Mountain boards are much bigger and heavier than skateboards. They are a cross between snowboarding and skateboarding. The sport is of recent origin and is also called dirt boarding, or all-terrain-boarding. It started developing as a substitute for...
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Barefoot Skiing is an art, the thrill of which makes one feel as though they have rocket attached to there heels. The innovators of this style taught themselves but today there are a number of schools to learn from.It originated in Florida in 1940's...
Most popular for its shopping festivals, Dubai's desert city has much more to offer. From camel racing and horse racing to dhow racing, it's waiting to be explored. A dhow is a traditional Arab sailing vessel with one or more lateen sails. These...
Hypoxic tents have become popular amongst athletes' to enhance their performances. However the World Anti-Doping Agency may be made to think differently. The governing bodies of skiing and rowing have requested the World Anti-Doping Agency to stop...
Imagine being pulled at top speed uphill by a pulley rope attached to a hungry yak rushing downhill. This is the sport being referred to as yak skiing by BBC and Time magazine Asia. It happens in Manali, India. It is run by Tibetan Peter Dorje, who...
Venezuela's offers lush rainforests, cascading waterfalls, rich grasslands, glacier lakes, highland moors, the Andes mountain chain and a vast Caribbean coastline. Fifteen kilometers from Venezuela's highest point situated at the foot of the Andes is...
Belize is a small nation with a population of just 276,000. Situated on the eastern coast of Central America, it has a shoreline that stretches along the Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean coast has some 450 islets and islands known locally as cayes,...
They started as small, willowy, flat bottom fishing boats with high sides and a sharp prow. This was redesigned and equipped to tackle rapids better and to hold more people. It was presented to the world as McKenzie's 'drift boat.' It formed the base...
Camooweal Drover's Camp Festival of Queensland's is one of the brightest spots on the town's social calendar attracting drovers, ringers and stockmen back to the droving hub of Camooweal. The festival is meant to open on August 25 to 27.
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Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain in the Western Cape province of South Africa . From the top of which one can get incredible glimpses of Cape Town and the Atlantic ocean in shifts with the floating mist cloud. This mist cloud is famous by the...
The new attraction in Greater Cincinnati is an old bridge. The bridge first opened on April 1, 1872 under the name "Newport and Cincinnati Bridge" and was Cincinnati's first railroad bridge spanning the Ohio River.
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