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- Gallery: Solar eclipse 2012 from around the world
- China’s ‘4D’ roller coaster: The scariest two minutes of your life
- Adventure travel: Treetop hopping in Krabi
- Boom! Vivid Sydney in your face
- Firm breasts, clear skin: Claims of Jakarta's snake blood salesmen
- Insider Guide: Best of Sydney
| Gallery: Solar eclipse 2012 from around the world Posted: 20 May 2012 10:56 PM PDT |
| China’s ‘4D’ roller coaster: The scariest two minutes of your life Posted: 20 May 2012 07:49 PM PDT by CNNGo staff A complete ride on China's "4D" roller coaster, "Dinoconda," shot by a camera strapped to the back of a seat. Park officials say it's mission impossible to obtain a real first-person angle because the seats spin too much. (Video and image courtesy China Dinosaur Land) Thundering along at speeds of up to 126 kph, somersaulting through 720 degrees and plummeting almost vertically -- all in a little over two minutes -- "Dinoconda" may not be the fastest roller coaster in the world, but it's certainly one of the scariest. The RMB 200 million (US$31.6 million), 1,058-meter-long, 79-meter-high scream machine at China Dinosaur Land (中华恐龙园) outside Changzhou opened last April and is billed as China's first "4D"roller coaster. The theme park is about 200 kilometers northwest of Shanghai. Park officials say riders experience a "fourth dimension" aboard "Dinoconda" (过山龙), by being thrown upside-down in their seats which are mounted on the sides of the track and pivot independently from the track's orientation. read more     |
| Adventure travel: Treetop hopping in Krabi Posted: 20 May 2012 04:36 PM PDT Up among the swaying treetops in the jungles of Thailand's Krabi province, tourists are screaming, shrieking and pleading. Because no one wants to spiral into a freefall and splatter onto the rock-strewn jungle floor below, of course. Others are fiendishly laughing, yelping with joy or silently bug-eyed with frenzied focus, desperately hoping their nylon ropes will keep them attached to steel "zip lines" strung from tree to tree, around 20 meters above the ground. "I thought at some point I was going to cry. Not die, but cry," says Jo Waisel, a 31-year-old office manager from Tunbridge Wells, England. "For me, it was a bit too much, a bit too intense. The zip wire bits were great, but some of the other ones were too challenging for me. Too hard. Too much like pushing yourself to the edge of what you are used to doing," she says. Her husband, Gadi Waisel, 34, feels the opposite. read more    |
| Boom! Vivid Sydney in your face Posted: 20 May 2012 02:55 PM PDT Hey -- if it's good enough for the Guardian newspaper to rate as one of the world's 10 best "ideas" festivals, then Vivid Sydney is all right by us, sport. This year's fourth running of the citywide event spans May 25-June 11, with the blinged-out Opera House as its focus. Those peacock-like sails on the Sydney icon are the handiwork of German light artists Urbanscreen, by the way. The now-annual winter festival appears to be playing a key role in attracting visitors to the New South Wales capital, according to Destination NSW's Sandra Chipchase. "Images of the illuminated Sydney Opera House sails have been seen by millions of people across the globe," she said. read more    |
| Firm breasts, clear skin: Claims of Jakarta's snake blood salesmen Posted: 20 May 2012 10:00 AM PDT On any given day on Jalan Mangga Besar in Jakarta, dusk brings a scurry of activity from street stall owners. Food vendors roll their carts out and start chopping and frying. Fresh juice vendors squeeze and pour. And between stands of fried rice, tropical fruit and seafood, sharp-eyed travelers in this area in the center-north of the city will spot large cages full of black cobras, slithering and climbing, their tongues flicking between the cage bars. For vendors like Dani, who owns one of the half dozen cobra stalls on the street, there is nothing terrifying or strange about the cages sitting on the ground on the side of the busy road. This is his livelihood. read more    |
| Posted: 20 May 2012 09:55 AM PDT If Sydney wasn't so darned far from the rest of the world, everyone on the planet would move there. Gorgeous. Vibrant. Sexy. You'll burn through plenty of adjectives and superlatives describing the best of Sydney, with its genuinely great beach options, top-notch restaurants and endless bars and nightclubs. For a place that started out as a penal colony in the late 18th century (and for thousands of years before that, Aboriginal land), Sydney's come a long way -- from opening its iconic Opera House in 1973 to hosting the Olympics in 2000. These days, it's a regular on all of those "top 10 places to live in the world" and "most expensive cities in the world" lists. read more    |
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