Mekong Delta City of Can Tho - Vietnam

For the first time the National Tourism Year 2008 will be launched in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho on February 21. With careful preparation, the city is now ready to welcome visitors from near and far to enjoy local specialties and visits to famous sites.

Can Tho is not only a key artery junction and a socio-economic and cultural center of the Mekong River Delta, but also is considered the capital of crisscrossed canals and rivers in the western region.

Playing host to the event, the theme song nuoc Miet VUONO CUU Long (Mekong River Gardens), the city is preparing for the opening ceremony to be held in the Hau River Park in the district of Ninh Kieu. Under the project, a small island in the form of stage, which can accommodate more than 6,000 people, was erected in front of the Hau river. From the main stage, visitors can see big boats carrying passengers across the river to the left and engineers working on the bridge of Can Tho, right.

More than 1,600 amateur and professional artists have the technical training for a special program at the inauguration. Ngo Dang Cuong, director of the action choreographer, said that "the artists have completed more than 80 percent of the workload and look forward to the event in the coming days."

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Night Safari - Singapore

This is the world's first night zoo. The twilight has many surprises and even more so during the night safari, where you can search for a rhinocerous the eye or hear the howls of a pack of striped hyenas. There are more than 1,200 animals of over 110 exotic species to watch a. The animals are in 8 areas to recreate different geographical regions such as Southeast Asian rainforest, African savanna, Nepalese river valley, South American pampas and Burmese jungle.

Strike out on your own walk along the track or relax in a tram ride - what you choose, Night Safari is a wild adventure not to be missed. Winner of the Tourism Awards 2000.1999, 1997 and 1996 - Leisure Attraction of the Year.

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Changing of The Guard Ceremonial - India

"Changing of the Guard" which is an original lost in the ancient tradition of military developments. Time immemorial, and guard forts, palaces and the defense establishment to change sentries time a new body of the soldiers so they can take charge.

Saturday, and the great Rashtrapati Bhavan Forecourt come - the official residence of the president since independence, resonates to the horses who live tunes and soul - the music take time. Every Saturday, the guard ceremony that the time has come for change - the president's bodyguards bright red and that the Army Guard infantry, in a traditional ceremony, and horseback - the clock with horses, watch of race has changed - the work of precision, the running time Honored military discipline and ethics of man and beast. The tradition of formal change of the guard behind the president's bodyguards in 1773 to install the 50 riders selected, the phone with the dates of the Guard magnates. "

40 minutes of the ceremony of the new guard, the appointment of the sentinels and commended the guards to take the post of an official currency of an inspection in March is also involved. A formal military ceremony, gathered in celebration of their caparisoned smartly, sleekly, powerful and exquisitely prepared muscled steeds traveling in the Army Guard and the influential President's bodyguard dressed in majestic soldiers of the armed forces. The real influence and a great president of the rigorous training of bodyguards, many for their spectacular ceremonial carriage of heavy canvas saddle, bridle and bit ceremonial, the ceremony paraded in a real and dignity unparalleled spectacle of color and pageantry provide embroidery the increase of media. An interesting and influential band, the arrival and spread of the guard, makes the ceremony a memorable spectacle.

Domain column of the New Guard marches to the Rashtrapati Bhavan perfect tandem in the Central Secretariat of the two military wings of coating. After the inspection, an official of the guards, and take the salute smartly last March. This route is part of the iron gate inside the bus at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Guard formal greetings to the old guard with the situation takes. Saluda rather than later, the old guard part of the sentries - the keys to the new guard. New sentries on duty to guard and take the rest of the soldiers displaced from the melody "Saare near where the best of March."

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Indonesia Street Food

Living in a country that has endless variety of food and drinks, Indonesians do eat out, but the majority does not go to restaurants. The local food scene relies heavily on street food. Indonesians savour the delicious meals offered by ubiquitous street vendors day and night for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Living in a country that has endless variety of food and drinks, Indonesians do eat out, but the majority do not go to restaurants. The local food scene relies heavily on street food. Indonesians savour the delicious meals offered by ubiquitous street vendors day and night for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Street food is a quick meal sold by a vendor with a push cart, basket, at a stall, or possibly at a store where customers can see the preparation of food clearly. It provides a close connection between the customer and the street food, unlike having a plate of food in a restaurant.

The types of food offered vary from a simple fried tofu to a much more complicated dish like gudeg (raw jackfruit cooked in a Javanese traditional way that originated from Yogyakarta). In big cities like Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Semarang and Medan, the street vendors offer many a traditional food from various regions in the archipelago. But in smaller cities, they are usually of the local cuisine.

The most commonly found street food is bakso or meatballs that are usually served in a bowl, like soup, with noodles, bean curds (tofu), eggs, and/or fried meat.

Another popular soup-like street food is soto. It is mainly comprised of broth and vegetables. The meats most commonly used are beef and chicken, but there are also sotos with mutton and pork. It is usually accompanied by rice or compressed rice. Sotos are differentiated by the ingredients in them, such as soto ayam (chicken) and soto kambing (mutton).

There are many sotos in Indonesia, as different regions and ethnicities have their own ways of preparing the cuisine, such as soto Madura (from East Java), soto Betawi (from Jakarta), soto Padang (from West Sumatra), so to Bandung (from West Java), soto Banjar (from South Kalimantan), and coto Makassar (from South Sulawesi).

The other popular delicacy often sold by street vendors is satay. It is a dish consisting of chunks or slices of dice-sized meat (chicken, goat, lamb, beef, pork, or fish) on bamboo skewers, which are grilled over a wood or charcoal fire, then served with various spicy seasonings, mostly made of ground nuts. Satay may have originated in Java or Sumatra, but is very popular outside Indonesia too. Similar to soto bakso and soto, there are many types of satay from sate Madura to Padang, sate Iilit, sate susu, kulit, sate Ponorogo and many more.

Nasi goreng (steamed rice stir-fried with eggs, meatballs, chicken/beef/shrimp, assorted vegetables and often with sweet soy sauce seasoning) is also very popular along with nasi rawon (rice served with dark beef soup) originally from East Java. The dark colour comes from the meaty seeds of kluwak nuts. Usually served with uncooked mung bean sprouts and salty duck eggs, pecel (a mixture of vegetables and traditional crackers with spicy peanut paste). Madiun and Blitar in East Java are popular for their pecel and gado-gado (a mixture of vegetables, crackers and rice with peanut flavoured sauce). The taste is sweet in Eastern Java and salty in Western Java.

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St. Paul's Hill (A'Famosa) - Malaysia

The Portuguese colonized Malacca in 1641 to 1511. The first thing they did, is a strong focus on the river, the caller A'Famosa. As Malacca was the centre of fighting between the great powers of the time, and was a constant fear of attack, which was severely criticised in Portugal now A'Famosa colonial your foot in the Far East.

In the fortress walls were housing and shops for food, a castle, a conference room for the Portuguese Council and five churches. Seven months by the Dutch attack destroyed almost the entire fortress, which only the facade and the structure of a church on top of the hill.

Go to a route from St. Paul's Hill in the late afternoon and through one of costs between the majestic trees and historic sites. You can almost imagine the glory and misery of life surrounded the Portuguese would have been here every year

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Nightlife in Pattaya

Pattaya has more than 1200 beer bars. The Thai beer bar is a small bar outdoors in general staff of about 5 or 6 girls who will do everything in its power to attract potential customers to their establishment. In general, the bars are packed tightly together with his own music at full volume. This creates a noisy environment to find many fun, but others think torture.

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Bali Bird Park

Finding themselves in Bali Bird Park to witness the largest and finest collection of birds from Indonesia in the world of fantasy more birds from Africa and South America

It covers two hectares of botanical landscape, the park offers refuge to about 1000 birds from 250 different species.

Our innovative approach to screen rare tropical birds and has grown to traditional exhibitions presenting various species in their natural habitats and large poultry and free ride throughout the park range.

The park is home to an incredible display of flora with more than 2000 tropical plants including 50 varieties of palms alone and attract many butterflies.

To build a nursery, veterinary and research facility within the complex, the park has been a great success in breeding in captivity of exotic birds, such as birds. Paradise and Hornbill.

Join us for an adventure that has no limits as we take you on a journey through the Indonesian archipelago, Latin America and South Africa

The park is divided into regions that recreate the natural habitats of our birds, complete with plants and traditional life of the objects of authenticity.

The original Jungle Bali birds and encounter the world of rare birds, starlings Bali.

Discover the exotic birds and Papua one of the most complete collections of birds of paradise in the world.

Travel in the Far East to Indonesia, home to an incredible variety of birds and the extraordinary Komodo dragon, a giant carnivorous lizard, which is a direct descendant of the dinosaur and rarely in captivity.

Get fantastic Java Hawk and Snake Eagles - and hear the sweet sounds of song birds Java echoing through the foliage.

Visit the deep jungles and misty mountain ranges of Sumatra strange birds and rare endemic.

Venture tropical to other continents to see our collection of exotic animals from South America as ara red and Toucan, a witness of Congo gray parrot and other birds of the African savannah.

See cassowaries, cranes, storks, pelicans and many other birds, since they wander freely about the life and reproduction unhindered in the park.

Held within the limits of our poultry giant revision to mimic natural ecosystems in Bali and Papua Jungle Rainforest.

Roads and bridges are carved through the dense foliage, where only manage the penetration of sunlight filtered the green canopy overhead.

Several points advantage, strategically placed to catch glimpses of birds flying free, they follow their instincts for survival of food for food, nesting and mating.

These boxes protected preserve rare species outside predators, but continues to give them an insight into different aspects of life in the wild.

Within 2 Tuesday Balinese landscapes and a free-birds, Bali Bird Park is one popular place:

• arranged a special program for family gathering
• corporate program
• group arrangements
• student group special education
• other creative competition such as photo shooting
• painting
• drawing or
• annual gathering

Bali Bird Park plays an important role in the protection and conservation of Indonesia's wildlife threatened with extinction.
The park has successfully bred many species, including rare Pesquet's Parrot and many Bali stare. We are worth more than 40 species of protected birds in Indonesia in the park, a growing number of which are now breeding successfully in the care of our staff.

The staff is proud of its new additions some of which can be seen in their incubators, through observation windows and laboratory construction of child care.

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Singapore Sun Festival

Singapore Sun Festival is back from 17 to October 26, 2008 to celebrate the art of living well. This annual multi-faceted lifestyle festival presents seven disciplines - music, visual arts, literature, film, wine, cooking and welfare.

Come see Robert Redford on stage Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and the Vienna Boys Choir. Do not miss the exciting performances in the Los Angeles Philharmonic podmanivý the violinist Sarah Chang and Grammy-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman. To this mixture of samba and jazz, will come to concerts Sergio Mendes, Peter Cincotti, diaries and Jesse Spencer Cook.

Iconic American chef Charlie klusák will be in Singapore to give joy to their signature dishes. Catch Australian Luke Mangan and Italian Riccardo Genovesi in action, since the share their unique culinary magic.

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