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Friday, March 29, 2013

Khan Shatyr - the biggest tent in the world

The construction of this unique facility builder took four years. And the result is impressive: 150 meters high and 127 thousand square meters of floor area in the center of Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.

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"Walls" tent made of a transparent polymer fiber, which not only transmits light, but also has a high level of insulation. Because of this, in a tent year round keeps summer temperatures. Inside, Khan Shatyr offers visitors to shop in the supermarket, eat in restaurants, spend your time in one of the cinemas or just stroll through the family park. It also has an impressive parking for 700 cars, offices and gyms. The main point of this gigantic tent, is a beach resort with sand brought from the Maldives. A huge number of tropical plants, a water park and swimming pools with wave effect, as well as heated sand, allow guests to visit the resort, even a cruel winter.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

The most expensive and unusual canned

Canned food was invented in 1809 by Frenchman Nicolas Appert and has since enjoyed great popularity.
The main feature is their canned long term storage.
Especially, this product helps in emergency situations.
Now, the stores can be seen not only banks or stew of peas, but also very unusual preserves.
Before you 10 cans that will surprise both its price and unusual taste.

Black caviar

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: 9375 rubles (125 g)
Black caviar - one of the most elite delicacies as well as the most expensive canned product in the world. Europeans are willing to pay per kilogram of "food of kings" of up to € 5,000, while in Russia the cost of 125-gram cans up to 10 000. Because of such a high price caviar available the vast majority of Russians, and this despite the fact that Russia is one of the few countries in the number of exporters of premium product. The high price of the product in the first place due to the fact that every year to reduce the number of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea. By the way, because of this in 2003, Russia was officially banned commercial production of black caviar. Today, the country has plants in artificial breeding of sturgeon, which are the main "suppliers" elite product. That they extract eggs, which are allowed to sell legally.




Shellfish Abalone

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: $ 119.5
Abalon - name clam, living mainly in the coastal waters of California, Mexico and Japan. Sink on abalone shaped like the human ear, which is why this type of shellfish often are called. Its meat is considered a delicacy that eat both raw and in canned form. True, this feast of seafood - not cheap - even despite the fact that today not only shellfish Abalon extracted naturally and artificially cultivated. Production of canned clams Abalon company does Calmex. Tasting delicacies will cost $ 119.5, for which he received three whole clam weighing just under 500, By the way, besides the fact that the meat is eaten abalone from its shell also make jewelry.


Chinese black truffles

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: $ 64
If the conversation to gastronomic themes it comes to truffles, the first association of many to be associated with chocolates. Only real foodies think of gourmet mushrooms, which cost in the lean years can compete with the price of gold. In the world there are several types of truffles. The most affordable is Chinese black truffle, but we should not think that it is a forgery. The lower cost of Chinese truffles than European due to the fact that in China due to heavy growth can gather a good harvest these elite fungi. Chinese truffles are exported to Europe, and go to the manufacture of canned food. Fresh truffles are sold rare, and they are easier to find in canned form. Before the "rolling up" the banks are cleaned and truffles, not to spoil the taste, add them only truffle juice and salt.


Foie gras

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: £ 49,99
The phrase "fatty liver" does not sound very appetizing, but that's translated from French name of the world famous delicacy foie gras. Major producers, and in combination, and the main consumers of this product are the French elite. True, they did not, and the Egyptians invented the first fattened geese and ducks to produce unnaturally large and fatty liver of animals, from which then receive a delicacy. Externally, foie gras pate resembles, but differs way of cooking, a gentle creamy taste and texture. On sale of foie gras often found in canned form: «entire» - one piece and «bloc» - minced with individual pieces of liver. Serve delicacy should certainly cold. The product is made in slices with a knife without teeth and put on a slightly warmed bread.


Escargot

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: $ 60
One of the favorite delicacies in France is the escargot. A beautiful name for hiding dish snails, which some French people prefer to collect the rain right in their own gardens. Eat snails for food began in ancient times. In medieval times they ate during Lent, and today this exquisite delicacy served to the table on holidays and during the dinner party. Very difficult to prepare escargot: snail meat need to get out of the shell, stuffed with herbs and garlic butter, and then lay back. As for canned escargot, they usually pour a spicy broth, which can be either very simple (water, salt and spices), and include some herbal supplements. Before the use of canned escargot soup should be emptied and rinsed snails under running water.


Chestnuts

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: $ 28
Autumn is the season in Europe chestnuts. It was during this period of harvested their crops, and the cities are filled with fragrant smell of this delicacy, which is prepared in a roasting pan on the streets. Perhaps more than any other French chestnuts valued, not only for their flavor, but for the love of the story. According to legend, Jupiter was fascinated Neey nymph, but she did not return his affection, and turned into a beautiful tree with carved leaves and delicious fruit. In Russia, the chestnuts are eaten by Catherine II, but after the revolution reference product even disappeared from the pages of cookbooks. Perhaps that is why today on the streets of Russian cities are not roasted chestnuts. But they are available in canned form. Chestnuts rolled in banks in their own juice, and in sweet syrup and even brandy. In addition, the sale can be found canned chestnut puree.


Fried scorpions

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: $ 5.99
The Europeans mere mention scorpions usually causes fear and disgust. But in Asia, by contrast, is not averse to eat them and even categorized delicacies. In China scorpions steamed and served on a thin pancake with sauce and vegetables, as well as make them barbecue, fry in hot oil with lime leaves and chili peppers. And recently went on sale and canned scorpions. The bank insects are already in the form of fried and ready to eat. By the way, under the influence of cooking destroys the poison, then a scorpion can eat quite fearlessly. Insect taste is often compared with the shrimp flavor, but with a slightly bitter aftertaste. In Asia, it is believed that scorpions have medicinal properties, and in Europe they are often bought as an exotic beer snacks.


Bamboo worms

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: £ 3,49
Until the mid-1980s in Thailand insects used for food mainly as a spice. But after the massive locust desperate farmers began to catch it, cook and eat. Insects in Thailand gradually began to turn into a kind of delicacy, and today one of the most popular among them are bamboo worms. Thais call it "mouth Duan Express" because of its size and relatively high speed. In reality, it is not worms, but grass moth larvae that are born and live in bamboo stems. Today, they produce not only cutting off the plant, but also farmed. Bamboo worms fried in oil and then packed in bags like chips, or packed in cans. Thanks crunch produced when eating them, bamboo worms compared with popcorn, but some specific taste they do not possess.


Crocodile meat in curry sauce

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: £ 10,99
Canned stew, in the home referred to simply stew today are nothing new. Another thing - preserved crocodile meat, which appeared on the shelves of grocery stores. Fair to say that the meat of alligators began to eat long ago. Many restaurants in Singapore-fried pieces reptiles are considered a hit menu. In Australia, the crocodile meat pie - one of the dishes the festive table, and in the U.S. of preparing alligator soup. Are not left behind and people of Thailand, which not only treat the crocodile meat curry arrived tourists to the country, but also preserve the product in some other way. Reptiles are grown on special farms, and non-edible parts of waterfowl are on the production of leather products. Preserved crocodile meat is ready to eat, and it is advised with jasmine rice.


Cobra meat

The most expensive and unusual canned food (10 photos)
Price: $ 14.5
It's no secret that the meat of snakes eat. In France, until the XVII century it was very popular because of its was thought to beneficial effects on the health and appearance. Thus, the writer Madame de Sevigne even advised her daughter one month a year to sit on the "viper diet." But if on the tables of Europeans and Americans, snake meat and did not stick, in Asia and Africa, on the contrary, the snake was one of the "king" of the menu. Nearly all snakes, including venomous (of course, after the removal of venom glands and special treatment), edible and usable. And one of the main specialties is the snake cobra meat: of it prepare a variety of fresh foods, and canned. Outside Asia is preserved meat cobra can be found on the shelves of ethnic foods and taste.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world

The high cost of this spice is to get one kilogram of finished product to grow about 170 000 colors.
Kilogram of finished product sells for $ 3500.
It was used as a means of imparting energy and love power to cure cataracts, and as an antidote, and as incense, conquering bad smells.

Blooming flowers of saffron, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)
Evidence of ancient sources say that saffron - one of the oldest known spices. He is mentioned as a valuable medicine and incense in Egyptian medical texts in 1500 BC, in the written sources of the Sumerian civilization, the Chinese medical books in 2600 BC, in the Old Testament.

Harvesting Saffron
Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Plantation Pampura occupy 4000 hectares
Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Woman separates stigmas from the flowers
Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Plate with stigmas

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Weigh the dried saffron before zapakovyvaniem

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Ready for sale saffron

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Saffron - one of the most expensive spices in the world (13 photos)

Friday, March 22, 2013

The highest high tower in China

Workers are at the height of the 90-story building, but they do not care, they are engaged in an important matter.

High-voltage tower in China (5 photos)
In the photos you will be able to see how the installation of towers, the upper parts of which reach a height of almost 300 meters, for a new line of ultra-high voltage. High-voltage line will connect the hydropower plant on the Yangtze River in Anhui Province with the main consumer of electricity - the city of Shanghai. High-voltage line will cover a distance of 268 kilometers. More than 500 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity will pass through cables a year.
High-voltage tower in China (5 photos)

Total tower will be built in 1421. Although not all of them will be the 300-meter, but the others are quite high. The ambitious project will be completed by the end of 2013.

High-voltage tower in China (5 photos)

Total tower will be built in 1421. Although not all of them will be the 300-meter, but the others are quite high. The ambitious project will be completed by the end of 2013.

High-voltage tower in China (5 photos)
Not surprisingly, the work on such a high altitude requires adequate attitude to safety, at least in developed countries it is. In this case, we see that the workers use safety belts, but use a makeshift rope ladders to move up and down on the pylon.

The workers have reached the most important part of the Yangtze River.

High-voltage tower in China (5 photos)
Chinese increasingly appear in the pages of the world media with their ambitious, outrageous and unusual projects. Not all of them commercial, although there are many of. Only recently subsided scandal involving the construction of a copy of the Austrian countryside, and a little earlier English tourists were very surprised to see a copy of the Tower Bridge in China.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Tyanmen mountain and cave "Heavenly Gate"

Tyanmen mountain, which reaches 1518.6 meters, is located 8 km. from the center of Zhangjiajie, China. At the top of the mountain Tyanmen is the longest and the world's highest cable car (7455 m.) You can also get on the road Tuntyan (Sky Highway) with 99 turns. Tuntyan - is one of the most impressive in the world of serpentine, its construction took eight years. Length of the route is less than 11 km., And the distance between turns - from 200 to 1,300 meters in some places the road rises steeply at an angle of 70 degrees, a sudden crashing straight into the clouds.













































Popular due to the unusual mountain cave "Heavenly Gate" - the highest in the world. Heavenly Gate, also known as "The Magic Cave in Western Hunan", formed naturally in the erosion processes in the year 263. Suddenly, a big piece fell off the mountain, creating a huge cavity height 131.5 m, a width of 57 m at its widest point and a length of 60 m cloud-shrouded "Heavenly Gate" is quite impressive: it seems that going through them, you really find yourself in heaven . Among the locals walking belief that Tyanmen associated with the sky and has sverhestestvennymi forces. Since ancient times in China, there are rumors that a huge treasure hidden grief, brought here by one of the leaders of the peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty.
Cave "Heaven's Gate" on the mountain Tyanmen - one of the most spectacular sights of the surrounding national park in the Hunan Province in China, near the city of Zhangjiajie. It leads to no less breathtaking road, called "The Road of large gates." The cave is known for being the highest in the world from all the caves formed naturally. However, it is its important advantage pales before her stunning appearance: at an altitude of 1500 meters in front of visitors appear grandiose gates height 131.5 meters, a width of 57 meters at its widest point and 60 meters long. This earthly beauty, shrouded in clouds, producing a truly lasting impression on everyone who comes here - it seems another step and you really get to heaven. Add the charm of the place and the many legends associated with it. Local residents believe that the mountain has supernatural powers, it is believed that some phenomenal cases unexpected drop falls from the top of the mountain are inextricably linked with one or other important events in the life of the country. Another legend has come from the past, from the Ming Dynasty - say the uprising that erupted then hid somewhere near untold treasures. For centuries, they were looking for since many treasure hunters, but have not found ...