Columbus Travel Insurance: 2010-02-28

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Restaurant Masters Home, München

One of my favourite restaurants in Munich is Masters Home (Frauenstraße 11). It is an Italian Restaurant. One could say, oh again pizza or pasta. This is not the case in Masters Home. This place serves high quality ingredients ranging from fresh tuna, truffle and lamb. The chef is very creative and the service if super with an Italian flair. A little detail, the restaurant has no menu card. The Chef serves you the best of the market of that day. A real recommendation.

Een van mijn favoriete restaurants in München is Masters Home (Frauenstraße 11). Het is een Italiaans Restaurant. Men zou kunnen zeggen, oh terug pizza of pasta. Hier worden top ingredienten geserveerd zoals verse tonijn, truffels en lam. De chef is heel creatief en de service in de zaal is super met een Italiaanse flair. Een klein detail, het restaurant heeft geen menu kaart. De chef maakt voor u de beste marktprodukten van de dag. Dit restaurant is een echte aanrader.

Previous restaurant article: Restaurant Van der Valk, Nootdorp
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8th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest

Photo © Amit Kumar Chatterjee -All Rights Reserved
The 8th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest is scheduled to begin on March 1, 2010. Contestants can enter photographs in five categories—Altered Images, Americana, The Natural World, People and Travel—that represent subjects of special interest to the magazine. Fifty finalists will be selected, ten for each of the five categories.

Smithsonian will notify the 50 finalists by February 28, 2011. From these 50 finalists, five category winners and a grand prize winner will be selected. The entries of all winners and finalists will be published on the magazine's Web site on March 1, 2011.

In the meantime, the 7th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest Finalists have been announced, and I am extremely impressed by the quality of the photographs chosen. I've featured two of the finalists' work which gives an indication of the quality of the submissions; one is from the Travel category whilst the other is from the People category.

Friday, March 5, 2010

BALINESE ODALAN

There are are many kinds of temple ceremonies, In Bali
The Balinese Temple ceremony is called Odalan, To say the least, its is difficult to imagine any where with more.
Regardless of its specific purpose, each odalan is a colorful spectacle designed to please their hindus deities. when odalan the hindus people meke Banten / Gebogan and many kind of balinese give.
A common feature is “muspa”, the basic balinese form of contemplative prayer. this is followed by reception of holy water ( Tirta ) and rice ( Bija ) blessed by Ratu Pedande ( High Priest ). after this important religious ritual finished, the odalan becomes more of a social occasion, whith Balinese dance like, Topeng Dance , Barong Dance, Rejang Dance, Calonarang, Drama, Comedy, Shadow Puppet and more art bali culture.

BALI TOPENG

Topeng in Balinese language mean Mask, Mask Dance is a kind of balinese traditional artistic dance.
Topeng or Mask dance is performed during ritual procession, There are many Kind of mask dance, one of them is Topeng Pajegan,
this dance was played by a dancer, he only change the mask according to the character in the story and then Topeng sidakarya is mask dance which only
performed in ritual ceremony, the dance played to complete the procession of ceremony, sidakarya mean finish. usually the mask which used is sacred and only use when performed the ritual ceremony.

In Bali, find the Mask is so easy, like in Sukawati art market at gianyar regency near Ubud there are many kind of balinese mask but the mask is not sacred. and many mask carver around UBUD village, you can order the mask what you want… and if you want to learning how to dance Topeng or mask dance there are many art organization called Sanggar Tari and you can learn there. Bali Tours Guide will help you to go to that place.

Topeng is beautiful and artistic sacred dance.

Clive Evans: Morocco

Timeless Morocco - Images by Clive Evans

Born in England, Clive travels the world (especially Europe) from his homes in Southern France and Ireland. His years of traveling and documenting Europe and its people result in images expressing individuals, their cultures, and their environments--often with a visual twist.

Clive is also a founder member of Lumen, an international photographer's cooperative with members in Norway, France, Switzerland, Ireland, Germany and Estonia.

His website, hosted by Photoshelter, has 20 galleries but I chose the one of Morocco, which usually provides enormous difficulties to street photographers wishing to capture its people. One of the photographs in the gallery (#5) perfectly expresses the reaction of people when a photographer attempts to take their picture. However, in many cases the reaction is not as good-humored.

From looking at Clive's well composed photographs of Chefchaouen, I realized that the slideshow seems to have somewhat washed out the colors of the photographs, since Chefchaouen's blue is not as vivid as I've seen them in others.

Aaron Joel Santos: Vietnam

Photo © Aaron Joel Santos -All Rights Reserved
Aaron Joel Santos is a freelance editorial, travel and documentary photographer based in Hanoi, Vietnam. His photographs have been published in a number of international magazines, as well as galleries in the United States, Vietnam and Malaysia. He was an attendee in the 2009 Eddie Adams Workshop.

via The Click.

International Motor Show 2010 Geneva

80th International Motor show and accessories is now going on in Geneva, Switzerland. About 250 exhibitors from 30 different countries, showing about 100 cars at the Geneva Auto Show The dates for Geneva International motor show is from 4th to 14th of March 2010. You too have a chance to win the PEUGEOT 3008 car by participating in the contest and answering some simple questions regarding Peugeot. There are a number of cars from different manufacturers. The cars from German automakers Audi and BMW were highlight of the show. There are sports cars from Audi, Volvo 360, Luxus, Suzuli, Toyota, Peugeot, SPYKER, RENAULT and many more. There are also racing cars from ABARTH, AUDI, BMW ALPINA, GPC MOTORSPORT, GUMPERT, KOENIGSEGG, LOTUS, MITSUBISHI, TECHART. Accessories for cars like tyres, rubber products, Tapes, CD Players, Traffic information and guiding system, Navigation System, Fuel and Lubricants are also available in this international motor show.

The timings for Geneva Motor show is

Monday - Friday 10 am to 8 pm
Saturday - Sunday 9 am to 7 pm
The ticket rates for the motor show is
Adults - CHF 14(Swiss franc)
Children from 6 to 16 and pensioners -CHF 8
Group rate (more than 20 people) -CHF 9 for each

This car exhibition at Geneva in 2010 will attract lots of people around the world.
Photos of the cars at Geneva Motor Show

Thursday, March 4, 2010

On the way to ITB Berlin again

We are on our way to ITB Berlin, the world largest tourism industry trade fair.

Papua New Guinea booth will be Halle 5.2.a (Hall 5, second Floor), near South Pacific Village/Australia. (image from 2009 ITB Berlin show)

For those visiting the Show, please hop in and say hello to us.

See you in Berlin !!

Introduction New Audi A8 in München

This week at Munich airport the new Audi A8 was introduced. The luxury car will be available for sale in the showroom end of March. As you can see on the pictures many new A8's were on display. The Audi club was also offering test drives for customers.

Deze week werd de nieuwe Audi A8 geïntroduceerd op de luchthaven van München. De luxe wagen zal beschikbaar zijn voor verkoop in onze showrooms vanaf het einde van de maand maart. Zoals je kan zien op de foto's, heeft Audi zeer vele A8's tentoongesteld. De Audi club bood ook testritten aan voor klanten.

Previous Munich article: Viktualienmarkt, Munich
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Puncak Bogor - West Java, Indonesia

,Puncak Bogor

Puncak Bogor, is the peak, a mountain resort in the area of Bogor regency and Cianjur Regency.

Peak area is known as cold and fresh and filled with natural mountain region, which became one of the major tourist attractions in West Java.

This area is very popular for both domestic and foreign tourists. In this area there are also places of recreation and a beautiful agrotourism, including Gunung Mas and glider.

Peak areas there are also many interesting places including the Safari Park, Flower Garden, and there is a beautiful mosque with a unique architecture that is simple and Atta'awun Mosque. In this area there are many villas and hotels owned by citizens around for a place to rest your visitors.

Region as a top vacation spot for a while, especially on weekends by many citizens of Jakarta. Not a few citizens of Jakarta who choose to have a villa in this area. In addition to the comfortable atmosphere, Puncak area also has an interesting attractions to visit. But remember, bad things will fall over Summit on weekends. One of the interesting activity is to eat corn during the night at the Peak.

Alfredo Bini: Monlan Festival

Alfredo Bini has always taken photographs, and found his own personal form of expression in reportage photography. He concentrates on documenting stories of social relevance, and hopes that his images increases public awareness on these issues.

I thought of featuring Alfredo's work of the Monlan festival at the time when China is publicly positioning the Panchen Lama as the legitimate representative of Tibetan Buddhism, and to undermine the popularity of Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama.

Monlam is also known as The Great Prayer Festival, falls on 4th-11th day of the 1st Tibetan month. It is greatest religious festival in Tibet, when thousands of monks gather to perform religious rituals at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.

Alfredo's reportage "Water and Land in Sahel the case of Burkina Faso", won the title of "Runner-Up" in the "Travel Photo Of The Year", run by The Independent and Wanderlust, and has won 2nd place in the IPA Awards (NYC) for the Political category as well as 2 mentions of honor in the Environmental and Feature Story categories.

His Transmigrations reportage has been published as cover story by the Corriere della Sera Magazine and Alias (Il Manifesto), and has also been published by the BBC and Avvenire.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Mekarsari Tourism In Bogor

It’s wide 290 Ha. And equiped with several facilities such as fruit stall, display and restauran for going around the park, visitor can us provided bus or vehicle free of charge except entrance ticket.

TAMAN WISATA MEKARSARI

Jl. Raya Cileungsi - Jonggol Km. 3 Bogor 16820

Kec. Cileungsi

Tel. 62-21-8231811 Fax. 62-21-8231475

Wana Wisata Giri Jaya Forest Tourism

It’s deer breeding site and located in naturalconservation area, it can be reached there within one hour from Jakarta. The distance is 40 kmsfrom Cibinong.

Wana Wisata

Penangkaran Rusa Giri Jaya

Kec. Tanjungsari

Gunung Salak Endah Tourism

Gunung Salak Endah, is one of the best tourism spot in Bogor Regency. It has natural scenary and coll wether wich make it interisting. Threre are also many tourism spot, like Curug Cigamea, Curug Ngumpet, Curug Seribu, Hot Spring Water, Kawah Ratu and Camping Area.

It’s located in the west of Bogor City.

KAWASAN GUNUNG SALAK ENDAH
Kec. Pamijahan