The World's 5 Strangest Stadium

   Stadium is the place where people get together to see or hold a festive event, democracy, sports games and others. Here are some examples of unique stadiums in the world that we have.

1. Munich Olympic Park
   Location: Munich, Germany

Background: Located just north of the city center, the park hosted the 1972 Olympic Games and its stadium, formerly the home of German Soccer's most successful club, Bayern Munich, is the only one in the world to have hosted the Olympics, the World Cup Final and European ssoccer championship final.

The unique is: Combining stainless-steel cable nets, acrylic glass and supports, architect and structure engineer Frei Otto's design of the Munich Olympic Park is a masterwork in tensile architecture. Never before had work like it been done on such a massive scale, and it's a design that continues to permeate Otto's pieces, according to Niemuth.

2. Beijing National Aquatics Center
   Location: Beijing, China

Background: More commonly known as "The Water Cube" the aquatic center was the site of Michael Phelps unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals in 2008.

The unique is: Inspired by an image of bubbles clustered together, the Sydney based firm PTW Architects won an online vote by the Chinese public to build the Aquatics Center. The Water Cube's square form was created in order to play off of the roundness of the Beijing Olympic Stadium located just a few hundred feet away, creating the "yin and yang of the Beijing Olympics," Niemuth says 100,000 square meters of the thin , UV resistant ETFE plastic comprise the walls of arena, held together with a maze of  22,000 steel beams for a breathtaking effect when light up at night. "That exterior image is on par with the Bilbao Art Museum," Niemuth says.

3. Pengrowth Saddledome
   Location: Calgary, Canada

Background: The home of the NHL's Calgary Flames, the Saddledome was completed in 1983 and hosted ice skating and hockey during the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The unique is: The Saddledome's shape evokes Calgary's western heritage, which includes the world famous annual rodeo and fair the Calgary Stampede. Yet the signature saddle like from also serve an important function, as the arena's designer Graham McCourt Architects shaped the concrete roof as an inverse hyperbolic paraboloid so its weight would be supported without internel pylons that would block fans views.

4. The Float
   Location: Marina Bay, Singapore

Background: The Float, which opened in 2007, will  be converted to a stage to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the inaugural Youth Olympics Games in 2010.

The unique is: Built as part of a land reclamation project that began in the 1970s, the Marina Bay development extends Singapore's Central Business District. On the edge of the bay, the Float, a 30000 seat grandstand farces a nearly 33000 square foot steel platform that sits atop 200 pontoons.

5. The Burj Al Arab Hotel Helipad
   Location: Dubai, UAE

Background: In preparation for the 2005 Dubai Championship, the Burj Al Arab converted its helipad into a tennis court for Roger Federer and Andre Agassi to hit around.

The unique is: Maybe there's a bit of stretch to call the stadium as there is no seating for spectators. This area was originally a place for helicopters to land. This is the most beautiful place inn the sport because it is suspended 650 feet in the air. The hotel is located on a man made island just off the coast of Dubai and derives its sail-like shape from the region's nautical history.

The First Ice Bar Opens in New York

NEW YORK - Residents of these cities now have one location to cool off during the summer whwn an ice bar that first opened in the Hilton Hotel in Six Avenue, Manhattan.

    When summer arrives, here visitors can cool the body by bringing family members together. Rested the body with the greatest coolness of this invention can eliminate fatigue and can have fun with friends and family.

    The Ice Bar named by Minus5 because the entire bar is made of ice. Visitors will be given a thick glove and should wear sweaters because of the circumstances surrounding the very cold with temperatures 5 degrees Celsius.

 

    Interior design as a theme park made many lovers come to enjoy the coolness and beauty landscape there. Visitors will be charged an entrance fee of U.S.$ 20 ( RM60 ) for cocktails and thick gloves while he was in it.

    All equipment in the bar as walls, chairs, glasses, tables, lamps are made from ice. The bar has a double personality. From 2 p.m, when it opens daily, to 7 p.m, children and families are welcome. After that, the establishment caters to a New York nightclub crowd.

Patrons mingle with the bar’s mascot

    There penguin mascot show the background of the cold place. Mascot is meant to entertain visitors with family. About 350 blocks of it, each weighing up to 100 pounds, was used to create the cool surroundings that are meant to feel good on a Manhattan afternoon when temperatures soared into the 90s.

The main door Minus5

There are already two Minus5 bars in Las Vegas.

Quirky Homestay In The World

Hotel or homestay is a guesthouse frequented by tourists who come for vacation. Apart from the beautiful tourist vacation spot also choose a hotel or homestay suitable or appropriate to their liking. Uniqueness homestay is also one of the tourist attractions to come to this place.

Unique guesthouse example is as follows :

'Boot' in New Zealand

Unusual: Boutique homes, like this 'Boot' in New Zealand, have become popular holiday destinations

Romantic: Couples can stay in the kitsch hideaway for around £153 a night

Water tower in North Kensington

Place to stay: The owner of this water tower in North Kensington, London, rents out the rooms to visitors

In an attractive design and simple

Mykonos hotel

Something different: Guests to this Mykonos hotel are able to rent out the old-style windmill

The Wigwam Motel

Boutique: The Wigwam Motel, off Route 66 in California, USA, offers guests rooms from around £44 a night

 

Since 1949

Red Caboose Motel

Out of the ordinary: Demand for unusual places to stay, such as this converted train in Pennsylvania, USA, has soared in recent years

Unique interior and wide

Jumbo Stay

Flying high: This plane near Stockholm airport in Sweden has been converted into an 85-bed hostel

Like sleeping on a cloud

The World's Largest Swimming Pool

    World largest swimming pool, is nothing short of AMAZING!  This pool is located at the San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo, Chile. It is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, has a 115 ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water.  The pool is so large that resort guests use kayaks and small boats to move around. A computer controlled filtration system is used to keep fresh seawater in the pool. Seawater is taken in at one end of the pool and then pumped out at the other.

    Become one of the tourist attractions that come to Chile. Tourists can view the beautiful pool as the sea is the largest pool in the world. This pool was built facing the sea so that tourists can enjoy the beauty of the surrounding fresh air.

The World's Longest Cable Bridge Began Operating

Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge in China is 6.2miles long

It's world's longest and widest multi-pylon cable-stayed bridge

Took seven years to complete and is 2,560ft wide

PICTURE shows the appearance of the longest and widest cable bridge in the world

SHAOXING -  The longest cable bridge in the world and the most wide-open for public use last month.

    The bridge is located in Zhejiang province in northeast China. The cloud infrastructure took seven years to build. Named Jiaxing Sea Bridge - Shaoxing, the building extends over 10 kilometers with 780 meter wide main parts.

    Infrastructure has six lanes opened to vehicles on May 28 and will be fully operational by next Monday.

    The bridge is also equipped with walkways and bike. It begins and ends in Haicang district Houzhai, in the city of Zhangzhou.

  BRIDGE Jiaxing - Shaoxing built along 10 kilometers by 780 meters wide.

Hidden Treasure : Marieta Island

    The Marieta Islands are a group of small uninhabited islands a few miles off the coast of Nayarit, Mexico. They are very popular tourist destinations because of the abundant marine life populations due to the islands being protected from fishing and hunting by the Mexican government.

 

 

  The Marieta Islands were originally formed many thousands of years ago by volcanic activity, and are completely uninhabited. The islands are about an hour long boat ride west-northwest from the coast of Puerto Vallarta and are visited daily by hundreds of tourists, yet no one can legally set foot on the islands. In the early 1900s the Mexican government began conducting military testing on the islands because no one lived there. Many bombings and large explosions took place on the islands causing amazing caves and rock formations to be created. After a massive international outcry, started by scientist Jacques Cousteau in the late 1960s, the government eventually decided to label the islands a national park and therefore protected against any fishing, hunting or human activity.

 Protection by the government has created an environment conducive to the development of the marine ecosystem, and is a popular location for snorkeling and scuba diving. People often report seeing sea turtles, manta rays, octopus, wild dolphins, humpback whales and thousands of species of tropical fish around the islands. The islands are also home to a few thousands birds, with species such as the Blue-footed Booby. Currently, the Mexican government allows only a few companies to go to the islands for public tours because of conservationist efforts.

Eliminate Criminal Use of Luxury Cars

Dubai -  Dubai traffic police received a number of luxury cars to use force to eradicate the crime.

    After car unit Lamborghini Aventador worth Rs 1.4 million arrived in Dubai last month, local police now receive four additional units, each of the brand Ferrari, Bentley, Mercedes, and Aston Martin One-77 worth Rs 7.3 million.

    Every vehicle capable of being driven with a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour. Dubai analyzed as other provinces joined the United Arab Emirates are known as financial resources abound.

   Recently, the police announced that anyone found driving more than 200 kilometers per hour will be legal action. police spokesman said the use of a luxury car has 700 horsepower and hopes to make a stubborn drivers think twice before breaking the law of the road.

Lamborghini Aventador

Bugatti Veyron

Aston Martin One-77

 Ferrari FF

Devil's Sea : The Bermuda Triangle

The question about the triangle that swallows ships, planes and all the people with them still waits for its answer. So many ships and planes have disappeared and so many disasters have happened in the area between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami, and many theories have appeared as well. From compass variations, gulf streams, rogue waves to human errors and conspiracy theories – anything is possible, but none of them is proved yet. However, it’s still one of the most traveled routes in the world.

 

 

Triangle area

The first written boundaries date from a 1964 issue of pulp magazine Argosy, where the triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. But subsequent writers did not follow this definition. Every writer gives different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying from 500,000 to 1.5 million square miles. Consequently, the determination of which accidents have occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reports them. The United States Board on Geographic Names does not recognize this name, and it is not delimited in any map drawn by US government agencies.
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.

History

Origins

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. It was claimed that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis's article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.
Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

 But there is a story in which there is a survivor of a plane incident. The pilot is a Muslim. Through the area when he lost control of the aircraft and that there is a strong temptation coming from below. The pilot then chanted prayer and found the aircraft can be controlled and managed to get out of the area. What is surprising is that when he looked into the wings of aircraft, he looked like something strange caught on the wing. But these things can not be identified and it disappeared. This story is only hearsay and not verified by any party.

 However, this place is still a mystery and no one knows how to aircraft or ships passing through the area may be lost.

A Michoacan Treasure : “Lake Camecuaro”

Lago de Camécuaro National Park is located east of the city of Zamora de Hidalgo in the municipality of Tangancícuaro in the state of Michoacan. The Park consists of 9.65 hectares (23.8 acres) of protected area including Camecuaro Lake which is supplied by a series of natural springs. The lake is popular due to crystal clear water and the beautiful vegetation that surrounds the lake. Even though the lake is relatively small, many photographers from all over Mexico come to take professional photographs that capture the parks picturesque views.


 Camécuaro derives from the native language purepecha or tarasca which means "Place of Bathing"

Geography

    Lago de Camécuaro National Park is located 14 km (8.5 mi) east of the city of Zamora de Hidalgo, Michoacán on Federal Highway 15 heading towards Morelia, Michoacán. The lake itself has a surface area of approximately 1.6 hectares (4.0 acres) and has a maximum depth of 6 metres (20 ft). The lake is supplied with water from numerous springs slightly to the south of the lake. Camécuaro Lake then empties at a slow rate into the Duero River which is an important tributary to the Lerma River.
The park is part of a large alluvial plain surrounded by mountains with a northeast-southeast orientation. The topography of the park is flat with no slopes greater than 5%. The park is found at 1,700 m (5,577 ft) above sea level. During the Cenozoic the area was a flood plain of the Duero River which deposited large amounts of basalt, breccia, calcareous tuff, tuff, andesite, and rhyolite. The dominant basalt rock found in the area give the soil a rich source of: calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, and sodium. The soils in the park and surrounding areas are rich and fertile making the region perfect for agriculture. The soil in the area is classified as pellic vertisol with significant amounts of chromate the soil is of fine texture with rocky layer containing rocks smaller than 7.5 cm.

 

View of Lake Camecuaro

 

 

History

The park was declared a national park by President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río on July 18, 1940 in efforts to conserve the flora and fauna found there. The presidential decree was later signed into law on December 8, 1941.

Beautiful Panorama

 Camecuaro Lake is a spring filled lake with crystal clear water. It is popular with picnickers for the lush vegetation surrounding the area, and also with professional photographers for its scenic beauty.Beauty and serenity of the lake makes many a weekend picnic with family, friends or lovers. besides the many photographers from the area come to take pictures of interesting and unique area. The cozy lake with crystal clear water makes it into the shower area of interest.

 

 Take by a photographer

 

 

Camecuaro Lake is a small lake, only 4 acres of surface area and no more than 20 feet deep. It has been a National Park since 1940. The shores of the lake are full of 300-year-old cypress groves, and even an 1000 year old Sabia perennial pine tree. For about $20 you can rent a boat to take out yourself, or take guided tour.
There are picnic tables and vendors selling food and souvenirs, and even some wandering Mariachi bands. If it gets to noisy where you are, take a short walk and you will be sure to find somewhere quieter.

Beauty of Green

 

 The Blue Lake

Underwater

 

 This place is a great thing to do if you want some never seen before beautiful scenery combined with water activities. The Lake has amazingly giant size trees that grow along the shore with some growing out off the water creating an enormous canopy providing shade for those that wish to BBQ and lounge on the shore around the Lake. The water by the trees is crystal clear blue and you can see the bottom of the lake with no problem.

They have beautiful multi-color boats that you can rent for a 100 pesos/1 hour and a guy rows you around the lake.

Parking was very close to the lake and wasn't a problem at all. There are also plenty of food vendors and craft vendors selling merchandise.

If you close by, I'd stop by and check it out because you won't see anything like it in the USA.