ABOUT ME:

Halloo everyone..Welcome to my blog..Thank you because willing to spend your time to view my blog..Before you go through my blog and its contents, this is some informations about me..

Name                         :   Graceshealda Rechard
Matric Number           :   A12A116
Faculty, University      :   Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship , University Malaysia Kelantan
Date of Birth               :  03 July 1992
Place of Birth              :  Ranau, Sabah
Area of Study             :  Pengkalan Chepa,Kota Bharu, Kelantan
Ambition                     :  Want to open my own company in tourism industry

Evaluation of this assignment:

Thank you to Miss Liyana, my tourism lecturer because give me the opportunity to learn new things on how to create a blog and in the same time exploring many interesting places in the world. I am very happy and excited while making this blog because I like to exploring new beautiful places. It is also as a preparation for me when I want to travel someday. I hope I can make my dream come true to travel around the world someday. Thank you so much miss.. New and useful experience..

HOBBITON, NEW ZEALAND

HOBBITON??.Did you ever heard about it??Have you watched 'TheLord of the Rings' film??If yes then you will know..I am really attracted with this Hobbiton movie set tour..Continue your reading okey.. :)

Hobbiton is a village in the Shire. It is one of the older villages located in that land, and is roughly in the center, geographically. It is the home of many illustrious Hobbits, including Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee. Notable locations in Hobbiton include the Mill and the Baggins' hill- mansion, Bag End. During the War of the Ring, Saruman's treachery destroyed much of the Shire, and Hobbiton suffered greatly. The Old Mill had been replaced with a noxious factory-like structure, and many trees cut down.

After the servants of Saruman had been expelled from the Shire, Sam Gamgee used magic soil from the garden of Elf-Queen Galadriel to heal the Shire in general, but with particular attention to Hobbiton area.

Discover the real Middle-earth on the most picturesque private farmland near Matamata in the North Island of New Zealand, where you can visit the Hobbiton Movie Set  from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogy in a fascinating two-hour guided tour.

The set has been completely rebuilt and can be seen as it appeared in the films.The Green Dragon Inn is now open and is a special feature of our tours. All tours groups visit the inn as part of their tour and receive a complimentary refreshment.There are spectacular views across to the Kaimai Ranges from the rolling green hills of the movie set, which is still a working sheep and beef farm.

As the Hobbiton Movie Set is located on a real New Zealand farm, you are also offered  the opportunity to cuddle and bottle feed the pet lambs.You can relax and soak up the unique atmosphere with a great cup of coffee or a light meal in The Shires Rest Cafe, which is also available for functions, conferences or other occasions. Visit The Shire Store (below the cafe) for some special souvenirs to remind you of your visit.

NETHERLANDS GIETHOORN VILLAGE

Haluuuu...hehehe..I want all of you to take a look at my post about this unique village..Then in the next post I will write about the Hobbit place..Let's go through my post..hehe..

Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 5 km southwest of Steenwijk. Giethoorn used to be a carfree town known in the Netherlands as "Venice of the North" or "Venice of the Netherlands". It became locally famous, especially after 1958, when the Dutch film maker Bert Haanstra made his famous comedy "Fanfare" there. In the old part of the village, there were no roads (nowadays there is a cycling path), and all transport was done by water over one of the many canals. The lakes in Giethoorn were formed by peat unearthing.

Giethoorn was founded by fugitives from the Mediterranean region in around AD 1230. Giethoorn was a separate municipality until 1973, when it became part of Brederwiede.For anyone dreaming of a simple life, you may want to consider moving to Giethoorn, Netherlands.

This idyllic village has no roads, and the only access is by water over the many beautiful canals or on foot over its wooden arch bridges. The locals use punters to get around and cars have to remain outside the village.

ZHANGYE DANXIA LANDFORM, CHINA

Hellow my fellow friends..We meet again..Today I want you to play with colour..hehehe..Today we will talk about the colourful landform in China..It looks like a piece of children's coloring book. Let's explore more about it..

This layer cake of amazing colours is a real  landscape located at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, a remote region in northern central China.‘Danxia’ is the name for a type of rockform, ‘Zhangye’ being this particular location. 

Even for the undeniably powerful Mother Nature, creating something this arty wasn’t easy. It in fact took 24

million years of painstakingly laying down mineral deposits to form these rocks, like pouring different colours of sand into a jar. Over time these weighty layers were compressed into rock, and then a slight and unthinkably slow ripple from the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates rumpled the landscape into those magnificent undulations to complete the effect (meanwhile also giving rise to the Himalayas). Thus the amazingness of Zhangye Danxia was formed.

The rockforms of Zhangye Danxia range in colour from deep red to yellow and green, the highly contrasting bands of colour glowing most intensely after rainfall. As the setting sun casts golden rays and a lacework of shadows across the landscape, the visual effect becomes even more stunning.

HIDDEN BEACH, MARIETA ISLANDS, MEXICO

Helloooo everyone..What are you doing??Don't forget to visit my blog okey..Have you ever noticed that there are hidden beautiful places in the world that when you found it, it will make you shocked??..If YES then we already felt it..How lucky we are to be in this world with a lot of wonderful and beautiful creature.While searching in the internet, I have found this very unique hidden beach and attracted to it..Let's get some informations about it.

The Marieta Islands are a group of small uninhabited islands a few miles off the coast of Nayarit, Mexico. They are very popular tourists destinations because of the abundant marine life populations due to the islands being protected from fishing and hunting by the Mexican government.

The Marieta Islands were originally formed many thousands of years ago by volcanic activity, and are completely uninhabited. The islands are about an hour long boat ride west-northwest from the coast of Puerto Vallarta and are visited daily by hundreds of tourists, yet no one can legally set foot on the islands. In the early 1900s the Mexican government began conducting military testing on the islands because no one lived there. Many bombings and large explosions took place on the islands causing amazing caves and rock formations to be created. After a massive international outcry, started by scientist Jacques Cousteau in the late 1960s, the government eventually decided to label the islands a national park and therefore protected against any fishing, hunting or human activity.


Protection by the government has created an environment conducive to the development of the marine
ecosystem, and is a popular location for snorkeling and scuba diving. People often report seeing sea turtles, manta rays, octopus, wild dolphins, humpback whales and thousands of species of tropical fish around the islands. The islands are also home to a few thousands birds, with species such as the Blue-footed Booby. Currently, the Mexican government allows only a few companies to go to the islands for public tours because of conservationist efforts.

PAMUKKALE, TURKEY

Hye there..hope all of you are doing fine..Seems like there are a lot of amazing places in the world till I feel like want to write about all of it..Now, this time I want to share with you about the Pamukkale in Turkey.

Pamukkale means "Cotton Castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.

Tourism is and has been a major industry. People have bathed in its pools for thousands of years. As
recently as the mid-20th century, hotels were built over the ruins of Hierapolis, causing considerable damage. An approach road was built from the valley over the terraces, and motor bikes were allowed to go up and down the slopes. When the area was declared a World Heritage Site, the hotels were demolished and the road removed and replaced with artificial pools. Wearing shoes in the water is prohibited to protect the deposits.

hot springs

In this area, there are 17 hot water springs in which the temperature ranges from 35 °C (95 °F) to 100 °C (212 °F). Pamukkale is a tourist attraction. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site together with Hierapolis. Hierapolis-Pamukkale was made a World Heritage Site in 1988.The underground volcanic activity which causes the hot springs also forced carbon dioxide into a cave, which was called the Plutonium meaning place of the god, Pluto. This cave was used for religious purposes by priests of Cybele, who found ways to appear immune to the suffocating gas.Tadpoles can be found in the pools.

What a wonderful creature..Here is a short video about this Pamukkale and hope all of you like it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX32CDXKQHY

FAIRY POOLS, ISLE OF SKYE, SCOTLAND

Good afternoon my dear friends..hehe...I have found new beautiful and amazing place again..It is a nature beauty that have been given to us...So, don't waste your time and open your eyes widely while reading and watching about this awesome place..

If you are backpacking in Scotland generally or are planning a trip to the Isle of Skye then I heartily recommend that you visit the so-called Fairy Pools. They are part of a stream running off of the Cuillin mountains, full of vividly coloured pools of often almost still water which are punctuated by busy waterfalls. It’s best to visit on the day after a small rain shower, on a dry day with some cloud cover. That way the water levels will be topped up but not too urgent, and the cloud cover will mean that the water’s surface doesn’t reflect too much light – thereby dimming your view of the stunning colours beneath. So, that is why is is so-called Fairy Pools. It is beautiful and colourful. I am so excited to go to this place because I like to visit beautiful places.


If you want to get there by foot, follow this instruction the best way to reach the Fairy Pools Circuit on foot.
It’s not that easy to get there without a car but you can arrange for a tour of this part of the Isle of Skye if you were backpacking without a vehicle.You are welcomed to visit this place because they are really quite neglected by most visitors to the island and you might have them all to yourself, unlike some of Skye’s other attractions, such as the Old Man of Storr..

To give you the peparation and feels to to there, Please enjoy this video..Hope you like it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zo5L_O2QIs