Thai Restaurant on Tree

If picnicking under a tree seems a little been there, done that to you, why not give picnicking atop a tree a try? At the Soneva Kiri Eco Resort in Thailand, guests have the option to dine in a lofty woven Tree Pod perched 16 feet off the ground. And as if that wasn't already cool enough, all of the food and beverages arrive courtesy of a flying waiter via a zip line! Click through the gallery to see photos of all of the treetop dining options and the other luxurious green amenities at the Soneva Kiri. 09 more images after the break...

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10 Amazing Water Towns & Villages

Water villages are settlements that are usually built on the water. Houses often float on the water or are located on stilts and rarely on small islands. This is a list of water villages, which are becoming increasingly popular tourist destinations.

01. Ko Panyi, Thailand

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Ko Panyi is a fishing village in Phang Nga Province, Thailand notable for being built on stilts by Indonesian fishermen. The population consists of roughly 200 families or between 1,500 and 2,000 people descended from 2 seafaring Muslim families from Java.

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The village has a Muslim school which is attended by both males and females in the mornings. Despite the recent rise in tourism, life in Ko Panyi is still primarily based around the fishing industry as tourists only visit in significant numbers during the dry season. The village includes a floating soccer field. Inspired by the 1986 FIFA World Cup, children built the pitch from old scraps of wood and fishing rafts. Google map.

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Maho Beach

We had photos of Maho Beach, located on the coast of St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. But this post is not just about planes, but about the people who were on the beach at the wrong time. This beach is famous because it is located very close to the airport. 11 more images after the break...

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Statues of Easter Island

The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is a private research program and archive created by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Principle Investigator and EISP founder and director, with Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Rapa Nui artist and co-director of EISP.  The profound and immediate need for conservation actions on the moai became apparent over the course of more than 20 years of subjective observation and field experience acquired by us during our island-wide archaeological survey, which was conducted in association with our Chilean and Rapa Nui colleagues. 04 more images after the break...

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Wacky U.S. Town Names

Cookietown — Oklahoma

U.S. Town   Wacky  Names 14 more Towns after the break...

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Spotted Lake Kliluk

Spotted Lake is a saline endorheic alkali lake located northwest of Osoyoos in British Columbia. It is located near the city of Osoyoos, beside Highway 3.Spotted Lake is very highly concentrated with numerous different minerals. It contains some of the highest quantities (in the world) of magnesium sulfate, calcium and sodium sulphates. It also contains extremely high concentrations of 8 other minerals as well as some small doses of four others such as silver and titanium. 06 more images after the break...

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Facebook's New Office in California

Facebook has a new office. See how working with a company that is worth billions. 20 more images after the break...

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9 Unusual Deserts

Kilometers of sand, rocks, sandbanks, and sceneries evoking lunar landscapes are all about a journey in a desert and are certainly, a unique adventure. All the deserts are not the same. Here are the most unusual deserts of the world.

01. A Desert With Lagoons - Lencois Maranhenses, Brasil

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Amazingly stretched in Brazil, it is almost impossible to believe that the desert where water has no word is full of lagoons. Situated in the State of Maranhao on the north shore, this desert is in the Lencois Maranhenses National Park where white dunes and blue lagoons have a contrasting match. 08 more after the break...

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10 Adorable Beaches

It doesn’t really matter where a beach is located it is always beautiful. But it always remains a center of attraction for the visitors. People get spell bounded by the scenic beauty of the beaches. They simply want to lose themselves in the warm water of the beaches and some beaches are exceptionally adorable. Here are some of the most unique and magnificent beaches of the world.

01. Glass Beach

no one ever considered that a dumping place for the deteriorated materials of the 2nd world war would become so colorful and exceptionally beautiful of the current modern time. This wonder happened in California. 09 more beaches after the break...

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Church of Ice and Snow — Germany

 Not far from the German-Czech border, the Catholic Church is built of ice and snow. 

From day to day will be opened, and the church will become a tourist attraction. Until the spring. 04 more images after the break...

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Moon Stone — Park Zeybil Dubai

New Moon - an architectural project, developed Varabyeu Partners specifically for the international contest of designers as part of the Park Zeybil (Zabeel) - a new park in Dubai. Building in the form Crescent, which is in the East as a symbol of power and energy, intended to emphasize the prosperity of the modern United Arab Emirates. 05 more images after the break...

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Office of ICQ in Tel Aviv — Israel

Another tour of the office, Last time visit Facebook office. At this time look at the visit of ICQ. This is the main office building by ICQ in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is situated on the streets of Kiryat Atidim and is here for like 10 years. But to say that the communication company owns the whole building - which means to lie. This is a small business center, where the company takes the last fourth floor. Harel Information Technologies. In the same building are the offices of two companies aytishnyh - IBM and Harel Information Technologies. 30 more images after the break...

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Restaurant on the Coastal Cliff

This seafood restaurant is on a coastal cliff near the famous beach in Zanzibar Michanvi Pingve (Michanwi Pingwe). So restaurant is called - "Rock", Rock. It can be sailing on the boat, but you can prishlepat barefoot on the sand - the owners will not be offended if you bring the sand to clean their floors. 11 more images after the break...

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Global Seed Vault in Norway

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. The facility preserves a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. The seeds are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault will provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large-scale regional or global crises. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). 22 more images after the break...

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Ganvié — A City on Water in Africa

This is not a post about the flooding. This is a post about the town lake Ganve in Benin - the largest in Africa cluster of houses on the lake. Today 20 thousand people called Ganve his home. However, the city in the middle of the lake Nokoue appeared a long time - he has more than 500 years. It is sometimes called the Venice of Africa. In the early 17th century modern Benin called Dahomi and was one of the most powerful states in West Africa. The main ethnic and linguistic group there was a nation Von, whose representatives made a deal with the Portuguese. Instead of giving their people into slavery, they agreed with the Portuguese, they will hunt them and sell slaves from other tribes.  25 more images after the break...

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The Head office of Facebook

Employees of Facebook based in the new office in Palo Alto, California since 2009. And A big thanks goes to the joint efforts of the design studios of Studio O + A, Virginie Manichon, KPFF – Consulting Engineers, Air Systems Inc., Elcor Electric and Brightworks for a stylish and unique interior. The design of the main office is fully reflects the essence of the company as a social network of people, Take a Look., 16 more images after the break...

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Katskhi Pillar – Going to Church on a Stairway to Heaven

Trust me on this, that headline has absolutely nothing rock’n'roll about it . Weirdly enough, it’s actually true and you can even go on to experience it yourself, provided you’re willing to travel. Travel a little or a lot rather depends on where you’re starting from as you’ll have to go to Georgia in order to live this out. Oh, and that’s not Georgia, the American state, but Georgia a small country that sits borderline between Europe and Asia. In this rather remote country, that’s seen it’s fair share of misfortune over the years for various political issues, economic and social pressures and so on, you’ll be able to find an unusual bastion of hope. 03 more images after the break...

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Lake Yueyatsyuan the Oasis

 Lake Yueyatsyuan (spring " new moon") is surrounded by mountains Minshashan. In ancient times it was called medical spa or pit in the sad. The water of this lake is crystal clear. From the desert to the lake just a few tens of meters. A source int he form of  a Crescen Yueyatsyuan in dray desert - it's just a miracle. 14 more images after the break...

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Red Beach is located in Panjin — China

Red Beach is located in Panjin, Liaoning Province, in northeastern China. It is the largest and best protected wetland in the world with rare and precious red reed marshes. The ebb and flow of the sea forms the beach, while the infiltration of salts and alkali contributes to its red appearance. The 100 square kilometers of reed marshes turn color during September, becoming spectacular vistas. The well-preserved wetlands are also home to large numbers of wild birds, including red-crowned cranes and Saunders' gulls.  The beach is a popular tourist site for those who live inside and outside Liaoning Province. 10 more images after the break...

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Scariest path in China

There are some world's roads on which travel is not something that is terrible - terrible even to watch. If anyone ever made a hit parade on such roads, the Chinese "Road to Heaven" in the Tien Shan mountains of Maine, Hunan Province, would be at the top of the list. The lowest section of 200 m below sea level, while the highest - above 1,300 meters., 07 more images after the break...

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