Showing posts with label web traveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web traveling. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2013

Treehotel

Satisfy the boy's dream inside you. How about complete isolation, in a near zero-emission resort, in rooms designed by Scandanavia’s leading architects? “Treehotel offers a unique hotel experience: treerooms with contemporary design in the middle of unspoiled nature,” say the creators. “Here you can forget about the time constraints of everyday life, enjoy the serenity, and rejuvenate in a sophisticated yet familiar environment.”




The hotel has a total of 24 rooms with five unique designs, all of which complement their natural surroundings in very different ways.













The Mirrorcube is the first and arguably most striking of the five designs. Hidden deep in the forest and camouflaged by mirrored walls that reflect the surroundings, the room is built around a tree trunk and is supported by an aluminium frame covered with reflective glass.







If the other rooms try to integrate with their natural surroundings, the UFO aims to stand out from the crowd. Thirty square metres of cosy interior covered by durable composite metal, the UFO provides plenty of living space and extra modern furnishings in its hull.









The Bird’s Nest is a room of contrasts: from outside, a stack of twigs, bleak and uncompromising. The interior, however, is familiar and warm with space for two adults and two children.









The Cabin was developed to exhibit the best views over the Lule River Valley. The roof terrace also means you can eat your dinner under the Northern Lights.









The ironically-titled Blue Cone (it’s red) is the quintessence of simplicity and accessibility. The room is a traditional wooden structure with three foundations in the ground to give a sense of height and lightness, but also stability.


No Scandinavian hot spot would be complete without a Scandinavian hot spot, so Tree Sauna is the perfect way to sweat those metropolitan worries away.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Scale of the Universe

How big is a strange quark, compared to the Rotten Egg Nebula? How big is the total human weight, compared to the sun?These are questions you may never have asked — indeed, their answers are perhaps of dubious value — but I bet you’re still curious… The Scale of the Universe is a mind-blowing flash site that can travel you from the scale of a string to the scale of tha known universe... You should definately check this out...


Scale of the universe 1

Scale of the universe 2

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Faviken Magasine

If you are craving a Christmas meal with an authentic flavor, then book your reservation for Sweden’s Fäviken Magasine a restaurant set on 24,000 acres of pristine farmland where chef Magnus Nilsson creates his version of Scandinavian locavore cuisine using seasonal produce and sourcing ingredients locally. With Fäviken’s grounds covered in snow for six months out of the year, Nilsson relies on pickling, fermenting, curing and other old-fashioned preservation techniques through winter.
Check out one of the 50 greatest restaurants in the world, and one of the greatest chefs, too.



Chef Magnus Nilsson. All Photos: Howard Sooley


Fäviken Sweden


Fäviken estate



Scallops on bed of moss & juniper


Brown trout roe in pigs blood “baskets”



Raw milk and sugar for coffee with meadow sweat candy and dried berries


Cured meats and onion display in the dining room.


Wolfskin coat



Sunday, December 2, 2012

Zhangye Danxia

    It seems that the day when the Earth decided to create this landscape, it was celebrating a party. This is a real landscape located at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, a remote region in northern central China.Even for the undeniably powerful Mother Nature, creating something this arty wasn’t easy. It in fact took 24 million years of painstakingly laying down mineral deposits to form these rocks, like pouring different colours of sand into a jar. Over time these weighty layers were compressed into rock, and then a slight and unthinkably slow ripple from the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates rumpled the landscape into those magnificent undulations to complete the effect (meanwhile also giving rise to the Himalayas). Thus the amazingness of Zhangye Danxia was formed.

Zhangye Danxia

Zhangye Danxia 2

Zhangye Danxia 3

Zhangye Danxia 5

Zhangye Danxia Geopark


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Tag Galaxy

Explore the world! Tag Galaxy is a cool flash website that presents the earth's different places as planets in small galaxies. Search the city you want, click on its planet and a variety of beautiful pictures appears. Select the picture you like and click on it again for linked information. Web traveling!!!

http://taggalaxy.de/

3d flash websites