Best Airports in the world 2014

 

Singapore Changi             

Airport  Changi International Airport, or Changi Airport, is the main airport in Singapore. A major aviation hub in Southeast Asia, it is about 17.2 km  from the commercial centre in Changi, on a 13 square kilometres (3,200 acres) site.

 Changi Airport serves more than 100 airlines operating 6,400 weekly flights connecting Singapore to over 250 cities in about 60 countries and territories worldwide. Changi Airport, is an important contributor to the economy of Singapore, more than 28,000 people are employed at the airport, which accounts for over S$4.5 billion in output.

9 quirkiest hotels in Latin America

Montaña Mágica(Panguipulli, Chile):- It's a trek getting to this 13-room retreat in the middle of the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve, but make it and you'll be treated to a vine-covered, volcano-shaped lodge with daily eruptions that spew water down the side of the property.Step indoors and the woodsy theme will have you feeling like you're inside a hallowed-out tree.

Given the look and feel of the place, you might think you'd be surrounded by hobbits, but your neighbors are actually the pumas, pygmy owls and other creatures that make their home in the forest.

View - The Avenue of the Baobabs | Madagascar

                                    


The Avenue or Alley of the Baobabs is a prominent group of baobab trees lining the dirt road between Morondava and Belon'i Tsiribihina in the Menabe region in western Madagascar. It has been a center of local conservation efforts, and was granted temporary protected status in July 2007 by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests, the first step toward making it Madagascar's first natural monument. Along the Avenue in some 260 m long segment are remaining some 20 - 25 trees about 30 meters in height, of the species Adansonia grandidieri, endemic to Madagascar. Some 20 - 25 more trees of this species grow in nearby rice paddies and meadows.

Nanpu Bridge ─ A New Landmark Of Shanghai

The Nanpu Bridge across Huangpu river is one of the main bridges in Shanghai, China, and the first cable stayed bridge with a span of over 400 meter in the country. The main bridge is 846 meters long with a main span length of 423 meter. Two “H”-shape reinforced concrete towers, each of 150m high, are set up on both banks, with 22 pairs of steel cables being arranged in fan pattern and to support main girders.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — Spain

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.                                    It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.

Uluru Waterfalls ─ Australia

Uluru visitors will not find the Red Center quite what they expected at the moment after heavy rain across the region have transformed one of Australia's most famous icons. More than 50 millimetres of rain fell in the Uluru Kata-Tjuta Park in Central Australia, creating waterfalls off the famous monolith. The park's manager, Christine Burke, says the area is coming alive in a rare treat for people travelling to the area outside the traditional tourist season.

 "It's something that a lot of people actually wouldn't experience, seeing the park at this time of year when it is green and the plants are really shooting and the flowers are coming out," He said.  "So it is a very exciting time for people to come out to the park.

Bali Artwork — Skull Carvings

The island of Bali, with its exquisite carving women in the tradition of their ancestors, contemporaries were maintained. The island of Bali, with its exquisite carving women in the tradition of their ancestors, contemporaries were maintained. They capture their women behave like works of art.

 The basic material was and remains cows and bulls in women. The reason for the current masters of words, natural beauty, environmental friendliness and reliability trumps. [FB Page] Tourists often buy such works. And to be able to remain calm, that no animals were harmed in the samples. 

Tian Tan Buddha ↔ Ngong Ping, Hong Kong

 Tian Tan Buddha, also known as the Big Buddha, is a large bronze statue of a Buddha Amoghasiddhi, completed in 1993, and located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. The statue is located near Po Lin Monastery and symbolises the harmonious relationship between man and nature, people and religion. It is a major centre of Buddhism in Hong Kong, and is also a popular tourist attraction.
 The statue is named Tian Tan Buddha because its base is a model of the Altar of Heaven or Earthly Mount of Tian Tan, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. It is one of the five large Buddha statues in China. The Buddha statue sits on a lotus[disambiguation needed] throne on top of a three-platform altar. It is surrounded by six smaller bronze statues known as "The Offering of the Six Devas" and are posed offering flowers, incense, lamp, ointment, fruit, and music to the Buddha. These offerings symbolize charity, morality, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom, all of which are necessary to enter into nirvana