Across The Planet

After surfing on You Tube I come up on this place. It is breathtaking. Similar to my homeland Bosnia, but with much higher mountains and peaks.
Svaneti is historic province in today Georgia, in the northwestern part of the country. It got name by the ethnic Svans (ethnic subgroups of the Georgians). Svaneti is mountains region with 3000-5000 m high mountains. Highest mountain in Georgia Mount Shkara is located here with its peak at 5201 meters. Svaneti is a southern part of Greater Caucasus. Lower regions bellow 1800 m are covered by forests, 1800-3000 meters are grasslands and meadows, while eternal ice is above 3000 m of sea level. Lower regions and valleys are characterized by a long and warm summers and with cold and snowy winters… Above 2000 m, summers are short and cool, and long and cold winters… Large part of this region lies over 3000 m and actualy dont have a real summer. It looks like that Svaneti is also very popular alpinistic destination…  Also Svans ethno music is great and Svans are really old ethnic grupation with rich history since they are first mentioned at 3rd-4th century. Check this videos and images. …click here to read more

I just looked at different villas on some Villa Holidays site and came up with the following idea (for those who dont know Villa is upper class luxurious house, so villa holidays are holidays spent in luxurious confortable houses). Since most people dont own a villa on some exotic place, very popular way of vacations is to rent a villa on some of popular places. Most popular locations for Villa renting are among the others: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Greece and Turkey, but Bulgaria, Montenegro and Russia (Sochi) are coming in to focus these few last years. Renting a villa for common people in some of these countries can be really expensive, since most common villa, by the sea or with the pool, in the season, cost over 2500 euros for just one week. However, think!!! You dont have to rent it alone, except if you really like solitude or want to be alone on a vacation with your girlfriend. Since villas are big houses in most cases 8 people can easily fit in. So if you plan a summer vacations with your friends then it come up that price is only 300-400 euros per each person, which is not so expensive even for people in non EU countries. I am definatly going to think about this idea for next year vacation. Maybe one of these beauties …click here to read more

Blarney Castle is middle age fort in Blarney near the River Martin and Cork city in Ireland. The castle was built at about 1200 AD but it was completly destroyed in 1445. It is rebuilt again by the King of Munster, Cormac MacCarthy. Castle is partial ruin and at the top of lies Blarney Stone. Tourist are bending upside down over a sheer drop to kiss the stone, since believe exists that kissing the stone will give gift of eloquence. Some legends say also that stone is Lia Fail, magical stone where Irish kings are crowned.

Beautiful and amazing gardens surrounds the castle. Also there is few other attractions to see such as Druids Circle, Wishing Steps, Witchs Cave, Blarney House… To get toBlarney is very easy, with buses or cars from Cork. …click here to read more

I found interesting list of 10 biggest airports in the world by the ammount of passengers in 2006 and by the ammount of international passengers. Notice, that if you count the domestic air traffic, biggest airports are in the United States, with 5 airports in the list. If you take a look at the international traffic, neither one of top american airports are qualified.

So here is the list by the ammount of passengers:

1. Atlanta – Hartsfield – Jackson International Airport (USA) – 84 846 639
2. Chicago – O’Hare International Airport (USA) – 77 028 134
3. London – Heathrow (England) – 67 530 197
4. Tokyo – International Airport (Japan) – 65 810 672
5. Los Angeles – International Airport (USA) – 61 041 066
6. Dallas – Fort Worth International Airport (USA) – 60 226 138
7. Paris – Charles de Gaulle Airport (France) – 56 849 567
8. Frankfurt – International Airport (Germany) – 52 810 683
9. Beijing – Capital International Airport (China) – 48 654 770
10. Denver – International Airport (USA) – 47 325 016

And here is the list by internationa passengers: …click here to read more