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Barcelona seaport attracting huge crowd to experience its facelift

Barcelona seaport attracting huge crowd to experience its facelift
The city of Barcelona gave it’s a facelift during the Olympic Games which were held in the city in 1992. The account provided the city a new and permanent place in the mind of people all across the world. Till the time the city was regarded simply a tourist destination among the Europeans, however after the particular facelift the popularity of the city as a major seaport hub as well as a prime cruise destination across the continent. The cruise travelers arriving to the port of Barcelona are treated with the trademark parabolic curves of its mainly renowned son Antoni Gaudi, who was a very popular modernist architect, whose presence is felt everywhere in the city by means of his architecture. A metropolitan where artistic aptitude is mark bulky structures of Barcelona as well showcase the  [...] 

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Live the best life in Osaka

Live the best life in Osaka
The port of Osaka is rapidly increasing its services just to satisfy all of the passengers, crews and shipping lines. The number of tourists is growing every year making it one of the best tourist destinations. It is the maritime gateway to the well-known historical cities, Kyoto and Nara and is also very close to Kansai International Airport. Large cruise ships are also docks here. When I went to explore Osaka, I was firstly fascinated with such an amazing port in between the waters. While traveling by cruise I enjoyed all the scenic beauties that boosted my interest ahead and made me to think how exactly the city will be. Osaka has always been at the centre of life in Japan. As it is the gateway to mainland Asia, new ideas in science, culture and philosophy has become the base of the city.  [...] 

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Venice: Where water and land meet

Venice: Where water and land meet
When it comes about cruise destinations in the Mediterranean then I will say Venice is one of the best ports that offer magnificent sights throughout the city. Venice is among the busiest cruise ports in the Mediterranean and is located in Italy, Europe. Approximately, 500 ship and 700,000 cruise passengers every year comes to be a part of this fantastic beauty of the nature. The Venice Cruise Terminal lies close of 4 kilometres causeway that connects the historic city with the mainland. The terminal is also called as Terminal Venezia Passeggeri and comprises of two main areas which is Maritima basin and the San Basilio pier. The Marittima basin can handle the largest ships and the San Basilio pier is just around the curve in the Giudecca Canal. The port gets end from where the watery city  [...] 

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Stroll across the untouched island of Corsica

Stroll across the untouched island of Corsica
The untouched Corsica Island blends the most excellent of Italy as well as France with its fashionable and attractive beach resorts plus spectacular mountain series. Those coming to the island by means of boat will observe why Corsica Island has been acknowledged as a ‘mountain in the sea’, as it swanks almost 50 peaks that stretches more than 2,000 m. Cruise tourists can glance frontward to seafaring into a fine-looking bay along with mountains at the base of the township. Ajaccio is the capital of the island as well as is the majority famed for being the origin as well as premature house of Napoleon Bonaparte. If truth be told, the so-called ‘Cité Impériale’ even today carries an impressive cultural as well as architectural air. Sightseeing The shore asphalt road cafes  [...] 

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Muscat and its beautiful sights

Muscat and its beautiful sights
There are many attractions in Muscat that could be listed one by one with a variety of distinguishing features. Yes, Muscat, a fantastic place I have ever been earlier which lies in Oman far towards the Middle East. Muscat is the capital and largest city in Omen that offers brilliant varieties of attractions to the tourists who throng here from all over the world. The name Muscat is resulted from a term which means safe anchorage and is an appropriate description of the city’s protected harbours. The harbours are enclosed by jagged mountains and are witnessed by the 17th century forts. It is a real Arabia that has never buried its head into the sands and also never unnerved its heritage in the rush of modernization. As Oman is the second largest country in Arabia it also grabs most of the  [...] 

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Hong Kong: A real paradise

Hong Kong: A real paradise
Hong Kong is among most exciting destinations in the world. It is a colorful, flourishing mixture of ancient Eastern culture and Western modernization. If we date back to the some 5,000 years ago, then we will realize that the Chinese history and their traditions are still alive which is covered with 150 years of British colonial power. British surrendered to China in the year 1997 and then the city remained as a free-market zone. Residents even today referred to the border of mainland China and for that reason visitor who comes from the West have got to obtain tourist visas so that they can cross the border of China. These need a photo and usually all these take some three days for the procedure. Simply, it is very hard to compete with Hong Kong in terms of cultural diversity, architectural  [...] 

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Sail in the City of Dubai as to enjoy the huge mega-shopping festival

Sail in the City of Dubai as to enjoy the huge mega-shopping festival
Dubai city is no more looking above its bear at ‘The West’; it is extremely tiring screening what an Arabic emirate is capable of doing on its own. Travel by water into a harbor as well as grand vision of Dubai is without delay evident as a glinting lay down of designer buildings, which includes the tallest building, Burj Khalifa, as well as a sequence of offshore artificial islands (the 3 Palms as well as the World) indicator the coastline of this strange square of desert. Hardly 30 years in the past Dubai city was nonentity above a shabby haven across the Gulf. At the present, with its enjoyment citadels in the atmosphere, it is the metropolitan of the prospect. Sightseeing Dubai Creek is the most important attraction of the city, accompanied by good quality sights of Dubai city  [...] 

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Check-out the colorful coral reefs on your way to Jordan through Aqaba cruise

Check-out the colorful coral reefs on your way to Jordan through Aqaba cruise
‘To Aqaba,’ whimpered Peter O’Toole in the epic film of Sam Lean, Lawrence from Arabia, coated in Wadi Rum of Jordon. Those everlasting words are spring to chime inside your ears when you glide into this momentous harbor. Obviously, Lawrence as well as the grown with the Bedouin tribes who belonged to the Arab Revolt would have advanced the township crosswise the desert to a certain extent than by the seaway as well as would as a result have missed out the amazing panorama enjoyed by the majority of cruise vessel travelers, of the stranded Gulf of Aqaba, circled by reddish-brown barren region mountains. A number of Aqaba’s aged history stays among the graceful original resorts of beloved seashore township of Aqaba. Sightseeing Aqaba port is merely a way in by the seaway  [...] 

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Living the ancient city of Shanghai

Living the ancient city of Shanghai
Shanghai, which is a crown of China offers magnificent sites and attractions to the tourists who throng here from all over the world. The port of Shanghai includes a deep sea port and also a river port. And this two gave lots of sightseeing options to us when we entered the port by cruise to explore the city of Shanghai during our vacation. In the year 2005, this port transported 443 million tons of cargo and became the busiest port in the world by Cargo tonnage. What fascinate us more is that the port of Shanghai is the third largest port in the world and is also the largest seaport in China. The closest airport from the port is the Shanghai Airport and is situated at a distance of 15 miles away from the port. We would have traveled by air but what gave us more pleasure is by cruise. The major  [...] 

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Ancient Kyoto: Cultural heart of Japan

Ancient Kyoto: Cultural heart of Japan
People always focus on airplanes when it comes about tourism but have you ever planned a trip with cruises. Truly, this is a real tourism for me. Travel by cruise explore the water and surrounding and then when you dock at the port explore the rest of the attractions in the city and grab all the happiness that will make you feel pleasure. I say this as I felt the real pleasure by traveling on cruise and exploring Kyoto which is the ancient capital of Japan. Well, we all know that Japan offers unlimited attractions which is an eco-tourism city and also has worth to visit. Kyoto has over 2,000 temples and shrines as it is a place of pilgrimage and also a real open air museum. I got shocked when I heard that Kyoto has total 17 major sites that gained the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.  [...] 

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