Liger? What animal is this?

Know what's a Liger? It's a cross breed of a Lion male and Tiger female...

  

 

He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But He is very much living flesh and blood - as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar. Part lion, part tiger, he is not just a big cat but a huge one, standing 10ft tall on his back legs. Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage, he is the largest of all the cat species.

On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. At just three years old, He already weighs half a ton.

He is the accidental result of two enormous big cats living close together at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, in Miami, Florida, and already dwarfs both his parents. "Ligers are not something we planned on having," said institute owner Dr Bhagavan Antle. "We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures and at first we had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl, then loo and behold we had a liger."

He could run at 50mph also likes to swim. In the wild it is virtually impossible for lions and tigers to mate. Not only are they enemies likely to kill one another, but most lions are in Africa and most tigers are in Asia. But incredible though he is unique. Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II.

Today there are believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tigons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. Tigons are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger.

Amazing Hotels Of The World

Most travelers prefer a luxurious and a comfortable bed where they can sink in after a hard day of sightseeing. However a new school of thought arise that a bed is part of the travel experience and should be as unforgettable as one’s holiday. So below are lists of beds that amazed me and it takes the art of sleeping to a whole new level. For some who want to redecorate their rooms or is planning to renovate their home. Here may be some amazing ideas.

The Underwater Bed, Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, Maldives
If you dream of waking among stunning coral reef and marine life of the Indian Ocean, then check into the Conrad Maldives Hotel. The hotel on special request transforms their all-glass underwater restaurant, Ithaa, into a suite.

The Benjamin Bed, The Benjamin Hotel, New York
Not as exotic as the rest of the beds in the list but a godsend for insomniacs. The boutique hotel is renowned for its sleep programs and the bed is a vital part of it. The pillow selection is legendary and one is also privy to 100-plus-thread-count Egyptian linens by Anichini and a down comforter with triple sheeting. 

 The Star Bed, Elqui Domos, Chile
Stargazers will fall in love with the Geodesic domes as they have an unparalleled view to the stunning carpet of stars in the sky and each dome’s USP is its bed which is designed specifically for stargazing from the bed itself. 

 The Floating Bed, Hotel Seven, Paris
Hotel Seven, a boutique hotel in Paris has specially-engineered Floating Beds that gives you an illusion of floating in air. 

 Ice bed, Ice Hotel, Sweden
Ice Ice Baby! The stunning bed is made of packed snow and covered in reindeer skin.

The Flying Bed, Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin
Fly high with the surrealistic Flying Bed in the Propeller Island City Lodge. The bed isn’t actually flying and the effect is created via slanted floors.

The Kiboko Star Bed, Loisaba Wilderness, Kenya
Get connected with nature and take in the breath-taking view of the Loisaba reserve from your bed. The Kiboko Star Bed overlooks a waterhole and is perfect to gaze at Africa’s diverse wildlife.

  The Castle Bed, Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin
The Propeller Island City Lodge is the place to be for adventurous travelers. Their Castle Bed is built on a fortress which also contains a wardrobe and desk and the meadow round the knight’s helmet also has a miniature golf course in it!

 

Amazing Railway Market at Samut Songkhram in THAILAND

 

This is amazing. A lot of people are walking along this market to buy their daily products such as vegetable, fish, squid and fresh seafood and grocery product. When they hear the train whistle blows, the people stop shopping while the local merchant will move their products to the side to allow the train pass through the Maeklong station. After a few minutes when the train pass through, everything back to the normal position. The customers start their shopping and everything back to normal activity like nothing happen.

This market located near Mae Klong Railway Station. There are the daily trip from Bangkok (Wong Wien Yai Railway Station) to Samut Songkram (Mea Klong Railway Station). This is an important route for a merchant who delivery their product between Bangkok and Samutsongkhram.

Palmyra, Syria

An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world. From the 1st to the 2nd century, the art and architecture of Palmyra, standing at the crossroads of several civilizations, married Graeco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences.

   

First mentioned in the archives of Mari in the 2nd millennium BC, Palmyra was an established caravan oasis when it came under Roman control in the mid-first century AD as part of the Roman province of Syria.  It grew steadily in importance as a city on the trade route linking Persia, India and China with the Roman Empire, marking the crossroads of several civilisation in the ancient world. A grand, colonnaded street of 1100 metres' length forms the monumental axis of the city, which together with secondary colonnaded cross streets links the major public monuments including the Temple of Ba'al, Diocletian's Camp, the Agora, Theatre, other temples and urban quarters. Architectural ornament including unique examples of funerary sculpture unites the forms of Greco-roman art with indigenous elements and Persian influences in a strongly original style. Outside the city's walls are remains of a Roman aqueduct and immense necropolises.

Discovery of the ruined city by traveller in the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in its subsequent influence on architectural styles.

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World Amazing Lake (Part 2)

Lake Matheson, New Zealand

At Lake Matheson, near Fox Glacier, nature has combined exactly the right ingredients to create truly stunning reflections of New Zealand's highest peaks - Aoraki (Mount Cook) and Mount Tasman.

The waters of Lake Matheson are dark brown, so on a calm day they create the ideal reflective surface. The colour is caused by natural leaching of organic matter from the surrounding native forest floor. By a happy coincidence, the mountains to the east are perfectly positioned to reflect in the lake.

An easy walk passes over the Clearwater River suspension bridge, just a few minutes from the car park. The Clearwater River drains off the lake and is brownish under the bridge, however it quickly becomes clear and true to its name. The track continues through ancient native forest, including tall rimu and kahikatea trees, to a pontoon that extends out onto the lake.

Long finned native eels thrive in the darkness of Lake Matheson, which is also home to many water birds. For this reason the lake is a traditional mahinga kai (food gathering place) for Maori people. Lake Matheson was formed about 14,000 years ago, when the Fox Glacier retreated from its last major advance towards the sea and left a depression which later filled with water. The walk from the car park takes 40 minutes to the pontoon, or 1.5 hours around the lake.

 

Lake Atitlán

Lake Atitlán rests at the foot of massive conical volcanoes. Nearly a mile up in the highlands of Guatemala, Atitlán (Lago de Atitlán) rests at the foot of three massive conical volcanoes. Small Mayan villages line its shores, which are set off by steep hills draped with oak and pine trees and nearly 800 plant species. There's no single, must-see view of the lake, so try several vantage points: from up high on Highway 1; from the town of Panajachel, the buzzing market hub that juts out into the water; or aboard a lancha, one of the many small boats that ferry visitors from village to village. We're saddened to note that the lake has built up high levels of blue-green algae over the years. However, much effort had made to solve the problem.

Peyto Lake, Canada

Alberta's Lake Louise is the famous one, on all the postcards and posters. But Louise's sister lake 29 miles north along Icefields Parkway, a two-laner that winds 142 miles through the Canadian Rockies, is even more picturesque. Thanks to glacial rock flour that flows in when the ice and snow melt every summer, the waters of Banff National Park's Peyto Lake are a brilliant turquoise more often associated with warm-weather paradises like Antigua and Bora-Bora. For the most dramatic views of the 1.7-mile-long stunner, encircled with dense forest and craggy mountain peaks, pull into the lot at Bow Summit, the parkway's highest point, and follow the steep hike to the overlook

 Crater Lake

Thousands of years ago, the top of a 12,000-foot-high volcano in the Cascade Range exploded. The massive pit left behind became known as Crater Lake, the centerpiece of a national park in southern Oregon that displays nature at its rawest and most powerful. Forests of towering evergreens and 2,000-foot-high cliffs surround the lake, where extraordinarily deep waters—at 1,943 feet, it's the deepest lake in the United States—yield an intense sapphire-blue hue. If winter hiking and cross-country skiing aren't your thing, wait until early July to visit, when the roads have been plowed and the trails cleared. Rim Drive, a 33-mile road that encircles the lake, has picture-perfect views from all sides. For a closer look, follow the mile-long Cleetwood Cove Trail to the shore. Brace yourself before diving in: The water temperature rarely rises above 55 degrees Fahrenheit.

Lake Nakuru, Kenya

The water is blue enough, and the backdrop—grasslands and rocky hillsides—has the makings of a nice photo, but neither is what sets this lake in central Kenya apart. The real draw here is the mass of pink on Nakuru's edges. Flamingos are one of the few species that can withstand the lake's hostile conditions—the water has so much sodium carbonate that it burns nearly everything that touches it —and they flock to the lake en masse. There can be as many as a million birds feeding on algae in the shallows at one time, wading side by side.