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World’s Quietest Places
Central Park, New York City Really? No, of course it’s not quiet—but it is amazingly quieter. You start hearing birds instead of brakes, wind in the trees instead of gusts coming up subway grates. Consider the sensory shift it brings as an opportunity, in a hugely crowded city, to remember the pleasures of listening. Marie Javins, author of Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik, says, “When I went to Shakespeare in the Park, I couldn’t help but marvel that the actors spoke against a backdrop of crickets, not buses. We were just a few blocks in from the surrounding city but somehow the buses, horns, and voices of Manhattan can’t reach into…
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Five Star Alliance, the Luxury Hotel Specialists, Launches an Exclusive List of the World?s Best Luxury Hotels and a New Luxury Travel Blog
Five Star Alliance, the Luxury Hotel Specialists, Launches an Exclusive List of the World’s Best Luxury Hotels and a New Luxury Travel Blog Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) November 2, 2005 – Five Star Alliance, the Internet’s leading online travel agency focused exclusively on luxury hotels, has published their recommendations of the world’s best luxury hotels. Included in the lists are the World’s Best Luxury Spa Resorts, Luxury Business Hotels, Luxury Hotels for Families, and Luxury Honeymoon Resorts. Five Star Alliance’s lists of the world’s best luxury hotels can be found at: http://www.FiveStarAlliance.com/best_hotels/list/worlds_best_luxury_hotels “As the leading online…
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Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel is Voted on of the World’s Best Hotels
Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel is Voted on of the World’s Best Hotels (PRWEB) January 1, 2011 Jumeirah Carlton Tower, the luxury Knightsbridge hotel, has been voted as one of the world’s best hotels in Condé Nast Traveller magazine’s seventh annual Gold List – one of only three UK hotels to be recognised for outstanding service. The panel of judges cited the hotel’s above and beyond service as the outstanding feature that propelled the hotel onto the Gold List. Feedback from the panel noted the Knightsbridge hotel (http://www.jumeirah.com/en/Hotels-and-Resorts/Destinations/London/Jumeirah-Carlton-Tower/) staff are willing to go that extra mile, from preparing…
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Yellowstone National Park- World?s First National Park
A beautiful natural landscape filled will an amazing terrain, geysers, hot springs and other natural thermal areas which surprise you with its innumerable natural assets on every step. That’s Yellowstone National Park for you. Welcome to the incredible land, welcome to the Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park has a unique history. It is the world’s first national park which was given the status in the year 1872. To add to it the Yellowstone National Park is also a UNESCO world heritage site which boasts of its significance on the global map. In all the Yellowstone National Park is a great example of natural diversity and beauty. It is…
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Ebenezer Place – the world’s shortest street
Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world’s shortest street at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in). In 2006 it surpassed the previous record (5.2 m (17 ft)) set by Elgin Street, Lancashire. The street has only one address: the front door of No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel The street originated in 1883, when 1 Ebenezer Place was constructed; the owner of the building, a hotel at the time, was instructed to paint a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887 credited to wikipedia