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.