Travels and Visits: December 2012

Tuesday 11 December 2012

Bujagali Falls

Bujagali Falls: (also spelled Budhagali) was a waterfall near Jinja in Uganda where the Nile River comes out of Lake Victoria, sometimes considered the source of the Nile. Starting November 2011, the falls have become submerged by the newly built Bujagali Dam. An acute electricity crisis is impacting the livelihoods of millions of Ugandans and threatens the country’s development. Hospitals, schools, businesses, and residences suffer daily power shortages, which have stunted Uganda’s economic growth by an estimated one percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

Bujagali Falls

Saturday 8 December 2012

Dubai Hotel Under Water Hydropolis

Dubai Hotel Under Water Hydropolis: The Hydropolis Underwater Hotel and Resort was a proposed hotel, designed by Prof. Roland Dieterle that would have been the world's first underwater luxury resort. It was planned to be situated 66 feet (20 m) below the surface of the Persian Gulf, just off Jumeira Beach in Dubai, and projected to cost $300 million to construct. The underwater hotel would have been one of the most expensive hotels on the earth. The hotel was conceived in 2006, was delayed in 2008, and as of June 2010 no construction or planned construction has occurred.

Dubai Hotel Under Water

Dubai Hotel Under Water Hydropolis

Dubai Hotel Hydropolis

Under Water Dubai Hotel Hydropolis

Amazing Under Water Dubai Hydropolis

Dubai Hotel Under Water Hydropolis

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA): was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row of the Pacific Ocean shoreline in Monterey, California. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 separate named species on display. The aquarium benefits by a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in continuously from Monterey Bay. The centerpiece of the Ocean's Edge Wing, is a 10 meter (33-foot) high 333,000-US-gallon (1,260,000 l; 277,000 imp gal) tank for viewing California coastal marine life.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey California

Monterey Bay Aquarium is located on the Pacific Ocean

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Amazing Fishes

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Oludeniz Beach

Oludeniz Beach Ölüdeniz (official translation name Blue Lagoon, literally Dead Sea; because of being calm even during storms) is a small resort village in the Fethiye district which is in the Muğla Province the South West coast of Turkey on the Aegean Sea to the south and the high, steep sided Babadağ Mountain, 14 km (9 mi) south of Fethiye. The town is a beach resort. Ölüdeniz remains one of the most photographed beaches on the Mediterranean. It has a secluded sandy bay at the mouth of Ölüdeniz, on a blue lagoon. The beach itself is a pebble beach.

Oludeniz Beach

The Dubai Metro

The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro rail network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. The Red Line and Green Line are operational, with three further lines planned. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere (elevated railway). The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula. More than 110,000 people, which is nearly 10 per cent of Dubai’s population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation. The Dubai Metro carried 10 million passengers from launch on 9 September.