Archive for August 31, 2010

The Gate Of Hell In Uzbekistan

August 31, 2010 / dwix / No comments

Hell entrance are often painted with the atmosphere of a terrible fire burning. Conditions such as that contained in a fire gaping hole in the mainland of Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Thus, a fire pit that was referred to as the “gate of Hell.”

Fire hole about twice the size of a football field with a depth of more than 30 meters. Initially not that big in size since the first time “gates of Hell” was encountered humans in 1975.

Originally a geologist digging with heavy equipment for the drilling of natural gas. Surprisingly, the location was found a large gap in the basement. Because of their size, all the equipment to dig down into the inside.

The gulf was filled with poisonous gas. There has been no official statement of the Soviet Union at that time relating how the number of victims killed by a hit by poison gas. However, experts get out and all the equipment that was left to fall away.

To avoid a toxic gas that already is open to the sky the earth is spread, experts decided to burn them. Position near a small town named Davaz.

Practically since 1975 that a giant hole belching fire like a volcano and still remain lit until now despite 35 years have passed. Surrounding community that no one dared approach the influence of thermal field up to several hundred meters so-called “gates of Hell.”

Until now there has been no explanation of whether the “gates of Hell” was widened or stable in size because of the gas that comes out from the bowels of the earth is burned directly. Although exposed to rain, the fire did not die.

Fire giant hole that looks from a distance because it is located in a vast barren land. When the night, it seems increasingly clear with a yellowish light beam derived from the “gates of Hell” that.

Similar to the Lapindo mud, which continues to give thanks to the hot mud drilling is considered failed so sprayed onto the surface of the earth. Up to now there is also a geologist who has not been able to stop the Lapindo mudflow. What can be done only in order to limit the effects of hot mud that area does not continue to widen.

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Shoping At Shenzhen Electronic Center

August 30, 2010 / dwix / No comments

Shenzhen is an electronic shoping center in China. The distance is only 60 kilometers from Hong Kong or about one hour overland trip from Hong Kong. The city is often referred to as a new miracle of China’s views of history during the last 20 years.

Year 1970 is included in the territorial Shenzhen Guangdong Province is only a poor fishing village in the South China Sea coast. Rural population was around 25 thousand inhabitants. Everything changed when Deng Xiao Ping, China’s new pempin at the end of the year 1970 set as the Shenzhen special economic zone.

China government opened the door, letting the air permeated the country’s capitalism. Held a red carpet for foreign investors. Developed into the industrial city of Shenzhen. Its population grew rapidly to around 8.5 million people today.

As a bustling industrial city of Shenzhen by shopping. Shopaholic who visited Shenzhen SEG Plaza will not be passed on Shennon Road in Futian District, Xiwu Department Store, Jianingna Plaza, Wanjia Department Store, or Dongmen shopping area which is always crowded. For fans of electronics please visit the trade center for electronics and clothing in Huaqiang North Road. For women, do not forget to Xindahao Dressing Town on Huaqingbei.

If you find an international branded goods at cheap prices do not quickly amazed and believe it with the price. The city is known as a center of manufacture of counterfeit goods. If you do not understand, difficult to distinguish where the pen is genuine and fake Mont Blanc. So was difficult to distinguish where the original or a fake Rolex.

Not only famous branded goods which dibandrol many times the price, the goods are “ordinary” was sold at high prices, especially in crowded places visited by tourists. Therefore, for the price menawarlah menimalisir fooled at least half the price as Tina’s advice above. Also do not hesitate to bid more than 50 percent. Do not be afraid to dihardik, or get angry the merchant. If the merchant was getting angry that a sign of things to be released.

At a souvenir shop I found the angry traders. I intend to buy a fridge magnet ornament in the store. The mother traders with a friendly smile that says it cost 35 RMB souvenirs. Hmm … thought for a moment, I bid crudely 8 RMB. Mother traders refused. He lowered the price to be 30 RMB.

She lowered the price to be 25 RMB again. My turn raise the price to 10 RMB. Mom shook her head, still smiling. I also walked to the exit. Mother was called and disposed of the goods with the price of 10 RMB.

We want to wrap the goods, my friend came into the store and whisper in the shop next to the same goods sold 7 RMB. I protested at that merchant. He then explained the quality of goods for seven different RMB 10 RMB. He also issued a similar ornament with a poorer quality. My friend said, the same goods.

My mother moved away and long traders chattering in a language that I do not understand. No more smile on his face. He then beteriak call me with high tone. I am very worried that he was furious at me for canceling the purchase. Apparently, he removed it so 7 RMB souvenirs.

He put the items I bought into a plastic bag in a way that is not sympathetic and tried to mix degan goods whose quality is worse, fortunately I know. I smiled triumphantly, saying to myself how lucky I was, can the price of 7 RMB from the price of 35 RMB.

Outside the store I met another friend. And, I’m not the most fortunate people. The friend got the same goods with the price of 6 RMB. I smiled wryly. “In Shenzhen menawarlah savagely,” my friend said triumphantly.

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Mong Kok Ladies Market

August 29, 2010 / dwix / No comments

Hong Kong is often synonymous with shopping. For tourists have a pocket just barely, but want to hunting some gift, “Ladies Market” or sometimes called “Women Street” Mong Kok District, Kowloon, is a great choice. Here, visitors can “war” price with the seller.

Tung Choi street named piece was packed with rows of booths selling sectional tarpaulin. Merchandise on display at a long table or merchandise on the tarp. Here are clothes, bags, toys, souvenirs, like key chains, desk decorations, and some mechanical items of unique, valuable in italics. This market is open from 10:00 till 23:30 o’clock.

Thurs Chu Chuen (50), the taxi driver who drove us from Lantau Island to Kowloon area, last July, warned to bid it out when shopping at the Ladies Market.

“If the price offered 100 Hong Kong dollars, most do not have bargained so 60 dollars. Prices here can speak freely, “he said in English, Cantonese speak with a certain dialect with fast rhythm.

According Chuen, the average Hong Kong tourists visiting the shelter to try took the Ladies Market. Goods at cheaper prices because there were imported from mainland China. Kowloon area was still one island to the New Territories which borders Shenzhen, China.

For tourists, traveling in the Ladies Market provides a unique sensation. Faced with the seller in the middle of language limitations because not all sellers are fluent in English. One way is to negotiate with a mixture of English and sign language. Or if it could desperately use a calculator. So, living alternately pressing the number that corresponds to the desired nominal price.

“This is fun here, so nawar hard, next thing I knew immediately disodorin calculator,” said David (33), resident of Central Jakarta, which has twice menyambangi Hong Kong and always stop at the Ladies Market.

If shopping in groups, this road like a piece of hunting area. Goods with each other trying to get the cheapest price. The salesman was really impressive as fishing with a great antidote to the buyer. However, do not be surprised if you’re already proud to offer Hong Kong T-shirt worth 60 dollars to 100 dollars for three T-shirts, but there are friends who can get 5-6 T-shirt with the same price from the same seller.

Beside Mong Kok, there were some souvenir shopping centers are fairly cheap, like the Stanley Market on Hong Kong Island, or Peak Market which is one of the highest peak in Hong Kong. Here, no price haggling as powerful as the Ladies Market, Mong Kok, because the seller had put up the price tag of, for example, three T-shirts worth 100 dollars, or 10 key chains for 100 Hong Kong dollars.

However, Peak no less thrilling. To reach this market, visitors must climb the 120 year old historic trams. During the 10 minute trip across the ramp berkemiringan four to twenty degrees.

From the tram, visitors can see the buildings of skyscrapers in Hong Kong by sea stretch around it. Still in the same area, there are also Madame Tussauds wax museum. Visitors can see from near the statue of famous figures, ranging from sportsmen, statesmen, to artists, whether living or dead.

Visitors can also take pictures with ease. For example, climbed the podium with a lectern bearing the Presidency of the United States, flanked by President Barack Obama, and former United States President George Bush. Or pose with actor Donnie Yen with background IP Man movie.

Do not be too surprised if at any time met with Hong Kong actors in the Peak area. A friend accidentally bersitatap with Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan’s caliber actor while he was in the toilet on the second floor of the Peak Tower. Unfortunately, he did not trigger photographed together. How about you?

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Otaru, Japanese Westernized Tourism Object

August 28, 2010 / dwix / No comments

Otaru is a small town located in northwestern Japan Sapporo is the other side worth a visit. Highly Westernized style, including all the souvenirs it sells, but the city is actually in fact a very Japanese.

Japan was not only Tokyo, which hosted the summer Olympics in 1964, Sapporo hosted the winter Olympics in 1972, which hosts Olimpade Nagano winter 1998, Osaka, or Hiroshima.

The term was highly westernized may also describe the Japanese as a whole. Notice that they always love to adapt the “styles” Westerners, such as the form of the buildings, clothing, jackets, or even dyed her hair blond. However, Japanese people are dressed in suits instead looked very Japanese, not vice versa.

Similarly, Japanese teens who dyed her hair blond with very prominent kejepangannya paint, as seen in harajuku style in various places in the State Sakura.

Otaru city can be told apart because the atmosphere is very Japanese, and also because there are still many residents have Ainu blood, which is a native of Japan, should Aboriginal people in Australia, New Zealand’s Maori people, and also the Indians of the Americas. Otaru’s name also was the original name of the Ainu, which means river of sand Otarunai.

According to tour guide there, people are now difficult to distinguish from the Ainu people of Japan are said to come from Asia because of centuries of assimilation.

“Even so, there are some who face significant Ainu. Hopefully today we can meet at least one of them, “said the guide who called Ina’s. Unfortunately, at the end of July that I did not get to meet any of the Ainu people.

As for the rapidly growing Otaru in the 19th century with the proliferation herring fishery that time, almost all European-style buildings there, including the remains of warehouses that looks similar to a glimpse of the old warehouses in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In fact, according to the existing tourist brochures, in the mid-19th century, the Government Otaru build canals in the city to transport goods from the sea to the garages, just like Amsterdam.

And because the herring fishery has subsided since the early 20th century, most of the warehouses that are now switching functions into a variety of functions, such as shops, restaurants, or even an inn. Some of the canals and then diuruk, while the main channel amended in 1923 to become a means of tourism and transportation alternatives to the present.

With a watery canal clean-channel, Otaru now started to become one of tourist destinations in Japan, even for Japanese people themselves.

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Taiwan Want Adopt Bali Tourism

August 27, 2010 / dwix / No comments

A total of 15 tourism players from Taiwan came to the Gianyar regency, Bali to learn and adopt the model with a base of cultural tourism in Bali, particularly in the area with its famous art village of Ubud. “Our visit as many as 15 people aiming to adopt the Gianyar Regency how to build a cultural tourism,” said the leader of the group, Chiang Sun Shun upon receipt Head of Tourism Department of Gianyar, I Wayan Dirgayusa in Gianyar. According Dirgayusa, Gianyar Regency has now succeeded in developing cultural tourism as well as regulate. “We see the traditions and culture of Gianyar Regency synergized into one with tourism,” he said.

Uniquely, said Chiang Ming, synergy did not wear off the culture of the society in Gianyar. In fact, the synergy that makes tourism booming in Gianyar. “We hope that by adopting a system of cultural tourism development in the regency of Gianyar, cultural tourism in the region of Nan Ao, Taiwan may grow rapidly,” he said.

Moreover, he said, Nan Ao with Gianyar Regency has a similarity about the cultural heritage of the past as evidenced by the growing culture of “barong landing” as well as coins from China which is a religious ceremony supplies. “We will dig as much information, especially about the development of cultural tourism. We will adopt the management system for cultural tourism we apply here in Taiwan,” he said.

Dirgayusa said that the custom and culture is the pioneer of tourism in Kabupayen Gianyar. “Indigenous and culture is the origin of the growth of cultural tourism which currently contribute to local income (PAD), the largest in Herzliya,” he said.

For that, says Dirgayusa, Gianyar regency government continues to try to preserve and develop the customs and culture itself. “Given how strong the influence of tradition and culture, then we must be stronger than the government is also to preserve Bali’s cultural roots,” he said.

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Rabies Will Harm Bali Tourism Image

August 25, 2010 / dwix / No comments

Bali Assembly Members will be concerned about rabies that attacks Bali tourism image. “The existence of early warning from the Australian Government in August 2010, so that citizens residing in Bali to be careful with rabies attacks, certainly threatens the image of tourism in Bali,” said legislators Bali, Gede Ngurah Denpasar Tjokorde. In the event coordination meeting with Bali Governor Made Legislative Mangku Pastika and its staff, he hoped to provincial government to issue a rabies disease to be taken seriously because so many people who died from dog bites are infected with rabies.

It is said, the data recorded in the Health Office of Bali mentions cases of rabies caused by dog bites increased since late 2008 until July 2010 reached 74 cases, among which 35 people died of rabies positive. “This disease is really worrying us all. Therefore, we also hope that vaccination of dogs and elimination will be improved,” he said.

It is also disclosed by the Chairman of the Bali Provincial Parliament, Anak Agung Ngurah Oka Ratmadi, that the disease of rabies has been threatened in Bali, for the government to immediately determine the status of wild dogs.

“In those days there was the Dutch term ‘peneng’ as a sign that the dog has an owner. Penengnya Dogs must exist, if yes it means no logging,” said Ratmadi.

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