple and exciting for anyone. However, device has no keyboard, so you can’t take notes or highlight important parts. (more…)

Hidden Museum in the Desert

A giant sand dune is going to be home to the new Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar. From a distance, it just looks like another pile of sand, like thousands of others in the desert. Upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that the dune isn’t quite what it seems.

Architect Rafael Viñoly designed the museum to blend seamlessly with its environment. In a possible reference to historic Bedouin tents, Viñoly has used a sand-colored stretched canvas-like material to cover the 350,000 square foot space.

This camouflaged building will house Sheikh Hassan Bin Mohammed Al-Thani’s large collection of Arab art dating from the early Qur’anic period to modern times. And, you’ll find plenty of other treasures to explore at the MOMAA. The collection includes 5,000 paintings, 700 antiques, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, a calligraphy section, photography and more. The museum is scheduled to be finished by 2011.

Via:  Jaunted

Vietnam overview

Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a travel destination that is yet to be discovered. For many years this S-shaped country that borders China to the north, Cambodia to the southwest and Laos to the northwest was closed for tourists and the only association most travelers got concerned war with the United States. However the situation is changing and many tourists open this desired travel destination. Overall almost 4 million of tourists visit Vietnam during a year.

Vietnam population is 85 million what makes it 13th populous country. Also Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world.

Vietnam is divided into 3 main regions that are called trung (central region), bac (northern) and nam (southern). Country’s capital, Hanoi, is situated in the northern region as well as such cities like Hai Duong, Sa Pa or Hai Phong. (more…)

Eero Saarinen

There’s a lot of great Eero Saarinen action right here in the United States, but he didn’t limit his works to the states. One example of his adventures overseas is the Embassy of the United States in London that sits in Grosvenor Square. Finished in 1960, it’s one of the largest American diplomatic offices in the world.

The building consists of nine stories, with three of them below ground. The facility is topped with a gilded aluminum Bald Eagle with a wingspan of more than 35 feet. Besides the US embassy in Japan, the London post is the only one situated on land not owned by the American government. Let’s just hope the United Kingdom doesn’t get any ideas.

Besides handing out visas and other paperwork, the building is traditionally used as the setting for announcing any agreements between the UK and US. Maybe you’ll even get to visit on your next trip to London after spending a little too much time at the pub and getting belligerent in the streets!

Via: Jaunted

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