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…..
Travels & Event 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.
Babes & Travels Konfucious | 02 Jul 2007
Betel Nut Beauties inTaiwan
Anyone who has been to Taiwan will have noticed betel-nut beauties along the roadsides in their neon-framed stalls to sell drinks, cigarettes and the addictive betel-nut that claim to keep people awake. Well, I am sure you will be awake too when you see the Betel Nut Beauties approaching you. 
Travels AhBoon | 21 Apr 2007
Spanish Bullfighting moments
Bullfighting or tauromachy is a tradition that involves professional performers who execute various formal moves with the goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over the bull itself. Such manoeuvers are performed at close range, and conclude (in Spanish-style bullfighting) with the death of the bull by a well-placed sword thrust as the finale.
