Archive for June, 2009

Hongkong Beautiful Places

// June 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // Tourism places

Hong Kong is a wonderland in Asia placed to the south-east from the mainland China. Adjacent the state from Guangdong, Hong Kong belongs of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula, and Lantau Island. A world’s most famous deep-water harbor-Victoria Harbor lies between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. With the total land area of 1,104km2 (426 sq.m) and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is among the most densely domiciled areas in the Earth. In August 1842, the Chinese yielded to the British after the Opium War (Anglo-Chinese War). Hong Kong was once appropriated through British people under the Treaty of Nanjing, which signed by the Chinese and British governments. (more…)

Beautiful Paris

// June 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Tourism places

Paris by the eleventh century was a popular destination as bargainers, scholars and religious pilgrimages, but its ‘tourist industry’ began on a large scale only with the 19th-century appearance of rail travel, namely from the state’s organisation of France’s rail network, with Paris at its centre, from 1848. One of Paris’ first aggregate attracters drawing international concern were the above-mentioned Expositions Universelles that were the origin of Paris’ many monuments, namely the Eiffel Tower from 1889. These, in addition to the capital’s Second Empire embellishments, did much to make the city itself the attraction it is today. (more…)