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There’s hardly anything that compares to bright-starred sky and silence. It is the stars that OUTLOOK want to tell you about or more precisely about the places with the best view on them. In Europe it is recommended to go stargazing not to some place but to… Slovenia. Point is, this small country is one of the cleanest in the world and consequently isn’t that polluted with smog.

09.02.2022 | USA, science, rating, Finland, Great Britain, Kazakhstan, do you know, New Zealand, Slovenia

Lombard street: Street swallowed by a Boa constrictor

Remember how the little prince taught to see not a hat, but a boa constrictor digesting an elephant? So, in San Francisco you have the opportunity to see the street part of which is swallowed by a boa. A serpent Lombard Street crawled into almost all the Frisco city guides.

04.02.2022 | USA, history of the street

Several facets of a multi-faceted Boston

Impressions of this city depend much on what you have visited before being introduced to it. After Los Angeles it may seem very business-like and culturally rich, after New York – provincial and old-fashioned somehow. In any case, it has a bright and memorable face of a gentleman from Massachusetts.

30.01.2022 | USA, travel

Between Heaven And... Water: World’s 5 smallest inhabited islands

Each of us wants to escape rush of a city from time to time and lie low somewhere far from everything and anything. And it better be a place where one can listen to whisper of waves, feel light breeze and forever make friends with inimitably loud silence that muffles every disturbing thought…

28.01.2022 | Italy, USA, nature, France, Canada, Honduras

We were there: New York, Washington and Miami

For certain reasons there are two capitals in America – official and actual. Context manager from Kyiv Bohdan Yanchev visited them both and told us about spirits of these cities, about their landmarks and about what they represent in reality. If you think that New York is imbued with expensive perfumes and there is nothing else to do in Washington but to lie on a lawn by the White House – you are wrong!

10.01.2022 | USA, we were there

Super-chilled: Best festivals of ice and snow art

Ice and snow has long been used by artists to create different figures and objects, and only 1960, this age-old skill became a new trend of a land art! The largest number of winter artworks is created during special festivals about which we will tell our readers.

08.01.2022 | festival, Japan, USA, nature, China, Canada, Latvia

Taxi in New York Style

Next ‘character’ of our cycle about symbolic means of public transport is yellow cab of New York. It is impossible to imagine the Big Apple and especially its centre, Manhattan, without those bright and incredibly handy cars. Seemingly, there are more “checkers” than people.

05.01.2022 | USA, oddities

The winter fairy-tale: which cities are the most beautifully decorated to New Year eve

Till the beginning of 2022 there is little time that’s why in case one hasn’t decided yet where and how to celebrate the most popular holiday on our planet, OUTLOOK offers the list of the brightest cities for the celebration. There all the wishes and dreams will, definitely, come true!

31.12.2021 | holiday, Italy, USA, Thailand, Czech Republic

Slippery fun: Best world open air ice rinks

They build ice hotels and carve ice fountains pouring white wine, make samovars and even kerosene lamps. Photographers went even far and got the hand to use dry ice to create the effect of smoke and fog in picture. In the spirit of holidays, OUTLOOK prepared for you a selection of the world most popular ice arenas.

26.12.2021 | USA, France, Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, places, winter

World ghettos: Little Italy a la New York

When moving to a new country, more often than not people tend to get settled nearby emigrants like themselves. It is pretty convenient: accommodation isn’t expensive, job can be found right on the location and there is no need to study a new language – everyone around understands you. This is how national ghettos appear.

13.12.2021 | Italy, USA, travel, nationalities, world ghettos

All the big things start with the small ones: Art-projects of enthusiasts

Many places, famous around the globe today, were created by a bunch of enthusiasts without money or outside help. These people lived for their ideas and were doing everything to turn them into reality. Official date of street art appearance is believed to be year 1942, fervor of World War II.

04.12.2021 | USA, art, Germany

Canyons: Deep and long

When, if not now to conquer summits, overcome seas and climb on the rocks? People often make great efforts to enjoy the comfort through the whole lifetime. But sometimes our soul needs some romance, so OUTLOOK presents seven unique canyons.

21.11.2021 | Georgia, USA, nature, Montenegro, Peru, Namibia

Museums that cure

“I’d like some headache elixir, mandrake root extract, heart pills and a bit of morphine, please…” – this is about how patients addressed pharmacists a couple hundred years ago. They, in turn, were preparing various magmas and mixtures in pharmacological laboratories situated as near as in the next room. Sure, nowadays technologies have significantly advanced, “remedy stores” fit in kiosks while drug-containing medicines cannot be bought without prescription…

13.11.2021 | USA, Germany, Ukraine, medicine, places, Latvia

Interesting not only in city centers. Residential districts of the world

There are hardly many travelers who would go somewhere further than city centre where their hotel is situated when on a short-term journey. And if location is a metropolis on top of everything else, such “outside” trips are sure to be put on hold till better occasions.

03.11.2021 | Japan, USA, travel, Finland, Iceland, República Argentina

On the Move. Street food from around the world

Experienced tourists believe that one of the best sure-fire ways to quickly tune into the beat of another culture is to try local food. In order not to be at a loss when choosing dishes and save precious time for spiritual food, OUTLOOK gives you selective advice on street gastronomy from seven spots of the globe.

02.11.2021 | USA, Germany, traditions, food, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Morocco, Ghana

Water gates. Impressive world harbors

Airports, railway and bus stations are almost always erected at a human whim, while ports and harbours are joint creation of homo sapiens and nature. In this article OUTLOOK presents you the most beautiful port destinations with their own unique character worth exploring.

16.10.2021 | Italy, USA, oddities, rating, China, Belgium, Greece, UAE

Hold your breath: the most dangerous places for diving

After the legendary Frenchman Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his colleagues invented and perfected self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, scuba diving firmly entered the list of the most popular, but unfortunately, unsafe hobbies. OUTLOOK warns and talks about the most extreme places to do scuba diving.

17.09.2021 | USA, nature, Egypt, Norway, Thailand, Costa Rica

Dinning out with the twist: World most off-beat restaurants

Marketing gurus and restaurateurs are enterprising and ready to do anything to increase flow of visitors to their food courts. Quite often, their methods of "flirting" with the public are the same, interior designs and menus are not much different. So, we have collated for you the world’s wackiest, weirdest, out-of-this-world dining establishments.

10.09.2021 | USA, Spain, Netherlands, Great Britain, Maldives, Switzerland, Thailand, places, Singapore, Kenya

Accompaying persons, please leave the train: the most interesting trains on planet

Despite ongoing development of air transport, many people across the Earth still love to travel by train for various reasons. Though the majority of passengers associate trains with a rather slow way to travel compared with airplanes, and are concerned with low comfort which can be still at the level of last century, reading through our selection below...

02.09.2021 | USA, travel, India, China, Scotland, Switzerland

Alpine village nearby Seattle

There are many things that we can learn from citizens of the United States but what deserves special respect is love to their land. Patriotism of Americans manifests itself in everything, even in internal tourism - without having properly explored own country, an American would hardly travel anywhere outside its territory. Today we tell about one of the most popular internal tourism towns - about Leavenworth.

25.08.2021 | USA, travel

The sun under the glass. Best greenhouses in the world

For 1 month spring has been reining our planet, now just watch warm coats to change for thin jackets, cold and mediocrity for the bright sun. And, of course, what sort of spring it could be without green trees and beautiful flowers? Well, in order to make your expectation of long-awaited colours and flavours less agonizing...

24.07.2021 | Japan, USA, nature, Spain, Great Britain, Singapore

Summer at a Real Ranch!

Upon watching movies about Wild West in America, more than one generation of children dragged their parents towards horses nearby a circus to try on well-loved characters and feel that very atmosphere for a minute. However that minute has always seemed way to short for me. Therefore, when I grew up, I headed to Colorado State to work on a real-life horse guest ranch called Sundance.

01.07.2021 | USA, we were there

From the screen to reality and back: places where famous movies were shot

How many kinds of tourism are there? Gastro, ecotourism, shopping — there are probably as many varieties of them as travelers themselves — everyone choose what they want. Today we talk about people visiting places that have become locations for shoting famous movies.

26.05.2021 | Italy, USA, Jordan, Spain, Great Britain, New Zealand, Tunisia

Everything on sale: Worlds's best markets and bazaars

In this day and age, it is difficult to surprise anyone, especially an urban resident, with some large department store or market, since nowadays one can buy everything from a humble convenience store next door. However, the iconic bazaars and flea markets are still operating across the globe, they are famous in legends and described with delight.

24.04.2021 | Japan, USA, traditions, Turkey, India, Egypt, culture, Australia, Great Britain

The most stunning flower fields in the world

Flower fields and valleys are impressive and attract attention of the most discerning connoisseurs of beauty. Multi-coloured deposits of fragrant plants adorn vast valleys of almost every country, in the most distant parts of the world. We offer several options for such floral carpets for every taste.

17.04.2021 | USA, Ukraine, nature, France, India, Bulgaria, Netherlands

The way they dance

What is it that characterizes any nation without much words and long explanations? Dances, of course, because it is these movements, refined over centuries, that can tell a foreigner about other peoples much more than thick history books. If you carefully watch and feel the way people dance in different countries, their mind set will become much more comprehensible. And these aren’t mere words.

12.04.2021 | Georgia, Japan, USA, art, traditions, culture, Brazil, Czech Republic, Senegal

National winged symbols

Each state has its own official symbols: flag, coat of arms and anthem. But in addition to the traditional "identification mark" there are symbols chosen by people, for instance, a favourite bird. It is about them OUTLOOK expands below. To register the people's love by document, in 1960 in Tokyo at the International Conference on the Protection of Birds was created the concept of "national bird".

01.04.2021 | USA, nature, India, Israel, Great Britain, Armenia, Latvia, The Republic of South Africa

Houses that they build…Unusual houses

Treehouses, dug-outs and secret shelters – all the things we used to build when children. Unfortunately, as we grow older, fantasy fades and most of us now live in uncomfortable grey “boxes”. However, there are people who have created dwellings of their dreams by themselves.

03.02.2021 | USA, art, Portugal, Austria, China, Sweden, Canada, Serbia

The travel to whale’s chaps

Even being adults, sometimes we are able to bring to life the children’s fantasies, see the stories from childish dreams, and embody what has seemed to be the fairytale. Have you ever dreamt of being in the whale’s chaps? Just imagine that you were swollen by the giant fish, and you were living there for a long time, looked at it inside, settled down there, swam and dived there?

31.01.2021 | Japan, USA, travel, France

Animals in the city: When people sing in tune with Nature

Many city dwellers are irritated by cats, dogs or even pigeons in the streets. Attempts of zoo-advocates to save them from attacks of people and from starvation are mainly ineffective. But there are wonderful cities in this world where people perfectly coexist with deer, peacocks and cattle…

23.01.2021 | Japan, USA, nature, India, Latvia

The twenty-first will be their century: The most dynamically developing cities of the planet

It may be difficult to believe it now, but in a few decades, such important and advanced global cities as New York, London or Tokyo will not play such a significant role as they do today. OUTLOOK, armed with the latest analytical data and forecasts, would like to tell our readers about fastest-changing cities that have all chances to become world centres very soon.

17.08.2020 | USA, Vietnam, Ireland, Nigeria, Chile

Grab your sun umbrella and cocktail: The most amazing beaches of the world

With the onset of summer, many of us ever and again cast a glance at the calendar, waiting for annual leave. And since summer vacation to a greater extent is linked to the relaxation by the water, we usually associate it with beaches – desirable destinations that can be very different.

11.08.2020 | USA, nature, France, Mexico, Great Britain

World ghettos: Ukrainian Neighborhood in Chicago

Experience has proven that ethnic enclaves by and large are autonomous and closed-loop systems because living there one can stay non-assimilated and non-integrated into another culture at all. But that cannot be said about Ukrainian Village – Ukrainian district of Chicago, already famous around entire United States.

04.07.2020 | USA, Ukraine, world ghettos

World ghettos: Astoria: Greek outpost in New York City

Today, going on with series of articles dedicated to national enclaves living outside their homelands, we would like to tell about one of the most vibrant and tasteful neighbourhoods of New York City, culturally rich and diverse Astoria, usually nicknamed as the Little Greece.

04.06.2020 | USA, Greece, world ghettos

World ghettos: Polish quarter in New York

New York is rightfully considered one of the most interesting cities in the world. The reasons for this are many, including its unique ethnic composition of more than twenty large communities. New Yorkers joke that they do not need to travel, as it is just enough to take a ride through national enclaves and learn new cultures.

14.05.2020 | USA, Poland, world ghettos

World ghettos: Chinese Scope in San-Francisco

We continue our series of features about national ghettos. Today OUTLOOK tells you about the largest ethnical enclave of the city of San Francisco in the USA – about local Chinatown.

01.12.2019 | USA, China, world ghettos

Incredible school lessons from around the world

Grinding away at their books to master basics of algebra and geometry, or memorizing years of monarchs’ reign skimming history textbooks is commonplace for schoolchildren all over the world while getting ready for a test in cybersecurity or boasting to have “A”s in beekeeping is strange at the vey least. Hereafter we are going to touch upon these and other unusual classes taught in foreign schools.

01.09.2019 | Japan, USA, oddities, society, Israel, Australia, Armenia, New Zealand

Unusual therapy: dolphins help to get rid of stress

How to get rid of stress and get a lot of fun? They say dolphin therapy is an effective remedy against emotional pain. Walking with dolphins can bring a bottomless amount of emotions and even expand the boundaries of the mind ... At least, the supporters of this way of thinking say so. Which countries are best to travel in order to be treated by the method of dolphin therapy?

01.04.2019 | USA, Israel, Spain, Mexico, Indonesia

Las Vegas. There is something more than just a casino

And you, by chance, are not going to Las Vegas to take a gamble on your hard-earned money? Or you are lured to those lands searching for atmosphere of nuclear tests or meeting with UFO? Don’t you believe me? Then read the most non-commonplace facts about this crazy city in Nevada specifically from The Outlook.

28.03.2019 | USA, 10 facts

We were there: the USA through the eyes of a Ukrainian

Context manager Bohdan Yanchev undertook a long-term journey to the United States. He spend six months there and not just visited large cities like Miami, New York and Washington but also worked in different positions, made numerous acquaintances with locals and visited places that ordinary tourists know nothing about. Upon his return he told us about his brightest impressions.

19.01.2019 | USA, travel, tourism, through the eyes of

The new ambassador of the USA Mary Yovanovich entered office

The new Ambassador of the USA to Ukraine Mary Yovanovich has officially started implementing her diplomatic duties. Earlier she was an Ambassador in Republic Armenia (2008-2011) and Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008).

13.09.2016 | USA, diplomacy

The USA: useful tips

Approximately 70 million people a year - so many tourists from around the world visit the United States each year. Since the US is a special country, the same as any other country, most visitors face various problems: from cross-cultural difficulties to legal ones. We want to help you not get into a silly situation, so have prepared a selection of tips, useful during holiday in America.

20.01.2016 | USA

CONTRAINDICATIVE FOR AEROPHOBES

Today at the airport near the English town of Farnborough opens one of the largest air shows which mandatory program includes incredible aerobatic displays. Do not worry if you lack time to travel to the UK and get a first-hand look at nearly disastrous air acrobatics performed by world class pilots. OUTLOOK will tell you about similar events that are definitely worth checking out in the future.

08.07.2015 | Russia, USA, Germany, France, tecnologies

American football: Not a cookie-pusher’s kind of sport

Summer is the best time not only to master new means of sports but also challenge own health and take some serious risk. This means, you can venture to try even such an uneasy game as American football. Before taking a deep plunge into thrilling adrenaline rush, OUTLOOK brings to your notice some theory and interesting facts about the New World’s main hobby.

04.07.2015 | USA, sports

My name is Harvard. As the University became a part of American history...

My corridors were walked by future Nobel Prize laureates, winners of Oscar and holders of the Pulitzer Prize. My libraries were attended by Microsoft and Facebook creators. I am alma mater for 8 American presidents and the richest man in the world.

03.03.2015 | USA

Musical starts with a bog

It is believed that if you’ve visited New York but failed to attend the place, you shouldn’t even boast of you trip to the Big Apple for local theaters and concert venues are the best in the world. Today we'll show you the Broadway!

27.01.2015 | USA, art, videos

Shopping in LA. Part 2

OUTLOOK continues to publish articles by Katia Zhylka who from Los Angeles on air reveals exciting features of the city. Now you are welcome to read the second part of article where Katia tells about boutiques which are must-see for every fashionista visiting the city of angels!

20.10.2014 | USA, fashion, advices

Shopping in LA. Part 1

At the prospect of a new fashion season and therefore Fashion Weeks scheduled in the world's major fashion capitals, I would like to devote my story below to shopping in LA…

29.09.2014 | USA, fashion, advices

URBAN VIBES: Los Angeles. Part 1

Today, on the day Los Angeles was founded, OUTLOOK presents its readers a new column by Katya Zhylka - URBAN VIBES. From now she will share with us her own experience of moving anywhere and a story of getting settled there. And we’ll start, as you’ve probably guessed, with the birthday city and Katya for whom LA is already almost home – not just Arrival field in a ticket.

10.09.2014 | USA, opinion, urban vibes

We were there: Sequoia vs Kings Canyon

To drive all over good few of the States, give a hug to shaggy sequoias and make one’s mouth sore of sandwiches Subway? No problem. Marketing expert Anna Vitryachenko and businessman Eduard Fedorov from Ukraine share their travelling notes about California national parks and more.

08.08.2014 | USA, world, travel, we were there