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The competition of Miss Venezuela rose in the year 1952, thanks to the initiative of the PANAMERICAN AIRWAYS. The intention of the contest was that to send to a representative Venezuelan to the first contest of Miss Universo that it would be realized that same year in Long Beach, California.
Beginning from that moment, the election of the most beautiful Venezuelan would annually be realized and the winner would compete to the Miss Universo.
Beginning from that moment, the Miss Venezuela reached a big level and international prestige, when the Venezuelans were brought the international crowns than competed it existed, or at least, they remained among the first finalists. In the ninety ten, the organization Miss Venezuela was listed more as the local enterprise success internazionale.

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It has become customary for people who put premium in traveling to different places in the world to at least schedule some time to have the family stop over at Disneyland in Anaheim California. This world-renowned amusement and theme park has become one of the necessary trips for kids to at least experience what this much ballyhooed place has to offer. Disneyland is topical an amusement Park, made by the animator Walt Disney and discovered, of 17 juli,1955 in Anaheim, California, USA. The park was built in one year at a cost of $17m. The opening ceremonies were televised, with Art Linkletter, Bob Cumming, and Ronald Reagan, acting as emcees.

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Venice is a district in west Los Angeles, California, USA. Venice is made in 1905 from tobacco – millionaire Abot Kinney, as a sea resort of a west 22,4 kilometer from Los Angeles. Venice Beach has a 3 mile beach, but tourists go there to shop and stare. During the summer there’s street entertainment everywhere, including musicians, singers, jugglers, acrobats, mimes, comics, magicians, and fortune tellers. Venice Beach, California is a desired destination for travelers from all over the world. It is unlike any place on Earth, well known for its artists, street performers and funky atmosphere. It is a virtual carnival running year round with free admission.

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Royal Solaris Los Cabos Resort, located on the beach along the Sea of Cortez, is built in a magnificent Mexican Californian style of construction, is a deluxe all inclusive resort, where a pre-established price lets you enjoy a great variety of services. Situated in San José del Cabo, Royal Solaris is a short 15 minutes travel time from Los Cabos International Airport and only 30 minutes travel time to downtown Cabo San Lucas.
Royal Solaris Los Cabos Deluxe All Incluxive Resort has been built to the highest of standards and offers lots or spacious, harmonious accommodations to provide the perfect retreat for a memorable holiday, vacation or successful business meeting or convention. The resort has 400 beautiful Mexican style decorated rooms with a modern touch, available in ocean view, and garden view, with connecting rooms available upon request and subject to availability at check in. Royal Solaris Los Cabos offers perfect accommodations for your great vacation, business meeting or convention.

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 Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States. The National Park is 200 miles east of San Francisco and a 6 hour drive from Los Angeles. It is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more. Sprayed by thousand-foot waterfalls and framed by monumental granite spires – it is the most famous glacially carved landscape in the world. Yosemite offers outdoor adventures through all four seasons.

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1. The Ice Hotel, Sweden
Consistently getting top scores in readers’ surveys, the Ice Hotel is the coolest hotel around (literally). Built afresh every December with ice from the River Thorne in northern Sweden, and featuring specially commissioned artwork each year, this fairytale hotel is a very romantic retreat (you sleep on ice blocks covered in reindeers skins), if you can face the sub-zero temperatures in the rooms. There is an ice bar, a wedding chapel and more traditional cabins for those who don’t like to be quite so chilled. Go now: with the impact of global warming, the option of staying at this amazing hotel might not be with us for long. (website: www.icehotel.com)

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Gather your friends together for a ‘girlie’ weekend or get body beautiful for winter with the ultimate ‘pamper holiday’ to a luxury spa resort. Here i have selected our ten favourite spa resorts in the United States – you’ll have a fantastic holiday and will leave feeling great!

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The world’s largest casino isn’t in Monaco, or Las Vegas. It’s right here in New England,in Mashantucket, Connecticut and is open daily 24 hours. Foxwoods Resort Casino just celebrated its 14th year in 2006. With his 340000 square foots the casino offering more than 7400 slot machines, as well as a bingo room, keno.
The casino has got 380 gaming tables including blackjack, craps, roulette, poker room.
Highlights of the resort’s 27 globe-spanning restaurants include gourmet dining at the Grand Pequot Tower’s Paragon, which features a Continental menu, and Al Dente, which serves southern and northern Italian dishes. For casual fare, guests head for the California Pizza Kitchen, Pauli Motos, and the Festival Buffet, 1 bar and 3 hotels with 1416 rooms. There’s a luxurious, high-tech Race Book, as well as the world’s largest Bingo Hall. For conventions and group events, Foxwoods features more than 55,000 square feet of meeting space and 25 conference rooms.

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Set around a gracefully curving bay, relatively free from smog and Byzantine freeways, sits the beautiful city of San Diego. Although it was the site of the first mission in California, the city only really took off with the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in the 1880s, and in terms of trade and significance it has long been in the shadow of Los Angeles. Even in the shadow of Los Angeles, San Diego tourism has something for everyone. Plan out your next trip with one of the many San Diego Vacation Packages or create your own vacation.

With all that San Diego has to offer, your next San Diego Vacation will be filled with many memories. For the art lovers, San Diego, features Balboa Park. Get the feeling of an “old Spanish city.” You’ll find various architecture styles of Spanish Colonial Renaissance and Gothic & Moorish.

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The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States. The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4 to 24 kilometers) and attains a depth of more than a mile (1,600 m). Nearly two billion years of the Earth’s history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted.

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, a designated World Heritage Site, and one of the “Crown Jewels” of the National Park System.

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