Travel Usher: September 2013

SeaWorld Orlando Water Theme Park

SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park, and marine-life based zoological park, in Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by SeaWorld Entertainment, a subsidiary of Blackstone Group. When combined with its neighbor Discovery Cove and Aquatica, it forms Seaworld Parks and Resorts Orlando, an entertainment complex consisting of the three parks and many neighboring hotels and eateries.

In 2010, SeaWorld Orlando hosted an estimated 5.1 million guests, ranking it the ninth-most visited amusement park in the United States. However, SeaWorld's owners have challenged the estimated figures in the past; in 2007, the estimate was 5.8 million guests, while the park's internal data, normally not released to the public, was closer to 6.2 million guests. A spokesperson for then-owner Busch Entertainment Corporation disagreed with the report, saying, "They are wrong across the board."

SeaWorld Orlando water slide

Arc de Triomphe, Paris

Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monumental buildings in Paris. It is located in the centre of the place called, Charles de Gaulle, at the west side of the Champs- Élysées.

Note, there are two arcs in Paris, one is smaller and the other one is Arc de Triomphe, so you should not confuse it. Arc de Triomphe honors those who fought in the war for French and martyred, it has all the names of French victorious and general inscribed in it.

It has also a tomb just right beneth the arc an unknown brave soldier from the world war I.

The monuments is 50 meters high and its width is around 22 meter and depth is 72 ft. It was the largest triumphal arch in existence until the construction of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, in 1982. Hope you guys like this informative article about Arc de Triomphe.

Arc de Triomphe Ariel view

Arc de Triomphe day view

Arc de Triomphe beautiful night view

Arc de Triomphe at night

La Rambla Street

La Rambla is a street in central “Barcelona” Spain, it is very popular among the tourists and local residents. Its is very unique street because it is a street covered all the way from side trees which covers almost 1.2 KM’s around the “Barri Gotic” and “El Raval” which connect the “Placa de Cataluny” from the center of the Columbus Monument.

La Rambla is very famous all over the world, it’s not just the trees which add to the beauty of the street but the other market public places which has some sculptural and statues residing there on the street which attracts most of the tourists, other than that there are very good restaurants which offers local food of Barcelona.

La Rambla docks

La Rambla tourists attraction

La Rambla street at night

La Rambla statues

La Rambla street

Denver Colorado, USA

The Denver is the largest city and also the capital of the United States of "". Denver is also the second largest county in Colorado to El Paso County.

Denver is a united city and county in the South “Platte River Valley” on the western edge of the High Plains east of the Front Range of the “Rocky Mountains”.

The Denver is situated in the downtown area is right after east of the confluence of Cherry Creek adjacent to the South Platte River about 12 miles east of the “foothills” of the Rocky Mountains.

Denver is called the “Mile-High City” because its is about 5,280 feet above sea level, making it one of the most highest cities in the United States.

Denver Colorado mountains

Denver Colorado cloudy sunset

Denver Colorado downtown

Beautiful Denver Colorado

Denver Colorado Ariel view

Denver Colorado buildings

Denver Colorado moon

Death Valley (Desert), California

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it is the lowest, hottest and driest area in North America.

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level. This point is 84.6 miles east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet.

Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably reported air temperature in the world, 134 °F on July 10, 1913.

Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It is located mostly in Inyo County, California. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Sylvania Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi.

Death Valley mountains

Death Valley park board

Death Valley sand

Death Valley road

Statue of Liberty, New York

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.