The annual festival in Munich is one of the biggest folk festivals in the world.
The Oktoberfest folklore festival was included to the World List of (intangible) objects of special tourist attraction in 2018.
Every year Oktoberfest is visited by more than 6 million tourists who drink around 6 million liters of beer and eat 500,000 roasted chicken. The event takes place in the Theresa’s meadow, with an area of 26 hectares. Read More...
World Nomad Games are an international sport competition dedicated to ethnic sports practiced in Central Asia.
The countries taking part in those games are the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Russia (especially Sakha, Buryatia, Altay, Kalmykia, Bashkortostan republics, etc.) as well as other countries like Mongolia, Turkey, Afghanistan and the United States. The first two World Nomad Games were held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Read More...
Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian entertainment company. It is the largest theatrical producer in the world
Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 7 July 1984, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. Read More...
The Wuppertal Suspension Railway is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany.
Its full name is "Electric Elevated Railway (Suspension Railway) Installation, Eugen Langen System". It is the oldest electric elevated railway with hanging cars in the world and is a unique system. Read More...
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, France.
The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the red windmill on its roof. The closest métro station is Blanche. Read More...
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province Ontario and the American state of New York.
Niagara Falls is famed both for its beauty and as a valuable source of hydroelectric power. Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses has been a challenge for the stewards of the falls since the 19th century. Read More...
Darbar was everything a classical festival should be: a finely balanced blend of traditional forms and modern fusions, that jumped at the chance to both address its social history and engage with its cultural subject matter as a living tradition.
The Festival is dedicated to Bhai Gurmit Singh Ji Virdee (1937-2005), an inspirational teacher of the tabla in whose memory the Darbar Festival was first established in 2006. Read More...
Travellers visiting Prague will have an opportunity to see one of the greatest historical and cultural monuments in Europe.
Prague's historic district is divided into five distinct areas, each of which has its great features and attractions. Old Town is located on the right bank of the river Vltava. Read More...
Ichan Kala (Uzbek: Ichan-Qаl’а) is the walled inner town of the city of Khiva, Uzbekistan.
The old town retains more than 50 historic monuments and 250 old houses, dating primarily from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Djuma Mosque, for instance, was established in the tenth century and rebuilt from 1788 to 1789, although its celebrated hypostyle hall still retains 112 columns taken from ancient structures. Read More...
Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water. With 23,615.39 km3 of fresh water, it contains more water than the North American Great Lakes combined. Read More...
It was once a "palace city" where ordinary people were forbidden entry.
An extravagant demonstration of ancient Chinese architecture, over 8,000 rooms with golden roofs are elegantly designed and painted in red and yellow. Read More...
Carnival of Brazil is an annual Brazilian festival held between the Friday afternoon and Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.
Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another. Read More...
The Moscow Kremlin, usually referred to as the Kremlin, is a fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River to the south, Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red Square to the east, and the Alexander Garden to the west.
It is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. Also within this complex is the Grand Kremlin Palace. Read More...
One of the top tourist attractions in Tokyo is Robot Restaurant. Located in the Shinjuku nightlife district, it's one of the wildest shows on Earth.
The Robot Restaurant has become one of the things to do in Tokyo. It’s loud, bright, and completely assaulting to the senses. There’s dancing, fighting, cute girls and robots- everything that one would expect of a wacky show in Japan. Read More...
Disneyland Paris is an entertainment resort in Marne-la-Vallee, a new town located 32 km east of the centre of Paris, and is the most visited theme park in all of Europe.
It is owned by The Walt Disney Company through subsidiary Euro Disney S.C.A. The resort covers 19 km2 and encompasses two theme parks, many resort hotels, a shopping, dining, and entertainment complex, and a golf course, in addition to several additional recreational and entertainment venues. Read More...
There are more than a thousand fjords in Norway, all along the coast. But most of the iconic ones – those you may have seen on the postcards, like the Nærøyfjord, the Sognefjord, the Lysefjord, and the Geirangerfjord – are located in Fjord Norway.
The fjords resemble still blue lakes, but consist of saltwater – they are prolonged arms of the seas, often reaching deep inland with majestic cliffs towering above on both sides.
