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Botanical Gardens
Singapore, Singapore
Established in 1859 this 52 hectare park offers a diverse range of flora which allows you to enjoy plant varieties of all four seasons in a single season. The park has up to 250 varieties of Palm trees only which have been planted in a specific area known as the Palm Valley. On Sundays jazz concerts are also organized to attract greater quantity of people. Situated in close proximity to the ...
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, United States
Today the Manhattan skyline consists mostly of luxury apartments and condominiums. It’s nigh impossible to find cheap housing, especially if it is not subsidized by the city; but 150 years ago Manhattan was home to some of the world’s worst slums. Poor workers and immigrants were packed like sardines into unsanitary mid-rise buildings, which became known as tenements. In 1865, as many as 50...
Museum of Books
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Address: 94 Kabanbai Batyr Street, Almaty Phone: 62 22 13 A quaint little place for professors and researchers. Small building containing interesting manuscripts, scrolls, prints, ancient drawings and other written material, that give an insight into the cultural and historical development of the city. ...
Stavrovouni Monastery
Larnaca, Cyprus
Stravrovouni, which means Mountain of the Cross, is a rocky perch on which the famous monastery stands. It is believed that the monastery was founded by Saint Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, in the 4th century. The mountain is very significant not only for Christians, but for also the Greek pilgrims who used to visit the temple for Aphrodite. Entrance to the monastery is pretty strict, ev...