Weird, Strange, Interesting Places to Visit

September 7, 2009 in South America

Mountains are considered to be one of the most magical out of all nature’s delights. They have a unique and rare charm to them that combine beauty with adventure. Besides mountains are also said to be symbolic of being perseverant and dedicated to achieve all goals set in life. A perfect example to all this is the Cordillera del Paine in Chile. It is a small mountain group which is actually a part of the Torres del Paine National Park, which is located in the Chilean Patagonia. There are as such no accurate surveys that have been carried out in this region, and for those that have been carried out have not been published. Thus, there is not much information on the elevations, though most of them are known to be naturally suppressed over the years.

April 9, 2009 in South America

Joelma Building is the famous 25 storied skyscraper located in Sao Polo Brazil, exactly based in “225 Avenida 9 de Julho”. It is one of the most memorable tragedies that ever took place in Brazil. At the time of the fire, the building was built of armored concrete, specifically fire-resistant but the only the fact that it had flammable items as its furniture, desks, chairs, even cubicle partitions, etc while the ceiling was made of tiles, prepared from cellulose fiber tiles, strapped in wood. Even the carpets and curtains were made of flammable substances.
The building was very weak when it came to fire safety and precaution. It had no emergency exits, no fire extinguishers, no fire alarms and no fire sprinkler systems available in the office. The only way out was the stairway, leaving no other evacuation plan in hand. None of the precautions were taken if a fire ever broke out.

April 8, 2009 in South America

You must have seen the pictures of an island with weird photographs oh TV an its newspapers and often thought what it was? Well, we have the answer to this query of yours. That place with scary statues is Easter Island and is located in the South Pacific. It is one of the most least visited and isolated islands in the world. The island ‘s population which only consisted of a few thousand inhabitants has also been eliminated by western diseases. Some of them have also been taken away by slave traders. In fact in the year 1877, only 110 people were left on this island out of the indigenous population.