Shanghai

Shanghai
If you're looking for an exotic city break this summer, here’s a unique urban fix: bustling Shanghai! You'll find this Chinese metropolis in the midst of an unparalleled urban renewal, with plenty of attractions – like a revived waterfront, some of the world's finest Art Deco architecture, evocative tea houses, and alluring street life – that are bound to sweep you off your feet. You can experience it all for seven days with this discounted air-and-hotel package we’ve found for just $989, including breakfast, transfers, and even a city tour! Full deal review

Dinosaurs:
 

Dinosaurs

“Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries,” the new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, offers a walk-through re-creation of a 130-million-year-old Chinese forest populated with previously unseen models of beaked and feathered dinosaurs, dino-eating mammals and even flying dinosaurs such as Microraptor — a four-winged, feathered glider. Museum visitors can experiment with T. rex biomechanics using interactive animations, created in Maya and Flash and turned into QuickTime movies, running on dual-processor Power Mac G5 stations. “We’re very happy with the way this stuff runs on the Mac, particularly with regard to what we can do with QuickTime, in terms of embedding video into an interactive shell,” says Mike Cosaboom, manager of Interactive exhibits. One of the biggest visual wows at the exhibit involves a synchronized three-video-source, three-screen animated projection of an Apatosaurus morphing out from just bones into layers of muscles, nerves and skin behind a gleaming 60-foot steel Apatosaurus skeleton that stretches across the center of the exhibition. Read more about the project and watch four video clips from the dinosaur exhibit.

Discover the beauty of Venezuela

Columbus' third voyage brought the Spaniards to Venezuela in late 15th Century. The discovery of oil in 1914 near Maracaibo has a miraculous effect on the four hundred years old poor agrarian economy. Presently, one of the richest countries in Latin America, it is also one of the largest producers and exporters of oil in the world. Venezuelan Isles are this nation's 72 island possessions in the Caribbean. Isla de Margarita, the largest and the most popular with tourists, along with close neighbours, Coche and Cubagua, form the state of Nueva Esparta. Most of the other islands are Federal Dependencies, with their capital as Los Roques. Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and echoes the contrasts found in the rest of the country.
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Orchid world

Located on Highway 3B, between Gun Hill and St.John's Church, in the heart of the Barbadian countryside this six acre farm is surrounded by sugarcane. On an elevation of 810 feet a number of vantage points allow the visitors to take in the view.


Visitors can take a self guided tour past a waterfall along the well landscaped meandering path and through five orchid houses. The trees are also to be watched carefully for orchids such as Schomburgkia will bloom once a year in a spectacular fashion. All the corners of the orchid world show us new and different floral delights.
Orchids like Vandas, Phalaenopsis, Calanthes, Cattlyeas, Ascocendas and Dendrobiums are found everywhere. ‘rain forest’ orchids are displayed in an environment meant to be a simulation, an eye catching display wherein the orchids seem to hang in mid-air with the orchids’ roots completely free of soil.

The entire area is quite calm and serene and the sound of burbling water and that of the wind rustling through the nearby sugar cane or the twitter of birds. The scent of the orchid fills the air along with the rich colors and shapes.
The orchid world is a feast for the eyes. The wedding gazebo located on the best vantage point offers visitors a calm, colorful option to get married.
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Khaleej Times Online

Khaleej Times Online: "DUBAI � Police officials were reluctant to disclose details on the young Brit of Pakistani origin, Muzhar Akhtar, who has been dubbed the �Yoharah� (Jewel) thief after swindling cash in the multi-million dollar real estate venture that turned sour.
The reluctance to reveal information on the case was based on police conviction that it could adversely affect the reputation of Dubai as a booming city. When a top CID official was first asked about the case, he denied it existed in the first place. But officials recently broke the barrier of silence, reiterating that �real� real estate projects in the booming city were fully backed by Dubai government. "