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Antalya – The Mediterranean Heaven

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Antalya is the biggest city on the Mediterranean cost of Turkey and one of the main tourist attractions of the country. This city make the visitors who came from all over the world fall in love with itself, unique bays , forests, caves, antique cities, history, cultural values, and with it’s natural beauties its being name as the Turkish Riviera and needless to say its one of the paradise corner of the world.  It has a typical hot Mediterranean Climate and sea temperature sometimes gets up to 28 degree in summer. Mostly more visitors on summer but this city is open for it’s visitors all year around. The most important beaches are within 1-2 kilometers Konyaalti And Lara beach. There are some other beaches sea shores sea sides with the most clean and beautiful sea side of the world for the travellers and for vacations such as; Side, Olympos, Kemer and Alanya.

The Yivli Minare Mosque (Ulu camii). The mosque’s fluted minaret, which is decorated with dark blue tiles, is a landmark and symbol of the city. The minaret was built in 1230 and is 38 metres high, built on a square stone base, with eight fluted sections and has 90 steps to the top.

The history of the city walls surrounding Kaleici,the ancient nucleus of the city of Antalya,a district which cannot fail to remind the visitor of a cultural garden of a thousand flowers adorned with the choicest buildings from the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and Republican periods, is in effect, identical with the history of the city itself.

Perge is situated 18 km east of Antalya, Perge is in the city limits of Aksu Bucagi. Because of its location on the Cilicia – Pisidia road, it was a vital part of the province of Pamphylia, and was founded around the same time as the other cities in the area (7th century BC). It was an important city for Christians of Perge who had worshipped the mother goddess Artemis. St. Paul and Barnabas visited the city and wealthy benefactors like Magna Plancia had a number of important memorials built here.

 

Myra was one of the earliest Lycian city.At the same time of the Lycian Federation,Myra was one of the most important city with tree voices in the Federation’s council.Although the history of Myra’s first foundation is not known from some Lycian ruins,rock-tombs and inscriptions found in the area.

Kaleici is the center of the city. It has been restored with a lot of hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants and shopping centers to serve the visitors again. The restoration work did not change the historical structure of the place which made place to win the Golden Apple Award being assumed the Nobel of the Tourism.

 

Hasan Subasi Cultural Park,located in the heart of Antalya’s cultural and touristic area of the Konyaalti district,houses the Antalya Cultural Center,the Glass Pyramid Sabanci Congress and Exhibition Center,semi-covered and open air exhibition areas,an Amphitheatre for seating capacity 1000 persons and recreational areas.The park is 12 km from the airport and walking distance of the three 5 star hotel(Falez-Sheraton-Hillside Su)

Hadrian’s Gate, dating from Roman times, was built to honor the emperor who visited the city in the year 130. The glass bridge under Hadrian’s Gate and over the walkway into Antalya’s Old Town reveals fragments of the Roman city.

The beaches of Antalya are famous for the blue flag lined shores. These beaches provide a picturesque view of the sea and the pine filled mountain of Taurus. Other nature highlights are also to be enjoyed in Antalya. There’s the Lower Düden Waterfalls that goes straight into the sea. The National Park provides camping grounds and a nature and wildlife museum.

Divan Hotel Antalya Talya, tastefully and spaciously set out and built right on the cliff top with a most superb sea view across Antalya Bay. It is the first and the only 5 STAR hotel in region which is located in the center of town providing a lovely beach privileges.

 

Antalya Museum: A prize winning museum and one of the most notable archaeology museums, of the world. It is also the only museum in Turkey with a children’s department exhibiting ancient monuments appealing to children. If you want to have services of good accountant than you should hire Accountant Manchester.

 

Kesik Minare (Broken Minaret): Once a Byzantine Panaglia church, later converted into a mosque.

 

 

Provinces of Antalya
Serik, Aksu, Muratpasa, Akseki, Demre, Manavgat, Elmali, Kumluca, Dosemealti, Korkuteli, Finike, Konyaalti,Kepez,Gazipasa,Kemer,Gundogmus,Kas,Ibradi.

 

Art, Nature

Rainbow Wallpapers

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A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. It takes the form of a single arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun.

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
Barbara Walters

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There’s a land where they’ve never heard of cholesterol.
Allan Sherman

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
Charles R Brown

“A rainbow wouldn’t be a rainbow if it was missing a single color.”
John Quale HRN

 

“Rainbows apologize for angry skies.”
Sylvia Voirol

 

“Everyone wants happiness,
No one wants pain,
But you can’t have a rainbow,
Without a little rain”
Zion Lee

Rainbows can be observed whenever there are water drops in the air and sunlight shining from behind at a low altitude angle. The most spectacular rainbow displays happen when half the sky is still dark with raining clouds and the observer is at a spot with clear sky in the direction of the sun. The result is a luminous rainbow that contrasts with the darkened background.

Art, Celebrities, Entertainment, Movies

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (MI 4)

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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a 2011 action spy film, and the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, and is director Brad Bird’s first live-action film. Ghost Protocol was written by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, and produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams (director of the third film) and Bryan Burk. It is the first Mission: Impossible movie to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film was released in North America on December 16, 2011. (Wikipedia)

The story of Ghost Protocol is simpler than the elaborate charades you made up as kids. Smoked out of a Russian prison, Ethan Hunt and his renegade team, have to hunt down a Russian scientist with nuclear launch codes and save the world.

Along the way are some derivative dialogues, some presences at making up subplots and but nevertheless a star who’s committed to the art of the action sequence.

But let’s be clear, the Mission: Impossible series is exactly was it’s supposed to be: a finely tuned action machine, and the latest instalment in Ghost Protocol offers cutting-edge escapism that’s almost guilt-free. Anybody expecting a Fellini film with a car chase is just being difficult for difficulty’s sake.

And when it comes to action no one does it better than Cruise. His work ethic is meticulous and anybody who’s willing to jump out of the Burj Khalifa gets my vote hands down.

 

 

 

 

 

The film thus ends up being a never-ending action ride from the windows of the world’s tallest building, to the tunnel under the world’s worst prison to the streets of Mumbai and into a parking lot apparently located in India, but which you know will not exist in the country for the next few decades.

 

 

 

From the perspective of the series as a whole, Ghost Protocol is easily the best instalment since the first one in 1996.

Your mission should you choose to accept it is 132 minutes of mind and reality bending action scenes,  beautiful women, fast cars and a turbo charged escape from the banalities of every day life.

Art, Celebrities, Entertainment, Movies

Breaking Dawn

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Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final novel in the The Twilight Saga by American author Stephenie Meyer. Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan’s perspective and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black. The novel directly follows the events of the previous novel, Eclipse, as Bella and Edward Cullen get married, leaving behind a heartbroken Jacob. When Bella faces an unexpected situation, she does what it takes to undergo the ultimate transformation and fight the final battle to save her love. (wikipedia)

Following are some great wallpaper collection of Breaking Dawn.

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LOVE – Quotes and Wallpapers

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Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
– William Shakespeare –

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
– Rusty Silvey –

Love is when you miss him even before he’s gone,
When you could listen to him talk all night
And never get tired of hearing his voice,
When the sound of his name sends chills down your spine,
And when you see his smile the second you close your eyes!
– Adriene Auckerman –

You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world.
– David Levesque –

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes
and see their heart.
– Jill Petty –

So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.
– William Shakespeare –

Love is smiling on the inside and out.
– Jennifer Williams –

The best things in life
can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
– Tony Farrar –

Love is a moment that lasts forever…
– Julie Wittey –

Real love is feeling like being a part of that person’s
life almost isn’t enough. It’s more like a feeling that
you would live in the same skin with them if you could
and share every thought, heart beat, and emotion as one.
– Rod Cannon –

Love is not blind – It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
– Will Moss –

Love, like a river, will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle.
– Crystal Middlemas –

Love feels no burden,
thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility…
It is therefore able to undertake all things,
and it completes many things,
and warrants them to take effect,
where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not.
Though weary, it is not tired;
though pressed, it is not straitened;
though alarmed, it is not confounded…
– Thomas A. Kempis –

Art, Entertainment, Nature

Burj Al Khalifa Dubai Fireworks New Year 2012

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The world’s tallest building Burj Al Khalifa marked the start of 2012 with a spectacular 10-minute show that saw fireworks shoot from the 828m tower in a blaze of color, illuminating the city. Sparkling comets in colors including green, purple and red spiraled down the Burj, as the tower was flanked by glittering firework displays across Downtown Dubai.

The crowds erupted as the pyrotechnics began just seconds ahead of midnight, with cheers and blaring horns marking the end of 2011. Out on Sheikh Zayed Road, traffic ground to a halt as motorists pulled over to enjoy the show as Dubai’s flag-shaped Burj al-Arab joined celebrations with its own fireworks.

 

While Burj Khalifa was honoured with the ‘Global Icon’ status by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) recently, an honour bestowed for tall structures only once in 10 to 15 years, At the Top, Burj Khalifa was most recently voted as the ‘Best Tourist Attraction’ at the ‘Best in Dubai’ awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New Year Eve Party 2012

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New Year’s Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year’s Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, drink, and watch or light fireworks to mark the incoming year.

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New Year 2012 – Fireworks

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The people all over the world ready themselves, celebrate and welcome the New Year 2012.  Fireworks have been popular for over 2,000 years, and have become a festival essential. When the clock announces the New Year, numerous households set off fireworks at almost the same time, creating a thunderous sound. Various multicolored fireworks are also displayed by official organizations. Today fireworks have become an indispensable part of celebrating grand festivals. New Year 2012 will welcome with open arms around the region with varying fantastic fireworks displays from all over the world. Here we are collected some amazing photos of New Year fireworks for you…

If you want to celebrate the New Year in a big, big way, head to one of these famous destinations, famed for their celebrations, fireworks and world-class attractions. Continue reading New Year 2012 – Fireworks →