Blog Archives: World Tour
World Tour: New York, New York
Times Square plays host to one of the largest, and most watched, New Year's Eve parties in the world. Only a fraction of the people attending squeeze into the 2 block radius around Times Square; the rest fill in up Broadway and 7th Avenue for blocks.
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World Tour: Uluru, Australia
Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is one of Australia's geographic icons. It is a standstone rock formation, some 350m tall and 9.4km in circumference. It plays a major role in the traditions of the A?angu people, the local aboriginal people.
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World Tour: Waterloo Region, Ontario
The West Montrose covered bridge near Waterloo is the last historical covered bridge in Ontario and dates from 1881. According to Wikipedia, covered bridges were also known as a 'kissing bridges', since couples would be out of sight as they passed through the bridge and could?horror of horrors?kiss.
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World Tour: Cairo, Egypt
The Khufu ship, also called the solar boat, was buried just outside the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. It was a ceremonial boat?probably not seaworthy?designed to carry king and the sun god Ra across the sky in the afterlife.
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World Tour: Milford Sound, New Zealand
Milford Sound, which Rudyard Kipling once called the eight wonder of the world, is the rainiest place in New Zealand and one of the rainiest in the world. It rains on average 182 out of 365 days, totalling nearly 7m of rain a year and sometimes 25cm in a day. Sunny days for tourists are rare, but cloudy days are still spectacular.
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World Tour: Sydney, Australia
The Sydney Opera House's design may be iconic, but like many great works of art its creation was embroiled in controversy. The architect, Jørn Utzon, resigned (forced out due to political interference) before the building was completed, and it was finished nearly 10 years late and at 14 times the original budget. Only in the late 1990s, some 30 years later, did the project reconcile with the architect, though he never saw the building in person before passing away.
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World Tour: North Korea
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea is between 1 and 4 km wide, and just a few dozen kilometres from the southern capital, Seoul. Tours of the south's part of the DMZ are common, stopping at this overlook with North Korea in the background. Photos from the edge of the overlook are prohibited to avoid annoying the north, but are allowed from a few steps back.
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World Tour: Himeji, Japan
Himeji-jo Castle, near Osaka, is one of the finest castles in japan. The site dates from the 1300s, while the current castle was built in the 1600s.
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