Every morning you can see Vietnamese women pushing bicycles loaded with white, red, yellow and orange roses, water streaming from their baskets. Vietnam’s capital grew by absorbing the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside. “The neighborhoods in the city center, along the Red River, were the business districts,” explains historian Philippe Papin in his remarkable book Histoire de Hanoi. “Each one was named for a specific trade: the Street of Sugar, Hemp, Cards, Chicken, Platters, Tin, and so on. To understand the unique aspect of Hanoi commerce, you have to distinguish …

Nijo-jo, the site of Shogun Tokugawa leyasu’s castle, is a short bus or taxi ride up Horikawa-dori. The bus stop is called Nijo-jo mae, “in front of Nijo Castle.” It is impossible to miss, the moat, the white wall blocks along, the massive gate will tip you off. And yet, there’s no castle here. The five-story castle keep that once stood here (like the ones still standing in Osaka and Himeji) burned to the ground in the 18th century.
What there is to see instead is perhaps more splendid. The shogun’s …

The word Puncak, meaning “peak”, ostensibly describes the mountainous landscape of Jakarta’s favorite out-of-town getaway. But “Peak” equally describes the traffic leading up to the hilly resort from Friday morning through Sunday night of just about any week. Stressed out by their big-city lives, Jakartans take great delight in lining up their Toyota Kijang jeeps for a stop-and-go, bumper-to-bumper trip that can take up to five hours to cover a mere 70 km stretch of road. An extra day in Puncak is needed just to recover from the nerve-wracking journey.
Once …

Only an hour’s scenic drive from the bustling metropolis of Brisbane and only 30 minutes from the golden sands and crashing surf of Surfers Paradise is scenic Tamborine Mountain, a lush volcanic plateau 560 meters above sea level (hence the crisp, cool temperatures). Tamborine Mountain is home to the Hinterland’s three most popular and picturesque cool mountain villages, mount Tamborine, North Tamborine and Eagle Heights.
These villages play host to not only breathtaking scenery, from rolling hills to dense sub-tropical rainforest, but a variety of cosy teahouses, quaint historic chapels, unique …

After a hotel Burj Al Arab as an icon of Dubai, this oil town once again to assert its position as an international tourist city. Dubailand, a project owned by Tatweer (Dubai Holding), which is very ambitious to be the proof. Dubailand has a total of 45 mega-projects, including the seven theme park. In a way, Dubailand will be a large collection of theme park from all over the world. Big names such as Warner Bros, Movie World, Universal Studios Dubailand, Marvel Super Heroes Theme Park, Six Flags Dubailand, Legoland …

This theme park is located in Portaventura, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It was about an hour from Barcelona and only ten minutes from Reus airport in Tarragona. PortAventura built by Tussaud Groups (AltonTowers), An heuser-Busch (Busch Entertainment Corporation), and Universal Studios is the largest resort in southern Europe.
There are five areas in the theme park which lay in an area of 825 hectares. The main area, the Mediterranean, has two rides; Boat Ride and the roller-coaster Furius Baco. In the month of July-August, the lake in this area transformed into Fiestaventura …