ASIA
Singapore
Caning is a legal form of punishment even to this day
Once for connecting to another network one teenager was sentenced to 3 years in jail. It was his neighbours network…
There was a time in 2009 what one woman popped a candy in her mouth on the train and was fined $30 just for that
Government of the country heavily against the use of private vehicles
Military service is mandatory for all men for two years and annually servicemen have to return to train till they are 40 years of age
HortPark is a major lifestyle hub of Asia as it was the first-ever park that was dedicated to gardening
Statistically 2 new restaurants open up in Singapore every day
Singapore Citizens do not need a VISA to go to China, South Korea, North Korea or the United States
Littering is a very serious offence in Singapore. For littering small items – SGD 300 as fine. For littering larger items (cans, bottles, etc.) – Corrective Work Order will send you to clean certain areas, to shame you in public and give you a lesson to respect the work of sweepers and cleaners!
In public you should not bring up some sensitive topics, such as criticising the government, country rules, religion and ethnical issues, etc.
Singapore’s Sunda pangolin can eat about 70 millions insects every year
The signature Singapore Sling, which contains gin, Cointreau, cherry brandy, Dom Benedictine, pineapple juice, Grenadine, Angostura bitters and lime, was first served at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel in the year of 1915
Taiwan
Taiwan people are often reject to eat beef only in respect to cows
China
Zhangye Danxia Landform: Gansu
The Great Wall (build from around 476-770 B.C till 1878 AD) is actually can be longer than 21 196 km what was estimated before. Sticky rice was used to build the Great Wall (at lest for some Wall parts during the Ming dynasty – 1368 to 1644 AD)
Zhangye Danxia Landform, Gansu
The beauty of a nature, perhaps the mountains can leave you breathless when you see this striped red sandstone and naturally occurring accumulations of mineral deposits that have been building up for more than 20 million years while laying in China’s Danxia Landform Geological Park, giving if not the most impressive layered effect
Japan
The only country that sells more dippers for adults than for kids
Non-stop festival country
Kit Kat in Japan may sounds like ‘kitto katsu’ – ‘ good luck’ in Japanese
North Korea
One of the most forbidden places and secret organisations is the Room 39 , which is created in the late 1970s, and according to the sources located inside the Workers’ Party building in Pyongyang. Network of this organisation, which is spread around the world is estimated to have about $2 billion of annual contribution to North Korea
North Sentinel Island - Andaman island
One of the forbidden places in the world ! North Sentinel island is untouched by modern civilisation and has about 400 tribesmen who brutally protect the island from outside world and any foreign invaders…So dont try to take a picture from this Island 😀
maldives
The Sea of Stars: Vaadhoo Island beaches can impress you with the bioluminescent phytoplankton in the waters radiate a dazzling blue glow, giving the starry-night-sky effect and also known as China’s “blue tears.. truly breathtaking. However, swimming is not advised in such waters as it can cause sickness and many other unpleasant effects in human body. This bioluminescent phytoplankton generates tiny flashes of light using a chemical called luciferin as a surviving instinct to disorientate and surprise the predator and therefore can poison sea life, from fish to sea turtles and to some extent human is also not save from this toxic compound.
Middle East
United Arab Emirates
About 40 tourists were arrested for the cross-dressing . This happened in 2008.
Saudi Arabia
Considered to be much severe than United Arab Emirates. According to the human-rights activists, in March 2017, two transgender persons were shoved in bags, beaten with sticks, and tortured to death.
Europe
Greenland
The Ice Golf World Championships in Uummannaq. The two-day event takes place on a a course cut on the ice, between icebergs and out in the snow fields (in mid-March)
The sun does not set from May 25th to July 25th. On the Arctic Circle the midnight sun only lasts for about half an hour, but the further north you get, the longer it lasts
July is the only month when Greenland’s temperature reaches above freezing
The northeast Greenland ice sheet has lost more than 10 billion tons of ice a year since 2003, according to a Nature Climate Change study
Iceland
Island of Surtsey formed just about 55 years ago!? thanks to huge volcanic eruption in 1963 (32 kilometres south of Iceland), but on the other hand to this day only scientists have that unique opportunity to visit the island and observe the birth and evolution of an ecosystem from scratch. So again, the Island is closed to the rest of the world and no one can tell if commoners will ever see the youngest Island as it has been decreasing in size due to water and wind erosion… apparently it will need about 100 years to completely disappear as it was never there, keeping our fingers crossed to see it some day and all of the impressive 89 species of birds and 335 invertebrates that populate the area
Guadeloupe
For about 200 years this multicultural land (Indian 20%, African , Chinese ,Japanese) is known by its Sugar cane plantations
Portugal
So far the most famous sea cave is Benagil, which was formed about 20 million years ago, happened to be just around the corner from the beach in the Algarve, Lagoa (Portugal). The Cave of Benagil (Gruta de Benagil) is the rock formation located that has a striking hole in the roof and often referred to as the Benagil Cathedral for its various shades of yellow and different size arches which were formed by wind and water throughout million year. Who knows what this cave meant for older generation before it was found but nowadays it seems to be the one of most impressive planet’s formation – the treasure like was mentioned in algarvefun.com – ‘paradisiacal island in the middle of the Pacific’ (algarvefun.com)
Norway
“Troll’s Tongue” – Trolltunga which is located in Hordaland, shows one side of Norway’s beautiful landscape which is funny and weird. 2,300 feet above Lake Ringedalsvatnet the protruding rock lays to dare travellers’ nerves to sit on the edge, pose for picture, and observe this unbearable scenery of mountainous landscape
North America
Alaska
The ice caves inside Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier that called Mendenhall Ice Caves, are not only amazing to observe this glowing blue ceilings of ice but also are troublesome to reach as you must first kayak to the glacier and then ice-climb to finally step into the Ica Caves
South America
Bolivia
If you are looking for some surreal mirror effect then Salar de Uyuni is the place!
Million years ago this place in southwest Bolivia was filled with prehistoric lakes that evaporated long time ago leaving behind more than 4000 square miles of the bright white largest salt flat in the world. Its boundless and therefore is often dubbed as the “Mirror of the Sky”, however, if you want that perfect-mirror-the-sky effect then GO FOR the rainy season (December – April). When the dry season comes (May – November) the flat has a different but also beautiful look of perfectly white horizontal sheet with hexagonal salt tiles. Funny that from the space it could seen like a huge glacier…hard to disagree with Neil Armstrong.
Oceania
New Zealand
Glowworm Caves of Waitomo have thousands of bioluminescent form of an insect (larva) from which this Caves have such dazzling surreal glow. At first glance it is a complete magnificent look that you might think was made by some wizard but nope it involves the long strings of mucus that worms (lavra) leave and spread..some might think its gross, oh well, don’t panic its organic