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Vatican Museums are trying to become more accessible to all who seek to learn more about the gems of the art world, who are represented there. In connection with this museum announced the decision to offer a series of educational tourism-oriented and visually impaired visitors. Thus, the Vatican Museums will join the National Museum in Cairo, Egypt, British Museum, as well as some others. In the state of exhibition centers like the Vatican Museums, there are qualified professionals who are ready to conduct tours, which combine verbal, tactile, auditory forms of communication, body language and sense of smell. Visitors with hearing impairments are offered a choice of two tours with sign language, but now they are held only in Italian. Visually impaired and hearing-impaired visitors can also learn more about the collections of the Vatican Museums. In particular, the museum staff, giving a detailed description of the product, for example, "The Entombment" by Caravaggio, will offer visually impaired visitors to touch the installation, consisting of fabric and frames and allows to distinguish the outlines of Descent from the Cross of Jesus, as well - the colors, wrote Diariodelviajero.
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in London (UK) forbidden to sell ice cream made from human breast milk. Mr O'Connor, owner of Icecreamists, where it was made an unusual treat, said that it liked to consumers. However, local authorities are not allowed to supply the market with a similar product. The reason for such a strict relationship to ice cream - caring for people's health. Made from breast milk, it can become a carrier of various diseases, including hepatitis. Local authorities are trying to support small businesses and any new ideas, but in this case is impossible. Mr. O'Connor's such explanations did not satisfy. He argues that all products are thoroughly tested before use, so they contain no viruses simply can not. If the ice is dangerous, then why not dangerous to breast milk delivered in milk cans? If a delicacy yet appeared on the market, its value would amount to 14 pounds.
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In recent years, tourists are increasingly choosing exotic destinations for travel, including Antarctica. And, apart from the thrill of visiting maloizvedannyh land, travelers receive on this continent familiar experience: it turns out you can easily buy liquor. Station "Academician Vernadsky" on the island Galindez Argentina archipelago this year marks 15 years of age. Ukrainian scientists conduct this research related to the physics of solar-terrestrial relations, nuclear physics of the atmosphere, watching the Earth's ozone layer. Writes "The newspaper in Kiev, officially the station operates" Prohibition ". But it does not interfere with polar drive in the purest glacier water vodka. In this case, the station is very close to the tourist routes of expedition cruises (their season is between November to March). A glass of local 40-degree beverage, dubbed "Vernadovka, cost tourists $ 2, and a rare traveler to get to this region of the Earth, to deny itself the pleasure of such. In the midst of crisis, many Ukrainians were eager to Antarctica to work, reminiscent of TCH. But the pole does not take all - candidates must be different in polar good health, have 5 years professional experience, proficient in English or Spanish language, to know your computer. They receive about 1000-1200 dollars a month, not counting the profits from sales in the Antarctic bar ".
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March 8 in the Austrian city of Vienna, on the street Tsiglergasse, 34, opened the first Maiden cafe. Log in cafes is permitted only to girls aged 10 to 18 years. The whole interior design and develop creative cafe girl who, in turn, will be the visitor facilities. This cafe offers a variety of opportunities for girls to realize their interests and ideas, as well as participation in management decisions institution.
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Zlata street in the Prague Castle, which he considers necessary to visit almost every tourist who opens a month later than expected - 1 June. Miniature houses, one of whom once lived and the writer Franz Kafka, will appear before the visitors in an updated form. Most of the houses will accommodate a stands exhibition devoted to the history of this unique corner of the Old City. The remaining buildings will be deployed souvenir trade. Reconstruction of city streets has cost 30 million kronor (1.2 million euros). Admission to the street of Prague Castle has not changed. In the evening, entry to Zlata street, as before, will be free.
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in the Harz sled race naked celebrated in 2011, attendance record - 17 thousand people came to see as an almost naked woman and a man rolled onto a sledge with a 90-meter height. Only a helmet, boots, gloves and trunks - that's all allowed to wear the participants having passed in the German town of Braunlage. Contrary to the degrees-frost, 13 women and 13 men showed very different techniques of descent along the height of 90 meters and a warm, apparently confined to his viewer's eye, writes with irony Welt. Around 17 thousand visitors came potolpitsya near the road at the Town Hall lawn in Braunlage, where for the third time passed independent freestyle winter sport. First of all, young people from northern and central Germany, as well as guests from Austria, the Netherlands and even from the U.S. came to look at naked sled riders with loud glee of the crowd to greet them. winner of such an unusual event in this year's 24-year-old Gunnar avtoinzhener Kaufhold of Thuringia. Christian Schmidt (27 years) from Blankenburg, winner of last year, took only second place. Third place winners took the podium 19-year-old music assistant Yakveline Fisher of Weimar. The next year naked luge again promised to leave the launch pad.
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In Germany, opened a new dino-park GONDWANA - Das Praehistorium, which is a museum and attraction, the guests who will be back in time - millions of years ago. In the picturesque landscapes surrounded by lush greenery, visitors can see a wide variety of fauna of our planet, lived on it long before humans existed. In the development and establishment of the park brought together leading experts in the field of paleontology, botany, design and special effects that were able to recreate all the views, sounds and smells of the prehistoric era. In addition to animated shapes in a life-sized dinosaurs, visitors can see and the real skeleton of the largest dinosaur ever lived on Earth, according to the website of the park. The museum is located in the former coal mines Landsweiler-Reden near Neunkirchen - Saar (Neunkirchen-Saar) in the west of Germany. Choosing a location is not accidental - these coal mines are the remains of the forests of the Paleozoic era, which was located at this place 300 million years ago and now revived by GONDWANA - Das Praehistorium. Near the park is biodokumentatsii Centre (Centre of Biodocumentation), where you can see interesting zoological, botanical and geological collections, and a shop to buy souvenirs with symbols of the park, a variety of toys, puzzles and books about dinosaurs. To the park is easily accessible by train from Saarbr
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One of the most dangerous and closed facilities in the world, thirty-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stopped the first tourists visited. On Tuesday they were journalists of Ukrainian and world media, among which was correspondent of the Russian service of Voice of America. From the moment the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced the possibility of establishing a tourist and excursion routes in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, took no more than three months. "I'm very positive for tourism. I believe that everything that is beneficial and philosophical things for the Ukrainian public, it should be. There is a demand - people need to start, let look, "- said in November 2010, Minister of Emergencies of Ukraine Viktor Baloga. In fact, the new simplified rules for visiting the radiation-free areas may not seem too new. Especially for those who had been in the exclusion zone and mandatory evacuation. Simplified fares thirty-kilometer zone also includes all pass through the checkpoint "Dityatki" - the main gate of the Chernobyl zone. Other border crossing points for tourists does not exist yet. Passport control patrol MIA - a necessary procedure, as well as signature on a special document about the personal responsibility for any force majeure. Besides the territory remains a number of objects, which are forbidden to photograph, but for whom travel here fans of extreme rest: building the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the sarcophagus over the four units. To this list is to add monitored at the exit and the services of mandatory guide - it's practically a full list to meet today's tourist. Similar procedures have passed and those who have been here five or ten years ago. However, according to the deputy director of the National Information Agency, International Cooperation and Development "Chernobylinterinform Yuri Tatarchuk, in the sense of the list" can not "changed a lot. "The road to the exclusion zone should not cause some sort of fear. A huge number of professionals, journalists, scientists and visitors have visited here. Has almost nothing to fear. The more people come, the more young people know what can cause errors, careerism, strange behavior with the technique, the less likely that such man-made disasters occur again, "- said Tatarchuk. According to him, the Chernobyl catastrophe was a huge warning to the world about how to deal with new technologies.
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Tibetan Hotel St. Regis Lhasa Resort will offer its customers a swimming pool, a border which will be gold bars, says Nile Guide. Hotel agreed that the claim of true luxury can only be if their spa would be a "dream rapper P. Diddy." It is expected that the gold pool opens April 1. In addition, a New York restaurant Serendipity 3 offers a very special and elite dessert. "Frozen Haute Chocolate" - a blend of rare varieties of cocoa, spiced with five grams of gold powder. Dessert is served in a cup with edible gold border and is worth 25 thousand dollars. Construction cost is undisclosed, but you can roughly imagine it as an example the golden bathroom in a jewelry shop in Hong Kong. Its construction cost the salon at 4.8 million dollars. Entrance fee for visitors - $ 128. Even the toilets there out of pure gold.
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Center Corallium Spa at Hotel Lopesan Costa Meloneras on the island of Gran Canaria offers a new unusual procedure. In a special room called the "Womb" recreate conditions similar to those in which the stomach is in his mother's child. The entrance to the room lined with pink carpet. The room where the procedure is carried out, also decorated in pink and red tones. She slowly revolves around "a giant umbilical cord." The room twilight reigns. A bed mattresses with water form a likeness of the amniotic cavity. Sound procedure recreates the sounds that seep into the mother's womb from the outside world. According to recent studies, 60% of the population have problems with sleep. A third of them suffer from insomnia. Procedures performed in the "Maw," able to return people to normal sleep. According to the manual Corallium Spa, the reaction of customers to new service has been very positive. "Womb" is open to all clients of spa-center. The cost of one procedure - 35 EUR. Accommodation in Hotel Lopesan Costa Meloneras - from 90 euros.
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