Safi Asafi Morocco

Safi is easily accessible by bus from Casablanca (4¾ hours), Marrakech (2½ hours), Essaouira (four hours) and El Jadida (2½ hours). There is one daily train from Casablanca which goes via Benguerir on the Casablanca to Marrakech line. If driving, Safi is on the S121 coastal road from El Jadida and the R204 from Marrakech. Approaching on the main N1 from Casablanca, turn along the R204 from Tleta de Sidi Bouguedra. Grands taxis run to and from Oualidia (one hour, 25dh).
Safi

The bus terminal is on Av Président Kennedy to the south of the town. CTM runs services to Casablanca, Marrakech, El Jadida, Essaouira and Agadir. Try to reserve ticket day before. Other operators include Chekkouri with frequent daily services to Marrakech and Agadir (0100-2330); and 9 to Casablanca (0200-2300); they also have departures for Taroudant and Rabat. Bus No 7 takes you from main bus station into town centre, 2dh. The railway station is to the south of the town, on Rue du Caïd Sidi Abderrahman, the continuation of Rue de R’bat, T024-464993. There is 1 train daily at 0815 to Benguerir(1 hr), which connects with services to Casablanca, Rabat, Kénitra, Meknès, Fès, Marrakech, Asilah and Tangier. The daily arrival at Safi from all these destinations is at 1846.

CTM Bus Travel Morocco Schedlue

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Al Johnson's Restaurant, Sister Bay, Wisconsin

Johnson's Launches "Goat Cam"
The story about how goats came to be on the sod roof of Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant has floated around Door County for decades. The intersection of technology with goats was inevitable, says Al’s son Lars, who now runs the restaurant with his siblings Rolf and Annika. “Our visitors fall in love with the goats and are always so concerned about them, their health, and their safety,” said Lars. “They want to know how they get onto the roof each day (there’s a very safe slanted stairway with foot-holds), where the goats go each evening when we take them off the roof and load them onto a pickup truck (to a barn and pasture at Lars’ home outside Sister Bay), and whether they can fall off the roof (yes, it’s happened a couple of times, but no one was hurt).” “What Rolf, Annika and I like about having a Goat Cam on the roof,” said Lars, “which is actually two web cameras with different perspectives of the entire roof area, is that our visitors and friends can maintain a relationship with the restaurant and the goats throughout the season, no matter where they live the rest of the year.” Al Johnson’s goats usually go onto the restaurant’s sod roof at the start of each tourism season, in late May. The goats then spend the winter in a barn and pasture from mid-October to the start of the next season.

Denver, Colorado Casa Bonita Restaurant

Sometimes, food alone cannot make a meal. Your overall enjoyment in a restaurant can be radically enhanced by the right atmosphere and setting. For example, many believe that fish and seafood taste better in view of water. It's not that the composition of the food is actually any different, but rather that when your brain is stimulated your reception to seafood is altered.

Wise restaurants can put a smile on your face or get you excited as soon as you walk in the door, and well before you take your first bite. As the percentage of independent restaurants in the United States grows smaller and corporate chains modeled after just a handful of concepts explode, offbeat and non-traditional concepts tend to stand out even more.

Casa Bonita is a sort of Mexican restaurant crossed with Disneyland, and is so well-known in Colorado that it was featured in an episode of South Park. The 52,000-square-foot restaurant that can seat more than a thousand is home to more than just all-you-can-eat beef enchiladas. Among the 22-karat gold leaf dome and pirate caverns are cowboy shootouts, escaping gorillas, cliff divers, and a mish mash of Mexican-related performances.

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St. Maarten Island Travel Pleasure

The Island

The smallest island in the world ever to have been partitioned between two different nations, St. Martin/St. Maarten has been shared by the French and the Dutch in a spirit of neighborly cooperation and mutual friendship for almost 350 years.

The border is almost imperceptible. and people cross back and forth without ever realizing they are entering a new country. There are four boundries, Belle Vue / Cole Bay, French Quarter / Dutch Quarter, Low Lands / Copecoy and Oyster Pond, testifying to centuries of peaceful cohabitation and the treaty that made the arrangement possible.

All the same, each side has managed to retain much of the distinctiveness of its own national culture. The French tend to emphasize comfort and elegance. The beaches are secluded, the luxury resorts provide lavish accommodations, and the restaurants offer the finest dining experiences anywhere in the Caribbean. The latest French fashions can be found in many of the shops, and the smell of fresh croissants and pastries mixes everywhere with the spicy aromas of West Indian cooking. Small cafés and charming bistros add a decidedly Gaelic and cosmopolitan flair to the place. On the whole the atmosphere remains very relaxed.

On the other hand, St. Maarten with its busy cruise port and bustling commercial district, has long been an active center for trade and tourism. More developed and at the same time more informal, it is very Dutch in flavor and still has strong ties with fellow compatriots in the other Netherlands Antilles. Between the two different cultures in St. Martin and St. Maarten, vacationers will be able to find just about every kind of activity they might want for a perfect holiday in the sun.

Located midway through the chain of islands in the Caribbean, just as the Antilles begin to curve to the south, St. Martin is sunny and warm year-round, averaging 82 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and just 2 degrees cooler in winter. The island is buffeted by cooling trade winds that keep things temperate all year long. Average annual rainfall comes to about 45 inches, most of which occurs around late summer and early fall.

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Résidence Soraya Resort Agadir Morocco

Rue de La Foire
Agadir,
Morocco
548-827809

Cağaloğlu Hamamı:Turkey

Cağaloğlu Hamamı: By far the most spectacular of Istanbul's hamams; its steam rooms are lavishly arched and domed, and decorated with tulip tiles.

Çemberlitaş Hamamı: Built by the famous architect Sinan in 1584, this is a classic hamam experience.

The Cağaloğlu Hamam, constructed in 1741, is the last hamam to be built during the Ottoman Empire. It was constructed in Istanbul Eminonu, in Alemdar, on Hilal-i Ahmer street as a cifte public hamam to bring revenue for the library of Sultan Mahmud I the first situated inside the mosque of Ayasofya. When we take a look at the names of the head architects of that time we can say that it was begun by Suleyman Aga finished by Abdullah Aga. It is the last example of its kind to be built in Istanbul and is a successful hamam that is still operational in our time. The door of the women’s section is on a side street called Hamam while the mens' entrance is from the main road with two marble columns with classic stalactite capitals on both sides.

In time when the street was elevated, the mens’ section is reached by a staircase of 10 steps. The architecture of the door is contrary to eclectic Turkish style. On the tablet above the door is a long inscription of 7 lines and 28 verves.

Sultanahmet Hamamı: Granted, there is no belly stone and the 17th-century steam rooms smell faintly of mould, but come here for above-average massage and service.


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The most beautiful of the city’s hamams, historic Cağaloğlu Hamamı offers separate baths for men and women and a range of bath services. You’ll find a pleasant cafe as well as a shop selling quality soaps and other hamam accessories (the pistachio-oil soap is particularly fine). You don’t need to purchase a bath mitt unless you want to – as at most tourist hamams, the attendants will supply one if you haven’t brought your own.

Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkey/istanbul/activities/health/cagaloglu-hamami#ixzz2GDhpX6WV

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Al-Jadidah Morocco Brief History

Mohammed Ben Abdellah al-Qatib was nearly 60 when he led his troops into Mazagan and
conquered the Portuguese, who then fled to Brazil. And Al Jadida, as it is now known, has the
medina as it’s emblem of nearly a quarter of a millennia of Portuguese occupation. It’s a very
different medina from the likes of Fez or Marrakesh. Wide alleys with fish restaurants lead to
the port, and there is, intact, an amazing underground cistern.

Pullman Royal Hotel and Gulf Club Al-Jadida Morocco

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Bahama Atlantis Resort Vacation

World Festivals Web

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Indian Elephant Festival in Kerala

This Picture was taken at Thrissur Elephant festival at Kerala.
This festival of elephant is celebrated during the month of April and May .In the procession the tuskers are used .Thrissur city of Kerala is known for this festival.Even though it attracts huge number of tourists and local people.It is not very elephant friendly,Because of decorations which is very unnatural for the elephants,The heat and the crowd.
video.
http://journals.worldnomads.com/worldfestivals/story/32413/India/May-Pooram-India
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/India/South/Kerala/Thrissur/photo1072637.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_in_Kerala_culture

Egypt Tourist Visit Pyramids Sphinx Aswan Luxors Temples

Egypt or Misr in local language, is a mystical land, probably one of the few which has history and mythology like India. Their ancient culture is very interesting with Pharaos, Mummies and Pyramids – all different from our culture. A planned holiday to Egypt is unlike most holiday experiences around the world, difficult to forget and a must do! Arabs in Egypt can be of different skin colours depending on their origin. So don’t be shocked to see fair ladies with golden hair speaking fluent Arabic and smoking Sheeshahs (hookas) in lobbies of fancy hotels. Their food is familiar to the non vegetarian Indian palate and there is no alcohol available outside 5 star hotel bars. In many ways the culture is Islamic and in many ways it is western. Cairo like New Delhi has a modern part and an old part (like the Walled city of Old Delhi). In the old part one can see tongas (horse drawn carriages) carrying trading wares from one place to another. The weather in many parts is hot and dry like that in semi deserts. There are many hotels and restaurants along the Nile. However, the main attractions are the museum and the Pyramids of Giza, guarded by the Lion headed Sphinx. Over 4,000 years ago, the mummified bodies of Kings Cheops, Kefren and Mykerinos were ferried down the Nile to be buried and prepared for the journey to the afterlife within these massive monuments. They are amazing in terms of size and one must go inside to see the funerary. A sound and light show here is also recommended. For the first time traveler, a short cruise on the Nile by night is relaxing. The cruise normally offers dinner, runs for about 2 hours and has a belly dancer on board. Those of us who have done short boat cruises in other destinations may not find this value for money. However, the recommended way to see Egypt beyond Cairo and the Giza is by a Nile Cruise up the Nile all the way to Aswan. From the sun deck, one can enjoy spectacular views over green fields and palm groves, slow-moving feluccas, picturesque villages and busy cities – the kaleidoscope of Egypt sparkles wherever you look. From Aswan to Luxor, every stopover brings you into close contact with mythological wonders, world-famous temples, the hustle of everyday life and the bustle of the souks (markets). Many Nile cruises are available depending on how much time and money one wants to spend