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Travel Video: Langkawi Curved Suspended Bridge

Taking a walk at Langkawi sky-bridge is a wow! You can take a walk above the clouds on the new curved suspended pedestrian bridge at Gunung Mat Cincang.

Langkawi sky-bridge is suspended at 700 metres above sea level. This unique curved pedestrian bridge spans 125 metres across a spectacular chasm. The view from the bridge is [...]

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Strange Constructions: Aquadom - World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium

Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species. The AquaDom was opened in December 2003. It cost about 12.8 million euros.

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World’s Largest Swimming Pool

In the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon, acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool. Over one kilometer long, 8 hectares in surface and 2.5 million liters of water. Too big to picture? Let’s put it this way: the size of the lagoon [...]

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Rhodes to nowhere: Internet error spells holiday surprise

A spelling mistake on the Internet led to a surprise trip to remote southern France for three Norwegian tourists who thought they were going to a Greek island, airport officials said Wednesday.
The family group from Torp-Sandefjord thought they had booked a flight to the island of Rhodes but instead the journey from Oslo took them [...]

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Crazy Tourist Questions

Here are some questions received by Australians from foreigners, along with some smart ass replies.
Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? (Sweden)
A: Sure, it’s only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia? (USA)
A: A-fri-ca is [...]

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New 7 Wonders of the World

In case you don’t know, the New7Wonders organization had an open voting system to elect the new 7 wonders of the World. June 7, the candicates has been announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal.

The 7 candicates are:
- Chiche’n Itza’, Mexico
- Christ Redeemer, Brazil
- The Great Wall, China
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Petra, Jordan
- [...]

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The largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

The largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (this is not a typo!) is the Vulcan point in Crater Lake on Vulcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon (PHI)

Also, the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake, is the Island in Mindemoya Lake on [...]

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Airport confiscates drink but not knife

A holidaymaker managed to take a seven-inch knife on board a plane, moments after his 13-year-old daughter had a bottle of fizzy drink confiscated by security staff.
Nick White realised that he had the lock knife in his pocket as he reached the security gate at Birmingham Airport. So he put it though the scanner with [...]

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Unusual Hotels of the World

This photo is from a hotel! located at Turkey’s Antalya.
This specific hotel is named “Kadirs Tree House Hotel ” and it is just one of the of “Unusual Hotels of the World” where you can find hotel rooms at caves, underwater, trees any many more WOW locations!

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The world’s biggest hole

The world’s biggest hole is located in Russia.

The giant hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter. View all the photos here.
Some guys said that this is not the bigger hole and report the Utah’s Kennecott copper [...]

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