Eiffel Tower, Paris

EIFFEL TOWER is the tallest tower in Paris. It is one of the recognizable tower in the world. It is an iron tower built on the Champ De Mars beside the river Seine. It is fifth tallest structure in France and has become a global icon in France. It has an elegant shape.

In French it is called as tour Eiffel and it is 324m high and antenna is 24 m. Eiffel tower is made up of metal, its weight is 7,300 tones and the structure of non metal components is 10,000 tones. 50 to 60 tones of paints are applied to the tower once every seven years to protect it from rust. We can enter to the first and second level through lift or stairways. You should take the ticket at the entrance. You can enter the third floor only through lift. The actual count of stairs is 328 steps to the first level, 340 steps to the second level. The tower has two restaurants altitude 95 on the first floor and Jules Verne on the second floor. People can walk through it and enjoy the climate.

Mysore Palace

The beauty of MYSORE PALACE is because of its Indo-Saracenic styles of architecture. It is one of the largest palace in the country. It is also known as AMBA VILAS. The palace is situated in Mysore, India. It is 140 km away from Bangalore. It is surrounded by a large garden. Visitors should not miss to see palace when it is decorated on occasions and Sundays. First the palace was built with wood it was burnt down in 1897 and again it was rebuilt by Henry Irwin, British architect in 1912.

It was initially built during the Muslim Dynasty of Tipu Sultan and Haider. After their loss of power, the Wondeyars rebuilt the palace in the 14^th century from Muslim way to Hindu style. It was constructed in different styles. It is a three storied stone structure build with gray granite, pink marble dome and a 145 feet five storied tower. The front of the building has seven expansive arches and two smaller ones flanking the central arch which is supported by tall pillers. Above the central arch the goddess Gajalakshmi is present with her elephants. Every year on the grounds of palace Mysore Dasara festival is celebrated. During this festival more than 10,000 lights are illuminated. Entry to the Mysore palace is through Dolls pavilion or Gombe Thotti. The outside construction and domes are of Muslim architecture and the interior of the palace is of Hindu architecture. The visiting hours of the palace are 10am to 5:30 pm and some strict restrictions to be followed are photography is prohibited and shoes have to left outside the entrance. Entry fee is 15rs per head. On Sundays and holidays visiting hours is 7pm to 8pm.

Hawa Mahal

HAWA MAHAL in situated in Jaipur, India. It is one of the most popular places and it looks like crown of Krishna. It was created by Lal Chand Usta and built by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh in 1799. Its style is of Rajputana architecture and influenced by mughal architecture. It has pyramid shape and has five floors. It is 50 feet high. Mahal is built with pink and red sandstone and has 953 windows. The pink windows are known as “Jharokhas”. Hawa Mahal is built for the royal family ladies and they have special rooms because they can enjoy by watching different activities performed in the streets through windows. They do not want to show their face to public. Hawa Mahal doesn’t contain stairs it contain ramp to reach upper floor. Women are dressed with pink, yellow, red color and men dressed with white dhoti and shirt while entering to the city. Visit the mahal in the early morning so you can enjoy the glory.

Forbidden City

FORBIDDEN CITY is present in the middle of Beijing, china. It was the best imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was the home of 24 emperors. It is known as GU GONG in Chinese. It is recognized as one of the world’s largest five palaces in the world. It was built between 1406 and 1420. Now it is called as palace museum. Now it is a public museum attracting the tourists from around the world. It has a long 500 years history.

It is rectangular in shape and covers 74 hectares of ground. It is surrounded by a ten meter high walls and six meters deep moat. At each side gates are present to the wall. The distance between the gates of east and west walls are 750 meters. Opposite the Tiananmen gate to the north is Divine might gate. The distance between these two gates walls are 960 meters. Towers are present on the four corners of the walls. The Forbidden City is divided in to two parts i.e; northern section and southern section. Northern section is also known as inner court where the emperor lived with his family. Southern section is also known as outer court where the emperor exercised his greatest power over the nation. There are 800 buildings that have 9000 rooms in total. Chinese government has invested a lot of money and time in the city. They used white marbles and decorated with paintings. So it creates and outstanding beauty. The opening hours are 8:30 to 4:20 from Oct 16 to Apr 16 and 8:30 to 5:00 from Apr 16 to Oct 15.

Beautiful monument-Taj Mahal

TAJ MAHAL is the most beautiful monument of Agra, India. Everyone would like to see the stunning beauty of it. It is one of the wonders of the world. It was built by a Shah Jahan’s (real name Shahub-ud-din) in the memory of his lovely wife Mumtaz ( real name Arjumand Banu). It was build after the death of his wife. It is near the bank of river Yamuna. It was constructed over a period of twenty two years, twenty thousand workers participated in it.

It was constructed using materials from Asia and all over the world and they are brought using 1000 elephants. Construction was completed in 1648 C.E. at a cost of 32 million rupees. It was entirely build of white marbles. White marbles are brought from Rajasthan, jasper from Punjab, jade from china. It was built on 313 sq feet platform. Taj mahal has four tapering minarets at each corner. Its center dome is fifty eight feet in diameter and at a height of 213 feet. The sides of the dome have four subsidiary domed chambers. They are 162.5 feet each. The interior walls are about 25 meters high. The entire mahal was decorated with flowers and handmade gems such as jasper and agate. The mahal glows like a light of the full moon. Around the mahal a large 300 meter square Mughal garden or Charbagh is present. Marble water tank was present in the middle of the garden it is called as Hawd-al-kawthar. The garden is laid of fountain and trees.

Beautiful nature of Munnar

MUNNAR is the beautiful and cool pleasant atmosphere. Everyone should visit the Munnar to enjoy the beauty of nature. In tamil the word munnar means three rivers. Munnar is one of the most beautiful hill stations at Idukki district of Kerala in south india. It is the royal family of poonjar.

It is situated at a height 0f 5000 to 8000 ft above sea level. Munnar on the western Ghats has teas estates, forests, lakes, reservoirs, water falls. All kinds of animals and birds are found. It is also known as Nature Lovers paradise and is very popular for tea Industries. There are about 30 tea plantations in and around munnar. It is very famous for honeymooners and tourists from all over the world.

It offers a variety of attractions to the visitors in terms of sight seeing. You can see the attractions of munnar with backwater. You can find varieties of plants and medicinal properties in the forest. These plants can be used in Ayurveda. The three Mountain Rivers come together in munnar i.e; Mudrapuzha, Kundala, Nallathanni. In munnar we can find a variety of plants known as Neelkurinji, once every 12 years massive amount of flowers grow.

From munnar you can visit to other places like:

Devikulam: It is another hill station 7km from munnar.

Pallivasal: It is first hydro electronic project 8km from munnar.

Chithirapuram: It reflects as person lives in a colony with the presence of cottages, bungalows, old playgrounds and courts 10km from munnar.

Eravikulam national park: It is established to protect Nilgiri tahr. It covers an area of 97 km and divided in to three regions( tourism area, core area, buffer area) 15 km from munnar.

Statue of Liberty

STATUE OF LIBERTY is one of the most universal symbols of democracy and political freedom. It is situated on Liberty island in New York harbor, America. It was presented by the people of France to the united state of America. It was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue also known as “Miss Liberty” or “Lady Liberty”. It has become a symbol of republicanism and freedom.

It welcomes the people who comes to live Permanently in this country, visitors etc. It was a joint effort between France and America. Liberty is made of copper and iron. 81,300 kilograms of copper is used and 113,400 km of iron is used. Total weight of the statue is225 tons. It was designed by Brother Frederic A. Bartholdi (1834-1904). The height of statue of liberty is 305 feet. The statue is holding a torch and a book in hand it is made of pure copper. The statue stands on a rectangular stonework pedestal, it has a irregular eleven-pointed shape. It was constructed by hundreds of workers and it was completed in 9 years. 350 statue pieces were packed in to 214 crates and brought from France to New York harbor. It has 354 steps inside the statue and 25 viewing windows in crown. People can view inside the statue through a glass and can capture photos and walk on the observation deck but cannot enter the statue or climb to the torch.

British Museum

The British museum in London is the most important and one of the world’s largest museum. It is a museum of culture and human history. It was established in 1973 and was largely based on the collections of physician and scientist sir Hans Sloane. It was first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu house in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

Its collections are more than seven billion objects from all continents. Due to lack of space many of the artifacts are stored underneath. It doesn’t contain entry fee like other art galleries and main museums. Only for some special exhibitions entry fee is charged. The present director is Neil Macgregor and chairman is sir John Boyd. The museum collections had increased so that the building was not enough for them. The museum was founded 250 years ago as an encyclopedia of art and nature. The departments of roman and Greek antiquities of the British museum have one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the classical world, with 10,000 objects. In 19th century the collection of sculpture began to be laid. The department of the British library provided space needed for the books. The departments of drawings and prints hold the national collection of western prints and drawings. British museum houses one of the worlds greatest collection of Ethnographic material from Africa, Americas and Oceania. It represents the cultures of indigenous people through out the world. British museum also contains the departments of coins and medals, prehistory, conservation, documentation and science etc.

Underwater World in Singapore

UNDER WATER WORLD is an oceanarium (large aquarium) located on the offshore Singapore island of Sentosa. It is one of the Asia’s most exciting large aquariums. It was opened in 1991, it is a home for more than 2,500 marine animals of 250 species from different parts of the world. In this under water world visitors can look to different ocean creatures.

It is a tunnel under the sea. Underwater world is 83 meters long , visitors can walk through it where they can experience marine animals swimming right over their head. You can experience here sharks, poisonous lion fish, endangered gaint turtles, sea horses, pufferfish etc. you can also find restaurants near to the underwater world. In the evenings you can have the romantic experience. You should visit the musical fountain it makes the colorful end of the wonderful day. The opening time is 9 am and closing time is 9 pm. You can reach to Sentosa from Singapore through cable car, Sentosa buses, taxi etc. The underwater world ticket includes admissions to the Dolphin Lagoon at Palawan beach and it is the home to some indo-pacific humpback dolphins, also known as pink dolphins. It provides events such as ocean themed functions and dinner with the sharks. The main attraction is DUGONG entertains visitors with its movements. Night ocean discovery programme begins at 7 pm daily you can experience different world where nocturnalsea creatures come to life as night falls.

The two latest shows in underwater world are:

.Ray of fun , a fish pond where we can directly touch the fish with our hand. This is really an exciting experience to the visitors.

.Jewels of the reef shows the characteristics of the small reef ecosystems in the sea.

MAGIC-T (mystical anti gravity interactiveconcept tank) is the tank where visitors can feed the fish through a hole in the side and the water will not come out from it.

Amritsar Golden Temple

The GOLDEN TEMPLE or Darbar Sahib or Dari Mandir situated in Amritsar, Punjab is the holiest shrine for Sikhs. Previously known as the Golden Temple, in March 2005 it was renamed as Harmandir Sahib. The Sikhs all over the world visit to Sri Amritsar to worship the God. 100 kilograms of Gold were applied in 19^th century to the inverted lotus shaped Dome and marbles were added. 

The Afghans and other invaders occupied Sri HarMandir many a times and destroyed. The Sikhs has to scarify their lives every time in order to restore its sancity. After the death of Bhai Mani Singhji in 1737, Massa Ranghar, the Kotwal of Amritsar took charge of Sri HarMandir Sahib in 1740. Sri Harmandir Sahib is built on a platform (67 ft. sq) in the centre of tank(Sarovar). The temple is 40 ft. sq. The doors are present on the four sides i.e; east, west, north and south. The mandir is surrounded by water is a sacred pool known as the Amrit Sarovar, Pool of Nectar. The visitors can reach the temple through Parikrama , which is in a clockwise direction. A dinning hall was present known as Guru-Ka-Langer around 35,000 people can feed for free a day. The opening time of temple in summer is 7 am and closing time is 8 pm and in winter opening time is 7 am and closing time 7 pm. The restrictions to the visitors that they should not enter to the temple while they drink alcohol, eat meat, smoke cigarettes or other drugs. While entering to the temple people should cover their head by cloth.

After visiting to the golden temple the people should visit the following around it:

BABA ATAL:

It’s a nine stored tower build in memory of Atal Rai. It was built between 1778 and 1784. Its height is 108 ft.

GURU-KA-LANGER:

It is a dinning hall around 35,000 people can feed for free a day.

SRI GURU RAMDAS NIVAS:

It’s a free hostel for the temple authorities. It has 18 big halls and 228 rooms. It provides free facilities to the people. The visitors are not allowed to stay more than three days.

Sydney Opera House

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE is considered as one of the wonders of the world. OPERA HOUSE is the most popular icon of Sydney with tourists visiting from all over the world. It is the cultural centre of Sydney. The opera house situated on Sydney harbor at Bennelong point, Australia. It was build by Danish architect, JORN UTZON and he received Pritzker prize in 2003. It was opened by queen Elizabeth II on 20 october 1973.It is one of the great building of the 20^th century.

Opera house is surrounded on three sides of the harbor (Sydney cove,  Farm cove and Royal botanic gardens). The building covers 1.8 hectares of land, and is 120 meters  wide and 180 meters long at its widest point. Its power supply is equivalent to that of town people (25,000), and is distributed by 645 kilometers of electrical cable. It opened with an opera theatre, concert hall, recital hall and drama theatre. It also contains bars and restaurants. A fifth theatre was also added to it. Opera house contains 1000 rooms. It conducts 3000 events per year.

.The concert hall contain 2679 seats, is the home of the Sydney symphony and it is by other concert presenters. It contains the Sydney opera house grand organ with 10,000 pipes.

.The opera theatre is a proscenium theater contains 1507 seats, is the Sydney home of Australian ballet and the opera Australia.

.The drama theater contains 544 seats is used by the Sydney theater company and theatrical  presenters.

It also contains five restaurants, a recording studio, four souvenir shops and a guided tour operation. 

Artificial Beach in Japan

The Japanese are always interested for inventing new things. This time Japanese invented biggest indoor ARTIFICIAL BEACH. ARTIFICIAL BEACHES gains more popularity in the whole world. This beach is similar to real beach but all the things present in this beach are artificial. This beach is cool and large ocean Dome. Approximately 10,000 tourists and 6 football pitches can place in this beach. The weather is always great, warm and cool. People can lie on the artificial beach among the artificial palm trees and enjoy the sounds of the artificial tide. The real beach is 300 meters far away for this beach.

It is situated on japan’s  southernmost Kyushu island. This artificial beach is 85 meter long and it contains many shops. In ocean dome once every hour the surf is always up and every afternoon is a carnival. The air temperature is always kept around 30 degrees Celsius and water temperature is around 28 degrees Celsius. It’s a perfect climate for all age groups and it is salt free water. A heated ocean with a width of 140 meters sends 13,500 tons of salt free water sweeping across 600 tons of polished marble chips that constitute a 85 meter long shoreline. Every 15 min the volcano becomes active and every hour it produces artificial flames. This is a real excitement for the people who visit to this beach. This is a place where that the people think that they are part of nature. The fee is expensive more than 50$ for adults plus various entertainments.

Beauty of Borra Caves

                    Borra caves is also known as Borra Guhalu(Borra means brain and guhalu means caves) are located in the Araku valley of the Ananthagiri  hills on the east coast of india. They occupy an area of about 2 square km. It is about  800 to 1300 metres in height above sea level.  The entrance of the cave is about 100m horizontally  and 75m vertically height. The caves are one of the largest and most attractive caves in the country. The opening time of borra caves is 10 am and closing time is 5:30 pm.

                  Borra caves are present in the Borra village and panchayat in Ananthagiri mandal in Vishakapatnam( It is also known as VIZAG) district. Borra caves are located at a distanc of 90 km from vizag. It is about 4 hours journey we can go there by Bus, Train or private vechicle. The river GOSTHANI flows beside the caves. We can hear a sound of the flowing GOSTHANI river from inside the cave. These caves are natural caves they are created due to the flow of river from the lime stone area. There is an entry fee of about Rs. 25.

                Shiva lingam is the major attraction found deep in the caves and above it a stone formation of a cow is present. People come here to worship the god and enjoy by watching the caves. Inside the caves shapes such as temple, crocodile, church etc. Are present to capture the imaginations of tourists. The caves are beautifully decorated by mercury, halogen lamps,  and sodium vapour.