10 Best Places to Live for Escaping World Conflict. Where would you be the safest if World War 3 broke out tomorrow?
Perhaps it’s a grim subject, but safety and distance from world conflict can be a motivating factor in your choice to expatriate. At the very least, conflict around the world can weigh heavy on the soul, and it’s nice to know there are some places still left in the world where you might be left in peace. Thus, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 best places to live if you want to escape world conflict. 10. Switzerland Switzerland’s long history of neutrality and its tucked away location among the valleys of the Alps still make it a safe bet, even despite having a high number of bordering nations. 9. Costa Rica has a stable democracy, a disbanded military and a national policy of neutrality. 8.
There are regions of Papua New Guinea that are still being discovered for the first time. 7. 6. Glass Beach – The Dump You’ll Want to Visit. Before you say anything about the content of this article, I hate people who litter.
I’ll judge you if I think you’re too lazy to recycle. I hate pollution and the death of our fragile ecosystems and all the rest. But- with that disclaimer out of the way- Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California is the incredible result of human wastefulness and the resilience of nature. It’s like a little Inuksuk… I’ve been trolling around for lesser known landscapes to road trip to and explore, and stumbled across this chunk of multicoloured west coast paradise. These days, Glass Beach is a protected part of MacKerricher State Park, but in 1949, it was the site of an unrestricted dump. Eventually, California realized that dumping automobiles, appliances, toxic substances and razor sharp shards of glass into the water was probably a bad idea, and looked elsewhere for a dumping site. The beaches under the cliffs lay polluted, cluttered and ruined, and were basically treated as a forgotten ‘mistake.’ Pb248534.jpg (JPEG Image, 900x650 pixels) - Scaled (93%)
Canyonlands-White Rim Trail-Junction Butte. Iceland-waterfall.jpg (JPEG Image, 960x640 pixels) - Scaled (95%) 11 Reasons Why I Love Thailand – Nomadic Matt's Travel Site. I’ve been to Thailand more times than I can count.
I’ve lived in Bangkok twice, and if I stay away for more than a year, I feel as if a piece of me is missing. It’s been 18 months since I’ve last been here, and my excitement oozes off me like sweat during a hot Bangkok summer. People often ask me why I return to places I’ve already visited instead of exploring somewhere new. Well, that’s an easy answer—it’s because I feel attached to them. I feel at home when I’m visiting them. And why do I love Thailand so much? The Delicious Food When people say they like Thai food but haven’t been to Thailand, I can’t help but think, “You’ve never really experienced Thai food.”
Moreover, there’s a lot of savory international food in the country. Fiume Flegetonte. Purtroppo Wildvisions perde subito uno dei nuovi membri appena entrati a far parte del team: Antonio Zimbone saluta il gruppo prematuramente per scelte personali. Attualmente il team preferisce prendersi un periodo per riflettere e decidere cosa fare, ci scusiamo con chi ci segue e speriamo in meglio, buone ferie e buona luce! Sadly, Wildvisions lose one of its new members right away: Antonio Zimbone says goodbye to the team for personal choices. As of now the team prefers to take some time to think and to decide what to do, we apologize to those who follow us and we hope for the better, have a nice summer holiday and a good light! "L'Articolo e la foto di Matteo sulla transizione di Venere davanti al Sole del 6 Giugno 2012.
Una foto più unica che rara in quanto il prossimo evento si ripeterà solamente tra 105 anni! " "The Article and photos taken by Matteo on the transit of Venus across the Sun on the past 6 June 2012. Pamukkale – Turkey’s Cotton Castle. In Turkish the name literally means Cotton Castle and it is easy to see why it was given that.
Yet this geological wonder is also the site of the ancient city of Hierapolis and over the centuries the two have seemed to come together, merged almost, in to one. In fact some of the old tombs in the city's necropolis have beome part of landscape - literally. The site itself is a series of travertines and hot springs. The travertines here have a concentric appearance and are almost sheer white giving the area an ethereal, other worldly appearance. The hot springs precipitate calcium carbonate at their mouths and produce the strange almost organic looking structures. Before the area was declared a World Heritage Site it had its fair share of troubles. The travertine pools are at the top of a cliff which looks like, from a distance, that it is made from chalk or has been whitewashed by some giant Turkish Tom Sawyer doing his chores.