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Natural Beauty Remedies from Your Kitchen

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We are creations of nature. There is nothing ‘ugly’ among nature’s creations. The judgment of grades of beauty lies in the vision of the viewer. You look beautiful and radiant only when your inner beauty surfaces. This inner beauty is gained through yoga, meditation and the use of natural beauty enhancers.</div>
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Here are some natural products found in your kitchen that can be used as beauty aids:</h2>
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1. To make your skin glow</h3>
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Grate raw coconut and squeeze milk out of it. Apply this milk over your lips and face. It adds grace and glow to your skin.</div>
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2. Cleansing the skin</h3>
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Dip a piece of cotton wool in unboiled milk and wipe the face with it. It cleans unseen dirt a.</div>
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For normal skin, mix 1 tablespoon orange juice and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a cup of yogurt, to make a paste. Apply it on face as a mask and keep it on for 15 minutes. Then clean it off with a wet tissue. This mask enhances the complexion and glow of face.</div>
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4. Nourishing the skin</h3>
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A protein mask help to nourish your skin. Soak a teaspoon of urad dal and 5-6 almonds overnight. Grind this to a fine paste apply this protein mask on face and wash it off after half an hour. This mask nourishes the facial skin and also enhances the complexion.</div>
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5. Preventing wrinkles</h3>
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Application of pure castor oil prevents wrinkles and softens the skin. This slows down the aging process</div>
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6. Home made conditioner</h3>
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Mix one tablespoon of honey and 2 tablespoons of cream. Apply this mixture on the face and wash off after a few minutes. It works wonders.</div>
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7. Removing skin pigmentation and marks</h3>
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Rubbing a raw potato on face removes marks and pigments.</div>
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8. Sunscreen lotion from kitchen</h3>
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Prepare a homogenous mixture of cucumber juice, glycerin and rose water. Apply this mixture on face. This mixture can be refrigerated.</div>
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Natural Beauty Remedies from Your Kitchen

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are two great complexes of ancient temples in Southeast Asia, one at Bagan in Burma, the other at Angkor in Cambodia. The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD, represent one of humankind's most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled over a vast domain that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at Angkor today, more than 100 stone temples in all, are the surviving remains of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis whose other buildings - palaces, public buildings, and houses - were built of wood and have long since decayed and disappeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conventional theories presume the lands where Angkor stands were chosen as a settlement site because of their strategic military position and agricultural potential. Alternative scholars, however, believe the geographical location of the Angkor complex and the arrangement of its temples was based on a planet-spanning sacred geography from archaic times. Using computer simulations, it has been shown that the ground plan of the Angkor complex – the terrestrial placement of its principal temples - mirrors the stars in the constellation of Draco at the time of spring equinox in 10,500 BC. While the date of this astronomical alignment is far earlier than any known construction at Angkor, it appears that its purpose was to architecturally mirror the heavens in order to assist in the harmonization of the earth and the stars. Both the layout of the Angkor temples and the iconographic nature of much its sculpture, particularly the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><em style="color: #da8668; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">asuras</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(‘demons’) and</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><em style="color: #da8668; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">devas</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(‘deities’) are also intended to indicate the celestial phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes and the slow transition from one astrological age to another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the temple of Phnom Bakheng there are 108 surrounding towers. The number 108, considered sacred in both Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies, is the sum of 72 plus 36 (36 being ½ of 72). The number 72 is a primary number in the sequence of numbers linked to the earth’s axial precession, which causes the apparent alteration in the position of the constellations over the period of 25,920 years, or one degree every 72 years. Another mysterious fact about the Angkor complex is its location 72 degrees of longitude east of the Pyramids of Giza. The temples of Bakong, Prah Ko and Prei Monli at Roluos, south of the main Angkor complex, are situated in relation to each other in such a way that they mirror the three stars in the Corona Borealis as they appeared at dawn on the spring equinox in 10,500 BC. It is interesting to note that the Corona Borealis would not have been visible from these temples during the 10th and 11th centuries when they were constructed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angkor Wat, built during the early years of the 12th century by Suryavaram II, honors the Hindu god Vishnu and is a symbolic representation of Hindu cosmology. Consisting of an enormous temple symbolizing the mythic Mt. Meru, its five inter-nested rectangular walls and moats represent chains of mountains and the cosmic ocean. The short dimensions of the vast compound are precisely aligned along a north-south axis, while the east-west axis has been deliberately diverted 0.75 degrees south of east and north of west, seemingly in order to give observers a three day anticipation of the spring equinox.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike other temples at Angkor, Ta Prohm has been left as it was found, preserved as an example of what a tropical forest will do to an architectural monument when the protective hands of humans are withdrawn. Ta Prohm's walls, roofs, chambers and courtyards have been sufficiently repaired to stop further deterioration, and the inner sanctuary has been cleared of bushes and thick undergrowth, but the temple has been left in the stranglehold of trees. Having planted themselves centuries ago, the tree's serpentine roots pry apart the ancient stones and their immense trunks straddle the once bustling Buddhist temple. Built in the later part of the 12th century by Jayavarman VII, Ta Prohm is the terrestrial counterpart of the star Eta Draconis the Draco constellation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During half-millennia of Khmer occupation, the city of Angkor became a pilgrimage destination of importance throughout Southeastern Asia. Sacked by the Thais in 1431 and abandoned in 1432, Angkor was forgotten for a few centuries. Wandering Buddhist monks, passing through the dense jungles, occasionally came upon the awesome ruins. Recognizing the sacred nature of the temples but ignorant of their origins, they invented fables about the mysterious sanctuaries, saying they had been built by the gods in a far ancient time. Centuries passed, these fables became legends, and pilgrims from the distant reaches of Asia sought out the mystic city of the gods. A few adventurous European travelers knew of the ruins and stories circulated in antiquarian circles of a strange city lost in the jungles. Most people believed the stories to be nothing more than legend, however, until the French explorer Henri Mouhot brought Angkor to the world's attention in 1860. The French people were enchanted with the ancient city and beginning in 1908 funded and superbly managed an extensive restoration project. The restoration has continued to the present day, excepting periods in the 70's and 80's when military fighting prevented archaeologists from living near the ruins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orthodox archaeologists sometimes interpret the temples of the Angkor complex as tombs of megalomaniacal kings yet in reality those kings designed and constructed the temples as a form of service to both god and their own subjects. The temples were places not for the worship of the kings but rather for the worship of god. Precisely aligned with the stars, constructed as vast three dimensional yantras and adorned with stunningly beautiful religious art, the Angkor temples were instruments for assisting humans in their realization of the divine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jayavaram VII, spoke of his intentions in erecting temples as being:</span></div>
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19 Magnificent Abandoned Places On Earth

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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1. Abandoned railroad in France</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">Meaning “Little Belt Railway”, the Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture was conceived in 1848 as a means of transporting and dispersing troops swifty around the city’s major fortifications. At a time of revolution in France and across Europe, the military became increasingly reliant on the expanding railway network.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Once part of Cicero Township in 1869, the eastern section of North Lawndale to Pulaski Road was annexed to Chicago by an act of the state legislature. Thereafter, streets were platted and drainage ditches were installed between Western (2400 west) and Pulaski Road (4000 west). The name "Lawndale" was supplied by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Millard and Decker</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, a real estate firm which subdivided the area in 1870. In 1871, after the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great Chicago Fire<span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">,</span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> the McCormick Reaper Company (later </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">International Harvester<span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">)</span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> constructed and occupied a new large plant in the South Lawndale neighborhood. As a result, many plant workers moved to eastern North Lawndale. The remaining area west of Crawford Avenue was annexed in 1889 by a resolution of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cook County Commissioners<span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">.</span></span></div>
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Right in the middle of a small forest near Chatillon, a little village in Southern Belgium, is a graveyard of abandoned and beautiful rusty cars. These cars once belonged to US soldiers who were stationed in this region. It’s not known how they managed to acquire these beauties in the middle of the war. When the World War II ended, all military troops were sent back to the US, but the cost of having all those cars shipped was way too expensive. The ranking officers decided to leave all the cars in Belgium. The cars were driven up a hill, one by one, nicely parked and somehow hidden from the outside world.</div>
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Once back home in the US, the soldiers who wanted to retrieve their car had to take personal responsibility for all costs of the shipping. Not a single car was retrieved.</div>
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At one point there were four car graveyards around Chatillon, and as many as 500 vehicles. Only one remain today. Over time, corrosion and decay have worn down the vehicles and what little remained were stolen by the locals and car collectors.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Craco</b> is a ghost town and <i>comune</i> in the Province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The old town was abandoned due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location. In 2010, Craco has been included in the watch list of the World Monuments Fund.</span><br />
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<b>Lake Toplitz</b> (German: <i>Toplitzsee</i>) is a lake situated in a dense mountain forest high up in the Austrian Alps, 98 km (61 mi) from Salzburg in western Austria. It is surrounded by cliffs and forests in the Salzkammergut lake district, within the Totes Gebirge (dead mountains). The Toplitzsee water contains no oxygen below a depth of 20m. Fish can survive only in the top 18m, as the water below 20m is salty, although bacteria and worms have been found below 20m that can live without oxygen.</div>
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During 1943-44, the shore of Lake Toplitz served as a Nazi naval testing station. Using copper diaphragms, scientists experimented with different explosives, detonating up to 4,000 kg charges at various depths. They also fired torpedoes from a launching pad in the lake into the Tote Mountains, producing vast holes in the canyon walls. Millions of counterfeit pound sterling notes (£100+ million) were dumped in the lake after Operation Bernhard, which was never fully put into action. There is speculation that there might be other valuables to be recovered from the bottom of the Toplitzsee. The speculation is due to there being a layer of sunken logs floating half way to the bottom of the lake, making diving beyond it hazardous or impossible. Gerhard Zauner, one of the divers on the 1959 expedition reports that he saw a sunken aircraft below this layer.</div>
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The area is accessible only on foot by a mile-long path, as the K-Mautner-Weg is a private road that serves the Fisherman's Hut restaurant at the western end.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Curon in the tri-border region Italy-Austria-Switzerland comprises the Lago di Resia, Lago di S. Valentino and the Vallelunga valley.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The steeple that soars from the waters of the Lago di Resia is considered the symbol of the upper Val Venosta. However, the municipality of Curon has got much more to offer than Lake Resia and Lago di S. Valentino farther south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In summer this area is particularly popular with those who love cycling as the Via Claudia Augusta is one of the most frequented cycle tracks of Europe, stretching down towards Merano. If you love mountaineering, we recommend you the Vallelunga and the Val Roja, where hiking trails and Alpine routes stretch up the three-thousanderes at the border to Switzerland. This is also where the famous Palla Bianca glacier is located.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also in winter Curon in Alta Val Venosta is worth a visit. With Maseben, Belpiano and Malga S. Valentino, the municipality offers three skiing areas and is in part also connected to Nauders farther north. Not yet satisfied? Ice sailing, snow kiting, ice surfing at Lago Resia and a horse-drawn sleigh ride across the fariytale winter landscape make your holidays in Alta Val Venosta a special experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">The </span><b style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Kerry Way</b><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span><span style="color: #444444;">Irish</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="color: #444444;">:</span><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span lang="ga" style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" xml:lang="ga"><i>Slí Uíbh Ráthaigh</i></span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">)</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="color: #252525;"> is a</span> </span>long-distance trail<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in </span>County Kerry<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="color: #252525;">, Ireland. It is a 214-kilometre (133-mile) long circular trail that begins and ends in</span> </span>Killarney<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. It is typically completed in nine days.</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> It is designated as a </span>National Waymarked Trail<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> by the National Trails Office of the </span>Irish Sports Council<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> and is managed by </span>Kerry County Council<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, South Kerry Development Partnership and the Kerry Way Committee.</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The Way circles the </span>Iveragh Peninsula<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> and forms a walkers' version of the </span>Ring of Kerry<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> road tour.</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> It is the longest of Ireland's National Waymarked Trails.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">The Kerry Way was first proposed in 1982 and developed by members of the Laune Mountaineering Club and the Kerry association of </span>An Taisce<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, under the chairmanship of Seán O Súilleabháin.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> O Suilleabháin was inspired by a history lecture he had attended given by Father John Hayes on the subject of old roads and paths in the southwest of Ireland.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> Realising that "there was a spider's web-like network of roads and paths that could be combined to form a route around Kerry", he began devising the trail that would become the Kerry Way.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The first section – from Killarney to </span>Glenbeigh<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> – was opened by </span>Tánaiste<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> </span>Dick Spring<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in 1985.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> It was the second long-distance trail to be opened in the Republic of Ireland, after the</span>Wicklow Way<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The full route was completed in 1989 and opened by </span>Frank Fahey<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, T. D., </span>Minister of State<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> for Youth and Sport.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The trail was constructed by workers on </span>FÁS<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> social employment schemes at a cost of </span>IEP<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> £60,000 and involved the provision of over 200 stiles and six footbridges as well as waymarkers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan’s abandoned theme park Gulliver’s Kingdom “…was located between Aokigarah and Kamikuishiki, two areas that have some of the most disturbing reputations in all of Japan. Aokigarah is better known to Westerners as “the suicide forest,” where around 100 people take their lives every year and annual searches are necessary to clear the area of all the corpses. Kamikuishiki was home to the Aum Shinriyko doomsday cult that was responsible for the 1995 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway that left 13 people dead. Aside from the ghastly reputation of Kamikuishiki, the village was plagued with the residual smell of the cult’s nerve gas factory  for up to five years after the factories were closed up—and the smell wafted all the way over to Gulliver’s Kingdom.” —Neatorama</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Angkor Wat</b><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">) was first a </span>Hindu<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, then subsequently a </span>Buddhist<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, temple complex in </span>Cambodia<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> and the largest religious monument in the world. The temple was built by the </span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> King </span>Suryavarman II<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in the early 12th century in </span>Yaśodharapura<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">: </span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">present-day </span>Angkor<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">), the capital of the </span>Khmer Empire<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the </span>Shaiva<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to </span>Vishnu<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of </span>Khmer architecture<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. It has become a symbol of </span>Cambodia<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> appearing on </span>its national flag<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">16. 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">17. Hashima Island, Japan</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">18. Sunken yacht in Antarctica</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">19. Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, North Wales</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Hafodunos Hall</b><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> is a </span>Gothic revival<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> house located near the village of </span>Llangernyw<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in </span>Wales<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. Designed by </span>Sir George Gilbert Scott<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, it was built between 1861 and 1866 for Henry Robertson Sandbach, replacing a house that had been built in 1674.</span></span></div>
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How To Plan A Romantic Holiday In Amalfi Coast, Italy

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Myth Buster: </strong></em>Just because it’s a favourite destination with the rich and famous doesn’t mean that you can’t do it. There’s no travel that good planning can’t afford. Trust me, I’ve done it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Myth Buster: </strong></em>Unless you are on a super tight schedule, a day trip to Amalfi is not enough. I gave it three precious days in my Italy itinerary of 17 days and felt like I could have stayed forever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t believe me? Read on and decide for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you wondering what this is about, let’s start with a quick introduction. After sharing details of my honeymoon sojourn part deux, I thought it’s only logical to share where it all began. I went to Italy for my honeymoon (woohoo!). Much to my parents’ dismay, my husband and I spent more time researching our holiday than planning the wedding. We looked up every travel portal and spoke with every friend’s friend who had ever set foot on the Italian soil. Here’s a sneak peek into one of the most special chapters of my Italy diaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it’s just so beautiful. It looks like it’s straight out of a fairy-tale. Amalfi Coast is a stunning coastline in Southern Italy with steep cliffs that drop right into the sea creating a dramatic union of land, sea and sky. What adds to the charm are the lemon groves winding down the luxurious villas leaning out over the edge. No wonder it’s a favourite with writers and poets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Located just about two hours from Naples, you will also cross the ancient town of Pompeii, which was destroyed after the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The coast itself has a number of towns, the popular ones being Positano, Amalfi and Ravello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>10 Things You Didn’t Know About Italy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often, people plan a day trip to Amalfi from Rome (costing 217 Euros) or Naples (costing 85 Euros). The overall cost usually includes a trip to Pompeii followed by a coach tour to the coast with about one hour free in one of the towns. While this option works well if you are short on time, I strongly recommend spending at least one night by the coast if you really want to do justice to your travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you do decide to stay here, you will have the following three ways to reach.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Hotel Pick Up</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first option is to ask your hotel to send for a pick up at Naples. This is of course very convenient but much more expensive than if you were to take public transport. For some perspective, our hotel in Positano offered to pick us up from Naples at a charge of 100 Euros each way. Alternatively, they also offered to pick us up from Sorrento (the base town connecting Naples and Amalfi Coast) at a charge of 45 Euros each way.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Train + Bus</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both my husband and I love using public transport. No, not because we are stingy! We love the whole local experience, travelling with the locals, asking for directions, finding a new place all by ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our journey started with the Circumvesuviana Train that goes from Naples and takes you to Meta di Sorrento. Remember, this is not your fancy Euro Rail, this is a cheap (and dirty!) but safe and efficient way to reach the coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you reach Sorrento, which is the base of the cliff, there is a regular bus service called Sita Bus (don’t ask me why) which goes every half an hour to all the towns all the way to the top. So we took the “Sita Bus” to Positano. Obviously, this doesn’t drop you right up to your hotel. For that, you need to take another internal red bus till the hotel. It might sound a little complicated, but it’s really not. To give you an idea, we left Naples at around 9 am and checked into our hotel at Positano before lunch. Easy breezy!</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Self-Drive</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The third option is to rent a car and drive yourself. This is also a great option because the drive up the cliff is spellbinding. Just make sure you find a hotel that allows free parking, otherwise you would end up paying a lot for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Do You Know The 3 P’s Of Italy?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had booked a hotel called Conca D’Oro in Positano for two nights. At first I was a little disappointed because we had to climb an awful lot of stairs with our luggage to actually get to the hotel. But after much whining, all my complaints dissolved as soon as I stepped into this cosy little family-run property. The hotel was beyond beautiful and we had the most gorgeous sea facing balcony in our room. The morning welcomed us with clouds gliding through the window and nights were spent gazing at the stars twinkling over the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent months planning our Italy itinerary which we are very proud of, so for those of you planning or dreaming of a trip to Amalfi Coast, here are the details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After checking into our hotel, we headed out immediately to paint the town red. We stopped for lunch and had one of the best (and most expensive!) pizzas of the trip. Meals here in general are more costly than in say Rome or Florence. Then we just walked around and went to the beach. The town is quite small so you can easily cover all of it on foot in less than a day. But it’s so gorgeous that you can just soak in the views for hours. There isn’t much nightlife, so it’s best to catch a good dinner, buy some delicious (and very reasonable) Italian wine from the local grocery and take it back to your hotel for a relaxed time.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 2: Capri-Anacapri And Sorrento</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day we had planned to visit the islands of Capri-Anacapri. The ferry to the islands leaves from Sorrento so we had to take the bus back. Because we were running a little late, the lady at our hotel told us a ‘shortcut’ to the bus stop was through a staircase close to the hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A word of caution:</em> If an Italian tells you to take the ‘stairs’ be careful because in Italy stairs are like streets, long ones. This one seemed to never end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, don’t buy a tour from anyone on the ferry. It started raining and we bought a tour for 30 Euros each and ended up feeling quite cheated because the coach just took us up and down the island, which we could have easily done ourselves for one-fourth the price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it was raining we couldn’t go to the Blue Grotto, which otherwise is a must-do attraction from Capri. But we managed to explore both Capri and Anacapri with their little churches, boutiques and cosy little coffee shops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the evening we took the ferry back to Sorrento and spent a few hours exploring this town. Sorrento is busier compared to Positano and is a convenient hub for tourists because of its easy accessibility. There are a lot more reasonable restaurants and quirky geletarias that you can choose from. I even managed to shop for some clothes here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the third day while we checked out from our hotel, we were planning to spend the day exploring the rest of the coast. So we left our luggage at the concierge and went back to the bus stop (this time not from the ‘shortcut’!) and took the Sita to Amalfi. The drive is just so beautiful that it leaves you speechless. The town has a lively vibe with people relaxing by the sea or walking by the main market area. Since we were feeling particularly enterprising, we decided to take the bus up to Ravello. I must confess that being an obsessive literature enthusiast I also wanted to see Ravello because this was a favourite with both Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence. Yes, it is beautiful, but my loyalties remain with Positano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, we headed back to Sorrento and then Naples. But somewhere up there, maybe in the narrow staircase, maybe in the clouds, I left a piece of my heart behind.</span></div>
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