In Jukkasjärvi, the village situated in several miles eastward in Kiruna, now the owners of local hotel people is beginning preparation for the winter ice festival arranged in March: so as to create the coldest hotel in the world, they had to gather nearly 5000 tons of ice from Torne River.
Every year Ice hotel chooses artists and architects from all over the world in order to renovate snowy hotel where the guests may book the suits as in usual hotel despite the fact that temperature inside may decrease to -5 degree of centigrade.
Everything apart from the futon is made of ice. In order to spend the night and not to freeze to death, the visitors are offered with the sleeping bag and cup of warm cowberry juice.
The options of accommodation include ordinary suits as well as Deluxe Level with art covering and facilities (bathroom or sauna bath). The prices are varied from $ 300 to $ 900 per night.
In Ice hotel the opening of Ice church is planned on the 25-th of December.
Waffle Day is an unofficial folk festival celebrated on the 25-th of March in Sweden. It coincides with the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary among Catholics. And the coincidence is not accidental.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The efforts of zoologists, ecologists and significant financial expenses that have been invested in the program of salvation of ounce brought their fruits. Particularly, the predator has been seen more often by the citizens of several provinces of Afghanistan that ounce preferred choosing as its habitat.
The largest in the world kind of apes from the genus of gorillas, particularly, Eastern gorilla residing within the territory of Democratic Republic Congo is on the edge of extinction because of the illegal hunting.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
The experts of travel web-portal Travelbird.nl has defined that the cheapest beach in the world is situated in Vietnam. Cua Dai is located in popular among travelers city Hoi An in the central province of the country Quảng Nam.
The list of UNESCO World Heritage that connects the most significant landmarks of the planet either man-made or natural is reviewed annually. This year at the 40-th session of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee which ended in Istanbul on the 20-th of July, the list included 21 sites more.
