Top 5 Dubai Secrets

1. Dubai’s Very Best Hot Chocolate
The hot chocolate at the Avalanche Cafe, Ski Dubai is suprisingly good. It’s one of the rare instances where whipped cream actually enhances the drink. Partly because it looks like snow, partly because it acts as a useful platform for the M&Ms. But for more interesting flavours, try the hot chocolate cafe in Abu Dhabi’s Marina Mall.

2. Historic Dubai
The archaeological site in Jumeirah. It’s probably easier and more informative to visit Dubai museum though. And more comfortable, given the air conditioning.

3. Garhoud Plant Souk
This is a great place to buy plants, and much cheaper than the Dubai Garden Centre place on Sheikh Zayed Road. The ideal place to buy your bougainvillea barricade to keep the peeping toms out. (Interesting note: if you never water bougainvillea, it dies. If you water it too much, it dies. Sometimes it just dies anyway).

4. House of Prose
A great secondhand bookshop. And while they will buy back books for half price, they always seem to be overwhelmed with stock, so they’re unlikely to buy everything you bring them if you’re having a clear out. It’s also a good place to gauge how crap a recent novel is, by the stacks of copies rejected by Jumeirah Janes in the discount shelf.

5. Indoor Rainforest
At the Grand Hyatt just before Garhoud Bridge. Just don’t try to get there in rush hour. The problem is with this one is that it’s high budget only if you want to have a drink. However the deli-cafe there has some interesting imported goods, even if you do need to have your own oil well to be able to afford them.

World's most luxurious airport lounges

From ‘space pods’ to the swish hangout with a stream running through it, we list the airline waiting rooms so plush you'll positively enjoy the phrase 'flight delayed’

Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse

 Heathrow Airport
Bubble chairs, pink walls and the poolside lounge make you feel groovy, baby, rather than a weary traveller. Check in early to make the most of the 14 metre-long cocktail bar, a Cowshed spa and Bumble and Bumble hair salon. But, if that sounds too exerting, relax in one of the suede day beds in the Sky Lounge, and watch the planes take off with stellar views of the runway.

The Most Beautiful Beacon In The Southeast Asia

The beacon Kega is located near the Vietnamese town Phan Thiết and was built by a French architect in 1897. It is considered to be the most beautiful beacon in the Southeast Asia.

German Castles In Snow Dresses

The majority of German castles are private possessions. So tourists can not easily visit them when they want. The owner himself fixes time and a day of possible visits. 

Creepy But Tasty Thai Food

Have you been in Thailand? If you have you've probably had a chance to eat creepy and not that creepy Thai food.

The food sold right in the streets is not bad at all, but comfort of restaurants is always better.

Alberobello - Italian Hobbiton

If you happened to be in the South of Italy looking for a nice interesting place to visit then Alberobello is surely for you.

It is a small town, very different from those you get used to see.

These small snowy huts are called trulli (from Latin "trulla" which means "сone"). They were started to be built in the 17th century in the time of very high taxation on property.

Light limestone was the main material they were built of. It was laid in layers without using any binder. And that was done for a reason.

When inspectors came to the town, its residents pulled out a foundation stone and the whole construction collapsed. As a result, all the inspectors could see was only a pile of stones.

Trulli may be males and females. "Males", besides cones, have onion domes on their top as well.

There are special streets for tourists on which numerous cafes and shops are located.

This is the yard of the Trulli Museum, a very beautiful and informative place.

Amazing Lello Bookstore

Livraria Lello is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful bookstores in the whole world. Located near DOS Leões square this old store presents an amazing interior - stained-glass windows,  woodcarving, wonderful staircase, glazed book shelves and the art deco facade.

The history of Lello began in 1894, when direction over it was assumed by Jose Pinto de Sousa Lello, at that time the store was called Chardron, and it was not even a store, their business was publishing and editing books. The business had been growing and soon it required a new bigger building. 

The building was designed by Xavier Esteves. The facade is made in neogothic style. The building is now admitted to be a national monument. Livraria Lello opened its doors to first visitors in 1906 and became a flagship store of one Portuguese publishing house.

Amazing interior of the store is made of massive decorated walls, ceilings from wood with intricate carving design and striking twisted red staircase leading to the second floor.

All the property and management rights belong to the members of the Lello family.