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Hyderabad, India »

[6 Sep 2011 | 19 Comments | ]

Have you seen the largest tricycle in the world ? Not just a showpiece but a working one which you can ride also ?

One staff member went up and in fact rode it for a while.
The tricycle is 41 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 3 tons with the wheel diameter of 17 feet. It is 37 feet 4 inches long. The Tricycle is powered by the pedal, chain sprockets and gears.
K Sudhakar, brainchild of

Mauritius »

[21 May 2011 | 8 Comments | ]

Picture of the moment: Mauritius Postal Museum:
Picture of the moment is a weekly series exhibiting pictures from around the world.
If the entrance is this inviting, who would not like to go in ?
Is not it a good way to invite to a museum?

Welcome to the museum.
The 18th-century stone edifice housing the museum is

Hyderabad »

[1 Dec 2010 | 15 Comments | ]

Today is World AIDS Day. And this photo should remind all of us of something.
Use condoms for safe sex and avoid AIDS.
P.S.- I saw this condom shaped car in a museum. It has an engine of a 100 cc motorcycle and since it is a car, it has four wheels (including 2 smaller ones on the sides).
It has a comfortable seat and you can notice the headlight and sidelights as well.
This is not just a model, it runs on the road too !
Can you guess where could it be ?

A …

Malacca, Malaysia »

[1 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

पिछली बार हमने शुरुआत की थी मल्ल्क्का से, अब आगे थोड़ा और जानते हैं |
हालाँकि कुआला लम्पुर से मल्ल्क्का अधिक दूर नहीं है, फिर भी मल्ल्क्का का अपना हवाई अड्डा है | हवाई जहाज़ के अलावा कुआला लम्पुर से मल्ल्क्का जाने के लिए सबसे सरल रास्ता है कार या टूरिस्ट बस द्वारा North-South Expressway होते हुए जाना | यह मलयेशिया की सबसे लम्बी expressway  है जो उत्तर में थाईलैंड और दक्षिण में सिंगापुर तक जाती है | ज़ाहिर बात है, सड़क पर गाड़ी मक्खन की तरह भागती है |
यह 144 …

Malacca, Malaysia »

[5 Nov 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

This famous private museum is one of the main attractions of Malacca.
This museum illustrates how rich and affluent Chinese merchants came here and settled down. The first merchant married a local Malay girl and thus they became the first couple of this dynasty and so the name of this museum.
Baba = boy
Nyonya = girl

At the entrance
Housed in

New York, The World »

[4 Jul 2009 | 13 Comments | ]

During one of my visits to New York, I visited Rockefeller Center. It is one of the attractions of New York city, an art deco marvel consisting of around 20 commercial buildings covering 11 acres in midtown Manhattan. Named after the multi-millionaire, John D. Rockefeller, who leased the space for a commercial district.

Statue of Atlas
The statue of Atlas holds an interesting story. It is said

Lucerne, Switzerland »

[30 Apr 2009 | 8 Comments | ]

The Lion Monument in Lucerne is a giant dying lion carved out of a wall of sandstone rock above a pond. The monument designed by Thorwaldsen on then a private property, commemorates the heroic death of more than 700 mercenary soldiers from central Switzerland who lost their lives while serving the French king Louis XVI during the French Revolution. In 1882 the monument was bought by city of Lucerne.

The dying lion of Lion Monument
The giant sculpture is 20 ft high and 33 ft long and one of Lucerne’s major …