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A new law, forbidding citizens to put legs into the fountain, has been issued in New York. The penalty charged in the case of breaking the law works out at a sum of $50. By the way, the tourists are allowed to throw coins in fountain so far. The law has been accepted in connection with the potential danger for the health of careless citizens who have been chilling, putting their legs in fountain, reports the “Fact news”. The representative of City Parks department Adrian Benepe has notified that the water in fountains is not chlorinated, so it may contain various types of bacteria being a carrying agent of a number of diseases. Furthermore, there is a lot of sharp objects, which are also dangerous for human legs.

The las vegas resorts are indeed the best place for vacations and people usually go there and hire a room in hotel motel for few days. This is not so expensive for people and there are many low cost flights for the Las Vegas as well. This makes the city reachable for everyone. There are different cruises as well that take a trip around Las Vegas.

Few cheap cruises are available too, before deciding any cruise for the voyage one must read the cruise line reviews so that they can get an idea about different packages and prices. The prices of cheap hotel motel depend on the services and time of bookings.

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Photo exhibition in the honor of soldiers suffered from Iraqi War has been opened in New York. The photos have been made last year at the USA Middle East agrarian town by the American photographer Nina Berman. The exhibition takes place in New York Jen Bekman Gallery. It appears as a yet one example of arts and journalism fusion. The production photos were made for illustration of the article dedicated to the wedding of a soldier who has lost his face during the war by the People magazine request, reports The New York Times. The magazine preferred to publish the general photo of the couple because the close-up view looks too horrible. The exhibition presented the photos which were not published in the magazine.

What is the best season for a trip in Tasmania, Sydney, La Paz or Antarctic? The new book “Where to Go When: The Best Destinations All Year Round” is going to help you plan your journey. It doesn’t matter whether you are travelling by foot or somehow still, the book will offer a lot of ideas for your trip. In the book you’ll find picturesque colour photos, comments, councils and description.

For every month of the year there are 30 destinations suggested. For example, in October it’s recommended to go to Tasmania and Italy, as in this time of year they reap a crop of grapes and olives there; also various sorts of mushrooms, including expensive truffles, appear in the local menu. A six-day route from Florence to Siena is offered as well.

Sydney, Australia is best suited for the new-year’s eve, May is perfect for La Paz or Bolivia, in Antarctica in February you can watch how the female penguins look after their nests.

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The dish called Fortress Aquamarine worth of $14500 can be tasted in Sri-Lanka restaurant Wine3. Here travellers are served a tiny tartlet with fresh berries, decorated with an 80-carat aquamarine brilliant. The gourmands with a thick purse will also be pleased with Brownie Extraordinaire - a chocolate cookie soaked in Crystal champagne. It is served with a sprinkler filled with vintage port wine which is used to spray the mouth after each eaten slice of food. You can taste this delicacy worth of $1000 in Tropicana Casino and Resort (New Jersey).

The Serendipity restaurant (New York) will offer its guest the ice-cream worth of $1000, prepared from several kinds of vanilla, truffles, bitter chocolate and sweetened caviar. The crystal vase which was used to serve the dessert might be taken away. The Istanbul Ciragan Palace Kempinski offers the unique “sultan pie” which costs $1000. The pie is staffed with fresh fruit and figs pickled in Jamaica rum, and then covered with plates of gold. In Bangkok restaurant Mezzaluna you can taste the ice-cream made of truffles, decorated with hand-worked chocolate and soaked with a forty-years aged cognac - just for $200.

This rating of the most expensive desserts of the world is offered by Forbes Traveler.

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Kempinski hotel network is going to open a hotel in Senovázné Square in the centre of Prague the next year. Luxurious hotel apartments are to rent both for a short period of time and in long lease. 75 hotel rooms will be furnished with the furniture made of valuable tree species timber, produced by RPW Design Company. 24 hours five star service, including personal maidservants and “delivery at door” shopping facilities are at clients call. Lodgers will also be able to avail themselves of health-sports complex and business centre.

Rocco Forte Company, the owner of the fashionable hotels, has chosen the former St. Foma monastery for the new hotel. The splendid view at Old Prague Town, famous Valdstein orchards and other sights greets from the hotel.

Reconstruction of the monastery building should be completed before the end of this year. According to Rocco Forte Company idea, more than one hundred large rooms and apartments will be in the hotel under the plan, as well as original ceilings and stone domes.

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New five star Royal Hotel& Spa construction is almost completed on the Villars skiing health resort in Switzerland. This first spa-hotel in Villars will be opened in 2008. New modern spa-center with more than 1000 squared meters surface, 65 rooms and 25 suits, 3 restaurants and a large terrace with a picturesque view will be offered to the clients.

In this season, beside free ski-pass for children, Villars will not charge for the usage of the elevators and routes for beginners, that are situated near the health-resort center, nor for the kindergarten service. Night skiing with a mountain chalet dinner and a torch slope down will be organized weekly for all comers.

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Forbes Traveler has published the list of legendary routes which can be followed even nowadays. On the first place there is the Silk Route, the road several thousands kilometers long, connecting the Mediterranean coast of Turkey and China.

The second place is occupied with the rout from Athens to Olympia, which was the Greeks’ way to Olympic Games: it may be driven by car, at the same time feasting eyes with the ancient monasteries and small villages.

One of the most popular railway routes is on the third place - the journey from China to Russia by the trans-Siberian highway which affords the unusual view of Siberia and Mongolia. The fourth place is occupied with traditional cruise over Nile. There is a lot of unique sightseeing and ancient constructions on the coast of the river. The fifth place is given to the cruise over the Mississippi river: during the sail tourists can enjoy the remarkable view of “real” America.

PUNE: About 50 youths duped by a city based travel agent over the last two months ransacked his NIBM road office on Saturday afternoon, demanding justice and their money back.

The agent — identified as one Alam —according to these youths, was running a travel agency situated near the Jyoti hotel. He duped them off Rs 70 lakh in the last two months by providing them forged visas of Gulf countries.
Yogesh Thakur of Ahmednagar, one of the ill-fated youths, said that Alam allegedly issued an advertisement in an English and a Marathi newspaper in June this year. “The advertisement claimed that jobs could be obtained in Gulf countries against some fees.”

About 200 youths from different parts of the state approached Alam, who allegedly demanded Rs 15,000 to Rs 45,000 from each them. “He demanded money depending upon the educational qualification of the candidates,” Thakur said.

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By Darrell Giles

BRISBANE could have two under-the-river rail tunnels and a new rail bridge in a bold State Government public transport plan.

There could be major new train stations at Woolloongabba, Gardens Point and the “financial district” at Eagle St, and a redeveloped Exhibition line for year-round use.

Transport and Main Roads Minister Paul Lucas will today unveil details of a $5 million feasibility study to develop options for connecting the rail network north and south of the Brisbane River.

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Government of Vietnam took the decision to prohibit the development of small hotel and trailhead network in Ha Long Bay, proclaimed it a part of the World Heritage, the information agency VietNamNet Bridge reports.

Ha Long Bay, situated 160 kilometers to Hanoi - the capital of Vietnam, is one of the main tourist sights of the country that attracts thousand people wishing to get pleasure from gazing at its magnificent picturesque views.

Within the nature sight conservation program, developed together with UNESCO, they have also imposed a ban for use of motorboats and scooters in the bay, as well as for use of other means of transport that can pollute the water of the bay with petrol or other propellants or break the silence with the roar of motors.

The head of Ha Long Bay administration told that henceforth new licenses to fish and catch shrimps in the bay will not be given, and also the Government is going to consider the question about resettlement of part of the population living in the island to the continent.