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Jul11
Published by Asya in Chillin, Cities, Eating, Hotels, North America, Relaxing, Restaurants, United States of America, Urban Tourism

Zaza Hotel is luxury business hotel features warmth atmosphere, high style and comfort. Offering a brilliant welcome to the city’s beautiful Museum District, Downtown Houston‘s Hotel ZaZa is ideal for both business and vacation travel. This is smoke-free and pet-friendly hotel situated within a few blocks of many of Houston’s attractions. With amazing attention to detail and a careful balance of work and pleasure, Hotel ZaZa Houston will make sure your Texas stay is wonderfully unforgettable.
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Mar23
Published by Asya in Arts, Cities, Cultural, Events

Using the physical world as a metaphor the photographer David Goldes uses his extensive scientific knowledge to create striking images of such things as water’s surface tension.
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Mar23
Published by Asya in Arts, Chillin, Cities, Cultural, Events, United States of America

Sze Tsung Leong (American and British, born Mexico City 1970) is an artist based in New York. His work includes the series Cities, a detailed depiction of urban formations throughout the globe, from medieval towns to recent constructions, that together form a picture of the world at this particular moment in time at the beginning of the twenty-first century; Horizons, an international collection of images of natural terrains and urban landscapes that considers the relationships between far and near, foreign and familiar; and History Images, which examines the erasure of history and the reshaping of society through the built environment.
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Dec21
Published by Asya in Arts, Chillin, Cities, Cultural, Eating, Hotels, North America, Relaxing, Restaurants, United States of America, Urban Tourism
The hotel rises in the heart of Soho, New York, the area of the city with the greatest number of art galleries, old bookstores, artists’ shops and charming cafes and restaurants. It is the southern edge of Manhattan, the constant setting of the films by the director that has been captured the soul of the city of skyscrapers, Woody Allen.
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Jan07
Published by misha in Adventure, North America, Photos, Relaxing, Resorts, Skiing, Snowboarding, Travel gear, Travel Stories, United States of America

About 50 miles north of Manhattan in the Hudson River Valley, is located the Mount Peter Ski Area and seventy-three years later, Mount Peter, welcomes about 50,000 visitors a year, with a regular clientele from as far away as Long Island. The resort has been there a long time and struggled financially many years, but it never closed. The strange is how this small, mostly family-run ski area remains to the soul, spirit and financial future of the sport.
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Jul30
Published by misha in Europe, Events, Hiking, Mexico, Photos, Resorts, Romantic, Scuba Diving, Sightseeings, Snorkeling, Swimming, Travel Stories

One of Mexico‘s largest islands, Cozumel lies 20 km from the mainland, and 60 km south of Cancun. It’s flat limestone formation shaped like a holster and pierced by dozens of cenotes (water filled sinkholes), many with their own marine forms, which are an extra attractions for swimmers and snorkellers who come to explore the island’s fantastic offshore reefs. Photo by: kristiankristof
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Jun10
Published by misha in Arts, Canada, Europe, Finland, North America, Photos, Sweden, Travel Stories, United States of America, Urban Tourism

Today there is a new form of urban graffiti in the world and it’s extremely interesting and enjoyably – urban knitting. I mean like sweater -wearing tree or all yarn covered corners with some of the best examples of knit/crochet graffiti.
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May07
Published by misha in Cultural, Eating, Hiking, North America, Parks, Photos, Restaurants, United States of America, Urban Tourism, Walking

Houston, Texas is a place famous for its weird view of bigger is better. But today residents are starting to realize the environmental predicament that we need to change our actions in order to have a future in this world. Houston is a diverse city that attracts intellectuals from all over the world to industries such as energy and aerospace. Nowadays as I already mentioned the city offers a surprisingly large number of modern and international style architecture.
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Mar18
Published by misha in Cultural, History, North America, Parks, Photos, Relaxing, United States of America

The Brochstein Pavilion is created as a landmark destination for Rice University’s campus. The garden at the Brochstein Pavilion gives a powerful spatial framework that has transformed an unstructured, underutilized quadrangle into the center of student activity on campus.
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Mar08
Published by misha in Adventure, Chillin, Fishing, Golf, Hiking, Kayaking, North America, Photos, Relaxing, Resorts, Restaurants, Sightseeings, Swimming, Travel Stories

Loreto Bay is a resort community with total of 6, 000 residences in desert of Baja California. The resort has 240 pretty colorful houses with cupolas; some of them are painted bright blue or yellow, others are pink, beige or green.
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