Travels AhBoon | 23 Jan 2009
A380 Sky Kitchen in Taipei
Service staff dressed as flight attendants pose for a photograph inside the A380 In-flight Kitchen, a restaurant named after the giant Airbus airliner.
Imagine a flight without security checks, turbulence or even ticketing. More importantly, there’s more than just fish or chicken for dinner.
An entrepreneur in Taipei has run exactly this service since November, the A380 In-flight Kitchen (A380空中廚房) , packing in the passengers, as a restaurant that looks and almost functions like an airliner but sells a full menu’s worth of high-end Western food, sometimes in plastic trays.
Travels AhBoon | 16 Dec 2008
Kissing the Jellyfish – Most Remarkable Adventure in Palau
Jellyfish Lake in Pacific island of Palau, Micronesia is a very famous Snorkeling site. Jellyfish Lake, known to Palau’s natives as Ongeim’l Tketau, contains over ten million jellyfish that have descended and evolved from a common ancestor, the spotted jellyfish. They are non stinging, having lost their natural defense system because of the lack of major predators in the lake. So you may actually enjoy swimming with them much closer than would be possible anywhere else.
Millions of years ago, jellyfish were trapped in this lake after a submerged reef rose from the sea, creating a landlocked saltwater lake. In this lake, the jellyfish have adapted to the new conditions by losing their sting. They have eight primitive eyes and algae that live within their cells. These algae are what the jellyfish live on. Twice each day, the jellyfish in the lake swim from one side to the other. The jellyfish do this to get sunlight to their internal algae so that the algae can grow.
Travels AhBoon | 02 Mar 2008
Unusual Hotel in Berlin – Propeller Island City Lodge
Can your vacation be as fulfilling if your hotel only provides you with the bare minimums and lacks the small yet unexpected luxuries?
Perhaps it can. But with a little extra time spent on researching and for an added cost, your next hotel stay can be just as exhilarating and exciting as your vacation.
The [PROPELLER ISLAND CITY LODGE] is a – truly – VERY extraordinary location. All rooms and objects were created by the German artist Lars Stroschen. Much more appropriate than “hotel” is the designation “living in a work of art”.
30 rooms with an absolutely unique and personal ambience. “Unique” is meant literally, for the entirety of all furnishings and other objects you will discover here are custom-made, individual handiwork. None can be found anywhere else on this planet – one could consider the CITY LODGE to be a MUSEUM with guest accomodations or a stay-in work of SCULPTURE.
Funny & Travels AhBoon | 09 Dec 2007
Suicide Hotline on Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a frequent site for suicide. An official suicide count was kept, sorted according to which of the bridge’s 128 lamp posts the jumper was nearest to when he or she jumped. The count exceeded 1,200 when the count ended in 2005, and new suicides were averaging one every two weeks.
Various methods have been proposed and implemented to reduce the number of suicides.
The bridge is fitted with suicide hotline telephones, but…..
Event & Travels AhBoon | 31 Oct 2007
Crazy Halloween in Japan
Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses” and viewing horror films. Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century.
In recent years, western-style Halloween decorations and traditions are becoming popular in Japan. Some big Halloween events are also held in many places.
Travels AhBoon | 18 Oct 2007
Private Honeymoon Suite on Airbus A380
Singapore Airlines has purchased 19 of the Airbus A380 and finally the first A380 superjumbo was delivered to Singapore Airlines on October 15, 2007 in a move the French aircraft manufacturer said kicked off a “new chapter in aviation.”
Airbus A380 “Superjumbos”, largest passenger airliner in the world, and Singapore Airlines threw open the doors to show off the interior cabin design. No, there isn’t a gym or a bowling alley, though there would be room for both inside the double-decker jet. But the chilled bottle of Champagne perched on an elegantly laid-out double bed said it all.
Twelve private “suites” created by the French yacht designer Jean-Jacques Coste grace the front half of the plane’s lower deck. Designed to maximize privacy, these partitioned nooks are each fitted with fully adjustable leather seats and a separate bed that folds out with a full-sized mattress, draped in crisp cream-colored linens designed by Givenchy.
Travels AhBoon | 30 Aug 2007
Fly Panda with Nippon ANA
“Flying panda” celebrates ANA’s 20th anniversary of China flight
Japan’s second largest airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA) unveiled its “Fly Panda” plane at Narita International Airport on July 24th, 2007. The Boeing 767 is dressed in black and white and depicts a flying Giant Panda.
The special plane inaugurat[ed] its Narita-Beijing flight Wednesday morning, July 25, to mark 35th anniversary of normalization of Japanese-Chinese diplomatic relations and 20th anniversary of the airlines’ flight service operation between the two nations.
Travels AhBoon | 31 Jul 2007
Spaghetti Junctions
Spaghetti Junctions mean confusing highway interchange, and they are located almost in every major city in the West. You can find the streets that end nowhere,
We are always being warned that do not make a wrong turn at an interchange, or you loss yourself in middle of nowhere. However, I realize that in some place, even you are making a correct turn, it will also make you turn around like no ending.
Travels AhBoon | 24 Jul 2007
Latest Attraction in Neunkirchen Zoo – Croc eat dog
Come to the Zoo before the Zoo comes to you. This is the motto of the Zoo Neunkirchen in Germany.
Their latest attraction ‘Croc Eat Dog’; a dog obviously to become lunch of a crocodile.
History & Travels AhBoon | 04 Jul 2007
The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World
A campaign to choose seven new wonders of the world is in its final stages, finalists have been whittled down to 21 by an international panel of experts. The result will be announced on this coming Sunday (07-07-07), you still have approximately 1 day left to vote for it on New7Wonders.
Let’s review what are the Original Wonders; The original seven wonders of the ancient world weren’t chosen by international consensus. They came about after the historians of ancient Greece began traveling around the borders of their classical empire and noted what monuments caught their eye—sort of like a travel guide for their fellow Greeks.
