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Welcome to LA!

March 30th, 2008

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Los Angeles California is not only known for Hollywood, celebrities lurking around, night life, parks, wonderful landmarks and famous destinations but also for its diversity. It has one of the most diverse cultures because of the immigrants who continue to relocate in Los Angeles.

People of different nativity, color and language prowl around the place and their population never cease to expand and L.A. takes its strength from that and moreover, celebrates it. But who can blame those immigrants? L.A. is a cool breeding place for broad minded artists, new age spiritualists, liberal thinkers, non-Western healing practitioners and environmentalists like nowhere else in America.

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Kennedy Space Center, Florida

March 28th, 2008

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is NASA’s space vehicle launch facility. It also houses NASA’s launch control center (called spaceport). Near Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center is midway between Miami and Jacksonville, and is 34 miles long and 6 miles wide.

KSC features a public tour servie, being a major tourist destination to Florida visitors. Much of KSC is restricted, though, and only less than 10% of the land is developed. Apart from being the launch center of NASA, KSC is also a wildlife sanctuary, with Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River, Merrit Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore in its coverage.

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Disney World, Florida

March 21st, 2008

Walt Disney World is the most visited recreational resort worldwide. It is not just any theme park. It actually contains four theme parks within its property. Disney World is actually Disney’s second recreational resort, apart from Disneyland in California.

Disney World contains two water parks, 23 themed hotels and a huge number of shopping, dining and entertainment establishments. Disney World is located just southwest of Orlando, Florida, and was opened more than three decades ago, in 1971.

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Las Vegas Marriott Suites

March 20th, 2008

The Las Vegas Marriott Suites, only 2 blocks away from the Las Vegas Strip resorts, just across the street from Las Vegas Convention Centre and nearby upscale shops, provides splendid accommodation. There are 278 roomy suites with a living area separate from the sofa bed, mini refrigerator and a wet bar. Guests can enjoy the hotel’s outdoor pool, spa tub, first class cardiovascular fitness equipments and other high class facilities open to accommodators year round. Other amenities are express check-in and check-out, laundry services and facilities, gift shop, babysitting services, safe deposit boxes, free parking, complimentary newspaper, baggage storage and room service. Marriott Suites’ service also includes high speed Internet access and unlimited local and long distance phone calls.

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A Place for Modern Art

March 11th, 2008

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After reaching into the past with The Met, we meet the present and future art with the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA. Compared to The Met, MoMA was just recently founded in 1929 by JD Rockefeller’s wife, Abby and her two friends, Lillie Bliss and Cornelius Sullivan.

The focus of the museum is to interconnect between established and experimental art and accessibility to the public. Due to this, MoMA is now regarded as one of the most influential museums today. Listed are just some of the artists whose works are in the museum: Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol, Dali, Pollock, Basquiat, and other notables. Just from the names above, you know that MoMA is going to stay stronger through the years.

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Have We Met?

March 11th, 2008

The Met

Some people out there might be thinking of bringing their friends and family to a venue where they can experience art and art education. No need to look over yonder, because the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or The Met, is just around the corner.

Opened in 1872, it started with 174 paintings to currently 2 million works of art. These include arts from Africa, Asia, Egypt, Europe, and many more. Most of the world’s greatest artists have their work in the Met as well. These include, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Botticelli, Rembrandt, and others.

If you think you don’t have to go there because you can see all of these works in the internet, being in the presence of the real thing is a magical feeling like no other.

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In the Center Lies the Park

March 11th, 2008

Central Park

Located in the center of the hustle and bustle of the New York life, is Central Park. Originally, it was a dismal place: full of swamps, bluffs, and other undesirable things. In the mid 1800s wealthy landowners and merchants decided to mirror the parks that they saw over in Europe to be replicated in New York.

Then in 1853, it was decided that the park be created in the center of Manhattan. However, the question remained, who will design it? The job was given to Fredeick Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. They tried to imitate the English tradition of Rolling Meadows and formal dress grounds. It then opened to the public in 1865 to a rollicking success.

Since then, many great things happen in the park nowadays. It is now the venue of different activities such as Shakespeare in the Park, the Summerstage music program, the annual New York Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, and many more. For the locals, it’s just a place where one can experience nature within the concrete jungles of New York.

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The Golden Stream, an Amerindian Village

March 5th, 2008

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The Indian Village is a new tourist and recreational experience at the André Nadeau Outdoor Recreational Center (Rock-Forest-Saint-Élie-Deauville borough), just right for adventure-seekers wanting to camp in the wild. The village guests can explore the Native American culture and to become familiar with native communities particularly the abenuqui nation. Which that is used this time.

 

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