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The World Heritage List
The 730
properties which the World Heritage Committee has inscribed on the World
Heritage List (563 cultural, 144 natural and 23 mixed properties in 125 States
Parties)
The World Heritage Committee has inscribed the following properties on the World Heritage List. The List, arranged alphabetically by nominating State Party, is current as of 29 June 2002. The list will be updated following the next meeting of the Committee in June 2003.
http://www.worldinfocountries.com/
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPETOWN
The HoutBay Hideaway Cape Town
PN Suite 198
Private Bag X4
HoutBay 7872
CAPE TOWN, WP
South Africa
T: +27 (021) 790 8040
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Greenwood Guides appraisal forms, while brilliantly
designed, do not easily cater for the varied delights of houses such as The Hout
Bay Hideaway. By the time I left Niels’s magical kingdom I was all but writing
on my trousers in an effort to record everything I had seen and heard. Art Deco
furniture - lights, chaise longue, Bakelite ashtrays, armchairs et al - is the
defining motif, but competes for attention with the stunning garden, views,
fireplaces, paintings, and Niels, one of Holland’s finest. There are three
suites
and two apartments all abounding in character. Honeymooners will love the
double-headed shower of the Garden Apartment, while older-school romantics can
fight over the views of the mountains from the aptly-named Skylight Suite. My
favourite was the Deco Apartment, with furniture from the Amsterdam school,
Zambian sculptures and a discreet outdoor shower where you can munch grapes
hanging off the trellis. The house melts into its surroundings because its
colour, which attracts strangers in off the street, derives from the garden’s
eucalyptus tree. Niels does not do things by halves! Want to cool off outside?
Choose between pool and fully-plumbed bath. Need a drink? Enjoy the open bar in
its 230-year old cupboard. Fancy a drive? Then hire one of the vintage Jaguars.
I could go on for hours. House can be hired in its entirety, children 12+
welcome.
ARTICLE
FROM 'HOUSE AND LEISURE' - June 2001
Niels has very definite taste. So says decorator Cheryl Henry who
'acted mostly as a second eye on colour' as Niels put the finishing touches to
his new home in Hout Bay. How did the Amsterdam-born travel management
consultant, who has lived in such diverse places as Argentina, Zambia, Germany
and the Middle East, come to reside in South Africa? It began with a short
holiday in March last year. Niels was taken on a drive by an old friend, who
pointed out a charming but run-down 'barn-like' house in a leafy indigenous
garden. Within 10 days, Niels had not only purchased the house (which was not
for sale), but also enlisted the services of an architect and a builder. It was
time to take a well-earned sabbatical from the travel industry and Niels found
that Cape Town suited his 'environmental, cultural and personal needs'. Plans
were finalised via email from Amsterdam and by November, all that was left was
for Niels to pack his furniture and move.
'The house was designed around my furniture, not the other way round,' says
Niels. Hardly surprising when you consider that he has been collecting
furniture, art and objets for nearly 30 years. Each piece has a story behind it
- and Niels' enthusiasm is evident as he leaps up and starts to take his
bookcases apart. 'They're Globe-Wernicke. English. Built from around 1890. The
motto on the trademark reads: "Always complete but never finished." They were
probably the first modular pieces ever made. Designed so you could add on as
your book collection, or budget, grew. The bookcase in the lounge is made up of
12 different pieces - they may once have been owned by 12 different people. The
one in the study has 16 pieces.' Antique store finds - like a rare two-seater
'conversation couch' - have been carefully restored, 'stuffed with horsehair,
not foam', and reupholstered with original fabric from the '30s.
There's a remarkable consistency to Niels' style - although his pieces have been
collected all over the world. Art Deco clocks found in Argentina sit side by
side with vases from the Amsterdam School. Most of the contents of his home are
circa 1890 to 1935. Right down to the exquisite crockery and cutlery sets. 'I
don't know why I love that period, perhaps I had a previous life,' says Niels,
'I just buy what I feel comfortable with, and it all works together somehow.'
Clearly Niels has a most discerning eye - some of his most precious lamps were
spotted under piles of rubbish at flea-markets.
Moving to Cape Town has not stopped Niels from collecting. Far from it. His
handsome brass tea set - another Deco piece - was found in Loop Street. Dark
brown leather armchairs were sourced from Klooftique. He has also added unusual
touches to his Hout Bay Hideaway to take advantage of the 'clean, fresh air and
natural environment' that attracted him to South Africa - like creating an
outdoor bathroom in his lush green garden. It's a place where he likes to relax
and contemplate his dream of turning his home into an exclusive private hotel.
That's when he's not scouring the antique shops and flea markets of Cape Town
for all things Art Deco.
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CHINA
INDIA
Kerala
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is the
most colour full water festival in South India. This is associated with Onam
the harvest festival in Kerala. This water regatta, unlike the other boat
races of Kerala, is not a contest but a retracing of a ritualistic journey
undertaken to the Aranmula temple for many centuries. Traditionally, the
grand feast was the ritual offering to the deity of the Aranmula temple.
Vegetables, cereals and other provisions for this elaborate feast were
brought to the temple in a procession of snake boats. The procession is
conducted along the route traced centuries ago on the deity's birthday in
the lunar Calendar. Thousands of excited people throng the waterside to
cheer the majestic crafts that slice through the waters with hundreds of
oarsmen roaring in rhythm to the boat mans songs. Please find a detailed
itinerary for holidays in Kerala combined with Aranmula snake boat
procession.
INDONESIA
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High up on the hillside of Nusa Dua area, overlooking the Indian Ocean and walking distance away from the beach is The Balé.
The modern resort made up of only 20 private pavilions with private pool is truly original in all its aspects but especially in it’s design, contemporary and minimalist but yet with some Indonesian elements.
For those seeking something else than the usual Spa, here at The Balé, travelers have the opportunity to rejuvenate their bodies, expand their minds and spend quality time with a partner.
The Balé is just located walking distance (5 minutes) from Geger beach, a nice white and clean beach where the tide is comfortable for Surfing and mostly guests coming starting from the beginning of June until the end of September.
People from other areas in Bali, especially from Kuta and Legian will spend their time in this beach, especially surfers. There are some small Cafés serving food & beverage. From the beach you can see the Geger temple.
Unfortunately, snorkeling is not possible here but in Tanjung Benoa, only 7 minutes drive away from the resort. There guests can practice snorkeling, water sports and other activities. The resort also has a private beach club nearby the property where guests can spend quality time with their partners. F&B are also available our beach club.
As part of our philosophy, the Spa provides a wide selection of treatments in well-designed treatment rooms complimented with Sauna, a Steam Room and Whirlpool with garden and water features. A complete modern Gym is also located next to the Spa.
Galleria Nusa Dua (well known shopping mall in the area) is only 5 minutes drive from the resort while there are several shops and traditional market nearby the property, at only 10 minutes walking distance.
Free transfers within Nusa Dua area are available for the guests 24 hours / daily.
The Spa, in line with the resort, is designed with water lanes that accentuate clean lines mixed with blonde Yogja stone. In order to reach the balance in spiritual dimension we are also working on meditation, yoga or simply focusing on breathing techniques that offer physical and psychological benefits in one.
Extension to the health and beauty treatments available at the Spa is spent solely to achieve one's self-fulfillment and healing of the body, mind and spirit.
Wherever possible, we use organic food, grown locally using sustainable and responsible techniques. Wide selection of items is available at the gourmet restaurant, 'FACES' located by the main pool, which features an open kitchen.
The food offers a balanced menu with light and contemporary cuisine thoughtfully prepared by our team led by our Executive Chef, Ken Gomes.
The Balé fully brings to life the Body, Mind & Spirit philosophy of Sanctuary Resorts.
“The Luxury Resort where adults choose to balance their body, mind and spirit in the privacy of their own pool Villa”
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SOUTH PACIFIC
From: Opionated Traveller – Truth in Travel
VANUA LEVU AND TAVEUNI: FIJI'S FORGOTTEN NORTH
They call it Fiji's "Forgotten North" but once you've been here, you'll find it unforgettable.
Many international travellers are familiar with the glamorous resorts of the Coral Coast of Fiji's main island of Viti Levu, where the capital and international airport are located, and the castaway getaways on the offshore Mamanuca islands.
Unfortunately, most miss the persuasive and insidious charms of the northeastern part of the archipelago. Eco-tourism and "soft" adventure seem to be the current sweetheart notions of every third world nation-in-the-sun as the west's travel consultants hustle to provide increasingly offbeat answers to their affluent customers' increasingly strident cry: "Where is there that's new to go?
And what shall we do when we get there?" Different locations provide different responses. In some places, eco-tourism does more harm than good. The well-meaning hordes scramble across virgin territory in pursuit of elusive rarity.
But here, in a country whose population is increasingly dividing into "urban" and "rural" Fijians, is where you'll experience what many will proudly tell you is the real Fiji. Here, the friction between Indian and Fijian that the ill-tempered Paul Theroux mistakenly claims has "destroyed" Fiji is nowhere evident.
At 5,500 square km., Vanua Levu is the second-largest island in the Fiji chain, but despite a couple of luxurious resorts it has none of the international hustle and "sophistication" of Viti Levu. Visitors are still rare enough to be welcomed as guests, and quickly become friends.
Even further off the beaten South Pacific tourist track is Taveuni, just east of Vanua Levu. About 42 km. long and 15 km. wide, dominated by a central spine of volcanic cones, Taveuni is a lushly verdant island rich in indigenous birdlife and exotic flora, deemed one of the most important of all the South Pacific islands in terms of biology and conservation. But what draws many visitors is the scuba diving and its proximity to what many claim are some of the world's finest dive sites.
Attractions for visitors emphasize the outdoors though you shouldn't miss the stained glass windows at the old Catholic mission at the village of Wairiki.
Maravu Plantation Resort, on Taveuni, is a boutique-style marriage of intimacy, immaculate quality and attentive, unobtrusive staff.
Each of the 10 well-appointed bures that lie scattered about the working, 54-acre copra plantation is named for a flower. Vuni Tarawau (one of three honeymoon bures) has an outside shower, made private by a stone wall surrounding a lava-rock floor and a sunning deck with its own banana tree.
The white-sand beach (where the dive team awaits to guide you to some of the world's best coral) is a pleasant downhill walk through a grassy palm grove (signs warn walkers to beware of falling coconuts).
You are summoned by traditional drums to lunch and dinner at the recently-renovated Wananavu Restaurant beside the pool. Dinner can be local coral trout or an exotic Fijian take on international cuisine. The service, primarily by girls from the nearby village, is enormously willing.
The resort is a good base for eco-exploration (bird-watching, flower-spotting, mountain hiking).
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DUBAI
http://www.dubaishoppingfestival.com/
Dubai's
exciting new tourism destination started off as a huge cultural entertainment
center to cater to the need for a central meeting point where different
countries could showcase the myriad cultures. Over the years it has grown into a
star attraction among UAE nationals, resident expatriates from over 160
different countries and visitors from across the world. Today, this major
crowd-puller has been transformed into a unique international destination for
tourism, entertainment, leisure and culture. As a world-class tourism
destination, the Global Village brings together diverse customs and cultures
covering a broad spectrum of activities including music, dances, arts and
handicrafts, theatre, costumes and cuisine of different countries.
Located in Dubailand on the Emirates Road, this destination can be easily
accessed from all corners of the UAE through a superb road network. In addition
to hosting the colorful activities that are organised by countries from the
different continents of the world, the Global Village also offers a range of top
quality facilities and services including provision of restaurants, shuttle
transport services and a huge parking area that can accommodate thousands of
vehicles. Special requirements for families are speedily and efficiently taken
care of by a courteous staff at the Global Village.
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PAKISTAN
Please
watch my city Lahore - The Heart of Pakistan at:
Complete history and Picture Galleries of Best Locations, Lahore Fort, Shalimar
Gardens, Badshahi Masjid, Wazir Khan Masjid, Mazar Data Ganj Baksh, Jehangir
Tomb, Asif Khan Tomb, Khusal Singh Haveli, Dai Anga Tomb, Qasim Khan Tomb,
Kamran Baradari, Jahangiri Quadrangle, Diwaan-e-Khaas, Diwaan-e-Aam, Anarkali's
Tomb, Shafun Nissa Begum's tomb, Chamburji Gate, Bhaati Gate, Naulakha Pavilion,
Daulat Khana, Shish Mahal, Tower of Pakistan, Islamic Summit Minar, Gaddafi
Stadium, Alhamra Open Air Theatre, Alhamra Arts Council, Ranjeet Singh's
Samadhi, Wahga Border, Kot Karamat Village, Festivals of Lahore and much more.
Please do not forget to send me your comments by signing my guest book or by
email.
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Bertrand Joliet
Paintings
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A child, armed with a plastic sword, is braving a giant octopus, the mythical kraken. Men and women on little boats go to his help, equipped with makeshift weapons : kitchen knives, hammers, javelins, do-it-yourself bows. In spite of the tentacles assaulting them from everywhere, they are going to conquer.
Between Comics and Renaissance, the fresco-epic is painted on 24 panels which, parcelled out, are enigmatic and tragic : the whole makes victory.
Because they know they are feeling the same emotions – that is telepathy – their life is no more a mystery, and they act to help a child, and to help themselves.
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Germany
Ulm
Dieter Grossmann, born in Frankfurt/Oder in
1926, a voluntary citizen of Ulm, has already been awarded silver and bronze
metals several times for his graphic design, and has been praised by critics as
"poet of colors" and "lyric poet amongst surrealists" after exhibitions abroad,
e.g. in Milan, Bergamo, New York, Kansas City, Washington, Toronto and Bangkok.
What did this Grossmann do in order that this journalist lost his balance? Has
he mutated into an electronic magician who produces an artistic patchwork of the
highest virtuosity by means of high tech? Not at all! What you can see here in
the FAW are not digital phantom pictures. You cannot obtain artistic importance
by tricks, not even with a lot of cunning craftiness.
Difference from the conventional creation of paintings is indeed not basic. As
in the old days when Grossmann made bead lines with his under hidden behind
abstract line webs with his oil paintings, both critical and visionary, or with
his landscape aquarelles across which he laid with water drops quite curious
veils as in monotypes, as in those days he is also sitting today in his atelier,
turning over papers of the most different absorbent capacity or punch masks,
selecting among hundreds of brushes the most suitable one for the realization of
his ideas of a certain picture, mixing colors and hues, sketching with a pencil,
grounding, water-coloring, or varnishing five to ten different layers, one above
the other. The only difference: the substratum does not lie on the drawing board
or stand on an easel, but it appears on the screen. Palette, color tube or
sample, brush or anything else he needs, Grossmann gets with the cursor format
he "tool box" on the monitor.
A drawing and a painting tool, he uses a pin, which is led over a
pressure-sensitive plate the interface between the artist and the machine. If
he presses more strongly, the painting tool gives more color as if he only
presses slightly. And if the painting tool reacts towards the paper structure
selected, light pressure produces a transparent effect whereas strong pressure
creates a pastier stroke. It is self understood that Grossmann could also on the
screen turn the picture always in such a way that as formerly on the drawing
board – the natural posture of arm, hand and wrist are not impaired while
painting. Another advantage is the possibility that the artist can zoom himself
into and out of the picture by a factor between 8,3 and 1200 percent. This makes
it possible to achieve the most delicate precision of the drawing and the finest
transitions of colors, which are known since the Renaissance as "sfumato".
US-software makes all this possible the developer of which have analyzed during
more than twenty years painting techniques translating them into an incredibly
efficient diversity of functions. How these pictures converted into a binary
code get on canvas or paper, this, too, is not magic. You only need a plotter on
which four cartouches with the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black, all of
course absolutely resistant to light and non-fading, are running back and forth
like the sleigh on a knitting machine, producing that astronomic number of
suggestive, velvety veiled nuances which are characteristic for Grossmann's
pictures.
Craft, which Grossmann learnt from scratch between 1948 and 1952 at the Academy
of Arts in Berlin in the professors' Tank and Speidel master-classes, is worth a
lot to him. This craft is an essential component of his pictures which he
presents particularly conspicuously on his self-portrait or in his paraphrase on
the "Birth of Venus" by the Florentine Renaissance painter Botticelli. Like him,
Grossmann undertakes journeys into man's consciousness, of course into the
contemporary human's who, driven from Paradise, ("Getaway" is the title of the
picture) is forced to struggle with various crisis phenomena as shown in the
growing gap between the poor and the rich, in the erosion of social
systems as well as in the overburdening of the environment visible for example
in the greenhouse effect.
The picture "Homo hominis lupus" this shows as well in a vehement way. Grossmann
finds it, too, in the gridiron of the soul of an Internet Surfer who loses his
balance on the data highway of the World Wide Web, the reason for which this
picture is called HYPERLINK "http://www.de." www.de. Grossmann's perspective
corresponds with Friedrich Nietsche's who masterly formulated many truths and
who called the world "a door to thousand deserts, empty and cold". Accompanying
our modern times the outbreaks of research into the uninhabited. Outside,
towards the inhumanly far away galaxies, and into the interior, into the spooky,
for a layman, components of matter, have resulted in the loss of the
cosmological centre, wrongly thinking that we are still being in the womb. Man
has been driven from the old housings of harmonious illusions into the chill of
freedom. In many pictures space extending into the indefinite with its spells of
the cold is put on stage. And, continuously, drops and shell-like creations
emerge, reminiscences of a place, which – following an old tradition – could
also be called sphere – sphere as the inner, disclosed round inhabited by men.
Grossmann unmasks the dream of safety in a shell as a naïve and re…belief.
previously pointed out Grossmann is a surrealist who paints against the nearly
intentional non-observance of our ontological situation, thereby always
observing the rules of aesthetic balance which have been requested from artists
by Sigmund Freud, who has been as creator of psychoanalysis the mentor for many
surrealists. The weightless, rotating shell creations and spheres, the glacier
or desert-like landscapes, the views of inner human worlds which look like
anatomical cuts, the animalistic chimeras taken from Hieronymos Bosch's "Garden
of Lusts" repotted into his own world of pictures – all you see on the
approximately forty pictures has to do with the Janus-headed Freudian term of
antithesis, "discordia concors", concordant discord.
Talks of the ambivalent conflict of two basis instincts, Eros – the erotic
moment can be seen on many pictures – and Death Instinct. In the "eternal fight"
of these instincts he sees the basic pattern of three processes: namely, the
conflicts of the individual, then of cultural processes, and finally – as Freud
calls it – "the secret of organic life". All three processes can be seen in
Grossmann's pictures: the individual, sometimes from endoscopically near sight;
culture in the landscapes the technical culture represented by the symbol of a
space ship or a capsule; the secret of organic life emerges from the many
biomorphically shaped forms.
Freud calls death instinct is neutralized by Grossmann through aesthetic
distance. Looking at it this way, his pictures are like a mirror in which the
carrel freezes as the serpent hair Medusa in the mythology of the reflecting
shield of Perseus. The first Duinese Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke he talks about
this discord which is calmed by ambivalence, this frontier zone where the
beautiful and the terrible, life and death, lust and pain are experienced
simultaneously.
The beautiful says Rilke, is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, a
beginning just tolerated by us and we admire the terrible because it calmly
conspires to destroy us.
A highly sophisticated way of representation of the pictures of Hans-Dieter
Grossmann keeps the beautiful and the terrible, life and death in suspense.
Precisely this and not a highly technified Beidermeier in 17 inch screen format
to be seen elsewhere too, has brought again two years ago the first prize in the
"technical creative inkjet award" as well as last year the exhibition in the
renowned "Digital Art Gallery in Frankfurt".
Order to decipher Grossmann's work one must accept his request to participate
aesthetically which can only be useful.you for your attention
© Eduard Ohm, April 2000
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Every month we make a selection of our finest deals to Holland. Trying to
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Please check your calendar every first of the month, to see the newest
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Amsterdam is the place to be! Whether you would like to visit flower
markets, canals, or colorful cafes.
• Art lovers, now is the time to see the famous paintings in the Rijksmuseum
or the unique exhibition Van Gogh and Gauguin in the Van Gogh museum in
Amsterdam.
• Go beyond Amsterdam and visit the world horticultural exhibition Floriade,
see the cities of Maastricht and The Hague, extend your trip with a visit to
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