The kitchen is a special place in the house that can tell a lot about its owners. Whether a large family gathers here for cooking or dinner, or a person prefers to eat alone, gourmets, home owners, or they like simple, understandable food, how much the kitchen owners are attached to home food, or maybe the kitchen exists in their housing only as a decor - If you look at this room, you can understand a lot. ...

Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. But even there are beauty salons where women can put themselves in order, gossip, relax and enjoy taking care of themselves. Only here on the signs on the street you won’t immediately say that it is such a paradise. American Frank Day, a photographer and traveler, collects pictures of the most outstanding and original signs of Ethiopian beauty salons. ...

You must admit that sashimi is one of the best ways to enjoy raw fish. And from now on, this delicacy can be considered not only a gift of Japanese cuisine to gourmets of the whole world, but also a real form of art! ...

Istanbul is a city with wonderful street food and a lot of inexpensive and not very presentable looking, but very tasty cafes. I would even say that Istanbul is the only city in my practice where street food is tastier than restaurant food. Want to know what is being fed in Istanbul? Bright red carts are found throughout the city. ...

There are things in the world that are more famous for their stunning rear views, and these 12 famous tourist attractions are no exception. Usually, travelers pay to see their front side and photograph it, forgetting that from behind they can be no less interesting. ...

The last month of winter is not the most vigorous and fun period. Vitamins and the sun are sorely lacking. And yet, we can’t get away from February, so we offer to try to make friends with him at least a little. Still, the last days of this season are ahead, when you can enjoy plenty of winter, take a walk in the fresh, frosty air, play snowballs and dazzle ... it’s not at all necessary a snowman! ...

The International Tourist Film Festival (ITFFM) "On the Equator" was first held in the Maldives at the luxurious hotel The Sun Siyam Irufushi Maldives from July 10-12. For 3 days, the jury watched amazing videos and short films from around the world with exciting content on tourism, sports and nature. ...

When you get to work at rush hour, you think that a more populous place than your city does not exist in the world. And the situation is especially difficult in the capital with its many kilometers of traffic jams and the assault on a crowded metro. However, our cities are by no means the most densely populated places on the planet. We will introduce you to a dozen cities with the highest population density. ...

Traveling is always fraught with risk and certain obstacles, so almost any trip is a kind of way out of the comfort zone, albeit damn pleasant in most cases. Our today's pictures prove that if you are not ready for the unexpected and extreme adventures, and also do not know how to cope with disappointment, then it is better not to get further than your city. ...

The amazing and talented Frenchman Mark Riebe will soon be 93 years old. He is known to the whole world as a genius of documentary, and he called Henri Cartier-Bresson himself his ideological inspiration. Since 1937, the photographer has been filming the lives of people traveling around the world. By the way, he was one of the first photojournalists to shoot in China and Vietnam after the cultural revolutions that shook these countries. ...

Owners of some thoroughbred dogs do not even suspect how hard the lives of their pets are. This applies to the so-called flat-faced dog breeds, such as the Pekingese, pugs, bulldogs and some others that have a similar physiological structure. It turns out that during targeted breeding such dogs acquired not only their original appearance, but also an impressive list of health problems. ...

The author of the profile is a 27-year-old anonymous author from Anchorage (Alaska, USA). Living in Alaska, in a real kingdom of wildlife, where many adventurers come to explore and capture the local beauties, she was amazed at how the same places and scenarios continue to catch her eye again and again. ...

Recently, the photographer Pablo Iglesias Maurer caught the eye of an old postcard with a resort complex built in the 1960s. This made Pablo think about how this place looks now. So the inspiration came to create an amazing photo series called "Abandoned Places". The photographer ordered more than 60 vintage postcards on eBay and set off to travel around the United States, looking for and filming the places that were depicted on them. ...

This building was to become a symbol of modern, prosperous Malaysia and declare to the whole world about the ambitions of this Asian country. To implement the project of the highest skyscraper in Asia at that time, leading experts in the field of erecting tall buildings were invited, but even they had a hard time, since they faced a number of problems when building the Petronas towers. ...

I don’t know about you, but I adore Georgian wine! Saperavi, so tart and rich, dark red, ruby ​​color, with a bright aroma and taste! They say that it is so tasty, because Georgia has some unique wine-making technology. So how is it made? And why is it so expensive? To answer these questions, I went to the main wine region of Georgia - Kakheti, where I visited one of the modern Georgian wineries. ...

We are all used to the fact that the sun rises every day. Even if you live beyond the Arctic Circle, you still know that sooner or later the star will appear in the sky. But what if the sun suddenly disappears? Spoiler: Nothing good. 8 minutes, normal flight. First of all, the Earth will plunge into darkness. Even the Moon will not help, because it shines with the reflected light of the Sun, and when the star disappears, it simply has nothing to reflect. ...