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.