Globe Trek

06/07/2024

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Salt Mines Of Garmsar, Semnan province, central Iran.

18/06/2024

Did you know between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India.The 32,000km, 50 day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world.

The bus had sleeping bunks and even a kitchen! For just £145, you get to travel with food & accomodation. The bus would stop at attractions and for shopping in Vienna, Istanbul & Iran

The bus ride took passengers from England to Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India.

14/02/2024

The world’s first fluorescent orchid is on display at the Japan Grand Prix International Orchid Show this week. The Glowing Phalaenopsis Orchid emits yellow-green fluorescence under black light. Not only the petals, but the entire plant body glows.
It was developed from the gene of a fluorescent plakton. Fascinating!!

10/12/2023

For 13 thousand US dollars, Englishman Brendon Grimshaw bought a tiny uninhabited island in the Seychelles and moved there forever. When Grimshaw was under forty, he quit his job as a newspaper editor and started a new life.

By this time, no human had set foot on the island for 50 years. As befits a real Robinson, Brendon found himself a companion from among the natives. His name was René Lafortin. Together with Rene, Brendon began to equip his new home. While René came to the island only occasionally, Brendon lived on it for decades by himself, never leaving.

For 39 years, Grimshaw and Lafortin planted 16 thousand trees with their own hands and built almost 5 kilometers of paths. In 2007, Rene Lafortin died, and Brendon was left all alone on the island.

He was 81 years old. He attracted 2,000 new bird species to the island and introduced more than a hundred giant tortoises, which in the rest of the world (including the Seychelles) were already on the verge of extinction. Thanks to Grimshaw's efforts, the once deserted island now hosts two-thirds of the Seychelles' fauna. An abandoned piece of land has turned into a real paradise.

A few years ago, the prince of Saudi Arabia offered Brendon Grimshaw $50 million for the island, but he refused. “I don’t want the island to become a favorite vacation spot for the rich. Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy.”

And he achieved just that. In 2008 the island was indeed declared a national park.

20/07/2023

Fifty-four years later — here’s how much each artist earned from playing ‘69.

16/07/2023

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25/06/2023

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04/06/2023

01/06/2023

Virtual Tour (360 photo) Tomb of Ramses V
(KV 9)
With some of the broadest corridors, longest
shafts (117m) and greatest variety of
decoration, KV 9 is one of the most spectacular
tombs in the valley. Started by Ramses V and
finished by Ramses Vi, it is a feast for the eyes,
much of its surface covered with intact

hieroglyphs and paintings. The burial chamber
has an unfinished pit in the floor and a
magnificent figure of Nut and scenes from the
Book of the Day and Book of the Night.


Egyptology

25/01/2023

24/01/2023

Budget Direct teamed up with architects and graphic designers and created some photorealistic renders of famous European castles, giving us a unique glimpse at how they looked in their glory days.