iRui.ac - Home of vSlider » Tibet http://irui.ac I've seen things you people wouldn't believe Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:39:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en An easy “Top 5″ list http://irui.ac/archives/2007/07/26/an-easy-top-5-list http://irui.ac/archives/2007/07/26/an-easy-top-5-list#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:10:20 +0000 Rui http://irui.ac/archives/2007/07/26/an-easy-top-5-list We should have some priorities, right?

Ok, we have to start somewhere, so we made a short list of the places that we *absolutely* must go:

These might be pretty obvious (if feels like everybody has already been there…), but still, no self-respecting world traveler can go by without visting these ones, right?
So, these are set in stone - for the rest, we welcome your suggestions…

]]> http://irui.ac/archives/2007/07/26/an-easy-top-5-list/feed Running out of time… http://irui.ac/archives/2007/06/25/running-out-of-time http://irui.ac/archives/2007/06/25/running-out-of-time#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:51:31 +0000 Rui http://irui.ac/archives/2007/06/25/running-out-of-time Global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it, is hot (pun intended) news these days. Coming from a South European country myself, I usually joke with my Dutch colleagues that global warming is the best thing that ever happened to The Netherlands – the weather is getting hotter and sunnier every year. Which is great, considering that the climate here is pretty much a gray and depressing affair most of the time. I usually start with “we should pollute some more, it’s great for tourism!” and then go on about how the best idea right now is to buy property in the north of Denmark or Finland, since in a few years it will be the next tropical paradise :)
Actually, this is no laughing matter, and we all know it very well. The negative effects are pretty obvious – draught, floods, raising sea levels, you name it. But for us, the world-travelers to be, it also means that for some places, we are running out of time. In just a few seconds, I could think of three examples of places that either won’t be there, or will be dramatically changed in a few years by climate change, or the action of man in general:
- The Maldives are sinking
- The Tibetan glaciers are melting (well, they are *all* melting actually)
- The Three Gorges Dam will completely change the Yangtze
Just three simple examples, I’m sure you can find more.
It’s an uneasy feeling – knowing that you either see it really soon, or you’ll never get the chance…

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