Constanta Air Show 2011 in Romania
F-16 fighters of the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron performing during 'Constanta Air Show 2011' at Mihail Kogalniceanu airfield, near Constanta, Romania, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. The US Thunderbirds squadron performed their aerobatic formation and solo flying stunts for the second time in Romania.
Gulliver’s Kingdom Abandoned Theme Park
Built in the shadow of Japan‘s Mount Fuji with oodles of government stimulus money, was a sprawling white elephant that existed for only 10 years. Today there’s little if any trace of the abandoned theme park, its ruins, or Gulliver himself but the eerie and unsettling images captured by a legion of intrepid “haikyo” explorers.
Coober Pedy - The Underground Town in Australia
The Australian town of Coober Pedy has a population of around 2,000 and is famous for two things. Firstly, the town is known as the opal capital of the world because of the quantity of precious gems that are mined there. Secondly, and the reason for this gallery, Coober Pedy is renowned for it’s underground residences, mostly in refurbished mines.
The severe desert climate made a lot of residents move to live underground, in caves. In summer temperatures on the surface can reach 40-50 degrees Celsius (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit). A cave home usually has three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and lounge that are excavated out of the rock in the hillsides. Such homes don’t require air-conditioning, because they remain at a constant temperature.
Coober Pedy attracts tourists from all over the world. The mines, underground churches and graveyard are the most interesting attractions here. The trees you can find in this town are iron welded. You can play golf at night only to avoid hot temperatures. The local golf is free of grass that is why players take a small piece of tee-off turf with them.
Coober Pedy is featured in many movies, including Opal Dream, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Red Planet and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. NASA is planning to train astronauts for a planned mission to Mars here in 2012.
Coober Pedy Church
Coober Pedy Demo Home
Coober Pedy Hotel
Aboveground Spaceship
Bookstore
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