Hello. To all my subscribers that don’t know me personally, this one’s more for my friends from highschool. This is from a trip we went on a year ago and I never got around to editing the footage until now. To all the pals in this vid, I love you guys so much and I’m so honoured to know you all. Enjoy this lil thang. 🙂
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Welcome to Houston, Texas, one of the largest cities in the United States.
Once an outpost in the Old West, Houston is now a down-to-earth metropolis, boasting a tremendous shipping and energy industry, as well as plenty of culture.
Kick off your Houston tour at Discovery Green, a 12-acre park tucked beneath the city’s skyscrapers. You’ll find public art and plenty of space to picnic or go for walks. Houstoners take pride in their various parks, museums, and open spaces, like the Houston Arboretum, where you can go birdwatching, learn about green living, and hike the trails to explore local wildlife.
Speaking of exploring, your Houston sightseeing should include a trip to the USS Texas., This battleship served in two World Wars and now stands guard as a museum on the Buffalo Bayou. Head over to the Gulf for a walk on the beach while you watch the sunset, then get ready to gear up for the evening with some delicious TexMex shared with the locals. After you lose yourself in a few rounds of line dancing to burn off all those fajitas, you’ll be wondering why you didn’t come to Houston earlier.
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Pearl Harbor, a historical place at Oahu Island, offers a never forgettable experience to the visitors. Scroll down the page and know more about this place that turned the country’s course in the second world war and some more attractions around it.
Welcome to Pear Harbor, the most visited tourist destination of Oahu Island. Being acquainted to the rich American history, you will surely remember the experience for a long span of time. We are presenting some of the interesting facts about this place and the reasons why one should visit this small piece of historical Hawaii Island.
Pearl Harbor, also called ‘Pu’uloa’, is located on the Oahu Island, to the west of Honolulu, the capital city of Hawaii state. This place is well known for the Japanese attack in 1941 when 1,177 sailors drowned in the water. The reason took birth in 1931 when Japanese started their operation to create an empire in the whole Asia. After attacking on China in 1937, they moved to Thailand and Philippines to meet their target. Britain (the United Kingdom) was against this action and started to cut off the help and freeze the Japanese assets in each respective country. Following the UK, America was also pushing the Japan to stop their move. To answer the USA, Japanese started to attack through the aircraft and midgets submarines. Although the Americans had deciphered the attack code, they could not discover the exact location before the attack occurred. Japanese attacked and turned the day into a black day for American damaging the fleet and hunting 2,350 lives, 1,177 were from the Arizona.
At Pearl Harbor, you could closely explore the history through visiting the Arizona Memorial Visitors Center. You would get the opportunity to board the Navy launch ship to go to the Arizona memorial where the names of all 1,177 sailors and marines are written on a wall of marble. During your tour to Pearl Harbor, you could enjoy some fine attractions of Oahu Island including Polynesian Cultural Center, North Shore and some world famous museums like USS Bowfin Submarine, USS Missouri Battleship and Pacific Aviation Museum. Charming city Honolulu is also in proximity to this place where fun and enjoyment is certain for every visitor.
For accommodation, you need not to worry as numerous hotels, rentals and condos are providing quality lodging facilities with all modern amenities and fun-filled activities depending upon your budget. There is a plethora of dining venues offering fresh sea food as well as the traditional Hawaiian dishes. To cater to your shopping needs, you could move to Honolulu city where a number of world-class shopping destinations are waiting for you.
No doubt, a tour to Pearl Harbor would be the unique experience in your life, unforgettable for a long period of time. To book your trip in advance you can surf the Internet where some reliable websites provide a variety of tour packages depending upon your budget. Along with traveling facilities, they arrange for the accommodation and tourist guides to show you all the sights. You need to search well comparing the prices and facilities offered by the websites. This would help you to get the suitable package for Pearl Harbor tour from a reputable tour company.
On your next trip to Austria, pay a visit to its capital city of Vienna. During the late 19th and early 20th century, this city became a cultural epicenter of Europe, contributing art, philosophy, and culture on its way to becoming one of the world’s great cities.
During your Vienna sightseeing, you can drink coffee in the same cafes as Einstein and Freud, or wander down the streets that inspired Beethoven. Tour galleries devoted to some of the most magnificent artwork in all of Europe, then walk along the Ringstrasse. Also called “Ring Road,” this downtown boulevard home to private residences, palaces, and other exquisite examples of architecture for you to marvel at.
Much of Vienna tourism is centered in its cafes. This is not just because its residents love strong coffee—though they do—but because Viennese social life largely grows out of its coffee houses. Locals will spend hours at their favorite cafes, reading the paper, speaking to friends, working on projects, or listening to music in the evenings. Sit at a table and watch the people of Vienna stroll by, or enjoy a sachertorte, or chocolate cake, while catching up on your latest novel. It’s impossible to visit this city and not be inspired.
Vienna has long been called The City of Music. Find out why at the Vienna State Opera; a backstage tour will show you all the ins and outs of this majestic place, as well as give you a glimpse of why it has been at the forefront of entertainment since its construction in the 1800s. Afterward, head a few blocks south to the Volksgarten, or people’s garden. Stroll through its pathways and sniff the sweet fragrance of its hundreds of roses. What better way to end a day in one of the world’s most beautiful cities?
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Italy is a hot vacation spot and there is so much to see you can get quite overwhelmed planning your vacation. Everybody feels compelled to hit the big three, Venice, Florence, and Rome. These are incredible cities with many great sites to visit and famous objects (art, architecture, etc.) to see. Here's some Italy travel info to help you plan a better trip.
Here's a simple fact, you can not see everything in a single vacation, and the attempt to do so becomes very stressful, robbing you of the fun and excitement you planned. The thousands of years of history found in Italy (about 5,000 years of civilized history to be more precise) make it impossible to absorb in a few days, weeks, or months. You need to decide what you really want to see and build your trip around this rather than try and see everything. I would like you to think about a better way to see Italy with less stress, less expense, and more enjoyment. How? Plan your trip and get out of the major tour cities and into the less strained hill towns and fortified villages.
Say you are planning a trip to Florence. Identify the top three to five sites you wish to see and give yourself two or three days to see them. Once this is scheduled, take out a map of the region and start looking at the many incredible sites within a couple of hours of Florence. The big secondary sites include Pisa (worth a half a day at least), Lucca (also worth at least half a day), and Montecatinni (a spa town with open markets, grand parks, and an ancient hill town overlooking the town below) . To the south of Florence are such well known sites as Siena (easily worth a full day), San Gimingano (get here early to avoid the crowds), and Volterra (worth at least half a day and one of the most interesting of Tuscan hill towns).
By picking day trips to one or two of these other towns between your planned excursions in Florence will allow you to experience a more intimate Italy. Enjoy a walk along the curtain wall surrounding Lucca (the wall is now a park and trail), then pop over to Pisa for a gander of the Tower, Basilica and more white marble than you have ever seen in one place. Another day you can stroll the narrow medieval streets of Siena, Then head on over to Volterra and explore the Etruscans, Romans, and the architecture and fortifications of a typical walled hill town.
Each of these towns is rich in history and tradition and will give you a better sense of rural and small town Italy. Each of the big three have dozens of great secondary sites nearby, all worth a visit, making planning trips as described above easy and fun.
Relax and get in sync with the slower pace of rural Italy, wander the myriad shops and cafés, and watch lovely sunsets or sunrises. A trip to Italy should be fun, relaxing, and certainly a trip of a lifetime. The true beauty of Italy is that you can have several of these "trips of a lifetime", never seeing the same places twice (unless you want to, I know we have).
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Johannesburg, usually referred to as "Jo'burg" is the largest and youngest city in South Africa. The city has taken very little time to develop itself into a highly commercial and wealthy region. Johannesburg boasts of having 74 percent of multinational headquarters and is the economic hub of the entire African continent.
The second largest city in Africa has residents accounting to about 3 million. The city is also home to the top four conference centers, with each hosting more than 5000 people! Explore the wonders of Johannesburg and its ravishing tourist spots through Johannesburg travel packages offered by tour operators in the city. Johannesburg is very famous for its museums. There are a whole lot of museums located around the city, including the SA National Museum of Military History, sited near the Johannesburg Zoo. There are other museums like James Hall Museum of Transport in La Rochelle, SA National Railway & Steam Museum, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Bernard Price Institute Palaeontology Museum, Barnberg Fashion Museum, Madiba Freedom Museum, Museum Africa and the most popular Apartheid Museum. A visit to the historical Apartheid Museum will certainly be a powerful and vivid experience. This museum is set out through its graphic portrait of the apartheid theory including film footage, newspaper clippings, artifacts and enlarged photos. The visitors get the feel of the apartheid era as they walk through the museum, which measures approximately 65,000 sq.ft.
The city offers a perfect retreat for adventure lovers. Once you are in Johannesburg, you can go on an African adventure tour package, which includes canoeing, river rafting, micro light flying, game viewing, bird watching, hiking, fly-fishing and mountain biking. Apart from these adventures, you can also choose to visit jewel gardens, nature trails, flora farms, animal farms, bird parks, and take country rides, game drives as well as game walks. The city has a multitude of things in store to entertain its tourists thoroughly and offer them with exciting and enthralling experiences.
Plan your trip to the city to take a break from your hectic lifestyle and have a wonderful vacation with your loved ones by exploring the exotic city of Johannesburg. Travel through cheap flights to Johannesburg and choose any travel package that looks interesting to you. Book your plane tickets online and try to find the cheapest airline ticket through travel sites. There are many airline companies that operate Johannesburg flights that connect the city to many other important cities across the world. So get set to visit Johannesburg to have superb holiday getaway and comprehensively enjoy all the special things the city has to offer and entertain all its tourists.
There are many things to consider when planning to rent a charter bus with a professional driver-whether it is a full-size motorcoach, a smaller coach bus, or a school bus. By the way, school bus charters are mostly rented out by the bus operators for strictly local charter trips. In any rate, I would like to outline a few important and essential things to consider and resolve before, during, and after renting a coach or a school bus from any bus rental company. These points to note come from the extensive experience working as a bus company operator and having made, as well as witness many clients make, many mistakes and blunders resulting in charter delays, bus / bus-driver scheduling errors, and other such inconveniences like having no-shows on the day of the charter trip. I realize along with our clients that any charter trip begins and ends with a functional and clean coach / school bus being driven by an entrenched and punctual coach bus or school bus driver. There are, however, ways to ensure that all of the logistic fronts are covered for the clients to be satisfied with their chosen charter bus rental company and the bus operating company in turn to be happy with their clients. It all boils down to effective and efficient communication.
Firstly, the relationship between the client and the bus operator begins with the client requesting a charter trip quotation or a charter trip evaluation. There are many things that are taken into consideration before a bus rental company issues a quotation. For example, the season, month, day of the month, bus fleet availability, and the rates given by the 3 largest charter bus rental companies in the industry for a given date-just to name a few. At this stage, the client is strictly focused (like tunnel vision) on getting the best price for the best possible charter bus services. And they rightly should be; however, not at the cost of neglecting their focus on very simple but substantial details. Such crucial, albeit simple, details include making sure to submit the exact and correct dates for the charter trip; provide the correct time of departure and arrival; and outline the itinerary details, like extra charter-trip destination stops. Once, these details are provided to the charter bus rental company, the bus operator issues a charter trip quotation with a trip-rate. The client is now at the stage of either accepting the charter bus rental company as their vendor or not. Once the charter bus company is chosen and the client confirms the booking of their relevant charter bus (be it coach bus or school bus) a formal trip confirmation is issued by the charter bus rental company to the client.
At this stage, it is crucial to double-check all of the aforementioned "simple" charter trip details. Many times, clients get quoted for a different date than what the trip confirmation states. That is there is a discrepancy between the trip quotation and the trip confirmation. Any bus rental company extremely goes by their trip confirmations when scheduling and finalizing their bus rentals and schedule. These trip confirmations are also signed by the client upon the finalization of their charter trip booking. In my personal experience, some clients end up not getting their charter bus arriving on the right date. This seems to be a ridiculous mishap and it is. But it all stems from neglecting to focus on the contracted details stated on the trip confirmation.
I plan to continue the series of articles focusing on such logical details in order to help clients and operators to foresee and overcome such blunders and to extremely provide a reliable and professional charter bus rental service to our community. Please stay tuned for future publications on how to rent a charter bus and, equally important, how to make sure that all the charter trip logistics are put in place.
TRANSIT MUSEUM SOCIETY OF VANCOUVER – Here are some of the highlights from one of the trolley bus tours. The bus in this video is a CCF Brill T-44. Street scenes include Victoria Drive, Hastings Street, Pacific Street, & Granville Street Bridge.
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Speedboat trip around Horshoe Bay and the islands around Vancouver
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Whale watching with Eagle wings tour. Victoria BC, Canada
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