No.10 Full Moon Party Location: Puro Beach, Palma, Mallorca Date: June 7, 2009 Taking its cue from Thailand’s famed full moon parties, Puro Beach’s Full Moon Party draws a sexy bohemian crowd who sprawl on sun-loungers by day and sidle up against one another’s sweaty bodies by night. With a Philippe Starck-inspired interior and a [...]
The cultural gap across the Atlantic The Western world (i.e. Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand) could be considered as a single “Western civilisation”. ‘Westernness’ could be defined by people who are ethnically or culturally European, in other words people of European descent or speaking a European language as their mother-tongue. Europe itself has [...]
Chile has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest swimming pool on the planet. This gigantic lagoon is located in the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city, on the southern coast of Chile. The Guiness Book of World Records has named it the largest pool in the world. How big [...]
There are some surprises on the list. The list is based on a survey by condom maker Durex, so the accuracy is debatable, but it’s fun to peruse it nonetheless. ************************************************** No.10 – Mexico Want to take a sexy siesta? Meet people of the sun and fun in our No. 10 horniest country. Mexicans kick [...]
India stands for its incredible culture, spectacular forts & places, great traditions and rituals. This so called “country of snake charmers and magicians” boasts of a great civilization. Be it the people, lifestyle or the mystical charm- India has always amazed the world with her uniqueness. Colors of India,as the name suggests, is an attempt [...]
Lawrence Beitler – Lynching Lawrence Beitler took this iconic photograph on August 7, 1930, showing the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. It sold thousands of copies, which Beitler stayed up for 10 days and nights printing them. It has become iconic over the years as it is one of the best and most [...]
Nearly 25 lakh people have fled the Swat Valley after the Pakistan army stepped up its offensive against Taliban militants in the country’s troubled north-western parts. Many feel that a humanitarian crisis is imminent as Pakistan is facing its worst refugee crisis since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. The army claims that over [...]
NEW ZEALAND The Antipodean islands have long been regarded as one of the best places to live. New Zealand has always been near the top of the Global Peace Index. The 2009 Global Peace Index ranks New Zealand as the safest country to live in. The survey gives New Zealand a very low score on [...]
Kingfishers are small bright colored birds of the three families Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers). There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher. All have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. They are found throughout the world. Kingfishers live in both woodland and wetland habitats. Kingfishers [...]
La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Bunol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are [...]
