Summer is almost here! Planning for a tour?
This year, plan a tour to a new place. A place that has infinite results from the database if searched on Google. Surprise a spouse, friends or anyone with some of these amazing places to travel. Here are 10 suggestions for easier planning.
1. Svalbard Seed Vault - Spitsbergen, Norway
This could be perfect for those who cannot beat the heat of upcoming summer. Travelers can enjoy the ice of North Pole and witness the tiny new seeds been locked up in Svalbard Seed Vault—a file cabinet shaped fortress embedded in an icy Norwegian archipelago.
2. Navagio Beach - Zakinthos, Greece
The beautiful beach and ships in Greece would be amazing and refreshing for those who love splendid summers and relaxing along a beech.
3. Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
One of the world's most majestic libraries is the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, or Royal Portuguese Reading Room featuring around 350,000 volumes on hard-carved wooden bookshelves that stretch up to a stained glass ceiling, attracting people from around the world.
4. Digital Orca - Vancouver, Canada
A huge statue of an orca the Douglas Coupland's "Digital Orca," leaping from the water, its snout towards the sky and fins outstretched and designed to look like it is made entirely of pixels is an awesome sight.
5. Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement - Tasmania, Australia
its more than just wooly sheep in Tasmania. It has so many more wonders to offer like naturally occurring saltwater pools that look like modern art.
6. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan - Hayakawa-chō, Japan
Founded in 705 AD, it is the oldest hotel and one of the oldest companies in operation. In 2011, the hotel was officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest hotel in the world. Offering balconies with mountain and river views, the chic, minimalist rooms feature tatami floors, rice-paper screens, futons and chabudai dining tables. Upgraded rooms add private, outdoor hot-spring pools. Breakfast and dinner are included, and served in-room.
7. Harry's New York Bar - Paris, France
Would you like to visit a bar which is visited by celebrities? Over the years, Harry's New York Bar was frequented by a number of famous American expatriates and international celebrities such as Prince Serge Obolensky, Knute Rockne, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Tilden, Coco Chanel, Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Ramon Novarro, Aly Khan, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, Brendan Behan and even, occasionally, the Duke of Windsor.
8. La Isla de la Munecas - Mexico City, Mexico
If nightmares haunt you then this will not be a good choice. However, thrill and horor lovers can visit the island where hundreds of discarded, decapitated and decaying dolls are collected and strung from the trees over the course of 50 years by a recluse wishing to appease the spirit of a little girl who drowned in the canals.
9. Longleat Hedge Maze - Warminster, England
You will surely get lost. There's nearly 1¾ miles of paths hedged by more than 16,000 English Yews with twists and turns galore. The mysterious Hedge Maze keeps everyone guessing!
10.The Lonely Castle - Saudi Arabia
Looking for something remote and thrilling? In the desert landscape of northeastern Saudia Arabia you will find Qasr al-Farid aka "The Lonely Castle". Built in the first century A.D. the Lonely Castle rises four stories; an unfinished tomb carved out of a solitary sandstone outcrop. Because the tomb was never completed, we can see how the façade was chiseled from the top, down.
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