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EXACTLY in Tomamu, Shimukappu, Hokkaido, Japan, there is a resort named Alpha Resort and brought the concept home ice (ice village). This place is formed from a collection of ice dome. The resort is the work of Tsutomu Kokawa, one pegngajar in Hokkaido Tokai. After passing through a big snow gate when entering this area, you will find ice sculptures in a large size and the clues that lead you toward a group of ice dome in place. Some of them:
Ice Glass Studio
Here you can create a work of glass using the basic ingredients of ice. Although it looks interesting, attempt to carve a glass of ice cubes is quite difficult.
Ice Cafe
After you finish carving the glass in the dome before, bring your glass to the dome is so the bartenders can pour drinks for you.
Ice Tunnel
From the large size and length, this ice tunnel can only be entered by two people. Wall in it so it becomes impressed romantic glow to be enjoyed with a special person. Read the rest of this entry »
IF you are a fan of Ang Lee, certainly know the films such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon (2000) which directed the Village Hongcun. This is one of two villages in Anhui Province, China which is protected by UNESCO besides Xidi Village.
Being in a narrow lane and has historic architecture, making Hongcun and Xidi into two beautiful tourist village, where the life of nobles, men play sword skills and the girls dressed in brocade can you see there. The village is located in Huizhou, about 480 km southwest of Shanghai. Hongcun and Xidi known as trade and financial areas throughout China since the Ming and Qing Dynasty.
The traders spent much of his life on the road, although in the end they built a spacious residence and places of meetings to the public in the Village Hongcun and Xidi. In Xidi, you can find a variety of current art students sketching and painting with watercolors. Li Guoyu, owner of a small guesthouse unique in Xidi Shanghai, reported that almost half of art students go to this place.
Kasongan better known as a pottery center in Yogyakarta. But if you turn Tamanagung Village, Magelang, which is famous for stone carving craft centers. Four sub-majority worked as a stone carver is Hamlet Ngawisan, Ngadiretno, Tejowarno, and Prumpung. Latter hamlet name is a forerunner of the central Craft Village Stone sculpting Tamanagung.
The main material used by the stone carver is generally taken from the frozen liquid hot lava and the rocks near the slopes of Mount Merapi. This stone is also known as andesite stone. Tamanagung Village is one of the tourist village in Muntilan district, Magelang regency which attracted many local and foreign tourists.
In this village there are also hundreds of stone carving workshops that produce various types, shapes, and sizes. However, the most common are carving statues and several other ancient Archa. Not only served the craft of stone carving that is so, but visitors can also order directly suit the tastes of the buyer. In fact, not infrequently buyer already has a sample or product design. Read the rest of this entry »
A district in the UK has a small, peaceful villages, beautiful and calm called Hawkshead. The village is also one of the main tourist areas of South Lakeland.
Hawkshead Esthwaite Water is situated in the north which is one of the lakes are known for smaller and lower in Nasionan Park Lake District, North of England. The village is also part of Furness which makes it a part of the ancient Lancashire area but remain in the administrative district Cumbria.
Meanwhile, the parish includes the village of Hawkshead Hill Hawkshead (2 km west of the Sea) and Outgate (North 1.5). Regional Sawrey, Outgate, Satterthwaite, Grizedale and Hawkshead Hill is also easily accessible from the village.
Hawkshead is one of the prettiest villages in the Lake District with many buildings from the 1600s. Now, most of the land in and around the village is owned by the National Trust. Read the rest of this entry »
Foreign tourists in a vacation on the island, not all of his time spent in the sun while enjoying the waves of Kuta beach. Some of them also like the way you enjoy the village.
“They also took time to enjoy nature tourism, agrotourism and rural tourism,” said I Nyoman Kitha who with his wife, Ni Nyoman Sarni, pioneering rural tourism in the Banjar Mukti, Evening District, Badung regency, 60 km north of Denpasar, When he received dozens of journalists who visit the Tourism Office headed by the Head of the Badung Regency, Drs Made Subawa, former employee of a hotel in Sanur that developing rural tourism in the village of his birth.
His business was started in 1994 or 16 years ago, and now quite a lot of foreign tourists who are interested in enjoying the life of rural communities wrestle with the agricultural sector.
He admitted, every month an average of 100 people of European tourists enjoying the countryside. They were invited to walk around the gardens and rice fields. “During the day after a walk in a beautiful atmosphere, tourists we suguhi food in the garden with typical young coconut drink and a typical menu of Balinese food,” said Nyoman Kitha. Read the rest of this entry »