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Cresta Valley Ski Resort in Alpine...

July 9, 2021

The abandoned but still largely in-tact Cresta Valley ski resort is a beautiful and tragic testimony to Australia’s changing climate. Shut down in 2003 after a bushfire destroyed much of its infrastructure, the chairlifts and Pomas at Cresta Valley still stand with their chairs neatly stacked beside them. Located within 100 meters of the Horn road, Cresta Valley is a trailhead for bushwalkers in the summer and a destination for tobogganers, cross country skiers, and snow-shoers in the winter....

Chatanika Gold Dredge #3 in Fairbanks, Alaska

July 9, 2021

This place was originally called the Fairbanks Exploration Company gold dredge #3. It was established in 1923 as a gold mining operation. Between 1926 and 1957, some $70 million worth of gold was extracted from this lake. At one time the population of the mining camp reached 10,000, making it bigger than Fairbanks, Alaska! The dredge ceased operations in 1962. It changed hands several times before Jane Haigh and Patricia Peirsol bought the property in 1997. Haigh is a historian and...

Ward Beach Boulders in Ward, New Zealand

July 9, 2021

On November 4th, 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped across multiple fault lines on New Zealand’s South Island. This earthquake caused immense devastation and irreversibly changed the landscape in many areas. One such area of dramatic landscape alteration was Ward Beach, about 83 miles (135 kilometers) northeast of the epicenter. Here, the land rose by over six feet (two meters). This caused the seafloor to uplift, exposing an otherworldly landscape. The area that is now exposed includes the K-T...

How Successful Hoteliers Handle Pricing Strategies for...

July 9, 2021

Analyses showed that hotels with a solid revenue management strategy came out of the Covid-19 crisis better than hotels without. In this article, you’ll learn how successful hoteliers handle pricing strategies for recovery, and how to deal with spillage, spoilage, overbooking, and oversell. Quick menu: Hotels With a Solid RM Strategy Came Out of the The post How Successful Hoteliers Handle Pricing Strategies for The Recovery appeared first on Revfine.com.

Singapore's Last Traditional Coffee Roasters May Soon...

July 9, 2021

Inside an aging industrial park, a nutty, sweet aroma wafts through the air. Smoke billows out of one particular shophouse in a row of red-brick, one-story factories. Inside, four men clad in polo shirts, hair nets, masks, and heavy-duty gloves emerge from the smoke. With metal rods, they repeatedly slam a mound of caramelized coffee beans inside a tub, breaking them apart. These are employees of Kim Guan Guan, one of the last traditional coffee roasters in Singapore. Jason...

Chico Hot Springs Giant Chicken in Pray,...

July 8, 2021

In the rolling grasslands north of Yellowstone National Park, along a path used for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding, stands a giant chicken. The chicken stands about nine feet tall and is brightly painted white, yellow and red. It is a surprising discovery for anyone exploring the trail, as the chicken is largely hidden from view by hills. There is no marker or plaque indicating why the chicken is here, but it’s believed to have once belonged to a short-lived...

Riace Bronzes in Reggio Calabria, Italy

July 8, 2021

How often do you get a chance to see two 2,500 year-old bronze warriors from classical Greece? These statues in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, spent more than 2,000 years submerged under the waves of the Ionian Sea. A diver discovered the pair in 1972 and within a week the bronzes were recovered by an elated Italian government. Stefano Mariottini chanced upon the bronzes while snorkeling off the coast of Riace. He noticed an arm emerging from the sand, which...

Found: A Massive Medieval Cathedral From a...

July 8, 2021

Beneath the sands of a deserted Sudanese town called Old Dongola, on the eastern bank of the Nile River, archaeologists have discovered traces of a time when the place bustled with life. Specifically, they’ve revealed a church that appears to be the largest ever discovered in the Nubian region, comprising parts of present-day Egypt and Sudan. Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw’s Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) believe they have found two walls of the church’s apse, painted...

Taedonggang Brewing Company in Pyongyang, North Korea

July 8, 2021

The team first arrived in the rural English town of Trowbridge in the summer of 2000. There were two brewers, two engineers, and eight government officials. They were all from North Korea, and they had come to take the brewery. Their leader, Kim Jong Il (nicknamed “Kim Jong Ale” by the residents of Trowbridge), had recently decided that North Korea needed a proper state-run brewery. But instead of building a brewery from scratch, the North Korean leader decided to...

Japanese Fishing Shrine (Umi Mamori Jizo) in...

July 8, 2021

Overlooking the dangerous waters of the Hālona Blowhole, the Japanese Fishing Shrine, Umi Mamori Jizo, stands guard. Composed of lava rock, the main part of the alter features Bodhisattva Jizo, an important saint of Mahayana Buddhism and the guardian of children, women, and travelers. Dating as early as the 1800s, the first-generation Japanese fishermen of Hawaii established shrines along East O’ahu beaches to protect them as they surf-cast for deep ocean fish. The present-day alter was built in 1940...

Castello di Castel d'Ario in Castel D'ario,...

July 8, 2021

This 10th-century castle was constructed by the Bonacolsi family, the leading family of Mantua before Gonzaga. Later, the castle was used by the Gonzaga and Scaligeri families. The fame of the castle is also linked to the history of Modena. In 1311, Francesco I Pico was designated by the emperor to manage the city of Modena. After only one year, he was hated by both the two major factions of the city (Guelph and Ghibelline) and was betrayed with...

Llao Llao Resort in Llao Llao, Argentina

July 8, 2021

In 1934, Exequiel Bustillo, president of the Argentine National Park Service, created Nahuel Huapi National Park. He called upon his brother, famed architect Alejandro Bustillo, to design a resort to attract wealthy tourists to the area. First opened in 1939, Llao Llao Resort was built in the style of the great Canadian lodges. Five thousand trees were cleared to build the resort. Soon after its completion, the building burned to the ground but was quickly rebuilt and reopened in 1940....

The Three Lost Children Walk & Monument...

July 8, 2021

In the winter of 1867, William Graham, Thomas Graham, and Alfred Herbert Burman (aged 4, 5, and 7) went for an adventure in the Victorian bush near Daylesford. This area is packed with dense forests and sprawling grasslands, somewhere that would make a great area to adventure, but unfortunately, the young boys vanished. Their disappearance caused a massive stir in the local community. The boy’s bodies were discovered three months later in a hollow tree trunk. This memorial takes...

Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain in Washington,...

July 8, 2021

Mellon Fountain is a beautiful tribute in bronze, granite, and quartz to Andrew Mellon, a wealthy industrialist, statesman, and founder of the National Gallery of Art. The gallery sits across Constitution Avenue just a short walk from the fountain. Sculpted by Sidney Waugh, the fountain features three nested bronze basins that allow water from a 20-foot spouting jet to cascade from the smaller center basins into larger circular basins below—and ultimately into a fourth granite basin at the bottom....

'Iron Henry' in Sheffield, England

July 8, 2021

Also known as “Parkway Man,” this statue of a steelworker is situated just off a pathway through Bowden Housteads Woods in Handsworth. As travelers drive into Sheffield along the Parkway, the major dual carriageway that runs between the city of Sheffield and Junction 33 of the M1, the statue is just past a large supermarket at the Handsworth junction. The cast-iron statue stands nearly 10 feet tall and weighs more than three tons. The statue was commissioned by the...

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