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The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 14 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Renowned for its beaches, places of worship and world heritage architecture, Goa is visited by large numbers of international and domestic tourists each year. During November – late February Goa has a overwhelming tourists response and that’s why I have given title as Tourists’ State “GOA”.

it is India’s smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Goa is India’s richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country as a whole. In last September I visited it with my friends.. Started our journey in train from Ahmedabad.

After 22 Hours of tiring journey we reached Goa. The cool and refreshing environment welcomed us in the Goa.

Beautiful Sunset @ the beach

Old 16th century Jail in the Goa city

Hotel from “TAJ Group”

Red colored Sand creates beautiful scenery of the sea waves

Coconut Trees (We can say Symbol of Goa)

KASHMIR.. “Heaven on the Earth”. I visited it quite a time ago and njoyed bliss and delight and peace of kashmir. The atmosphere was really amazing and refreshing. Here I have shared some of the pics.

I am not a writer or photographer. I am just blogger. As a blogger I want to share some of the memories of mine from Rajasthan. I had been to Rajasthan on holidays just 15 days back. It was great fun to be in the Rajasthan.

I had visited only two cities (Jodhpur & Jaisalmer). Jodhpur, the blue city and Jaisalmer, the golden city but rather I would say both as a Stone city .

you might be thinking that why both city as Stone city.. right? See below

Stone City

Umed bhavan the fort at Jodhpur. The fort looks awesome.

Umedbhavan fort

Old Rolls Royce

the place where king was buried after his death

temple in jodhpur

Here Comes the Jaisalmer (Golden City)

Amazing view from the terrace of my Hotel

View from the Fort

Map of the Jaisalmer Fort. Looks like Map of India

Around 300 families are living in Jaisalmer Fort.

Here comes the real Rajasthan.. Desert, Sand Dunes, Tents, FolkDance, and many more things at Sam Dunes just 40 kms away from Jaisalmer and 60 Kms from Pakistan Border.

The place where folk dance was performed in the evening @ tents

Last but not least music from some Rajasthani instrument and “tabla”. Really Great music. I had shot it through my cam but due to bad light the video is not much clear.. Hope you enjoy the music…

Wolwedans Dunes Lodge Hotel is located in the heart of the private nature reserve area of 185.000 hectares NamibRand in Namibia.  Treat yourself to an unforgettable stay, surrounded by wild nature, not forgetting about the comfort and style. Wooden construction with panoramic views of the desert in all directions, reminiscent of an original camp, but at the same time provide protection and comfort. Each of the nine spacious chalets with en suite and private terrace. In the main building are two lounges, a library, an outdoor fireplace, three restaurants, a wine cellar and swimming pool. Wolwedans Dunes Lodge. If you love nature and seek a peaceful and interesting to cleanse the mind and soul, Wolwedans Dunes Lodge – this is what you need.

The video is of an effect known in fluid dynamics as the coalescence cascade, which can be observed (provided you have access to a video camera with a sufficiently high frame rate) when a drop of liquid is deposited very gently onto the surface of a layer of the same liquid.

When a droplet impacts a pool at low speed, a layer of air trapped beneath the droplet can often prevent it from immediately coalescing into the pool. As that air layer drains away, surface tension pulls some of the droplet’s mass into the pool while a smaller droplet is ejected. When it bounces off the surface of the water, the process is repeated and the droplet grows smaller and smaller until surface tension is able to completely absorb it into the pool.

 

Pretty awesome, right? In the video shown up top, the effect manages to repeat itself four times (in what scientists who study fluid mechanics call “events”) before the viscous properties of the resting pool become too strong for the smallest drops to withstand coalescing completely. MIT’s John Bush claims to have observed as many as seven such events in a row.

While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.

Planted around 1930, the trees managed to grow for seven to 10 years before getting held down, in what is understood to have been human mechanical intervention. Though why exactly the original tree farmers wanted so many crooked trees is unknown.

UPDATE : After surfing more on this topic I came to know that these shapes were made intentionally. Read below comment :

This is not speculation. The trees were planted and form-curved to provide ready-made parts for furniture, specifically Thonet bentwood rockers.

As previously mentioned, there is significant cost associated with the steaming and clamping usually involved, growing the parts would be a logical labor reducer.

As also mentioned, 8-10 years after the planting of said trees, the region was overrun, and the manufacture of furniture was interrupted first by the re-tooling of plants for the war effort, and again by the invasion. Ultimately, production of the chairs began again, but after the war most of the parts for these chairs was produced in Czechoslovakia.