Bora Bora Island - Probably

Pizza-tossing championship

Weird Trees around the world

Funny Toilets

Eating insects for food, snacking on crickets, snakes, baby nestling sparrows, mice, scorpion soup

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Crickets on sticks - snacks in Beijing

Entomophagy is the habit of eating insects as food. While it is common for many insects, birds and animals to indulge themselves, did you know that people in some parts of the world consider insects a very tasty delicacy?

If you live in Beijing or Bangkok, for example, you might fancy a taste of crickets. Or maybe you would prefer baby nestling sparrows, mice, snakes, or maybe a bowl of scrumptious scorpion soup?

These are all on the menu, as you can see from our pictures here. One man's meat is another man's poison, as they say. So, have a nice day. And enjoy your lunch.

More Beijing snacks - mice

Beijing - baby nestling sparrows


Beijing snacks - snakes

Deep fried insects food stall in Bangkok

Bangkok insect food

Cooking insects - scorpion soup

Insect food for sale

More insects snacks

Man with big hole in head

WARNING: This a most amazing video, but be advised it's not for the faint of heart.

A man is interviewed after having surgery which leaves him with giant hole in his face. The surgery removed his eye and part of his cheek bone, as you will ses.

He now lives with a massive hole in his head, but amazingly seems to have gotten used to it. Unbelievable.

If anything qualifies for a weird but true story, this is it.




Weird Trees from around the world

Here are some really strange trees from around this weird wonderful world. From the top down you can see: the Bike Tree, Fat Tree, Fork Tree, Six Branches Tree, Smiley Tree and the Snake Tree.

Burj Al Arab Hotel - world's most luxurious and only 7-star hotel

Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, which was opened in 1999, is unofficially billed as a 7-star hotel and is the world's most luxurious and tallest hotel.

Designed to resemble a billowing sail, the hotel soars to a height of 321 metres, dominating the Dubai coastline. The hotel's own website describes it as the best in the world. With your chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, discreet in-suite check in, private reception desk on every floor and a brigade of highly trained butlers who provide around-the-clock attention, this hotel promises the finest the world has to offer.

Here are a selection of pictures to give you a taste of what you can look forward to as a guest.

Al Falak Ballroom

Al Mahara Restaurant

Royal Suite

Royal Suite

Royal Suite

Jacuzzi

Atrium

The Lobby

The view at night, when it is surrounded by color sculptures of water and fire

Latte Art - making art out of latte coffee

Can you Imagine, making art out of latte coffee.....Here are some Images that will make you Crazzy....! Just Open your Eyes and See it....and believe it....!