1. In northern hemisphere just started the summer, and in the southern the winter.
2. The Tibet is going back to normal and is again opened for tourists.
3. Miami beaches closed because the collibacteria.
4. The water of the Mediteranean Sea is very warm, 26 degrees Celsius.
The Galapagos Islands are very isolated, and that’s why we can find even today some endangered or extincted species elsewhere. Making researches on this remoted island, Charles Darwin put the bases of his revolutionary evolutionist theory.
If you travel there, you can still admire the fantastic Galapagos lizzard!
It’s safe to say that travel blogs these days are a dime in a dozen. There’s just seemingly an endless stream of eager bloggers who want to share their testimonials, travel photos, food and hotel reviews with just about everyone else in the world. From eager beaver first-time travelers to die-hard backpackers to regular globetrotters, all want to share their experiences, whether bad or good, with other people. In fact, the more people they share their travel-related stories and photos with, the better – and the best way to do this is to turn to the Internet and come up with travel blogs of their own. Unfortunately, it takes more than just photos and stories to lure readers to a travel blog. Sometimes a “bolt-in”, if you will, of various travel blogs from users all over the world is needed and luckily, a popular web-based travel journal and travel research tool has come out of its hibernation.
My Life of Travel (www.mylifeoftravel.com) lets travelers record their journeys, map travel histories, share tips with fellow tourists and keep in touch with friends and family without the need for mass email communication and photo sharing sites – and all these completely free for use! After being “slightly neglected” because of the developers’ hectic skeds, My Life of Travel is back on track and loyal users can now start creating multiple travel journals again.
One look at the My Life of Travel website and you’ll immediately know why it has, is and will continue to be a favorite website of many travelers. It’s very user-friendly – easy to navigate, easy to understand and has a clean layout. For a busy traveler who doesn’t have the luxury of time but who has all the gusto to share his photos and stories with family and friends, the website comes across as appealing to the eye and simple to use.
A big plus for this website is the fact that it automatically maps users’ travels onto an interactive world map, displaying the routes traversed. This produces fancy animated journal maps. And as if that’s not enough to keep users happy, the site’s developers have also made it possible for users to easily insert their videos on their pages (via their YouTube accounts) and quickly navigate through photo albums. Yes, the developers of My Life of Travel is basically spoon feeding its users – and that’s a good thing.
Perhaps the only drawback that the website has (that is, if it can really BE considered a drawback) is its all too simplistic website design and layout. After all, we do know that there are people who might want to see more colors and fancy flash animations here and there.
Still, for the hardcore traveler who wants a website where connections to people who matter are developed and kept, where photos and videos are effortlessly shared, where efficiency counts more than elaborate website design, My Life of Travel is easily the ideal one-stop shop for travel blogs.
So…My life of Travel is definately not a loser..but can this site compete with the big boys from the travel social network niche?
The city of Brussels, the european capital, has a strange and not very decent citymark. But it is old enough to be an attraction of the city.
Brussels has also another citymark: the huge european Parliament. But I like more the little man urinating!
Compare and decide !
I talked a bit with Calan from Mylifeoftravel.com and he agreed to give me an interview, also a review for his site is coming soon.
Hello Calan, can you share some info about you and the team behind Mylifeoftravel?
Taipei is the capital of Taiwan, and is an example of quickly development.
Taipei has now 2 500 000 inhabitants (with the suburbs triple!) . In 1830 was still a small village, and started to grow. Very close to Japan, it took a profit even from the Japanese occupation. In 1930 was already a proud smiling city with wide boulevards, many cafes and restaurants. But the post war split between the communist continental China and Taiwan was decisive for Taipei. 2 000 000 refugees settled here and started the Taiwan miracle. Based on American and Japanese investments the economy flourished, and the city too. Read the rest of this entry »
Every big city, needs and surely has a symbol. The megacities have even more symbols.
How must be a symbol of a city? It has to be interesting, historically tight to the city, impressive, easy to describe and, above all, it must have a story!
A symbol of a city can be a building, a statue, a monument, or even a square, or maybe a street. etc. I can give you some examples:
-the symbol is a building: Big Ben or Tower Bridge in London, Tour Eiffel in Paris
-the symbol is a statue: Miss Liberty for New York
-the symbol is a square: Red Square in Moscow, El Zocalo in Mexico City.
-the symbol is a street: Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Champs Elysees in Paris
The symbol must be easy reproductible and in lying in a crowded visited place. It must be magnetic and attractive, and lasting. Sometymes, the symbols, even destroyed, remain in the public memory (The Twin Towers from New York). It is a must in a city to find and visit its symbols, it is a part of your job as travelers!
I usually recommend you places I saw and found also worth for your visit. The following places I did not see, and you don’t need to see them. These are the Earth most polluted regions. Believe, you may not go there, but there are living people! Being subject to such strong pollution, they are more often ill, live less etc.
If you think to megacities as New York, Tokyo, Mexico City you are wrong! These megacities became environmental friendly and aware, it is not so bad living there. Keep in mind the following places and avoid them:
1. Chernobyl,Russia. It was the center of the worse accident in a nuclear plant up to now, which affected large areas in Ukraina, Belarus, and Russia. Radioactivity caused many genetic disasters.
2.La Oroya, Peru, the centre of peruvian mining since 1930. Peru gets there lead, copper,silver etc.
3.Vapi,India. The chemical wastes have been deposited simply under the sky, infesting air, soil and water.
4.Tianying, China, in the Anhui province, where the lead is gained.
5.Kabwe,Zambia. Lead is again the source of pollution
6.Sumayit, Azerbaidjan. A former very important soviet chemical city(I mean, a city with many chemical plants)
7.Dzerjinsk, Russia. This is really the most polluted world’s city, as the place where, during the cold war, was obtained sarin, a deadly fighting gas. The life expectation is here 42 years for a man, and 47 years for a woman!
8. Linfen, China. 4 millions people are affected of a severe air pollution, due to the coal explotation and coal central. People cannot go outdoors without mask. Sad, but true.
