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Strangest Internet Cafes Around the World
Sometimes, internet cafes are as fascinating as the monuments or sculptures you see on your travels. Internet Cafes used to be just a place where you can browse the Internet and grab a cup of coffee, but competition being what it is, some Internet cafes are offering something a little more than a cup of joe: In case you’re wondering how these places look like in other places of the world, here’s a collection of the strangest, downright weirdest internet cafes from around the world.
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The Atlantis Palm Hotel and Resort in Dubai
Dubai possesses already world’s most luxury hotel, The Burj al Arab.
Very soon another highest class hotel will be added: the amazing Atlantis The Palm Hotel. It is a hotel with 1729 rooms and 17 restaurants, and will be opened to the public on 24th September. The construction lasted 4 years and cost 1,5 billion dollars.
This hotel is dedicated to water: it has a huge water aquarium under the hotel ( more stocks, 11 billions of water ) and a huge water park near the hotel ( the biggest from Dubai and Middle East ). The 113-acre Atlantis hotel in Dubai is hoping to defy the credit crisis as it opens, with rooms costing up to £13,000 a night.
The World’s Largest Fountain in Dubai
Dubai’s prominent developer, Emaar Properties said on Monday it plans to build one of the largest fountains in the world as the centrepiece of its Downtown Burj Dubai project. Arabian Business reveals what the real estate giant has in store.
The fountains, which has yet to be named, will be capable of shooting water over 150 metres into the air, the height of a 50 storey building, and stretch over 275 metres, the length of two football fields.
The $218 million project will be 25 percent larger than the iconic fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Like the Fountains of Bellagio, Emaar’s fountains will include an integral light and sound show and is expected to become one of Dubai’s major tourist attractions, drawing over 10 million visitors per year.
The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.
The fountains have yet to be named and a cash prize of $27,225 has been assigned to the winner of a competition to name the water feature.
The structure is scheduled to be operation by 2009.
Street Dentists In India And China
A look at street dentists in China and India who are veterans of their own trade. These skills are usually brought down by their family and are slowly becoming extinct as dentists with degrees and clinics slowly take over their businesses.
A dentist at work in Varanasi (India).
Chinese Transportation
Russian Ice Sculpture Park 2008
Moscow’s weather may be hot and humid at the moment, but one part of the city is permanently frozen over. 90 tonnes of ice sculptures are kept below zero at Moscow’s Krasnopresnensky Park.
In an ice-museum of over 500 square meters the most popular samples of Russian culture were presented in ice. The facility where the sculptures were kept was cooled using the latest cooling technology, managing to keep the temperature below -10 degrees Celsius.
A Noisy Neighborhood
I really feel bad for these people that live in one of the worst train routes I’ve come across. And all this happens in the other dimension that is China!
Snow in Kenya (Africa)
A huge hailstorm turned parts of central Kenya white, thrilling residents most of whom had never experienced such conditions, officials said on Wednesday.
Hailstorms are usual in some parts of Kenya, which straddles the equator, but the ferocity of the storm in Busara, 255 km (158 miles) northwest of the capital was unprecedented.
Excited villagers pelted each other with snowballs while so .
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