Showing posts with label World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The charm of Latvia, Most Beautiful Country in the World

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Not long ago, Latvia was chosen as the most beautiful country in the world based on a poll in cyberspace. How to charm the beauty?

Latvia is a country located in northern Europe. Latvia has a white sand stretching along the coast as well as yellow sand beaches that are along the beach Tuja. In addition to its beautiful beaches, Latvia also has thousands of creeks and beautiful lakes to enjoy.

There are also several places in the country to be a very attractive tourist destination. Places, among them Rundale Palace, located in the middle of a lush Zemgale Plains in southern Latvia. With beautiful architecture, the palace has become one of the most prominent monuments in Latvia. Built approximately 1740, this palace was originally intended to stay the king and queen during the summer. Most of the decorations were the work of Italian artists and German copyright.


Today, the palace is used as a place to study the history of Latvia through a collection of paintings. Rundale increasingly look beautiful with French-style garden filled with rose gardens, fountains and greenery in front of him. A beautiful garden can be enjoyed by the general public. Even in the summer, the park was used as a festival.

Besides Rundale palace, there are beautiful buildings towering named Aglona Basilica. The building was built in the style of Baroque is decorated with two 60 meters tall towers on either side. This site is one of the most sacred sites in the world. A touch of white on all parts of the building makes it more spectacular.


Kuldiga is a charming small town in the Kurzeme nan. City center were developed in the 17th century is even more beautiful with the old buildings made from wood that lined the streets Kuldiga. Currently, the old town and bridge Kuldiga contained red brick across the river Venta including UNESCO world heritage candidate. Even this city is famous for the widest waterfall in Europe, and referred to as the Venice Latvia due Aleksupite river that flows through the buildings in this city.

Turaida Museum is one of the heritage that is in Latvia. Regions with an area of ​​42 hectares, it covers archeology, beautiful architecture, historic monuments, and all the events that explain the history of the 11th century. Located 50 km from Riga, the capital of Latvia, the building is famous for its beautiful surroundings. Turaida locals in the ancient language means "garden of God". When viewed from the air in the fall, like a ship Turaida majestic fort built of red brick. Turaida Church is one of the oldest churches in the country, was allegedly the church has been built since 1750.


Travel to Bhutan, landed at the airport Courage Big Scary World

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Paro Airport is the only airport in Paro, Bhutan. The airport is located between the hills of the Himalayas as high as 5,500 meters. It took guts if you want to travel here.

Paro Airport, you will experience turbulence is not like most. Required a professional pilot who has had special linsensi to land a plane at the airport.

Different sensations you will feel when the plane began to land on a runway. As you know, the airport runway was quite scary because one of the shortest in the world. However, a stressful experience that you experienced during landing be paid by the tourist destination in the country.


Paro places that you can make as a tourist destination, including Paro Dzong. Paro dzong is a symbol depicting the religious side of this city. This place has been established since 1646. Paro Dzong is a building which shows the strong culture of the royal architecture of touch shown.

In the tower located at the top of the Paro Dzong, the National Museum Buthan there. The museum is one of the newly built tourist destination. The museum collection contains quite a lot of the weapons used by the royal, stamps, animals, such as birds and mammals, are also not behind the works of art exhibited typical Buthan so beautiful, including artifacts.

Taktshang Lhakang (Tiger's Nest) to other places you must visit in Buthan. This site is the most important religious site in Buthan. It is located approximately 80 km from Paro, the monastery stands at the edge of a cliff. It makes it more unique.


To go to this monastery, you need to go through the deserted because only certain tourists who are interested to go into here, other Buddhists. Taktsang Lhakang is a place where the residents believed that Guru Rimpoche was present many millions of years before the legend of the tiger. For the development of tourism, the government has set up an angle Buthan that you can use to relax while drinking coffee and enjoying the beauty of the view from the corner of this place.

When the right time comes to Buthan is when spring arrives. In the spring, every year there was a very famous festival in Buthan. Tshechu named Paro Festival is held to commemorate the arrival of Guru Rimpoche to Paro Valley in the 8th century. Festival held in ParoDzong is a kind of festival mask filled with musical entertainment and dancing in memory of the past.

A trip would not be complete without purchasing a souvenir. If you want to shop, you can go to the market held every weekend or small shops scattered here. The merchants will offer a wide antique silver, local products, woven fabrics, and antiques from Tibet and India. If you want to take it for a gift, you need a certificate made by the local government.