HOKKAIDO

Hokkaido at a glance

Japan's northernmost and second largest island, Hokkaido's vast nature make it a popular tourist destination. The peak travel seasons are summer, when the mild weather attracts campers, cyclists, and hikers, and winter, when thick snow powders the island's ski slopes and rising steam beckons visitors to its many hot springs. The Sapporo Snow Festival (Yuki Matsuri) held every year in February is one of the most popular festivals in Japan.

Hokkaido is also home to Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu, who are said to have settled the area some 20,000 years ago. The Japanese, on the other hand, began moving to the area in earnest during the Meiji Period, when the government promoted migration to Hokkaido to protect Japan's northern front from Russian expansionism. Ainu culture has played an important role in shaping Hokkaido's history and many of the area names, including the capital of Sapporo, come from the Ainu language.

After heavily discriminating against the Ainu for over a century, the Japanese government finally passed a law in 1998 to use government funds to research and promote Ainu language and culture. The past few decades has seen a resurgence in Ainu culture and many children of Ainu who hid their identity due to cultural persecution now take pride in their Ainu heritage.

Today, Hokkaido is famous for some of Japan's tastiest foods, including crab, Sapporo ramen noodles, salmon roe, sea urchin, and Sapporo Beer.

EXPERIENCE SAPHORO

Winter programs will be updated soon

Most of our winter programs are currently off season and not available.
There will be the same programs for the coming winter.
However, there maybe some changes in the details (prices, time, etc.).
So please come back again to check the latest information in late November.

Dog Sledding, Snowmobiling, ice Fishing, Snowshoeing

sumber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido

Make It Happen in Titlis

MAKE IT HAPPEN

Engelberg - Titlis forms the biggest ski- and snowboard area in Central Switzerland with 82 km slopes, 5 cross-country ski-tracks, a 3.5 km long sledge run as well as wonderful snow shoeing and winter hiking opportunities. Thanks to the 3'000m high Titlis glacier it is possible to ski from October till May.

SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING

Experts

With super runs and spectacular scenery, this is a magnificent area for all snow sports, offering slopes for all levels of ability. The longest run (from Titlis to Engelberg) covers 12 km with over 2'000 meters of altitude difference. 70% of the slopes are guaranteed snow throughout the winter.

Freestyler

You’ll find an Obstacle Park with rails and kickers on Jochpass next to the Jochstock Xpress chairlift.

Families and beginners

At Trübsee you will find a clearly visible, flat area for beginners, and there are similar areas at Untertrübsee and Gerschnialp. Children ride free in the entire Titlis area up to their 6th birthday with an accompanying adult. The very reasonably priced Trübsee pass is perfect for families and beginners. Covering a total of 19 km of slopes and 8 different lifts, this area is ideal for less-accomplished skiers and snowboarders, as well as families with young children or those who would rather take things at a slightly slower pace. Guests to this area will find around 60% red slopes (for intermediates) and 40% blue (for beginners). The modern gondola system means that beginners can be transported easily and directly to the ski area.

Snowtubing

On Trübsee you’ll find a Snow-Funpark with Snowtubing, Mini Bobs, Snow Bobbys and a Magic Carpet

FUN ACTIVITIES

The Igloo Village is situated in the most stunning location on the Trübsee, in the midst of romantic wild surroundings with a breath-taking view of the inner Swiss mountain landscape. Enjoy our heated whirlpool and the twinkling starry sky at over 1800 m above sea level. A truly unforgettable experience.

Igloo-Hotel

Our igloo hotels are completely built of snow and offer you the chance to experience nature up-close. Stay overnight in an igloo featuring artistically decorated rooms, which include Inuit artwork from the Northern Territories, Canada. All our beds are equipped with cosy lamb’s skins and warm expedition sleeping bags. You can relax in a whirlpool. Igloo guides will take care of your every need and indulge with homemade mulled wine or a delicious cheese fondue.

Igloo-Bar

The igloo bar, lovingly built out of snow with great attention to detail, is the perfect place to stop for a “cool” pick-me-up, as a hiking destination or a warming spot of Après-Ski. Our gourmet fondue is the ideal opportunity to while away a cosy time together with friends.

Standard-Igloo

A unique experience is offered by our multi-bed igloos for families, companies, clubs, and excursions or also for single travellers. Enjoy the special igloo atmosphere together and share this unforgettable experience.

Romantic-Igloo

Curl up together on our cosy lamb’s skins. Escape the pressures of daily life and make some quality time for each other. Enjoy the intimate atmosphere of our artistically decorated romantic igloos.

sumber : http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titlis

απολαμβάνουν στη Σαντορίνη ..Enjoy Santorini

Ketikkan teks atau alamat situs web atau terjemahkan dokumen.

Batal

Terjemahan Inggris ke Yunani

γειά σου,geiá sou means hello in Greece.Did you ever watch "Sisterhood With The Travelling Pants" that the scene where one of the girls shooted in the most beautiful scenery in Greece and when she went to the beach at night.

Discover Greece

Discover Santhorini

NIGHTLIFE

Santorini Island is also famous for its lively nightlife. You can find all kind of popular santorini night life in the main touristic areas such as Fira, Oia, Perisa and Kamari.

Fira is the most popular place in Santorini and many cafe bars or clubs are situated along the Caldera (the cliff).

Some of the cafes are offering a fantastic view over one of the world's most famous sunset.

Searching for a lively nightlife in Santorini, Oia must be the quieter place.

Oia is a world known place for just married couples and for this reason it is full of romantic cafes-bars breathtaking view.

ARCHITECTURE

The fear of pirates was the main cause for the inhabitants of Santorini Greece to build their houses on sites far from the sea, on high cliffs.


The villages of Santorini are similar to the other villages of the Cycladic islands: beautiful small white houses in narrow paved streets. 

That kind of building was used for several reasons, like the restricted number of safe spaces, the protection from the wind in winter and the solar heat in summer, defence, the rarity of construction

materials, and also the strong communal spirit.

Today, many modern settlements have appeared near the sea, in areas as Kamari or Perissa, but have lost all the elements of the traditional architecture.

The villages of Santorini Greece were the traditional architecture can be seen are: Fira, Oia, Imerovigli, Megalohori and others...

DIVING

Volcano santorini diving centers is the outcome of thirty

years of experience in instructing scuba divers of every

level, from usual pleasure dives to deep wreck dives in

the open sea at depths of up to 120 metres. It was established

by Vangelis Sotiriou, one of the first people to introduce

scuba diving in Greece. The instructors at Volcano Diving

Center are experienced instructors in both air and mixed

gas diving, with thousands of dives in all conditions.

SHOPPING

CLOTHES

Branded men's and women's clothes of well-known fashion houses (Just Cavalli, Versace, Galiano, Alberta Ferreti, Pinko, Nolita, Cinema, Fred, Perry, Jlo), along fantastic accessories and beachwear pieces by famous designers ( Emano, Heid Klein, Melissa); they are all at your disposal to help you create a style to steal the show ......

What to buy: Women's clothes, accessories, men's clothes, fashion design, beachwear

What to pay: Value for money

HANDICRAFT

The town of Fira has all the basic shops required with a couple of small supermarkets, a bookshop (with some English titles) and the various other necessary bits and bobs but most of the main street is very upscale arts and craft, jewelry and designer clothes shops aimed, I should imagine, at the cruise shoppers who stop off for the day. However there are some interesting ones and here's one that caught my eye:

WARNINGS AND DANGERS

EVERYWHERE in Santorini there are young (and not so young) people clogging up the roads on monkey bikes and quads. The speed of the traffic tends to be dictated by them, and if you hire a car, be prepared to wait or get used to overtaking them a lot.

To be honest, most of the reviews describing the roads of Santorini as dangerous are not entirely accurate. Given that you will be hard pressed to get over 40mph even on good days, the notion that Greek drivers are tearing round the island like lunatics is just not true. Sure, there are a handful of nutters there, but the best thing to do with them is simply let them pass. The moped riders do tend to overtake on the outside or inside, depending where there is more room, but any competent driver who can drive defensively, knows that that's what the mirrors are for! Keep your wits about you, don't be intimidated, and you will find Santorini a great place to drive. The UK is much worse in most respects.

Narrow roads? - look ahead and be prepared to stop if something big appears. It's not brain surgery, just common sense. Enjoy the island and stay safe.

DONKEYS AND MULES

All across Santorini and surrounding small islands are fantastically steep hills that Superman would have problems walking up. So the local old guys have lots and lots of mules (donkeys) and horses to take you up and down. Then they feed them and the trouble starts. Yes, they poo early and often and when you least expect it. Walk behind them too closely and you will have it all over your clothes – possibly as high as shoulder level. You will get it on your shoes. It is going to happen. Make sure they are good shoes. Flip-flops + Poo? Yuck! Watch where you walk – very carefully!!

sumber : http://www.santorini-island.biz/

Never been nice in Nice

Where is Nice ?

Nice is located in France near the Mediteranian seas.Nice is the fifth of the largest coast in France after Paris,Marseille,Lyon and Toulouse with a population of 348,721 within its adminitrative limits on a land area of 71.92km2.

Nice is called as Nice la Belle which means that Nice The Beautiful,then why people called Nice as the most beautyful coast in the world ? So let's just take a good look closer with Nice.

MAIN SIGHTS

Nice is home to a solid tourism infrastucture, with a number of popular touruist information centrres.The nearby Nice Cote d'Azur Airport is home to a useful tpurist information counter, while the main tourism bureau can be found wtihin city itself, along the famous Promenade des Anglais. A further tourist information centre can be found alongside the train station, known locally as the Gare Nice Ville

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TOP SIGHT

Tourist visiting Nice will find plenty of sightseeing opportunities all around the city. Many of these are historic and date from the 17th century, such as the magnificent Palais Lascaris, the Cathredale de Sainte Reparte and buildings of Monastere Notre Dame de Cimiez/ However ,for many visitors the legendary coastline is Nice's maintourist drawcrard and in particular the polished pebbles

Culture also abound the beautiful coast in here ,Nice as you could see Nice also have  a great museums.Higjlights include the Musee de Palaeontologie Humanie Terra Amata , the Musee d'Archeology de Nice-Cimies and also the Musee Departemental desn Arts Asiatuques and etc.

The coastline of Nice is full of tourist attractions. although nearby are a number appealing Cote d'Azur town and cities . Also close to Nice are many traditional Provencal villages, which are full of character. For high fashion and history, Nice is full of sightseeing opportunities and regulary frequented by movie stars and celebritis, as is the neighbouring resort town of Cannes, particullary in May, when its world-famous film festival is held.



So, you already knew that Nice has a really great city tour and its beautiful coast wheter in the morning or in the night.Also you have to spent your night in the nightliife near the beach.

Hold your breath to see the breathtaking Nice
















sumber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice

Begin Your Adventure at Liechtenstein

Try to live like in a fairytale in Vaduz's atmosphere

Vaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein and the seat of national parliament. The Town located aloing the Rhine, has about 5,100 inhabitants most of whom are Roman Catholic.Its cathedral is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop
While Vaduz is better known internationally,it is not the largest town in the principality. neighbouring Schaan has a greater population.


You have to feel sorry for Vaduz. It could have been a quiet and pleasant Rhineside provincial town like Sargans on the Swiss bank opposite; instead, it labours under the unreasonable weight of being capital of an historical oddity. The little town bulges with glass-plated banks and squadrons of whistle-stop foreigners aimless with anti-climax.







City Tour in a small city,Vaduz

Vaduz is very small and walking around the city and the areas around it will not take very long.

The best way to move around Liechtenstein is by car. It takes little more than half an hour to drive from one end to the other.

Visit and Figure out what's inside the Liechtenstein Castle

Lietchtenstein castke is a castle located near maria Enzersdorf in Lower Austria bordering Vienna.It is located on the edge of the Wienerwald.The castle originally built during the 12th century, was destroyed by the Ottomans in 1529 and 1683 and remained in ruins 1884 when it was rebuilt.Liechtenstein Castle is the origin of the name of the Liectenstein family, the ruling house of the country of the same name,which owned the castle at least 1140 untill the 13th century and again from 1807 onwards.

The castle now become the most visited place.Because visitors also want to know what's inside the castle and wanna figure out how nobles lived in the castle.

Today, the castle not just only become visited by thousand visitors but the castle mainly known for NestroyTheatre Festival held anually during the summer months.

Entertainment

Vaduz is a small city.It's really barely find a nightclub or party in here.But as the exchange in every night there is always a group of traditional bands play musical instrument to entertain your night in front of the Liechtenstein Castle.

sumber :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein

Get Real at Luzerne

Meet Lucerne,a big headline city 

Lucerne is a city north-central Switzerland, in the German speaking portion of the country.Lucerne is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and the capital of the district of the same name. With a population about 76.200 people,Lucerne is the most populus city in Central Switzerland and a nexus of transportion,telecomunications and government of this region.

Events Every Year in Lucerne

Every year,towards the end of winter,Carnival will breaks out the cold street that full of snow,alleyways and squares of the old town. This is glittering outdoor party and can be seen by everyone freely !This is also a glittering open carnival where chaos and merriness reign and nothing is as it normally is. Strange chararcters in fantastic masks and costumes make their way through the alleyways while carnical bands blow their instruments in joyful cacophony and thousands of people come to see what is the carnival look like and how interesting it is.

The city will be host with various diffrent characters.The Lucerne Festival for classical musical takes place in the summer.Its orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra is hand picked from some of the finest instrumentalists in the world.In July there is also a festival again,Blue Balls Festival brings jazz,blues and punk music to the lake promade and halls of the Culture and Convention Center. The Lucerne Festival is another musical televison entertainment.And in April the well established comics festival Fumetto atracts an international audience.

Lucerne offers you a big Entertainment

Nightlife

There are many bars, pubs and nightclubs on both sides of the river, although a lot of locals prefer an evening out at one of the plethora of restaurants in the Old Town. Lucerne’s favourite restaurant for entertainment is the Stadtkeller Music restaurant, whic

h serves up delicious traditional Swiss fare along with lashings of folklore including cowbells and yodelling. The Stadtkeller is open year-round and in the winter, the emphasis is on music, with nightly rock, pop, jazz and blues.
Another popular hangout in Lucerne is the Grand Casino Lucerne, with its many tables and slot machines as well as daily and nightly entertainment and eateries.

Theatre and music

The Lucerne Theatre is the main theat

re in Lucerne and is the only one in Central Switzerland with a diverse offering of opera, plays and dance. Matinees and soirees are also popular here. In addition, La Fourmi offers contemporary dancing, while the Cultural Centre Braui Hochdorf, just to the north of Lucerne, is a grand venue for the arts, with concerts, plays, banquets and numerous other popular events regularly held here. It’s not all classical music in Lucerne however, there are music festivals throughout the year and many restaurants have cultural evenings where several styles can be appreciated.

Festivals

Music is the main theme in Lucerne’s heady offering of festivals and events, with some fabulous classical and modern shows happening all over the city. The following covers the busiest and most popular events of the year:

• Lucerne Carnival: this three-day event is held before Ash Wednesday and is perhaps Lucerne’s most important festival. The streets of Lucerne come alive during this historical event, with a series of parades featuring costumed revellers (February).
• Lucerne Festival: this popular Easter event of classical music is enjoyed by visitors from all over the world, who come to see fine performances by renowned conductors such as Herbert von Karajan and Wilhelm Furtwängler (April).
• Blue Balls Festival: is a massive nine-day event of music held in the height of summer, featuring rock and world music as well as blues (July).
• Lucerne International Festival of Music: is the main event on the Lucerne festival calendar and the big daddy of the earlier Lucerne Festival. The event goes on for four weeks and is touted as one of Europe’s most important musical events, with some big name performers (September).

Lucerne Famous Shopping Centre

Lucerne not just only brings you a good view,relaxing atmosphere,but Lucerne also offers you to come to the Lucerne Most Visited Branded Shopping where sells :Balley,Longchamp,Rolex,Tag Huer,Brietling and not just only branded stuffs but you can go to the 3rd level to buy many antiques souvernirs,chocolates,and many more at Bucherer

 

Bridge Of  Lucerne

Lucerne (Luzern in German) may be Switzerland's most popular tourist destination. It's an essential stop on European bus tours that spend a day or two in Switzerland, and no wonder: the scenery is breathtaking, the town is dotted with medieval structures, shopping opportunities abound, mountain and lake excursions are nearby, and attractions like the Verkehrshaus  make Lucerne a magnet for Swiss daytrippers and foreign visitors.

It would be easy to dismiss Lucerne as a tourist trap, but that would be a mistake. The things that make the city popular also make it worth visiting--even if you're an independent traveler who eschews the beaten path.

Two of the "must-see" attractions in Lucerne are its medieval covered bridges across the Reuss River, one of which (see photo) has become the unofficial symbol of the city. The two bridges are:

Kapellbrücke

This bridge is located near the junction of the river and the Vierwaldstättersee, or Lake of the Four Forest Cantons (also known as Lake Lucerne). The bridge bends as it leaves the shore, then angles across the river past a stone Wasserturm (Water Tower) that is believed to have once served as the lucerna, or lighthouse, after which the town was named.

The Kapellbrücke--"Chapel Bridge" in English--was built in 1333. As you cross its 200-meter length, you'll see 120 captioned triangular paintings from the early 1500s that chronicle the city's history. The paintings feature St. Mauritius and St. Leodegar, the patron saints of Lucerne.

In reality, the bridge isn't as old as it looks. The Kapellbrücke was nearly destroyed by a 1993 fire, and much of what stands today is an excellent restoration (or reproduction, if you're a cynic or uncompromising realist).

NOTE: If you're prone to arachnophobia, you may need to wear a hat and walk quickly when crossing the bridge. Large spiders have been known to spin impressive webs in the Kapellbrücke's rafters--and that's something else you won't read in the tourist brochures!

Spreuerbrücke

Downriver, between the Kasernenplatz and the Mühlenplatz, the Spreuerbrücke or Mill Bridge zigzags across the Reuss. This bridge, which was constructed in 1408, features a series of medieval-style 17th Century plague paintings by Kaspar Meglinger titled Dance of Death. It has a small chapel in the middle that was added in 1568.