Hydropolis Underwater Hotel, Dubai

If you wanted to see most thrilling and exciting views then Underwater Hotel Dubai is finest place for you. Around the world, it is one of the most exclusive, hotels that offer world class accommodations. It is also famous for the biggest and expensive construction with a state of art facilities as well as features. Staying at the hotel is indeed a very memorable experience that you could treasure in your whole life. It is a very expensive hotel yet it is one of the most rewarding hotels to stay in. Hydropolis Underwater Hotel is a beautiful concept for your summer vacation. Indeed this is unique & luxurious concept under the sea and first such megaproject in the world.

This fabulous Hydropolis Underwater hotel has several places for your perfect holiday, as it sees the real sea beauty under beneath the sea. Above you may have the sea view which is very remarkable and sight the sun sink. The Hydropolis Underwater Hotel is situated 30 meters below the surface of the Persian Gulf off the coast of Jumeirah in Dubai. Tourists will be greeted by the underwater exquisiteness and recreation under the water. This Hotel is one of the largest modern construction projects worldwide and has 261 hectares.

The Hotel was built in June of 2010. The Hotel has Bar, Restaurant, wedding receptions and conferences. The hotel is separated into three interesting and distinctive areas. All of those areas are exceptional and holds something that will really catch everyone’s attention. One of the hotels distinctive parts is the land station. It is a huge tunnel that linked to the main area of the hotel. Tourists are warmly welcomed sincerely and entertained at this area. By means of train, people are transported from the land station to the main area. This megaproject hotel’s & resort was designed by Prof. Roland Dieterle that would have been the world's first underwater luxury resort. It was planned to be situated 66 feet below the surface of the Persian Gulf off Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, and projected to cost $300 million to construct. It is explained that there is a magnificent analogy why the hotels architecture is patterned as the human physiology.

Source: Charismatic Planet 

Lake Huron, Michigan USA

Lake Huron is a very scenic lake and one of the five Great Lakes of North America, with amazing Rock Turnips special stone formations. It consist the easterly portion of Lake Michigan–Huron, having the same surface elevation as its westerly counterpart, it is connected by the wide Straits of Mackinac, and  bounded on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States. Lake Huron is the 2nd largest Great Lake by surface area and the 5th largest freshwater lake in the world, with the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, counting the shorelines of its 30,000 islands. The name of the lake is derived from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region. The huronian glaciation was named due to evidence collected from Lake Huron region. Lake Huron receives the flow from both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, but water flows through Lake Huron much more speedily than through either of them. Shipwrecks are scattered throughout the lake, with five bottomland preserves in Michigan and a national park in Ontario designated to protect the most historically noteworthy ones. The lovely Lake Huron basin is heavily forested, sparsely populated, scenically striking, and economically dependent on its prosperous natural resources. Rock formations are in result of years of wave erosion. The Lake also has beaches that are very beautiful and very well liked tourists who come to this Lake. Lake Huron extend about 3,827 miles of sandy beach and Gulf Coast into Georgia. This Lake has a size of about 206 km across and 190 miles north to South, with an average depth of about 750 meters. Lake Huron has become very popular recently, because it has a awesome views which is endless and rare. Due to it’s natural beauty tourist from all over the worlds visiting this lake in large numbers mainly March to November. All tourist facilities are easily available here, and if you want to eat something a restaurant is there for you. On November 9, 1913, a great storm hit Lake Huron which sank 10 ships and more than twenty were driven ashore. The storm, which raged for 16 hours, killed 235 seamen. Lake Huron has suffered variety of new invasive species, including zebra and quagga mussels, the spiny water flea, and round gobies, and a number of radical changes have been observed in the zooplankton community of the lake. Chinook salmon catches have also been greatly reduced in recent years, and Lake Whitefish have become less abundant and are in poor condition. These recent changes may be attributable to the new exotic species.

Some interesting fact & figures as below

1.       LENGTH:  206 miles (332 km).

2.       BREADTH:  183 miles (245 km).

3.       AVERAGE DEPTH:  195 ft. (59 m).

4.       MAXIMUM DEPTH:  750 ft. (229 m).

5.       VOLUME:  850 cubic miles (3,540 cubic km).

6.       WATER SURFACE AREA:  23,000 sq. miles (59,600 sq. km).

7.       TOTAL DRAINAGE BASIN AREA:  51,700 sq. miles (134,100 sq. km).

8.       DRAINAGE BASIN AREA BY STATE/PROVINCE:

9.       Michigan: 16,100 sq mi; 41,700 sq km

10.   Ontario: 35,200 sq mi; 91,100 sq km

11.   SHORELINE LENGTH (including islands):  3,827 miles / 6,157 km.

12.   ELEVATION:  577 ft. / 176 m.

13.   OUTLET:  St. Clair River to Lake Erie

14.   RETENTION/REPLACEMENT TIME:  22 years

 

 

 

Beautiful The Rock Islands of Palau

Palau is an archipelago of about 250 islands, situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It is its own country the Republic of Palau, even though geographically it is part of the bigger island group of Micronesia. More than 30 years it was a part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific under United States administration. Now It’s finally gained entire independence in 1994. Palau is a striking tropical paradise, and one of the factual unspoiled destinations on the planet. More than 100-plus islands are small low-lying coral islands, ringed by barrier reefs and uninhabited. The entire country's population is just 21,000 spread across 250 islands forming the western chain of the Caroline Islands. The most famous sights in Palau’s are the Rock Islands a group of green islands covered in foliage with a few bright white sandy beaches. Shaped by ancient coral reefs, the bases of these limestone formations have been slowly eroded over millennia into quirky mushroom shapes. There are between 250 to 400+ islands in the group, according to different sources, with an aggregate area of 47 square KM and a height up to 207 meters.

The islands are uninhabited and are re-known for their beaches, blue lagoons and the unusual umbrella-like shapes of many of the islands themselves. The Rock Islands and the surrounding reefs make up Palau's prominent tourist sites such as Blue Corner, Blue hole, German Channel, Ngermeaus Island and the famed Jellyfish Lake, one of the many Marine lakes in the Rock Islands that provides home and safety for several kinds of stingless jellyfish found only in Palau. It is the most prominent dive destination in Palau. Actually, Palau offers best and most diverse dive sites on the earth planet. From wall diving to high current drift dives, from Manta Rays to sharkfeeds and from shallow and colorful lagoons to radiantly decorated caves and overhangs. However, currently uninhabited, the islands were once home to Palauan settlements, and Palauans continue to use the region and its resources for cultural and recreational purposes. The islands contain a noteworthy set of cultural remains relating to an occupation more than 5,000 years that ended in abandonment. Archaeological remains of former human occupation in caves and villages, including rock art and burials, testifies to seasonal human occupation and use of the marine ecosystem, dating back to 3,100 BC and extending over some 2,500 years.