Posted by Seattlecontactimprovisation team on Tuesday Jun 7, 2011
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The tourist attractions that commonly called the attention of travelers are: archaeological zones, beaches, museums, constructions, cultural events and monuments.
However, are not always these factors that encourage tourists to carry out their travel. There are places that are characterized by a geographical location of difficult access, which is complicated reach even in vehicles aerial and ground; but that, without doubt, they have become the favorite sites of adventurers who like to the challenges.
* Alert, Nunavut. The island of Ellesmere Port, north of Canada, is the headquarters of the human settlement. Its territory is almost 200 thousand square kilometers, similar to the island of Great Britain. An estimated population is 200 people. Administratively, the island belongs to the territory of Nunavut and the Region Development. The most of the time is occupied as a military base and there is a study center for weather.
* Tristan da Cunha. It is an archipelago of the South Atlantic and to reach it is complicated, because it is surrounded by cliffs. It is considered the inhabited island more inaccessible to the earth and maintains this title in the book of Records Guinness. Its mountainous has a volcanic origin and a 40 percent of this site is protected natural reserve by UNESCO.
* Pitcairn Islands. Form part of an archipelago of Polynesia, in Oceania. The excursions to this place are made on rare occasions, it becomes complicated access this territory. Is characterized by being one of the 16 territories under supervision of Decolonization Committee of the United Nations. Stretches in an area of 47 square kilometers. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Seattlecontactimprovisation team on Saturday May 28, 2011
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Paquimé is a site fact adobe with rounded corners and doors in the form of “T.” It is not known with certainty about the constructed or why the left, but it is the archaeological zone of the northern of the country.
It seems a maze with walls of the color of the earth, taken out of a film of science fiction. It is composed of housing, temples, ovens and courts of ball game. Vestiges Remain of buildings that were once seven floors.
They know that was an important center of trade, had turquoise, conch brought by tones from the coast of Sonora, Sinaloa and Baja California; also, the parrots and their feathers.
40 Horses
It is a set of small homes located in caves along a ravine, whose role was to protect their inhabitants of enemy tribes and monitor commercial Paquimé.
We talk about 40 houses to simply indicate that there are many. In fact, archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History have discovered in that Canada 10 sites with traces of pre-Hispanic constructions, most of them mere coats rocky with fragments of walls. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Seattlecontactimprovisation team on Thursday Mar 17, 2011
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The archaeological zone of Tulum will have the new service of nightly with special lighting and audio in several languages. The purpose of the new project is to spread in the form attractive the history of the archaeological site and extend the hours for the large number of visitors during the day.
According to statistics from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Tulum is the second most visited the country, the first to foreign visitors and which receives greater number of people around the state of Quintana Roo.
The program of night visits consists of a journey on foot along the paths of the site to appreciate the main monuments lit: all the central area, the Castle, the buildings in the Compound Interior and the northern part of the area walled, which includes the House of Cenote, the Temple of the Frescoes, the House of Halach Uinic (or Great Lord), the House of Columns and some other structures that belong to the House of Chultún.
Before the start of the tour will offer a presentation audioaudiogual will be a complementary service for travel and its use will be optional at a cost of income.
All the details of the lighting were strictly cared to ensure the protection and preservation of the monuments, the time to allow their enjoyment by part of the visitors.
It is a type of luminaries known as Leds (stands for light-emitting diode), which are semiconductor devices of greater resistance and durability that traditional incandescent lamps. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Seattlecontactimprovisation team on Wednesday Nov 11, 2009
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As a new kind of tourism that each time it is becoming much more remarkable and intriguing to the public in general are the so-called tourism anthropological, a proposal that represents a much more expansionary in the history of civilizations that occupied (and occupy) the place where we are going. One can say that more than fixed in every sense of what it means the anthropology, is devoted mainly to the branch of the cultural anthropology (also called social) which is mainly dedicated to learning of cultures, the people that the shape and all their customs (political, social, beliefs, etc).
The tourism anthropological to link the natural characteristics of the place where we are in relation to use that gives you the social culture that we live in this way we can carry out activities next to the settlers who will enable us to know a little more about the way of life in contact with nature or touring through the architecture of a place that dates back to ancient times known civilizations that once existed there. As you can realize, the activities of tourism anthropological are designed entirely for learning intellectual at the same time it is called the besttourist destinations of certain town or city.