Christmas in Paris

Paris is a magical place but on Christmas it becomes even more exquisite.The Champs-Elysées is decorated for 2km every year with Christmas lights and other fascinating symbols of the holiday making it a breathtaking view. The huge Christmas markets are typical for the winter seasons in Paris. The various decorations and food that they offer makes them ideal for you to visit as they propose wood challets,mulled wine and handcraft toys. There are several annual holidays in Paris that a person should not miss and Christmas is one of them. The cheerful holiday spirit is everywhere. Even the shops on the big streets put up fascinating decorations stylishly combined with the clothes or products they offer. The boutiques in Paris have various holiday discounts and offer outstanding and genuine gifts.Their shop windows deserve to be seen. If you happen to be in Paris know that beside the usual tourist attractions there are intriguing Christmas markets like Christmas Market at the Montparnasse Tower, Christmas Market and Santa's Village at Saint-Sulpice and Christmas Market at Place de la Nation.
This is one of the best tourist attraction in Paris that does not need Christmas decoration. The simple lights make it magically beautiful.

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The Amazing Race

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The Amazing race is a reality TV game show which involves traveling all around the world and competing with people in order to get $1,000,000. It explores all aspects of traveling- from relaxing to full of excitment activities. The goal is to be better than the others and get faster to a "pit stop". Personally, I like it a lot because, though the people in the competition are constantly under a lot of pressure, they get to visit amazing places, explore various cultures.
The competitors travel in different transportation modes like planes,taxis,buses,boats and by foot. Their goal is to find a certain clue which then leads them to a place where various tasks awate them. If they are slow they arrive late which could mean they might be eliminated. The winners are the ones that, after there are only three groups left, get to the final pit stop first. Whoever wins gets $1,000,000 though if you ask me everyone in the shopw is a winner. They all get to visit both major tourist attractions like Grand Canyon and picturesque wilderness.
The Amazign Race has many versions like The Amazing Race Central Europe or the special family deitiion where instead of two people in a team there were four and they were all families.

I recently read Dan Brown's book The Lost Sign. It is a quite fascinating story that takes place in Washington D.C. In the book the writer constantly mentiones different works of art that are tightly connected to the events and the story. Some of them are the painted ceilings in Capitolia and exquisite pieces of architecture. I was so impressed with the way he descibed them that after reading the book I had this desire to go to Washington and see all those unique art works and visit the places where the main heroes of the book went . What I am reffering to when I share this experience with you is that art can often be a reson to travel. If you haven't planned your holiday and like Michelangelo's ides for example you should most certainly visit St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican city. If you admire the works of the brothers Eyck you should go to Ghent where one of their paintings is.

Summer festival in Ghent

Ghent during the summer festival which i got to see.

A few years ago my family and I went on a roadtrip. We visited Greece, Lithuania and from there drove across Poland, stayed for a few days in Austria and contiued to Germany. Even if I went on listing the beautiful countries we vsited the truth is that what I will remember forever is Belgium and especially the small city of Genth.

It was pure luck and coincidence that brought us to Ghent right when a big festival was approaching. When we herd what was coming we decided to stay a few days longer. Those were the best days of my summer. It was fantastic. One day you go for a walk in this small tranquil town filled with old yet beautiful buildings and on the other you find yourself in a completely opposite situation. All throughout the town there were stages built. Decorations and crowds of people everywhere. There were all kind of performances and each time I turned around I saw new and different ones.

An interesting fact is that in 2005 1.5 million people attended the festival making it the biggest openair evet of festive origin and I was a part of it.

Viva las vegas

"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas "

The sin city is THE perfect place to visit on a weekend.
If you want proof you should definately watch the movies below.

The Hangover - the greatest comedy ever! I mean who goes to his bachelor party in Las Vegas and doesn't remember a thing after that, steals a tiger and marries a striper.]

21 -if you were a jenius who just got 21 where would you go?Las Vegas. And what would you do?Count cards and win millions of dollars.

Ocean's 13 - Personally I would go in Las vegas just to visit places like the the five star hotels in this movie

What happens in Vegas - fall in love for one night with a complete stranger.


Las Vegas in Las Vegas

Go sightseeing!:P

Try out different cuisines,have fun,meet new people and explore various cultures. You can do all of this when you travel and sight-see.

Visit this site if you need any travel tips.

You don't know where you want to go for your next holiday.Well, thing about what you want to do. Are you looking for relaxation or excitement. Watch this movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeoX8MZd81E

If you're into sightseeing visit this site.http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-7004916-cat-tourist+attractions+zzandzz+sightseeing-europe_things_to_do-i

The World's eight wonders

Among the contestants of "The 8 World Wonders" were unique places like

The Amazon (Amazonia) is the world's largest river surrounded by extraordinary frainforests that cover up to seven million square kilometers.

Galapagos - an archipelage of volcanic islands with unique animals that is located west of Equador

The Iguazu falls - among the world's largest waterfalls the Iguazu falls are surrounded by many endangered species

The actual winners though were eight of the world's most famous national tresures. There are all destinations that a person should visit no matter what.

• Giza Pyramid cmplex (Cairo, Egypt)
• Chichen Itza (Yucatan, Mexico)
• Christ the Redeemer(Rio de Janeiro)
• Colosseum(Rome,Italy)
• Great wall of China(China)
• Machu Picchu(Cuzco)
• Petra (Jordan)
• Taj Mahal(Agra,India)

Vote for 7 of the 28 candidates :http://www.new7wonders.com/?id=315&L=4