Asian Hotels Entice Tourists With Smells

Asian hoteliers lure tourists with fragrances. Smell properly can create memorable moments and awaken emotions. Modern systems for the fragrance for my admission to five odors in the course of the day, depending on time of day. The most popular morning scents are citrus and mint, while jasmine and vanilla, preferably before bedtime. The Scent Hotel on the Thai island of Koh Samui has transformed from a store selling fragrances in the boutique hotel that specializes in fragrances. Marriott International offers a variety of flavors in their hotels, depending on their location - the airport, the city or the beach.

InterContinental Hotels also use a variety of natural flavors in the rooms. It is predicted that in the future smells will play an increasingly important role in attracting customers, strengthening the commitment to the brand. The region has seen sales rise aromatics and flavors the air by 2014 revenue from this business should be up to $ 3 billion and $ 1.5 billion, respectively, the report said WTM on global trends - 2010 (Global Trends Report), made in conjunction with Euromonitor International.

The increasing flow of Chinese tourists

The increasing flow of Chinese tourists on the Indonesian resort of Bali, not only changes the dynamics of the tourist market, but faces figures of the gods. 

Just a few years ago, in this predominantly Hindu island of almost all of these figures depict Hindu gods, among whom the god Ganesh has an elephant head and the god Vishnu, seated on a horse with wings. "Chinese tourists - is the future of Bali, so we adapted to them many things to satisfy their tastes. The problem is that they do include full service, they have their own guides, they stay in their hotels and eat in separate restaurants, "- says Adi Vyayya, a local tourist guide.

Despite the global economic crisis, the number of Chinese tourists overseas has risen in the past year by 5.2% to 42.2 million people in 2000 was less than 7 million, while their spending increased in comparison with 2008 by 16% to $ 42mlrd .

More than two-thirds of Chinese tourists visiting Hong Kong or Macau, the two separate territories controlled by China. But now a group of Chinese tourists armed with cameras and ready to spend a lot of money when you travel, you can see around the world. The appearance of Japanese tourists on the global tourism market in the 80's of last century is nothing compared with the current stream of Chinese.

Analysts say that the emergence of Chinese tourists from almost anywhere - this is significant, a watershed event for the global tourist market. Until 2003, the only place outside Asia-Pacific area, where the Chinese government permitted to leave their visitors, were Turkey and Egypt. Since then Beijing has approved nearly 100 countries as places where the Chinese can go to rest. In June 2008, came permission to travel to the U.S., but only to those Chinese who live in the largest and most affluent areas.

Last year, at a recent French government study of the Chinese were the largest group of tourists in comparison with other countries, spending the most money shops. This is despite the fact that in 2008 about the number of Chinese tourists in France fell by 17%. French tour operators say that they are developing additional shop tours for Chinese tourists. Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, the most famous shopping malls in the heart of Paris, made a special label and introduced special services for Chinese customers.

The Italian government is developing a costly program to attract wealthy Chinese, thus attempting to halt a growing flow of Chinese coming to the country on a tourist visa and then illegally to stay there.

In the U.S., some hotels, including Marriott International, introduced in the Chinese restaurant menu for breakfast and to employ personnel of various ranks who speaks Chinese. "The Chinese tourists have a great desire to travel abroad az, besides a very noticeable increase in their welfare. We in turn try to understand what can bring them to our resorts located throughout the world, "- said Mr. Marriott.

Results of research conducted by host countries, show that the Chinese like most do shopping and the vast majority of them prefer to travel in a group. The bulk of Chinese tourists do not care about the conditions in which they stop, as they prefer to save money on hotels, to spend more in stores. "This is part of culture, when I go abroad I have to bring gifts to parents and friends. There is another explanation: the expensive things, such as bags of firm «Hermès» can not be bought in China, "- said the young Chinese tourists, which often goes shopping in the U.S. and Europe.

This recently formed in the tourist area made the tour operator precedence expensive TourService «DmAfrica» close its sales office in Shanghai that sold safari tours in Africa. "We came to this decision, because the Chinese tourists who want to buy expensive foreign trips there. The Chinese want to spend money on things, but not at hotels, "- said Paul Humphreys, executive director of the company.

He said that the tour operators in China are tied to commissions from shopping, Chinese tourists and tours often sell discount, receiving and then profit from the commission of the retail price. This in turn increases the interest in shopping.

"Today the system is based on commissions received from purchases made by tourists. We have a rather strange situation where the majority of foreign tour operators are losing money or going bankrupt because of the small commission from the purchases of tourists. So on the day on five hits stores account for only one sightseeing. When started traveling the Japanese and Koreans, they too rode groups and focus on shopping. Now, finally, the tourists will go to Paris with a cultural program, visit the Louvre or participate in a master class on chocolate making, instead of running headlong for the purchase of bags in the shopping center "Louis Vuitton", "- said Guy Rubin, a partner of Imperial Tours in Beijing.

Alcoholic beverages - Thailand. Thai Alcohol: wine, beer, whiskey and cognac. Thai energy drink in Thailand.

A favorite drink of the Thais - cold water («naam yen»). The broad popular coffee («kaafae»), tea («naam chaa»), various lemonades («naam adlom»), beer («bia») and all sorts of brandy («Lao»). Very popular and juices, which they drink and fresh («naam khan»), and with ice and syrup («naam pan»).

In Thai cooking there is a refreshing dessert, which actually is a good aphrodisiac. Just imagine - bazelika seeds in coconut milk! Prepare it is quite simple, but for this you need to get real coconuts (it's not quite what we sold in stores), sweet Thai basil and palm sugar ... Seeds of basil, place in water, stir and let settle for ten minutes, then drain the water and the seeds Lay the cups. Chop the sword coconut, pour liquid (it can be used to make soft drink), as part of a spoon remove the flesh and mix with basil seeds. Prepare coconut cream, dissolve them in palm sugar (to taste), pour it into cups with the seeds of basil, refrigerate and serve.

Wine. At the chic restaurant you can order wine: the emergence of mead to drink wine among the elite and middle class in Thailand began to deliver a truly high quality wines. For Thai cuisine suited Gewurztraminer, the Chinese and Japanese - Riesling (on restaurant prices - about 1000 baht per bottle) Now the good wine is served and a medium-sized restaurants, where food is usually good and the prices of food and drinks are lower than in luxury Thai bars. In the Thailand make wines as exotic palm trees, and conventional grape, and vine seedlings were exported from France. Italy and Spain. Wine consumption is growing annually by 52%, and the temples of 7.3%. But if you want to order imported wine in the restaurant, remember a very high mark-up on imports.

Beer. In other restaurants you can order a beer: Thai-Singha (B0-100 baht), Kloster (easier and more expensive) or Amarit. Almost everywhere there is beer Haynekken "and" Carlsberg ". Beer in Thailand was poured over 400 million liters per year (in 1987, was poured only 95 million liters), despite the relatively high cost of the drink because of high state taxes. This is explained by the fact that the consumption of beer corresponds to a higher social status, because wealthy Thais prefer beer to local temples. Although its price is 30 to 80 baht depending on e. where to drink. The most popular types of beer is Singha, about 90% of Thai market. It's pretty sturdy-6 degrees, so if you want to keep a clear head as long as possible and do not want to sleep ahead of time preference for lighter beers of the same class-Gold. Kloster beer brands and Amarit has a single manufacturer. These stamps are suitable to anyone who believes Singha too strong, and Carlsberg too expensive. Carlsberg beer is sweeter and easier than Singha, it is the same and the most expensive. The market appeared and new brands of beer, professionals and amateurs are praising them, it's Elephant (Chang). In Thailand, many pubs where you can also dine.

Spirits. The most prestigious drinks are expensive whiskeys and brandies. But in many restaurants, with the exception of hotel, from the drinks may be only a few varieties of beer and Thai whiskey. In Asia more than e rest of the world alcohol count as vices condemned by society, so it consumes less. In Thailand, producing local varieties of whiskey. They are cheap and quite satisfactory. Veski Mekong drink with soda water or cola, ice and green lemon. Song Thip whiskey is made from sugar cane, it is somewhat more expensive than the Mekong, but no less strong. Local jet sipping imported whiskey. If you want to deliver the Thais pleasure, give him a whiskey of 12-year exposure.

Bangkok

Bangkok - is the city of pleasure. It is difficult to feel like a traveler, rather a lazy tourist. Three basic human needs, exacerbated to the limit. You want to sleep well, have a delicious, fun and all that the city is ready to give you at any time of day, here and now.

Bangkok feel, with the first breath at the exit of the airport building. The smell of the city completely covers you in a taxi, hovering over you on every street. High humidity concentrates odors. The aroma of wood, earth, flowering plants, mixed with the smell of food cooking in the street, hangs over you, causing a slight gasp.

City of Angels - City of Contrasts. So alongside the new skyscraper will be required to stand pair, three wooden shacks and a neighborhood not so surprising. It is difficult to wonder surrounding reality does not seem strange or aggressive, it is easy to dissolve.

No matter how you see Bangkok. Will this kind of night city from a height Bayoke Sky or type of waking up quarters with the height of Wat Arun, you'll fly on the muddy Chao Phraya in an unknown direction, or catch a bright pink taxi and send to Soi Cowboy. Whether you come back the next evening in a bar on Kaosane and drink with the owner to the loss of pulse or decorum will explore the Mega Mall in the center. Love this city...

Kimono

Kimono - a traditional Japanese clothing worn by men, women and children. But very often in a kimono can see the women, as originally it was the clothing geisha. It is worn not only on holidays, but also in everyday days. For example, during the holidays trying to put a bright kimono, with a variety of patterns. It could be flowers, fish, birds and much more. Everyday is a kimono usually dark colors and simple colors. The same kimono differs from the material. This can be silk, which is more expensive, or cotton. For women's kimono as a symbol of femininity, purity and nobility. A popular if this type of clothing now?

Kimono - clothing fashionistas in our time, no magazine is complete without a photo shoot in a kimono. Heroes anime cartoons at least once appear on the screen in this kind of clothing. At the fashion show is always a collection of the most exciting colors. For example, in a popular magazine "Popteen" appeared advertising a new collection of "Kyoto Sweet Collection".


Kimono is chosen depending on age, marital status and type of event:

Kurotomesode - black kimono, having image just below the waistline. This is the most formal kimono for married women. It is also often used at weddings in dresses mother of bride and groom.

Furisode - kimono with long sleeves. This is the most formal kimono for unmarried women, it is worn bridesmaids on the wedding.  

Irotomesode - monochrome kimono, painted below the waist. This type of kimono a little less formal than kurotomesode.

              Homongi - kimono for receptions. It is present along the image of the shoulders and sleeves. Wear it both married and unmarried women.

Tsukesage - ornaments are more modest than homongi. Most of them covers the space below the waist.

Iromudzi - it is worn by women in tea ceremonies. Fabric is always one color.

Comon - kimono with a fine figure, so they can be worn as a city and a restaurant.

Edo komon - kimonos in peas. In the Edo era it was worn samurai.

Uchikake - formal kimono, which are the bride or which appear on stage. Dresses over the kimono as a raincoat. Usually a bright color or white.

Mofuku - kimono, made of black silk. All accessories to the kimono, too black. He dresses in the day of the funeral processions.

This beautiful dress inspired and continues to inspire many people to write poems, paintings, to make a film and much more. Kimono - part of the history of Japan, which is not yet finished.

Japanese toilet...

Back at the dawn of the civilized world Japan amazed the world with their technological achievements (take, for example, Nintendo and the Tamagotchi). Some Japanese products were able to circumvent and subjugate the world, radically changing the lives and outlook of people. The world is rapidly beginning to introduce Japanese technological achievements in life. But when it comes to the toilet, Westerners are horrified by the fact that the Japanese even a place as a toilet seat could fit lots of obscure buttons, displays, indicators and a huge number do not understand, switches and glowing lights.

This familiar to everyone attribute of every house has received a second life in Japan and has been called Washlet, or as Europeans call it - Supertoilet. In addition to completely innocuous features such as heated toilet seat, the automatic recovery, hermetization, air conditioning, lighting Supertoilet has also a set of very outstanding features, such as music, which in the opinion of the Japanese helps you to relax in such a crucial moment, and warmed to body temperature fountain which escapes from the toilet, well, you know where... Well, of course, inherent in the Japanese epidemiology, ionizers are not omitted which is also mounted in the toilet.

Japanese engineers never rest on laurels and continue to modify the miracle invention, providing it with a special system for the prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids and setting inside the toilet an express analyzer of urine, the results of which are transmitted through a wireless connection to your doctor.

If you're ever lucky enough to face with this amazing embodiment of human thought, then you will have to wonder twice, since no one Supertoilet display does not show any usual European language. Therefore, pressing all the buttons if you are lucky of cource, you will be surprized with amazing music works of Mendelssohn, but if not lucky, you get a stream of soap solution directly in the eyes ...:)

Bali...

Indonesian island of Bali as if it has been created for the lounge: about hundreds of hotels, entertainment for every taste and purse, fantastic nature ...

Hotels in Bali have one feature: they all built height of not more than a palm tree - that did not spoil the landscape. The only tall "exception" - a craze of the sixties. But the most "cool" hotel in Bali opened not so long ago. "New" is the name of "Sheraton Laguna" - this is the second hotel of "Sheraton" on the island, it is worthy of six stars, if such is appropriated.

Mountains of Bali - a magical beauty of stone necklace island. A very popular trip to the volcanoes. Even people far from poetry, will not remain indifferent to their gray tops. If you do not take the trouble and climb onto one of the highest mountains, for example, the sacred Gunung Agung (3170 m), then rises above the clouds and feel a sense of unprecedented enthusiasm. All your previous experiences will somewhere down there. You'll be closer to the sun and the stars above them.

No less interesting is the trip to the sacred monkey forest of Alas Kedaton. It lacks not only wild monkeys, and bats. When visiting the reserve must remove eyeglasses, earrings and chains, another monkey will help you faster than you think.

What can be bought in Indonesia? Quality it is jewelry, leather and textile products, which are quite inexpensive. Friends were going small gifts of silver, stone, wood. In addition, the rupiah fell, and even things of high quality are sold for a pittance. The most popular market in Denpasar - Pasar Badung. Here you can buy almost everything.

Goa Beaches and Techno-Trance Parties

The Indian beaches of Goa are the resorts on the ocean' beaches and the music centre in techno-trance style. It is full of European students and older people, lovers of hippy undemanding life. Guests of Goa beaches are engaged in meditation, yoga, and free from these highly spiritual lessons while dancing at parties: on the beach, the huts and mansions, and just in the hills. Here people like motorcycles and scooters: they are riding around, and scaring the melancholy Indians. European DJs spend here vacations, fashion designers arrange show their clothing to try out new items on the relaxed and so condescending the public. Many clubbers come to Goa also because of the lack of money: you can pretty survive for $ 100-200 per month.

Dharamsala. It is also India. Himalayas, about 2,5 thousand meters above sea level. Not far from the residence of the Dalai Lama, in a canyon, directly in the fresh air almost every day take place techno-trance parties. This place can is not so widely promoted, but certainly, it is fashionable in club circles of Europe and Israel. Equipment for the discos here are being taken by pack animals, and sometimes are taken in arms. Are spread carpets and pillows. Meal is aslo brought here - recently started the season of mango and lychee in India. With techno music is escorted sunset and sunrise is met - in the Himalayas this spectacle beauty cannot be comparable to anything else. Add to this the noise of the waterfalls and snow-capped mountain peaks. It cannot get bored even for a month. In general, Dharamsala, according to regulars, soon may become a very visited place - unfortunately those who are tired of the noisy European dancefloors.

Maldives - the 'synonim' of a Paradise...

Maldives is a small state in the equatorial part of Indian Ocean, which has become synonymous with a paradise. Tours to Maldives are becoming more popular, and so there is a reason: Lost on the edge of the Earth in an oasis of unspoilt beauty of the chain of islands, as if descended from ads "Bounty" - a true paradise on Earth. Maldives - a dazzling white sandy beaches with the softest sand, gradually passing into the ocean. Tours to Maldives - is the endless turquoise-azure expanse of the Indian Ocean: in a sunset, they become violet, purple, bright orange ... Also, the Maldives are a paradise for divers: an amazing underwater world of the atolls attracts diving amateurs from different corners of the planet.

Vacationers are welcomed to Maldives with silence and tranquility: the republic's population is about 380 thousand people, and the island contains only 1-2 hotels and the beach. For active travellers the tours to the Maldives - is the opportunity to visit several islands.

It is believed that the Maldives' hotel prices are too high and only very rich tourists can afford themselves to have a rest here. This is not so: now you can buy not only standard, but the latest offerings in the Maldives, so to rest here can even ordinary people. In these special offers is no tricks: Maldives invite 365 days a year, the average annual temperature in the islands - 24-30 C, and water - 24-27 S.

Diving is only one of the few attractions which offer hotels in the Maldives. The most sophisticated guest, expectating not only a beach holiday will find attraction on one's taste: spa treatments, air walk on a helicopter or plane, cruise the islands with a stopover on a desert island, night fishing, barbecue on the beach at sunset, and even discos incendiary music all night long and lots of entertainment shows.

Tours to Maldives will not disappoint and gourmets: the majority of resorts offers both European cuisine with a hint of local and Asian cuisine. The Islands' Business Card - are fish dishes: baked fish with chili paste (fihunu mas), keemia (fish rolls gentle roasting) and kulhi borkihaa - melting in the mouth fish pie... For dessert take Bondi - delicious coconut sticks. Even you can catch a fish: barracuda, sail fish and swordfish, mackerel and tuna yellow trap the bait during the 2 hours of fishing, which offer all the hotels of the Maldives. Caught fish is immediately fried on the fire, right on the beach, and is eaten with gusto.

Those couples who come to Maldives with a wedding ceremony await many pleasant surprises. Most hotels ceremony has something in common: the bride and groom, dressed in traditional Maldivian costume, are taken  on the boat  to a desert island, symbolizing the beginning of life, where they spent an original and touching wedding ceremony, and then escorted to the bungalow or villa, decorated with flowers and palm leaves. The ritual is accompanied by lively rhythmic music of drums national "bodu-taking". Honeymooners receive a wedding certificate, exchange the rings, and then in addition to champagne drink milk from fresh coconuts. The tour operator will offer services of wedding makeup and personal team of cooks in the hotel, as well as the decoration of the marriage bed with beautiful flowers.

Hotels prices on liquor will somewhat surprise the visitors to Maldives: the Republic of Maldives is a Muslim country, prohibiting the importation of alcoholic beverages and drinks in undesignated places. Guests may have a drink only in bars and restaurants at hotels, where are working only comers from Sri Lanka and India. Citizens of the  Maldives, Sunni Muslims are prohibited to trade the alcoholic drinks.

The whole Asia is collected in Singapore...

 

 

                                                          

  

 

First of all, Singapore - is a country which peacefully coexist several Asian cultures. And secondly, here is a perfectly combined seemingly incongruous things: the exotic nature, stunning architecture, technical progress and profitable shopping.

Today, Singapore has no external debt, the unemployment rate is only 2%, per capita income constitutes $ 30 thousand per year (U.S. dollars, however, Singapore, reaching the rate of 2:1 to the U.S.).

The level of technical equipment of the population can be assessed even in the street. Here goes a flock of three years old tots, each with their own " mobile phone ". Multicolored phones are made in the form of dolphines, elephants, parrots. On the phone are 4 photos: mother, father, grandfather, grandmother. To connect with someone of them it is enough to poke a finger in the desired image.

And to catch a taxi you hane to go to the set on the sidewalk placard with a map of the city. Looking for a place where you are, press a button, and in three minutes a white taxi car comes to take you.

Once Singapore was the kingdom of brothels, opium smoking and gambling houses. Today, the struggle for high moral principles has led to the prohibition of such innocent things as striptease, casino or magazine "Playboy". For the sale of opium one may be pleasing to prison for 30 years, and from gambling are encouraged only racing and ma-chzhong - the ancient puzzle with a shifting blocks.

Favorite Singaporean fun - a trip Sentosa Island. Previously it was called "Pulau blakang mother," which means "Dead Man's Backyard." Sea pirates buried their victims here. Today Sentosa is a West Disneyland.

But the main pride of Singaporeans -is the zoo, one of the best in the world. Animals here feel like at home, that is, as in the wild. It seems that the visitors themselves are in cages, and monkeys and buffalo, pythons, elephants, and giraffes are watched fro them. The unique spectacle offered by the Zoo -is Night Safari, allowing to observe the life of wild animals in their natural habitat. As you know, they go out to hunt only at night. When walking on a special tram, you can even see a leopard hunting for an antelope.

The whole Asia is collected in Singapore, and despite differences, the neighboring cultures are not selfclosed. All is intertconnected. On the territory of China Town is a sanctuary of admirers of Hinduism, and in "Little India" - Chinese Buddhist temples.

The Seychelles - a fantastic archipelago...

Once upon a time, Mark Twain called the island of Mauritius a model of paradise. Today, this wonderful island is overpopulated and "overassimilated", but dont be dissapointed - open up your map, look at her island of Mauritius. Just to the north of it lie the Seychelles. The great American writer, obviously, didn't get...

Each island of this fantastic archipelago, whether it is the capital of the island of Mahé, or former refuge of pirates - Frigate Island, an island of coconut palms, Praslin and La Digue fantastic, is attractive in its own way and has a beautiful natural beaches with white sand, picturesque hotels, perfectly blended into the landscape.
This is a country with astounding beauty and color which does not become a victim of mass tourism.

Seychelles Islands, or simply Seychelles - is an archipelago lost in the vast, deceptively gentle Indian Ocean. To the north of Madagascar, east of the coast of Tanzania - Seychelles, due to its location, were "opened" by the ancient navigators not only once. For Europeans, Seychelles were discovered by Vasco de Gama on his second trip to India, but they had to wait for mastering more than one century.

Perhaps this latest settlement made holidays in Seychelles what it has become today - anyone who had occasion to visit the prototype of the Paradise on earth, felt the aura of primordial, enveloping the atolls and the beaches of the Seychelles. Sometimes it seems that there may be something that can not be found anywhere else in the world - and no coincidence that the Seychelles were the scene of shooting of films like "Blue Lagoon" and "Emmanuel". The promise of something wonderful, unprecedented, hovering in the blessed air of the Seychelles, you can feel even in the cinema. You can imagine what impression will leave holidays in the Seychelles, isn't it?

People come to the Seychelles in order to enjoy the pristine nature. And here it is achieved immediately, thanks to ideal weather conditions, always warm sea with beautiful white sand beaches.

Located in the tropics and surrounded by emerald satin Indian Ocean, the coconut paradise defies the imagination riot of colors and variety of plants, the colorful underwater world, and with strange reserves, intricately indented rocks and coral atolls, a great many birds and giant tortoises, as well as Creole and its traditions , combining European, African, Indian and Chinese culture.

Traditional dishes in South Korea

The favorite myth of foreigners is that the Koreans eat dogs. Local chefs are famous for the ability to really prepare dishes of dog meat, but at street snackbars you will not find them: in such case you should be afraid that in the dining room instead of chicken you will be shoved a grouse. Dog meat is a delicacy, and dishes made of it are quite expensive. Koreans themselves use them on special days or for medical reasons - for example, in order to regain strength after illness.

Dog and cat meat - a traditional dish in Korea and some other countries in South-East Asia. Very useful for health food, say local doctors, of course, if the animal are correctly cooked. it is especially tasty the soup from alive skinned cat - it gives youthful strength to feeble old man, a cure for asthma and arthritis. Koreans themselves explain it in this way: "Pork and beef were previously very expensive, so we gradually got used to dog meat and cat meat.

They continue to cook dishes from this meat, even though since 1983 operates the official ban on the use of these animals for food. And the state can not do anything. Tradition ... In neighboring China, people also eat cats and dogs, but in China they were specially grown in special farms and in public, with the children, they arenot boiled alive in the markets!

A characteristic feature of traditional restaurants in Seoul and other South Korean cities is the love to the purely peasant dishes of Korea, adored by its modern inhabitants, and all social classes. The food is a little rough, devoid of sophistication, there is an abundance of garlic and onions, from it comes the heavy smell of cabbage and pickled radish. After such a meal, the visitors take at the cash register at the exit some aromatic chewing gum. But going to such a place the Koreans, tired of the hustle and the conventions of urban life, can relax and to feel relaxed, homely, somewhat rural atmosphere, an atmosphere which cannot be achieved in the fashionable restaurants.

The most famous Korean dish - kimchi. 

Kimchi - is not only cabbage, but in general, any vegetables, pickled in a certain way. When and who was the first to cook this dish, it is impossible to establish for certain, but it is known that the ancestors of modern Koreans inhabited expanse of Manchuria, stocking up vegetables for a long winter marinuya them with soy sauce, vinegar and salt. Much later, namely in the XVII century, when through China from Europe to Korea was brought the red pepper, discovered by Columbus, along with America, fermented products have acquired the current intensity. 

Seoul - Capital under the name 'Capital'

The capital of South Korea does not trifle the tourists with the sights, but some of its monuments are unique.

Seoul is still hard to call a tourist town: the majority of foreigners here are either in transit or at the service needs. Few people decide to try the taste of this city - both as sharp as kimchi, and unusually cool, like ice cream in green tea. Sóul (So sounds the name of the South Korean capital in the local language) does not win at first glance, but leaves incomparable aftertaste, disturbing a vague desire to return here one day.

Capital under the name 'Capital'
Seoul is translated from Korean as "capital". The main city of Korea appeared in this place not accidentally: Seoul is located almost in the middle of the peninsula, and stands on the fertile coast of the Hangang River, which flows into the Gulf Kanhvaman of the Yellow Sea. On the site of present-day Seoul were found the traces of IV millennium BC settlements. In 108 BC The Chinese defeated the ancient Korean kingdom of Choson and organized in its territory 4 commandants, Seoul has become part of a future commandant Chzhenfan, and then when the Koreans expelled the Chinese, this territory became a state Mahan.

New buildings are built here as fast as the old ones are destroyed - even modern residential complexes of brick and concrete are designed for a few decades. A similar rule applies to architectural monuments, especially those that are perceived as symbols of Japanese colonialism. Thus, in 1996, was demolished building the National Museum, built in 1916-1921 years for the Japanese authorities.

Another distinctive feature of Seoul - there is practically no division between "rich" and "poor" districts. There is no crime problem in poor areas in Seoul, street crime for Korea in general is not typical. However, time is mixed not only homes of people of different incomes, but also the ancient palaces to modern high-rise buildings.

It is not surprisingly that Seoul is quite polluted city. It is promoted also by its location among the mountains, which prevent deflation of smog.

South Korea - National Characteristics

National characteristics: Koreans are very viable people. Koreans adhere to the teachings of Confucius. Confucianism - is not a religion in its classical sense, but a  philosophical doctrine and life instruction. This philosophy assigns each person a certain place in society. If the son depends on his father, the employee depends on the employer. Such a ranking of Korean society is strictly observed. Men dominate in Korean society.

Koreans are punctual. The head of the Korean firms enjoye an indisputable authority. During business negotiations, it is not accepted to put brochures and business materials on the table.

In Eastern countries great importance is given to the paints. For example, you can not write a person's name with red ink. These colors Buddhists are using only if a person died.

The members of Korean society are constantly living in cramped conditions, personal space is extremely limited, so they are accustomed to stand or sit tightly pressed against each other.