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VPG-DVD-225 - ROVANIEMI Rovaniemi is a lively, modern city in the north of Finland and the gateway to Lapland. Lappiatalo is a modern building complex that contains a theatre and also a government building plus a museum and Radio Lapland. Tourists visit this city throughout the year, a fact that seems at odds with most people's perception of Lapland as a land of icy desolation. The city's shopping malls contain a huge range of goods and all the latest gadgets are also available. Rovaniemi has always been the centre of trade in this region and has become increasingly important as a tourist destination. Pajakyla is the home of Santa Claus and is open to the public throughout the year. At the Arctic Circle eight kilometres north of the city is a special attraction that pulls in six hundred thousand visitors each year. Several tiny log cabins contain Santa's work rooms and a number of his helpers in traditional Lap costume offer a variety of colourful arts and crafts. The Christmas village also features an entertainment park and a reindeer enclosure. Santa's main post office is busy each month of the year and thousands of letters arrive from all over the world and millions of messages are sent via the Internet. Once, early pioneers embarked from Rovaniemi and today it is a busy centre of tourism. From this unusual city the full spectacle of the midnight sun can be experienced, the Arctic Circle can be crossed and Santa Claus prepares for his annual deliveries!
Vista Point ROVANIEMI...
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VPG-DVD-187 - PATAN Patan is a city of a thousand golden rooftops. The former royal city is situated in the thirty kilometre long Kathmandu Valley, Nepal's national treasure. It is located to the south of Kathmandu and its official name is Lalitpur, 'The Beautiful City'. Around a hundred and sixty thousand people live in what is almost tantamount to an open-air museum that transfers all who travel there to another world. It is dominated by more than a hundred and fifty former monasteries that have since been transformed into family homes. Legend has it that the main image of worship, Shiva Linga, within the Kumbheshvara Temple was the point around which the city was built. The upper floors of the temple are more narrow and slender than is customary. They look like a delicate adornment of the roof rather than the more usual tapering tower structure. Due to its splendid carvings the Vishveshvara Temple is well treasured among the other pagoda temples in Durbar Square. In 1990 it collapsed during a monsoon but has since been completely restored along with its countless ornate wood carvings. The Bala Gopala Temple is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of Malla architecture. It is thought to be a replica of a sanctuary in the Indian Mathura. Here, the god Krishna spent his youth as a herdsman, thus the name of the temple contains the words Bala and Gopala that mean 'Child' and 'Herdsman'. Patan is the second largest and oldest city in Kathmandu Valley, the heart of the country's traditional arts and crafts and a truly atmospheric gem of evocative architecture.
Vista Point PATAN Nepal
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Added: 210 days ago
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VPG-DVD-220 - OSLO Although the Norwegian metropolis of Oslo is a modern city it continues to be inspired by the lively spirit of its past traders, fighting men and seafarers. The unique capital city of the Vikings is full of both culture and sport, including a royal castle, various museums, ancient churches and world famous sporting events. It has nine hundred years of history. The conference rooms of the city's government are decorated with frescos and paintings by Munch, Krogh, Revold and Rolfsen and each year on the tenth of December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony takes place. West of the harbour basin is Akerbrygge, a city quarter that was created on the site of a former shipyard and which features some unusual architecture where glass, metal and red brick dominates as in the style of London's Docklands. The Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum features the long history of Norwegian navigation. Various figureheads are exhibited and it is no surprise that most of them are female as seafarers have always chosen to be protected by goddesses! In the Kontiki Museum, the filigree balsa river boat is on display. Thor Heyderdal sailed across the Pacific for one hundred and one days in the Kontiki, from Peru to Polynesia. This city is a royal residence and a cultural capital of Europe and is the oldest of Scandinavia's capital cities and the greenest metropolis on the European continent. A place of joie de vivre, independence and a colourful past!
Vista Point OSLO Norway
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Added: 210 days ago
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VPG-DVD-215 - NORTH VIETNAM In colonial times the Europeans referred to North Vietnam as Tongking. Today the Vietnamese people call it, Bac Bo. Hanoi is North Vietnam's lively capital city. It was here that in 1882 the French created their administrative headquarters and main capital city. Compared to other southeast Asian cities that have developed into modern metropolis' at breathtaking speed, Hanoi could be described as being a provincial city. The Hoh Chi Minh Museum, a three storey concrete building, was inaugurated in May 1990 to commemorate Hoh's one hundredth birthday. Den Dao Quan is one of the most beautiful Taoist temples in Vietnam and an oasis of tranquillity. It is a place dedicated to the worship of benevolent spirits and for those who believe in divine and spiritual natural powers. Haiphong is the most important industrial harbour town in North Vietnam and has a population of one and a half million. Under French rule thousands of workers built this city at record speed and the harbour was enlarged, making it the largest in Indo China. Hoa Binh is one of the north's less attractive provincial towns but this, the former centre of a prehistoric Bronze Age culture on the Black River, is the gateway to the mountains of the north. Located within a remote and mountainous landscape, the village of Ban Lac Thai is a peaceful place set within an elevated and fertile valley. It is believed that the Viet are related to the Thai people and originally separated from the Muong tribe when they cultivated the Red River Delta. Everywhere the Thai folk offer hand made arts and crafts for sale such as knitted blankets, woven cloth and numerous bags. From the nostalgic capital of Hanoi as far as the mountain tribes of the north, North Vietnam is a country of charm and beauty with natural wonders and ancient cultures full of age-old traditions and new hope for the future!
Vista Point NORTH VIETNAM
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Added: 210 days ago
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VPG-DVD-229 - LAPLAND Finnish Lapland is a region of around ninety four thousand square kilometres covered by forests and marshland, similar to Swedish Lapland. The local inhabitants live in harmony with nature and the six thousand five hundred Sami people have managed to preserve their unique landscape right up until the present day. Rovaniemi is a modern and lively main town in northern Finland and the gateway to Lapland. The famous Arktikum Museum provides a comprehensive insight into life in the Artic Circle. Two large rivers, the Ounasjoki and the Kemijoki, meet in Rovaniemi from were lumberjacks and gold prospectors once embarked upon their pioneering adventures. Today the city is a centre of tourism. Pajakyla is the home of Santa Claus and is open throughout the year. In the Arctic Circle eight kilometres north of the city is a special attraction that attracts six hundred thousand visitors each year: several tiny log cabins contain Santa's work rooms and a number of his helpers in traditional Lap costume offer a variety of colourful arts and crafts. In Lapland each season of the year has a special charm. The summer months are warm, in autumn the leaves shine out in golden yellow and in winter the landscape is covered with snow and ice. The hilly landscape of the large Pallas Ounastunturi National Park is located in the north west, close to the Swedish border and its treeless slopes make it one of the most popular winter ski resorts in Finland. Lapland is a land of countless myths and legends where remoteness, adventure and romance have managed to survive and where the power of nature is still very much alive.
Vista Point LAPLAND Finland
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Added: 210 days ago
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VPG-DVD-114 HABANA La Habana, capital of Cuba, the Caribbean metropolis that for many decades has been so little loved and so badly neglected, with breathtakingly restored beauty alongside unbelievable ruins - the queen of the Antilles in a country that lies between sun and socialism, between Rumba and Revolution! As early as 1553, the Spanish Conquistadors chose Havana's harbour as a rendezvous for ships that traded gold and silver in its colonies and, to protect this 'Gateway To The New World' from attack by looters, several forts were built, the oldest of which being the Castello El Morro whose construction took more than two decades. As standards of living progressed, pirates and buccaneers came here and repeatedly destroyed parts of the growing town but each time they did so it was rebuilt and improved. La Bodeguita Del Medio was once Hemmingway's local drinking place and nowhere else is the ‚Mojito' mixed better: three year old white rum, lime juice, soda, sugar, ice and mint. Whether it be the Teatro Marti, the Old Tobacco Factory, the famous Bacardi House, or the Floridita Bar, everywhere there is a feeling of nostalgia and when the Daiquiri is served one almost expects Fidel Castro to be seated at the next table! The Nacional Hotel, which was built in 1930 with Mafia money and once accommodated prominent people from the film and business world, exudes nostalgic dreams of unmitigated pleasures. A city whose riches once seemed boundless, La Habana now rests in sleepy magic waiting to be discovered once again.
Vista Point LA HABANA...
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Added: 210 days ago
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RIH-DVD-VIET - Vietnam AdventuresWe visited many arts and crafts workshops and were entertained by singers and dancers in every city. We had some fantastic meals including having a seven course meal at a snake restaurant complete with snake blood whiskey.Features:Hanoi Old Quarter Water Puppets Hue Snake Restaurant Route 1 to Danang Cham Museum Hoi An Silk Factory Ho Chi Minh City Cu Chi Tunnels
Vietnam Adventures
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TVI-DVD-VNA - Vienna (Wien) City of Arts and Music" Vienna is Different" - that is the offical motto of this city on the beautiful blue Danube. And each time it confirms this to visitors from around the world... even to those who arrive from far away and may not know anything about the famous branch of the Hapsburg dynasty that made Vienna the renowned center of an entire multinational empire between 1526 and 1918.About one and a half million inhabitants of the entire country of Austria, lives in Vienna, a city where many of the affairs of this world are taken with a degree of levity.For our brief stopover in Vienna we have chosen the places that should not be missed by any tourist. The extensive complex of buildings constituting Hofburg, one part of which is the seat of the President, bears the architectual features of six centuries. The High Baroque style of the National Library, the Imperial suites, but also the Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School are among its greatest attractions.The extensive royal castle of Schonbrunn with its exquisite interiors dominated by the Rococo - style festive hall is not merely a tourist attraction, but with its huge park, including a botanical garden, it has become a place of relaxation for Vienna residents.
Vienna (Wien) City of Arts...
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Added: 210 days ago
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PART 2 of 2This documentary focuses on the safety of aviation and modern air travel to give people who havent flown, and people with a fear of flying a better understanding about aviation. The documentary was created for my Final Major Project (F.M.P) in Arts and Media at Cornwall College, Camborne, Cornwall, England. The documentary includes interviews with real pilots and atc officers and inflight footage around the coast of lands end in Cornwall.I admit my presenting skills arnt the greatest but i hope you enjoy my video.
Turbulence - The Safety of...
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Added: 223 days ago
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This documentary focuses on the safety of aviation and modern air travel to give people who havent flown, and people with a fear of flying a better understanding about aviation. The documentary was created for my Final Major Project (F.M.P) in Arts and Media at Cornwall College, Camborne, Cornwall, England. The documentary includes interviews with real pilots and atc officers and inflight footage around the coast of lands end in Cornwall.I admit my presenting skills arnt the greatest but i hope you enjoy my video.
Turbulence - The Safety of...
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Added: 223 days ago
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WTF-DVD-MEX - The Other Side of Mexico Filmed and produced by Fran & Brooke Reidelberger  Scripted and narrated by Fran Reidelberger  The central highlands from Mexico City to Colima are known to savvy travelers as the "Land of Eternal Spring".  In this all new digital production, filmmakers Fran and Brooke Reidelberger explore this special part of our southern neighbor far from the daily headlines.  Ancient Aztec ruins, colonial silver towns, modern retirement meccasfor adventurous gringos, colorful markets older than America, the real Tequila,  arts and crafts, festivals, rodeos,  "dancing" dogs, volcanoes, and butterfly heaven at 11,000 feet. All of this, plus the incredible people are part of "The Other Side of Mexico" Ÿ         Ancient and modern sections of Mexico City -Aztec pyramids at Teotihuacán - Pátzcuaro and other Michoacán villages with their diverse arts and crafts, including copper, "catrina" dolls and wooden masks - the story of Christ's life on earth, hand painted on the ceiling of a tiny 16th Century church - Mexico's highest fresh water lake and the net fishermen of Janitzio Island - dance of "The Little Old Men" in the small village of Capacuaro - Highway 120 through the Sierra Gorda mountains, the beginning of the Mission Trail and a fanciful "garden" created by a mad Englishman - the artists of San Miguel de Allende and its large North American population - Guanajuato with its tunnels, trams and strolling troubadours. Guadalajara's modern facilities and mariachi bands - Mexico's largest fresh water lake, Lake Chapala, and the towns of Chapala, Ajijic and Jocotopec with their large number of North American retirees - the south side of Lake Chapala where acres of raspberries are cultivated and flocks of white pelicans spend the winter - the town of Tequila and the uniquely Mexican beverage of the same name - fourteen generations of knife makers in Sayula - a rollicking Mexican rodeo (not bullfighting!) - tranquil Colima with its active volcano - the winter home of millions of Monarch butterflies.
The Other side of Mexico
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Added: 210 days ago
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UTD-DVD-04845 - Take A Tour Of... Wisconsin DellShaped by the currents and curves of the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin Dells has been a favorite family fun spot and a vacation destination for more than 150 years.  An explosion of indoor water parks has turned the Dells from a summer hot spot to a year-round destination.  Kids will enjoy the seemingly endless supply of fun and games, from go-karts to miniature golf, sideshows to thrill rides.  Moms and Dads will enjoy a round of golf while the teens take a Duck tour of land and water, and then top it all off with a heaping helping of the local fudge.  This fun to watch DVD will show you everything you need to know about a tour of The Dells.
Take A Tour Of......
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Added: 210 days ago
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