Magic Mountain Hotel

Full four star international service, in such a spectacular location, sets the Magic Mountain Hotel apart from all the other hotels in Southern Chile.The really funny thing is that the Magic Mountain hotel you see in the photo is possibly the least spectacular thing going on around the Huilo Huilo nature reserve in Southern Chile.Huilo Huilo is more of region than a single town.It includes one of the largest privately owned natural reserves in Chile along with several nearby towns, lakes, and a volcano with year around snowboarding and skiing, and the river Fuy that is famous for its class 3-5 white water rafting and kayaking. The name sake of the region is the Huilo Huilo falls (salto del Huilo Huilo ). There is also a smaller, but no less spectacular falls Salto de la Leona (Lion falls). The Lake Pirihueico borders Argentina, and daily car transport ferry connects the international highway to Argentina. The Most of the land surrounding the lake is also part of the Huilo Huilo reserve. 

Rolling Bridge in London

London's Rolling Bridge is a type of curling or folding movable bridge is the part of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London. Inspite of the connotation of its name, it is more accurately described as Curling. Heatherwick Studio's was commissioned to designed by SKM Anthony hunt with Packman Lucas, and built by Littlehampton Welding Ltd. The Hydraulic design and development was done by Primary Fluid Power Ltd.

The eight triangular sections hinged at the walkway level and connected above by two parts links that can collapsed towards the deck by Hydraulic Cylinders, which are concealed in vertical posts in the bridge parapets. The 12 meters long footbridge when it extended in resembles a conventional steel and timber. It allow the passage of boats, the hydraulic pistons are activated and the curls up until it two ends joins, to form an octagonal shape measuring 1 ½ of the waterway's width at that point.

The X-shaped Bridge | Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge

Talking about the land mark of Brazil, the mind click comes to " Christ the Redeemer Statue towering over the Rio. The second largest building which is the national pride of the country, a grand stayed bridge Octavio Frias Oliveria, named after a popular local newspaper publisher who influenced to a large extent on the whole social life of Sao Paulo, which actually is a magnificent bridge. 

Amazing and unsurpassed design, that we can say, a delicious combination of engineering solution with high aesthetic qualities that make this building so impressive that the fame of the beauty sold worldwide. The quaintness of the bridge structure in that it substantially rests only on the X-shaped monolithic concrete base with running from it to the roadway steel shrouds, the of which pieces. The height of the pillars are 138 meters and stretched cables, illuminated by special LED bridge added visual lightness and weightlessness. It is the only bridge in the world that has two curved tracks supported by a single concrete mast. The two curved tracks, one at an elevation of 12 meters and the other at an elevation of 24 meters, have approximate lengths of 900 meters each. Due to this effect, the construction seems to be hovering over the water of the river Pinheiros and automobiles highways passing underneath. Apart from it utilitarian purpose of unloading vehicle traffic, the bridge to the city skyline a touch of uniqueness and originality, effectively becoming its principal symbol.

Dudhsagar Falls | Railway Track

Dudhsagar Falls, Entirely Sea of Milk, is a laminated waterfall situated on the Mandovi River of Goa border with Karnataka State India. Around sixty km from Panji city by road and 46 km from Madgaon railway junction by train. The waterfall called Dudhsagar coz of cascading waters appear white like milk. The Hindi word Dudh means Milk and Sagar is Sea. The western Ghats of Bhagwan Mahavir Wild Life Sanctuary at Collem the waterfall is located, both states are operating their work like the roads leading to it are maintained by Goa Forest Department and the resthouse in the forest is maintained by Karnataka Forest Department.

Dudhsagar is one of the world's most admirable falls. The falls is listed as India's fifth tallest waterfall and 227th in the world at 310 m. The water plummets hundreds of meters over a 1000 feets in large volumes during the rainy monsoon season, forming one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in Goa. 

Luftlmalerei | House Paintings in Oberammergau

The painting is most religious character in particularly involving figures of saints as well as manifold scenes all around the Passion Play theme in Oberammergau. In Southern Germany and Italy Lüftlmalerei is a handicraft method of wall-paintings originally applied for decorating the baroque facades. In 18th century the method began to become popular in the foothills region of the Alps, where wealthy traders or people peasants and craftsmen displayed their wealth by means of opulently painted facades. The Painting technique is to called Fresco Technique, the mineral basis of water colors are applied to wet freshly laid plaster. They become a fixed layer of color after colors dry, insoluble to water. The necessity to work quickly in the fresh air (Luft), led to the belief that the term "Lüftlmalerei" is some how connected to this particular method of painting. The famous town of Oberammergau also shows how inextricably linked a handicraft is to the history of its town. In principle a stroll through the town famed the world over for it passion play is almost like walking through a museum. The traditional painting are still stand with us, where we have lots of technology like computer printing etc etc, I love colors and art. Let see the some pictures which I collect from Flickr.com. Pilatushaus - Oberammergau - Bavaria - Germany.