The results of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual report on the world’s expensive cities are in, and Singapore has been crowned with the title for the third year in a row. While you wouldn’t doubt a research organisation called the Economist Intelligence Unit, it is helpful to know that the index is calculated by comparing the price of a weighted …
Tokyo has been ranked as the richest cities in the world by GDP and the world’s largest metropolitan economy. Due to its booming economy, Tokyo richest city extremely contributes to the world’s economy. Tokyo is a major international finance hub which caters several of the largest investment banks and insurance companies in the world. Tokyo richest city is also the …
Shanghai is China’s most populated city and the largest city proper in the entire world. It’s both a major financial centre and a global city and sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the Yangtze River Delta of East China. Known as the Pearl of the Orient and the Paris of the East, Shanghai’s population in 2016 is …
Mumbai has a complex personality, and the former fishing village is also a traditional place that takes its spiritual paths seriously. Its high concentration of spectacular religious sites, tiny temples and magical shrines make it easy to make a little progress on the road to enlightenment. Hinduism Mumbai is named for the Hindu goddess Mumbai, and today about 50% of …
India is all these things, and more. How can you possibly prepare yourself? Start with our tips for taking the ultimate travel plunge: going to India for the first time! 1. Pick the perfect route India packs a lot into a massive space, and you’ll never have time to see it all on one trip. Think about what interests you, …
Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul. This is a popular saying among motorbiking enthusiasts. For bikers, nothing comes close to exploring a destinations on their two-wheeled buddy. India is blessed with some of the finest road routes that are just perfect for bikers. Some of these road routes are known for their picturesque surroundings and breathtaking …
The journey from Mumbai to Goa is now more fun and luxurious with the launch of India’s first domestic luxury cruise liner Angriya. The cruise, operating on the Mumbai-Goa sea route from last weekend, is a luxurious 7-deck, 131-meter long passenger ship built in Japan. Complete with bars, restaurants, swimming pool, spa and discotheque, the ship can accommodate about 400 …
People have been crawling around the cavernous mountains of Asia for centuries, but remarkably, the largest cave in the world remained hidden from discovery deep in the forests of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam until 1991. As the story of the Han Son Doong goes, local farmer Ho Khanh was walking along a stretch of lush forest …
Mark Thorpe, a Japan-based wildlife photographer, has made a time lapse of an event that is only fully visible twice a year: The passage of the Milky Way over Mount Fuji. Thorpe, an Emmy Award-winning wildlife photographer with 20 years of experience, moved to Japan two years ago with his Japanese wife and their son. He combined his recent interests …
White sandy beaches? Yes, they’re nice. But what if I told you there’s a lava beach in Iceland that has risen from the ashes? Actually, Iceland has several volcanic beaches, but Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach is hands down the coolest with its black sand, insane basalt columns, lava formations, towering cliffs, and caves. In 1991, the American journal Islands Magazine named this …
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed from 1887 – 89 as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France’s leading artists and intellectuals for its design, …
Earlier in July, storm chaser Alex Schueth captured a mesmerizing time-lapse of undulatus asperatus clouds rolling over Lincoln, Nebraska during a storm. The rare cloud formation, whose name means roughened or agitated waves looks like a sea of dark and stormy waters churning ominously in the sky. According to Weather.com, undulatus asperatus clouds are formed when enough atmospheric instability, or …