TOP FIVE THINGS TO DO IN ALL JAPAN

1 KUMANO KODO

Part of the sacred Kii Mountain Range, Kumano Sanzan is made up of three ancient and historically important shrines. The way to reach them is by joining over 1000 years of pilgrims on the Kumano Kodo hiking routes. 

In region Kansai of Island Honshu in the city of Wakayama, is the home of the gods. It is just a couple of hours south from the electric city of Osaka. Here the old pathways lead to a hidden shrine where monks worships surrounded by waterfall mist and forest. The place is part of UNESCO world Heritage of Sacred Sites.


2 SAPPORO

Sapporo is Japan’s fifth largest city. The city is built in North American grid style. Sapporo has a famous ramen street and the Sapporo beer since 1877. Sapporo hosts Japan’s one of the most popular winter festival of snow. More than 2 million people attend in this festival to see the huge ice and show sculptures.
 


3 HIROSHIMA

Internationally known for the atomic bomb attack on Aug 6th 1945, this city has become a city with excellent cuisine, nightlife and or modern city. Hiroshima peace memorial park is one of the must visit place in the city. The park has Atomic bomb dome, children’s peace monument, and Hiroshima peace memorial Museum.


4 TAKACHIHO GORGE

This gorge cut by river Gokase is one of the spectacular gorge. The lining edge columns are formed by slow forming volcanic basalt. You can also take the rental boats, the water is very calm and makes very easy to navigate.


5 FUJI Q HIGHLAND

This is a thrill ride amusement park. You can see Mt Fuji from the park. https://www.fujiq.jp/en/attraction/ is the official site of the theme park. You can check out the thrilling rides in this park.


TOP FIVE PLACES TO BE AND THINGS TO DO IN LOS ANGELES IN TWO DAYS

Los Angeles is the city of angles, with stars and hollywood. Los Angles is actually a very big city. If you go to LA and meet people you will find lot of people with many dreams of becoming star or be actors, singers.
The following are the five must go place in LA if you have very short time

1 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Universal Studios is the must place to be if you are in LA. You can get a day pass for the studio and if you plan very good you can get around all the shows in a single day. But you have to waste no time when inside the studio and reach very early.





2 HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
It is full of starts around 2600 stars and about 15 blocks long. You can enjoy many popular theaters and good restaurants and bars.



3 THE GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY
Griffith observatory has got one of the most beautiful view of whole donwtown Los Angeles as well as the view of very famous HOLLYWOOD sign.



4 LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN
Los Angeles downtown has many stuffs to do, you can go to OUE space tower, which is the highest building in LA. Then move around all the cities in LA like K town, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, K town, little tokyo.



5 SANTA MONICA PIER
Santa Monica  is one of the most famous pier with many activities going on. The place is beautiful specially in night. There is amusement rides on the pier and always full of people and also the beach.



TOP FIVE PLACES TO BE IN SAN DIEGO IN FEW DAYS

San Diego is one of the most beautiful and also expensive city in California US. San Diego is a very good destination full of beautiful beach. San Diego is just few miles from the Mexican border of Tijuana and about 300 miles from the Los Angeles. San Diego has something to do for everybody. You can go around the long pacific coast beaches. There are beautiful cliffs and see sunsets, seals and also have a parachute flight from cliffs.
San Diego got a very big San Diego zoo and is one of the most interesting place to be. There are big parks like Balboa Park and very fun neighborhood like North Park and Pacific Beach. It is also place for UCSD, a very big and good university full of good architectural structures.

If you are going to San Diego for few days, the following places are five places I have picked myself where you should be.

1 SAN DIEGO ZOO
San Diego Zoo is really big and if you are going there you will spend a whole day in zoo. You should make a plan in advance and make some kind of plans before visit and list out the animals you want to see. Also I prefer to take the bus tour at first in early morning at around 9 30. If you take tour on early morning you can see most of the animals. You can bring your own food if you want.







2 SEAWORLD SAN DIEGO
Sea world is a fun place to be with rides and shows and aquariums. It is perfect to spend a day very easily. Its an aquatic theme park with many rides.


3 GASLAMP QUARTER
The Gaslamp Quarter is a lively downtown neighborhood, known for its nightlife. Clubs, dive bars and cocktail lounges draw a young crowd, while the Spreckels and Balboa theaters have diverse programs of music, comedy and drama. There's a mix of chain and independent restaurants in the area, with many global options. Horton Plaza Park has grassy lawns, ice cream and coffee vendors, and an interactive fountain.



4 USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
USS midway museum is one of my personal favorite in San Diego downtown. The big aircraft carrier in with full of fighter planes and all the Navy war machines. It is really a nice place to spend around 3 hours to 4 hours. The ticket is around $15 or $18. But this is really a worth it place.



5 CORONADO ISLAND
Coronado has famous Del Coronado hotel and so many nice little places to have dinner and quick bites. The bridge 2.2 miles long to Coronado is really beautiful with very nice view of sea and San Diego downtown.

The picture is from Coronado times.


TOP FIVE MASSACRES IN NEPAL

The following are the top five massacres in Nepal sorted by the number of the people killed.

1 Alau Massacre

In this massacre in 1847 July in a place called Alau in Birgunj, the total death recorded was 100.
King Rajendra was imprisoned in Bhaktapur. His son Surendra was made king of Nepal.



2 Bhandarkhal Massacre 

This massacre took place in April 25 1806 in Kathmandu. In the Bhandarkhal garden of Durbar square. The total casualties were 93. King Rana Bahadur Shah was assassinated and Bhimsen Thapa was made first prime minister of Nepal
More about it in wikipedia.



3 Kot Massacre

In 19 September 1846, Palace Armory (the Kot) Massacare in Kathmandu killed 55 high ranking generals. Spurred by the assassination of general Gagan Singh Bhandari, it established the Dictatorship of Jung Bahadur and the Rana autocracy. It is one of the most historic event of Nepal.
More about it in Wikipedia.



4 Gaur HatyaKand

This massacre is one of the recent, in 2007 March 21th Wednesday. At least 29 people were killed in the Rice Mills of Gaur. Madheshis of Nepal killed Maoists brutally. There are many reports about this massacre in internet.


5 Nepalese royal Massacre

This is one of the most unforgettable day in the history of Nepal. Entire family of King Birendra was killed. Gyanendra was made king but this led way to the end of the Monarchy in Nepal. There are lot of novels and documentaries about this massacre. The real secret is never revealed. Though the total casaulites were ony 10, this massacare had a tremendous loss of high ranking personalities.
More about it in Wikipedia.







TOP FIVE FACTS ABOUT NEPAL

1.  GURKHAS OF NEPAL HAVE BEEN PART OF BRITISH ARMY SINCE 1800's

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Since 1815, Nepali Gurkha army, famous for the bravery, has been a part of the British Army. Till date there are many new recruits for the army. Many of the Gurkhas were awarded by medal like Victoria Cross. The name Gurkha originates from the place called Gorkha, which used to be a separate kingdom in 1800's.

2. NEPAL IS THE ONLY COUTNRY WITH NON RECTANGULAR NATIONAL FLAG

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As we can see in the picture, flag of Nepal has two triangles with sun and moon. In fact this is the only national flag in the world which is not rectangular in shape. Beside in 2014 Nepal made a world record by making a largest human flag, with about 10000 people.

3. MOST PART OF THE HIMALAYAS RANGE IS IN NEPAL


Nepal has got 8 highest peak in the world except for Mt K2, second highest in Pakistan. Mount Everest also called Sagarmatha is 8848m high. The list of the peaks can be seen in this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_on_Earth

4. THE AVERAGE WIDTH OF NEPAL IS ONLY 193KM

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Despite of average width being only 193km it is impossible to travel the across the width of the country in a day. It usually takes a week or more to go form north to south of the country because of the very-very complex geographical structures. Except for some highways which reach north, it takes more than a day for the travel.

5. NEPAL HAS GOT HUGE DIVERSITY IN THE PEOPLE

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There are more than 80 different ethnics groups in Nepal and people speaking more than 125 languages. People had different lifestyle , culture tradition while moving form south to north and east to west.


TOP FIVE HAUNTED PLACES AND IMAGE OF ALL TIME

5 THE ISLAND OF DOLLS - MEXICO


Every single tree is decorated with deformed and mutilated dolls. The dolls almost seem evil and I seriously wonder where one would buy such creepy dolls. Even though the island is totally abandoned, over 50 years ago, a man named Don Julian Santana left his wife and kids and moved there to live the rest of his life alone. When he was living there, the body of a dead little girl came floating up in one of the canals. Don Julian thought he had become haunted by her spirit. He began to collect dolls and decorate the island with them. He would trade vegetables and fruits in exchange for any dolls. The dolls were believed to be used by Don Julian as a shrine for the spirit that haunted him. Over the 50 years that he lived there, he continuously collected dolls and decorated them all over the island, until he died.

4 The Tulip Staircase Ghost


The story behind this picture was that on Sunday 19th June 1966, an old retire couple from Canada – decided to visit the Queen’s house due to the much speculation and hype of being haunted. While he was standing near the Tulip staircase, the old man took a picture of it and when it was later developed, there was a ghostly figure ascending the staircase in pursuit of a second and a third other ghostly figure on top of staircase (which is not quite clear in the photo) The camera roll was examined by researchers and they found no evidence of any kind of tampering done with the roll. At the time the photograph was taken (between 5.15pm and 5.30pm) the old man’s wife claimed that was standing with him and confirmed there was nothing on the stairs. The staircase itself was closed with a rope and ‘No Admittance’ sign. Strange shadowy apparitions and unexplainable noises of footsteps have been constantly reported near the Tulip Staircase by both staff and visitors. There have also been sightings of a pale woman who is seen wiping blood from the bottom of the staircase. She is believed to be the ghost of a maid who came over the highest banister and died at the foot of the stairs 300 years back. One can also sometimes hear creepy disembodied chanting of children which seem to be coming from within the Queens House.

The Whaley House - San Diego, USA



Since the mysterious deaths of the members of  the Whaley family, this house has seen all kinds of mysteries. Visitors have reported seeing the ghost of a woman in the garden, while many people also claim to have seen Thomas Whaley’s spirit in the parlour. A young girl who matches the description of Marion Reynolds, the great grand-daughter of Thomas Whaley, who died from ingesting ant poison, is reported to grab the arms of visitors as they tour the house, while a spectral dog is occasionally seen by children.

The Ghost of Freddy Jackson


In 1919, a group portrait of a World War I squadron was taken at the HMS Daedalus training facility. All seemed normal, save for one extra face in the crowd — the ghostly visage of Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had perished in an accident only two days before.

The Cooper Family Hanging


The story goes back to the mid 1950’s taking place in Texas. The Cooper family had just moved into an old house  that they bought and were really excited about it. So, they thought of preserving this memory by taking a picture of the whole family in their new home. But little did they know that there was someone else joining in on their celebration, a spooky figure hanging upside down from the ceiling.



TOP FIVE WORST DROUGHT OF ALL TIME

The 2012 Sahel Drought



A combination of failed crops, insect plague, conflict, and extreme drought collectively caused the ensuing famine that is considered one of the worst on the planet in recent years. Since 2012 nearly twenty million people have been facing hunger across eight countries in West Africa including the Sahel region. 


4 The 1983–85 Drought in Ethiopia



The worst famine to hit Ethiopia in modern history was caused by an extreme drought that occurred in this region. It resulted in more than 400,000 deaths.


The 1982–83 Australian Drought


In terms of short-term rainfall deficiencies (up to one year) and their impacts, the 1982–83 drought was probably Australia’s worst in the twentieth century. It started in autumn 1982, with severe rainfall deficiencies over eastern Australia exacerbated by frequent sharp frosts in June and July. Dry conditions persisted, and by year’s end extensive areas of eastern Australia had had record low April to December rainfall. The upper Murrumbidgee River became a chain of waterholes and reservoirs throughout the southeast fell to levels unknown for many years.


2 The Dust Bowl 1934 - 1940



The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies in the 1930s. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40, but some areas of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years. The Dust Bowl affected one hundred million acres centered around the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas, while it forced thousands of families to abandon their farms.


1 The Chinese Drought of 1941



This is considered by many the worst disaster completely attributed to a drought and lack of rainfall without any other factor such as conflicts, war, and other natural disasters occurring at the same time. The Chinese Drought of 1941 prevented millions from growing and consuming crops, as a result, an estimated three million people died.








TOP FIVE MOST POISONOUS SPIDER OF ALL TIME

Spiders are found everywhere in the world, and most of them are available in corners of our home, eating small insects trapped in their wave.
But there are also spiders found in the wild which are very poisonous and even a single bit from them is lethal for human.
Following is the list of top five deadliest spider found around the world compiled from different internet resources.

The Brazilian wandering spider also called  Banana spider (Phoneutria nigriventer)  found in Central & South America


2 Sidney funnel-web spider also called Atrax robustus found in Australia



3 Black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans) found in United States, Canada, Mexico, West Indies, South America and is  one of the most popular spider




4 Brown recluse spider also called Violin spider (Loxosceles reclusa) found in the United States




5 Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti) found in India, Indonesia, Phillipines, New Caledonia, Australia