Colorful Flowers of Wisteria Tunnel, Japan

Everyone who came to Japan in the hanami (cherry emergence season) would agree, that they are lucky to get to see the arrival of a beautiful flower season at the Rising Sun Country. However, the beauty of flowers in Japan is not just Sakura. In fact, in fact, there are many, many flowers are much prettier than Sakura.

If you can not wait for the arrival of cherry blossom season, it could not hurt to visit when summer to enjoy the beautiful Wisteria Tunnel in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka region.

This is the Kawachi Fuji Garden area connected by a tunnel with flower decoration wisterisa canopy attached to the top and the wall. A rare sight will surely amaze many visitors. In Japanese wisteria often called Fuji, and in this tunnel is formed like vines around the tunnel.

Interestingly, because the flowers are blooming beautifully, we are so hard to see the shells hidden behind it. Because the beauty of this flower tunnel, Kitakyushu is now so well known as a tourist.

Our advice, if you are interested to visit there, May was the most opportune time, because of the interest that emerged was in his best season. Do not forget to bring a camera! Here are other photos of the beauty of this flower-filled tunnel:

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PHOTOS: Colorful Autumn at Sheffield Park Garden

Do you have plans to visit England in the near future? If yes, don't forget to stop by the Sheffield Park Garden. Currently, the park has existed since the 20th century, it was changing the face.

Such as canvas painting, Sheffield Park Garden appear more flushed. Yellow, red, pink to decorate the corner of the park is now owned by the National Trust.

No wonder that many people coming to the park in autumn. To simply read on a park bench or along the trail while enjoying the leaves fall to the ground.

Lots of fun activities that can be done in the garden this autumn. Primarily for children. As quoted from the pages of the National Trust, exciting activities recommended are the beetle hunting, bird watching, to catch the falling leaves.

Sheffield Park Garden is equipped with four beautiful lakes. Besides overgrown with various plants from around the world, this park is also home to some wildlife, butterflies, and dragonflies.

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5 Countries & 10 Points of Interest Travel in Africa

Travel Destination in Africa

Africa is the second largest continent in the world, in terms of land area and population density. The African continent is also believed to be the place of origin of the first humans thousands of years ago.

Forests, parks, and beaches are places of interest to visit in Africa. In addition, of course, the pyramid remains the allure tourists visiting the continent.

Attractions in Africa 
Many cities and places in Africa is famous for its national parks and animal life there.

Here is information about places and attractions that can be visited if you pop over to this continent.

1. Egypt 
Pyramid is the first thing that comes to mind when we talk about Egypt. If interested in the culture of ancient Egypt, you can visit the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, and others.

Other places of interest in Egypt can be found in the cities of Cairo and Alexandria.

Aswan Dam is one of the largest dams in the world and the city of Luxor is full of historic buildings and tombs also be a fascinating place to visit when you stop in Egypt.

2. South Africa
South Africa is one of the best vacation spots in Africa. In here you can be relax in the Garden Route, Knysna, Stellenbosch, or have fun at the beach of Durban.

Kruger National Park and Oudtshoorn could be a very exciting holiday for children. City of Cape Town will be a hard place to forget for the couples who are enjoying the holiday.

3. Tanzania
Mount Kilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro National Park, as well as the island of Zanzibar is a fascinating place to visit in Africa.

Serengeti National Park, Dar es Salaam (the capital), and Arusha are some of the popular city to visit if you have the opportunity to visit Tanzania. In addition, beaches Tanzania is also very popular as one of the places visited by tourists.

4. Kenya
Kenya is famous for its gardens and animal life interesting. The Nairobi National Park, Masai Mara, Shimba Hills is a popular place to visit in Kenya. Mombasa is also one of the most beautiful cities in Kenya.

5. Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls is a great and famous in the country of Zimbabwe, Africa. Lake Kariba, Lowveld, Chizarira National Park, Hwange National Park, and a few other places to be a tourist destination that is located in the country of Zimbabwe. Capital Harare and Bulawayo as well as the largest city you can visit.

10 Great Places of Interest Tours in Africa 
In addition to those mentioned above, there are several other places that are considered as a fun vacation spot in Africa.

Here is a list of the best places to visit in African countries other than those mentioned above:
1. Hammamet, El-Jem (Tunisia)
2. Waterfall Sipi, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda)
3. Livingstone, South Luangwa National Park (Zambia)
4. Chobe National Park (Botswana)
5. Niokolo Koba (Senegal)
6. Kokrobite Coast (Ghana)
7. Marrakech (Morocco)
8. Parque Nacional da Kissama (Angola)
9. Cidade Velha (Cape Verde)
10. Lalibela, Axum (Ethiopia)

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This Airline Has Designed the Passenger Seat, Especially for Couples

Designed of Couple Seat in Airplane

Thomson Airways, the airline British seem to have a lot of innovation for the design of future aircraft seats. In addition to making aircraft seats facing each other, there is another aircraft seats specifically for couples. Like what?

Thomson Airways is the largest airline in the UK 3rd Flying to over 87 cities in the world. Recently, the airline has several aircraft seat design in the future.

If previously Thomson Airways plans to make aircraft seats facing each other, then there is no other plan to make a special airplane seat mate. The goal, of course in order to make the passengers flying with a partner to be more comfortable.

Aircraft seats was almost the same as the airplane seat in general. The difference is, there are only two airplane seats are in each row that is only for a pair of passengers.

Then, in the middle there is a folding table that is large enough to put sampanya (as explained on the official website of the Thomson Airways). The atmosphere feels more private because it will be in the seats near the aisle aircraft cabin if there is a cover. So, the passenger with his partner would not disturbed by other passengers milling around.

If the design of chairs facing each other from Thomson Airways has been criticized, it is different with this couples-seat aircraft. Apparently, many of the curious traveler and can not wait to try it. But remember, its manufacture is still five years away.

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Crazy! Gliding 95 miles Per Hour in Volcano

Perhaps, this is the most crazy activities you can do during the holidays. Gliding with a thin board on a volcano in Nicaragua. Are you dare?

Perhaps, this is the most crazy activities you can do during the holidays. Gliding with a thin board on a volcano in Nicaragua. Do you dare?

Cerro Negro is the name of a volcano in Nicaragua, Central America, which has erupted over 23 times from 1850 .. last eruption was in 1999 .. In 2004, there was a mad traveler who tried to slide from the top of the mountain using a mini refrigerator owned by local hotels.

Fortunately, he survived until the bottom. However, no one knows what will happen to his refrigerator.

A few years later, challenger adrenaline, which follow the lead of Daryn Webb are very much. Mostly, the traveler began to slide in this volcanic sand from a height of 140 meters.

Be visited from CNN, the speed can reach 98 km per hour. There's even a French traveler who ever tried to slide the bike. Speeds of up to 172 kilometers per hour!

Currently, many tour operators can serve packets of volcano boarding. Package price of around 300 dollars. In the package includes transportation to get there, security equipment and surfboards

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Onsen: Bathing Together Without Clothing in Japan Public Baths

Public bath is one of the typical forms of Japanese culture. Residents and tourists can take a shower together and a hot bath. Without clothes, but of course men and women are separated.

There are two types of public baths in Japan. Travelers are frequently heard Onsen, natural hot springs. However, if not all places have natural hot springs, which is called Sento.

In Tokyo Japan, a public bath (Sento) are widely spread. Visitors who bath here usually naked. Armed with only a small towel, for reasons to maintain modesty.

From CNN, to the Japanese, sento is a past history that is still used today. This is because the presence of the public baths in the year 1923-1970 in Japanese houses do not have bathrooms, so people make a public bath.

Since that decade, it is estimated as many as 2,800 baths in the city of Tokyo. Now the number of public baths on the wane, because in each of the apartments and houses already have their own bathroom adequate.

To bathe in the public baths, you are advised to remove the clothing. Visitors may be shy for the first time a shower, but take it easy, when we showered there will not be anyone noticing. You do not need to worry because in each bathhouse will be separated between men and women.

Every public baths there, and mostly offered services are almost the same. There are hot springs and cold water, accompanied by a large plunge pools. There is also a rental for a towel, but tourists are advised to bring their own towels when visiting to save costs.

Public baths, which is adjacent to natural resources, mostly utilizing hot water directly from nature. However, public baths that do not have natural hot springs, usually using homemade hot water.

Typically, public baths in Tokyo just closed one day a week, so you can adjust the schedule if you want to soak. Average price offered in each bathhouse is at 450 yen to the public, 120 yen for students over the age of 12 years and 80 yen for children over 6 years.

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Turtle Species Attract The Tourists to Singapore

50 species of turtles allowed to live in the park. There is also preserved turtle, which became the museum's collection in Singapore.

The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum is located in the Singapore zoo has a piece of land as habitat for turtles.

Reported by Atlas Obscura diverse varieties scaly reptiles live freely in nature. Until the snake-headed turtles live there.

In it, there is a playground like a turtle pond and a few holes into their residence. There are also vegetables that are sold to tourists for feeding the turtles.

Well, the museum store turtle preservation, which is dead. There is a collection of beautiful ceramics such as plates, furniture and knick-knacks of all turtle-shaped. Its location is at the Chinese Garden Road, Singapore. The admission price is 5 US dollars.

This attraction either spend the weekend with family in Singapore. In addition to the entertainment, there is a bit of education being taught to the children there.

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Stewardess Speechless, Indicates Aircraft in Danger

During this time, flight attendants are visible only friendly to passengers. But apart from that, a lot of work stewardess of unknowns.

Here's the secret airline stewardess who was dismantled by Abbie Unger, a former airline stewardess, United, Continental and US Airways Express, such as reported by Huffingtonpost:

Stewardess can soothe passengers 
Stewardess know the meaning of turbulence or a strange noise coming out of the plane. Stewardess happy to share information with passengers when requested.

"If nervous, let the flight attendants know, they love chatting so know you are not alone," said Unger.

If stewardess is silent, they think an emergency scenario 
Just before take-off, flight attendants are often asked to run a 30-second safety training.

"Flight attendants are probably chatting with you, but he stopped and silence or just look out the window, thinking flight attendant what to do in an emergency," said Unger.

Not only passengers who eating
After serving passengers, Unger says, cabin crew will sometimes eat leftovers from first class passengers.

Water cure jet lag 
Drinking water is the main thing to do to show stewardess fresh after a long flight. Unger recommends filling size bottle and drink it during a trip on a plane.

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Unusual Rooms at Hotel in Germany

Stay in a unique hotel could be fun for tourists. In Berlin, Germany, there are 2 hotels with a unique collection of rooms. There is a room with a theme coffin, until the contents of the room upside down 360 degrees. Wow, interesting!

The rooms are unique like that we can meet at the Propeller Island City Lodge art and Arte Pankow in Berlin, Germany. There are many other unique themed rooms in both hotels were. What? Here are some unique rooms in the hotel:

Coffin Room

Coffin Room

The coffin room can be found at the Propeller Island City Lodge. The official name of this room is the Gruft. The bed itself consists of two crates meti white. Spooky, right?

But fear not, this is just for fun-call only. You can feel the sensation of sleeping in a coffin-style vampire who lived hundreds of years. You can rent this room at a price of 115 euros per night. Commensurate with the uniqueness.

Reversed Room 360 Degrees

Upside Down Room

This room is called Upside Down. The interior terbalk 360 degrees! Sofas, tables and chairs placed in the magic room ceiling, while under his bed.

Gravity also does not seem to work in this room. It was a unique experience for you when staying here. You can redeem this experience only costs just 115 euros per night. Unique!

Museum Room

Museum Room

The next room was themed museum. Look as if you're sleeping in a museum. The rooms are designed as the museum was interesting to try.

This room is decorated by relics and historic objects. The interior is also arranged such that like a museum. Room for 115 Euros per night is really suitable for you who like history.

Safari Room

Safari Room

Safari-themed room is decorated with paintings tiger, and a bird sculpture standing in a tree. The seats are also of woven wood, the color of the majority is brown. The rooms are really African-style!

You will feel like being invited to stay at the house of a chieftain in Africa. Interesting? The rooms are priced at 89-210 Euros will captivate you.

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This Monument Becoming Midpoint Earth

Ends of the Earth can be visited, between the North Pole or the South Pole. Then where you have to go, if you want to the center of Earth? Apparently there is a place that is claimed to be the midpoint of the Earth in Ecuador: Quito

Quito the capital of Ecuador. In this city there are many attractions such as the pretty church, peering history by visiting the prison, or enjoy views of the city surrounded by stunning mountains.

There's another major reason a traveler coming here, which went to the center of Earth. Indeed, a lot of middle Earth that can be visited, such as Pontianak in West Borneo. However, in this region the marker made ​​middle earth created by a group of French geodesic expedition led by Charles-Marie de La Comdamine.

Charles-Marie spent 10 years in Ecuador to ensure that the Earth is not perfectly round, but melonjong. Mandrel is what was in Ecuador thus be visited from the official website.

A traveler can go around the center of the earth and free or photographs in the vicinity. At the midpoint of the Earth so this attraction called Mitad del Mundo or the Middle World was established gardens.

There is a 30-meter high monument with a giant globe at the end. This is the middle marker monument Earth. Visitors who come to it can enter by paying USD 25 thousand and a free picture taken with the monument, or a signpost in the middle of the orange line which marks the middle of the Earth.

About 300 meters away, there is a private museum called the Museo Solar Inti Nan. Many consider this museum more attractive and offer something different. There is a reason why the museum was built there. It turns out that if using a GPS, the midpoint of the Earth there. Well, you know!

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England Has Stonehange, USA Make Carhenge

Carhenge at Sunset

England is famous for its mysterious monument in the form of piles of stones called Stonehenge. Well, the United States does not want to lose and make a parody monuments with a pile of used cars, Carhenge name. Curious?

When tourists visit this place, they will be amazed and think this monument similar to Stonehenge in England. We would be curious who makes the building unique and creative as this.

Precisely in Alliance, Nebraska, USA monument was later known as Carhenge. From the official website on Thursday (02/10/2014) mentioned that this experimental work of the hands of creative artists named Jim Reinders. This made ​​for a memorial monument to his late father who died in 1982 Best of the building is made of stacks of 38 former American classic cars.

Carhenge like dinosaurs

Because awe of Stonehenge, the mysterious stone monuments from the Neolithic age in the middle of a meadow in Wiltshire, Jim Reinders was inspired to create a similar building. Carhenge was built right on top of agricultural land where his father had once lived.

With a diameter of about 29.2 meters, the building of this monument was made ​​to resemble Stonehenge with gray colored paint similar to the stacked stone trim and neat. Not only are shaped Stonehenge, Carhenge is formed also diverse, there are placed in an upright position, resembles a dinosaur, salmon and much more.

Jim Reinders family initially considered this monument will be an eyesore. But this is not unexpected Carhenge actually even become a favorite tourist destination to visit in America.

Right time to visit this place is when the daytime, Carhenge which stands upright with the sun visible in the sidelines of the monument will add to the beauty. Fun again, visitors are free or free entry!

Carhenge is standing

But if the visitor wants to give voluntary donations, managers will accept gladly. His contributions will be used for the preservation and maintenance of the monument.

Travelers who wish to spend the night in this place are not allowed to set up camp by the manager. Usually the manager will offer several options for accommodation.

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This is the Form of the Atomic Bomb which Destroy Hiroshima City

War always leaves a deep suffering. One proof is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan. In this museum you can see a replica of the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a museum that contains a variety of things related events atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima. Ranging from miniature city, a replica of the atomic bomb, until some relics were hit by a bomb.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - Post Office

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - The Time When Bomb Was Dropped

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - Books about the tragedy

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - Atom Bomb Replica

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

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3 Hotels in Singapore that most favored Tourists Due Near MRT Station

MRT (Mass Rapid Transportation) has become a mainstay of public transport in Singapore. The speed and extent of the network makes the MRT be the preferred transport everyone in Singapore. If you are on vacation to Singapore, obviously you need the presence of the MRT makes it easy to get around.

Therefore, stay at a hotel that is close to the MRT station will be the right choice, especially if you have to frequently switch between sites during in Singapore. Three hotels in Singapore which are very close to MRT stations are strategically located following can be your reference.

Oasia Hotel by Far East Hospitality

This hotel being the only hotel in Singapore that provides direct access underpass as guests to Novena MRT Station and Square 2 If you normally take 3-minute walk to the venue, then this underpass make your travel time to only one minute.


Oasia Hotel brings the concept very interesting interior with woody accents thickened. As the name implies, this hotel really want to be an "oasis in the city center" for guests. Each set foot in this hotel, you seemed to leave the hustle and bustle of the city. Through berkualitasnya services, Oasia Hotel wants to make every guests feel like at home.

Oasia Hotel is very strategic. It only takes 10 minutes drive to reach the Central Bussiness District and shopping center downtown Singapore from here. If you want to visit Orchard Road, just riding the train for 5 minutes.

V Hotel Lavender Street

V Hotel it one of the Singapore tourist favorite. The hotel is located directly above Lavender MRT Station. Once down at the station, there will be instructions that guide you to the hotel lobby.

V Hotel Lavender has four types of rooms are adorned with elegant décor, including luxury furniture. Privacy is upheld here, so that each floor is accessible only with an electronic card key.

Sky terrace located on level 4, the hotel has its own charm. There are gym room, with views to the pool. The hotel swimming pool water temperature is ideal (not too warm or too cold). On the other side of the sky terrace, there are Al Fresco Cafe. In-house restaurant of the Hotel V offers attractive ambience through the dining area cocoon concept (such as cage/cocoon).

Porcelain Hotel, Chinatown

It takes only five minutes walk from Chinatown MRT Station to this unique hotel. Porcelain Hotel is located right in Chinatown area of ​​very thick feel and classical culture. This hotel antique impression through the increasingly prominent accent pattern carving Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain on the walls.

Blue Porcelain flower to accent typical hotel look beautiful as mapped on the outer side wall of the hotel. Blue flower itself is a pattern of Chinese porcelain from the Tang Dynasty that uses cobalt blue pigment stones Central Asia. The pattern is also implemented in all parts of the hotel.

Six types of rooms designed with a very beautiful through the dominance of cobalt blue and emerald green color that blends with the elegance of white and golden beige. Although the room is small, contemporary design interiors plus value of this hotel.

Located one kilometer from the city center, this hotel is in an area filled with traditional buildings. Antiques shops and houses with a thick accent uterus is the major sights around.

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Amangiri, Luxury Hotels in Central Desert, USA

One of the unique hotel is the location. As Amangiri, a hotel which is located in the desert of Southern Utah in the United States and surrounded by barren hills. Even so, this super luxury hotel!

Quoted from the official website of Amangiri, Amangiri has an area of 600 acres in the Canyon Point, Southern Utah, Utah. Its location is in a valley,which is surrounded by barren hills. As long as the eye could see, there was only desert course.

A unique, buildings at Amangiri has colors like rocks. Neither of the wall up to the chair to relax, everything is dominated by the color beige. It makes the hotel as one with nature.

There are 34 rooms at Amangiri: 13 rooms with a view of the desert, 14 rooms with a view barren hills, one room with a large terrace and the rest are rooms that include private pools. Steady!

Each room is equipped with luxurious amenities. Although located in the desert, there is a wireless internet network that makes tourists can still exist in cyberspace. Room cooling or air-conditioning is also available in each room to provide coolness during the day. While under the floor, no heating is not going to make you cold at night.

Each furniture in the room Hotel Amangiri is made of wood, which makes it environmentally friendly. Soft mattress and a comfortable sofa in the room, making tourists linger to sleep. Each room also has a large glass featuring a desert landscape. Perfect!

Other facilities, the Pavilion, as the center of Amangiri guests. It hosts the Gallery space offers a variety of jewelry and crafts, library, restaurant, spa and swimming pool on the outside.

Interestingly, in the Pavilion, there is a place called Desert Lounge. In this place, tourists can relax with a variety of food and drinks while watching the sunset. Desert Lounge the best place to see the sunset, as the sun seemed to sink into the desert.

Price per night stay at Amangiri, the cheapest is USD 1,200. The most expensive, at USD 8,000 to rent a villa with a capacity of 4 people. In addition to hotel rooms, Amangiri is rent some villas.

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Feel Stay in Prison: Karostas Cietums Hotel

Prison inmate becomes a conviction. Nothing wrong with having slept overnight in jail as offered Hotel Karostas Cietums.

In real terms, this building was once the former old prison in Latvia. The hotel even has a mystical story wrapped chilling goosebumps.

From outside the room, the hotel did not show such a prison. The red-colored building gives a shock when you start to enter the lobby and check-in at the front desk.

The hotel provides an opportunity to become a military prisoner who was tortured in the room. But still, today when you stay there not being tortured like that.

You are free to enjoy the entire contents of the room were designed to look like old prison. The rooms are equipped with bed prison that character, also some support facilities that make you feel at home.

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Unique Hotel: French in 1st floor, Switzerland in 2nd Floor

Hotel Arbez Franco-Suisse, or so-called Hotel Arbez is fairly strange. Not about the design, but because of its location. Level 1 is a region of France, the 2nd floor is a region of Switzerland. Strange but true!

This two star hotel is located in the region of La Cure, about 8 miles north of Geneva. Quoted from the official site Hotel Arbez, stay at this hotel to feel the sensation of being in between the two countries.

Glance Hotel Arbez does look ordinary, but not anymore when you see the flag of the country of France and Switzerland in the one room. Old hotel made ​​of wood is also a place to stay for skiers.

In 1862, the government of Switzerland and France have agreed to change their state lines. In the midst of the agreement, an astute businessman named Monsieur Ponthus directly building on the land that will be used as a border. Incidentally, he has land in the area.

Ponthus split into two buildings, in the French bar, and a store in the Switzerland. Ownership of the building changed in 1921 In that year, Jules-Jean Arbeze bought the building and turned it into a hotel that stands to this day.

In World War II, the hotel has become a fairly complicated building. French occupied Germany, while Switzerland remained neutral, so it can only Nazi soldiers entered the hotel which is still within the limits of the French state. Rules are rules!

Hotel Arbez also chosen as the signing of the Lausanne Treaty in 1962 that ended the Algerian War of Independence symbolically.

The buildings cut the country's borders from the kitchen to the hotel room. As a result, 1st and 2nd floors were divided into 2 countries. From the 1st floor in the area of ​​France, living up to the 2nd floor via the stairs and it has entered the territory of Switzerland.

There are two rooms in there that will give you the experience of sleeping in two countries at once. You can put a head in France and laid foot in Switzerland. There is another room that has a shower room on the territory of another country.

Interestingly, Arbez hotel has a room which is dedicated to the couple who were on their honeymoon. Not the room is split, but the location of the bed which is right on the borderline. In other words, the couple would sleep in two different countries.

Like the hotel, there is also a simple bar with classic style. Various furniture of wood also make the atmosphere more warm. There is also a restaurant open to the public, from 12:00 to 14:00 o'clock and 19:00 to 21:00 o'clock.

Now, Hotel Arbez very popular among skiing lovers. It is located in the middle of a two-state boundaries indeed attracted many tourists to stop by. Are you interested?

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