Loves Traveling : Walk To Wat Pho a Sleeping budha

I Loves Traveling, A walk to Bangkok, there are places that you must visit. One of them is Wat Po. Here a giant sleeping Buddha statue is located. Increasingly visible charming statue because his body covered with gold. With tickets costing pay 100bht or approximately USD40, tourists can enjoy the beauty in the temples plus a bonus bottle of mineral water.
Entering part of the complex of Wat Pho, you will be faced with a variety of snacks, ranging from mild to severe food. Appearance and aroma of foods sold really tempting and ready to make you tempted to taste it.
Wait a minute, you better enjoy the scenery in this complex. There are many beautiful photographic angles, like buildings made of porcelain and Buddha statues in a yoga position. Exactly at 09.00 local time, you can only enter the room where the sleeping Buddha statue. Advised not to wear shirts and shorts because you will be required to hire a fabric cover legs and body.
Before entering the room, to the left of the entrance stairs are available several cloth bags. Grab one and use it to wrap your shoes that have been released. This is reasonable, because in addition to attraction even this place became a place of worship for most visitors.
Once inside, you will be amazed by the views of the giant Buddha statue reaches 43 meters in length. In the Buddha's feet, you will find 108 Buddhist auspicious symbols. Here, you are still allowed to take pictures. There are some very good spots to photograph so that the whole body of Buddha will be obvious.
"At her feet drawn symbols of luck, while the bowl is in the edges is used as a coin donation. They believe it will fill the bowl with a lot of luck is over, "said Kat Tun, Okezone tour guide during a visit to Thailand.
In the exit corridor, you will find a large enough bowl 108. Tourists will usually exchange their money with coins in places that have been provided. Then, they will fill each bowl with coins they have. They are believed to fill the bowls, their lives will be shrouded in luck. In addition, the donated coins to help care costs Buddha statue.
If you get into the deeper part, would look so much wooden seat covered with a towel for a massage place. As is known, Wat Po be one place to learn Traditional Thai Massage.
"Here is also a place to learn the people who want to be a traditional Thai massage therapist. Most of those who have passed successful careers in their fields, "he concluded.

Love Travel to Unique Tradition Event Places

Travel to Holi Festival, don't use new clothes

Loves Traveling at Holi Festival, India

Holi festival held to commemorate the victory of good over evil. The festival is held every year, the day after the full moon in March. This year, Holi will be held on Wednesday, 27 March 2013. This festival marks the end of winter to welcome spring means harvest season has arrived.

Almost all regions of India celebrate Holi Festival. Districts like Mathura and Vrindavan, New Delhi, West Bengal, Jaipur and Banswara always celebrate royally. In West Bengal, Holi Festival will be held one day earlier than in other regions.

If you want a more relaxed atmosphere, go to the southern region of India. Here, Holi Festival is not maintained more lively because citizens to focus on the religious aspects of go to temple worship.

Holi Festival cheerful. The participants will be dripped colloquial, their bodies already terlumuri colorful liquid that comes from the other participants throw. Therefore, Holi Festival is known about the Festival of Colors. On the night before the festival, a huge bonfire will be lit to burn the evil spirits.

Tips if you want to follow this festival is to use a shirt that was not used and there is merit in your hair and body bathed by the oil first. This is done to anticipate if the colored liquid used only very difficult removed.

 

Biggest Water Play in Whole Day in Thailand

 

Love Traveling during Songkran Festival, Thailand

April marks the one dihelatnya most interesting festival in Thailand, the Songkran or Thai New Year. The festival is held on 12 to 15 April, meets every city in the land of the White Elephant with fanfare.

Songkran is celebrated with parties and water fights, where the townspeople would pour water on each other along the way. Songkran is Thailand's most popular festival, which marks the beginning of the year and the summer sun in this country.

Traditionally, Thai people celebrate Songkran by visiting temples and douse each other as a petition luck for the new year. But now, the celebration of Songkran water festival has grown into a national and a big party that was also attended by foreign tourists who want to experience the excitement of this festival.

In Bangkok, the largest celebration of Songkran in Silom Road, RCA, and Khao San Road. When following the Songkran, getting wet-basahan. Wear comfortable clothes or socks, because even though the water used reportedly not dirty, this festival will be followed by a more comfortable comfortable clothing. 

Love Travel : Another Way to Get Dirty

Exhausted Flour War, Bathing together at the Sea

 Love Traveling during Clean Monday Flour War, Greece

Not to be outdone, Greece also have a festival that could make the participants have fun while dirty-dirt. This festival uses flour as the main ingredient.

In Greece, flour not only the ingredients to make the cake. Flour is also a "weapon" in the Clean festival Monday at City Galaxidi Flour War.

City Galaxidi is a port city located 200 kilometers from Athens, the capital of Greece. To commemorate the end of the carnival season and the start of fasting, the city held a massive flour war.

Flour used not only white, sometimes mixed with the dye powder. When starting the festival, the city population smearing his face with charcoal. In order not to contaminate the building, before the war started all the historical places are covered with plastic.

The war started when the bell rang, then the entire population will fight each other by throwing flour. Flour after the war was over, they trooped to the sea to bathe. Even this flour war closed with a meal together in the center of town.

Experience Mud Festival

Love Travel to Festival Boryeong City, South Korea  

Boryeong City Festival is an annual event showcase mud wrestling, mud slides, etc., all done with the dirty mud media. This festival was first performed in 1998, and in 2007 successfully attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.

Mud used is derived from the mudflats Boryeong, a town located 200 kilometers from Seoul, South Korea's capital city. This mud tipped mineral rich and good for the skin.

However, despite these attractions indeed become a favorite among foreign tourists, sanitation is not guaranteed. Last year, 200 of the 1,500 participants in the festival suffered skin disease.

Loves Traveling : Sometimes it's Nice To Play Dirty

The Government and people Throw Oranges each other in Italy

Loves Traveling to Carnevale d'Ivrea, Italy

When in Spain festivals celebrated by throwing tomatoes, different again to Italy. Pizza in the State, its citizens to war oranges!

In City Ivre, Italy, there is a unique celebration called Carnevale d'Ivrea where townspeople and tourists fought toss oranges during the festival. Unknown origin of this tradition, however, allegedly because during the Middle Ages, ordinary little people fight with the government.

Although similar, the war orange festival in Italy more regularly than La Tomatina. In this festival Carnevale d'Ivrea, City Ivre is divided into two teams fight each other.

One team representing the government, using the stroller around town. While, another team symbolizes the little people, divided nine working groups and the government was attacking team.

Throwing oranges necessarily sicker than throwing tomatoes. If you do not want to come, wearing a red hat so you can comfortably watch this festival.

Now, It's Time For Tomato

Love Traveling during La Tomatina Festival, Spain

La Tomatina festival held in the city of Valencia, Spain. The participants are fighting with each throw tomatoes, all done purely for fun.

1945 is the beginning of La Tomatina Festival. Starting from an accident when a young man is in a stage fight and stand nearby vegetable outlets. They spontaneously take tomatoes as weapons. In the following year, the youth did return to deliberately bring their tomatoes.

Festival held every last Wednesday in August stopped several times, even quite serious punishable participants. However, after a long journey, the festival has now officially become an annual event with a few rules that must be met.

After the party, you will notice how dirty the city of Valencia is also the participants. They are all covered tomato red color and sticky sap from the fruit vegetables.

Prepare for FIFA World Cup 2014, tourist rape at Rio show up

Some time ago, an American student was raped while in a bus traveling in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Raised concerns about the safety of the city's tourists. 

Last weekend, the U.S. students were raped in turn by several men while his girlfriend, a French national, was beaten and tied up in a bus in the famous beach of Rio, Copacabana. Rio, which will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, starting questionable safety.

The case has attracted international attention, and begin to compare to a similar incident in India that also involves tourists some time ago. In India, this case makes tourists visiting the country dropped by 25 percent.

"No one expected to be attacked in the 'Disneyland'. Copacabana is our Disneyland, and it reminds us of the dangers," said Alfredo Lopes, president of the Association of Hotel Rio, as quoted by the SMH, Thursday (04/04/2013).

Brazilian government reveals that tourist rape case that happened in Rio is not the same as is happening in India. "This case is great, but not often. In Brazil this is not often the case, unlike in India," said Augusto Rodrigues, Criminal expert at the University of Rio de Janeiro.

Rape cases arise when Rio amid security preparations ahead of the campaign for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, as police prepared to control the slum houses and drug dealers.