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CRUISE SHIPPING MIAMI: FULL STEAM! The annual cruise industry gathering usually draws around 11,000 attendees, but is on track to welcome an increase of more than 8 percent in visitors and delegates to the three-day exhibition and four-day conference. The trade show will feature more than 900 exhibiting companies from 123 countries. "The uptick in attendance this year mirrors the ongoing growth and expansion of the global cruise industry," said Daniel Read, director of UBM Live's Cruise Portfolio. "Anyone who wants to do business with the cruise lines understands that Cruise Shipping Miami is the premier venue to accomplish that." |
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PUERTO PLATA'S TELEFERICO The Montana "Pico Isabel Torres" stands some 800 meters above Puerto Plata. In 1970, at its summit, was installed "Christ Redeemer" (a smaller version of a statue which exists in Brazil). The next year marked the beginning of the construction of the road "The Cupey", which lrf to the top of the Mountain and soon after that, the idea occurred to construct, with tourist purposes, a funicular. The word is of Latin origin and means "moved by means of a rope or cable." The funicular is composed of three wires, two cabins, two stations and a bra tower 50 meters high. The cabins are of a lightweight metal and have large windows with safety glass. The origin of the funicular is at the bottom of the hill and has locations for various services. In 1974 all works were completed and started trial runs that lasted 6 months. |
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TOTUMO VOLCANO, CARTAGENA When you say volcano, one usually imagines a high mountain and lava, but no-one would think of a volcano you can walk on - and it so happens there is such a thing on the Caribbean coast in Colombia, about 40 km from Cartagena. This is a rather small volcano with a height of only about 20 m, but it has an estimated depth of about 2 200 m. The Totumo Volcano is located in the municipality of Galerazamba, Bolivar. It has the peculiar trait of being located somewhere between Barranquilla and Cartagena, the two main cities of the north coast. |
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POÁS VOLCANO, COSTA RICA The most developed of the country's national parks protects the most dramatic of the region's volcanoes, which rises above the northwest Meseta Central. On clear days you can see both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean from its summit. Peering down into the crater may evoke the same sensations that virgins of Pre-Columbian times felt moments before they were tossed in as sacrificial lambs to the gods. The story behind the conservation of Poás Volcano began in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1960s. When Costa Rican student Mario Boza visited the U.S.Park, he was extremely impressed and decided to develop a plan to manage the Poás Volcano area in a similar way. |
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BARRIO SAN DIEGO, CARTAGENA San Diego neighborhood, in Cartagena de Indias is a place that since its origin until today has highly influenced the events in Colombia. In pre columbian times its coasts were inhabited by warrior indians of the Caribe race which would give problems to more than one colonizing expedition that dared to disembark in its beaches. The honor of the foundation was given to Don Pedro de Heredia on June 1st of 1533 with the name of "Cartagena de Poniente", to make it different from "Cartagena de Levante", in Spain; both with similar bays. The rising population would be target of the greed of English and French invaders, and the fact is that its quality of slave trade port and commercial port made it very appealing to foreign eyes. Therefore their protection and defense were more than urgent, beginning with the Fuerte del Boqueron in the XVIth century (where today stands the Fuerte del Pastelillo)... |
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TORTUGUERO NATIONAL PARK, CR The Park extends north along the coast for 22 km from Jaloba, six km north of Parismina, to Tortuguero village. The 19,000-hectare park is a mosaic of deltas on an alluvial plain nestled between the Caribbean coast on the east and the low-lying volcanic hills of Coronel, Caño Moreno, and 300-meter-high Las Lomas de Sierpe--the Sierpe Peaks--on the west. The park protects the nesting beach of the green turtle, the offshore waters to a distance of 30 km, and the wetland forests extending inland for about 15 kilometers. The Tortuguero shelters a fabulous array of wildlife, including more than 300 bird species, among them the great green macaw; 57 species of amphibians and 111 of reptiles, including three species of marine turtles; 60 mammal species, including 13 of Costa Rica's 16 endangered species, including jaguars, tapirs, ocelots, cougars, river otters, and manatees. Commonly seen birds include toucans, aricaris, oropendolas, swallow-tailed hawks, several species of herons, kingfishers, anhingas, parrots, and jacanas... |
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WILLEMSTAD, CAPITAL CITY OF CURACAO Willemstad’s historic core had suffered from the public revolt of May 1969 in the city which left key historic areas partly destroyed as a result of the city fires ignited by the revolting masses. This was followed by sheer neglect of the city’s historic structures in the next two decades. A Building Ordinance dating from 1935 was the sole instrument to regulate the city’s development. With the ambition to revitalize the city and to have historic Willemstad inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO the development of a coherent package of legal and financial instruments for the protection of the historic city was started in 1988 by ICAW Interregional Committee Action Willemstad. After ten years of hard work The Historic Area of Willemstad Inner City and Harbour was awarded the World Heritage status in December 1997. |
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PLAZA DE LOS COCHES, CARTAGENA DE INDIAS This plaza was designed by the authorities for the commerce of african slaves and took the name "Plaza del Esclavo", and would be renamed by the end of 1585 to "Plaza de Mercaderes", due to the fact that for some time the merchants were parked where today is the Portal de los Dulces. Then it was called "Plaza de la Yerba", and changed to "Plaza de los Coches" by a decree of the of the mayor allowing the carriages to be parked in front of the Portal de los Dulces... |
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PLAYA SOSUA, PUERTO PLATA, D.R. The Sosua beach and town are in the Bay of Sosua, about 16 km from Puerto Plata. It is a favorite spot for tourists from the north, in search of calm, clear waters perfect for swimming, snorkeling, and diving. This beach is crescent shaped, which attracts hundreds of locals and tourists for its turquoise waters and fine white sand. It also offers a lot of vegetation with which you can escape the heat with shade. Sosua has a humid tropical climate and refreshing temperatures brought by the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to this climate, it has a rich vegetation While the same can not be said of the fuana, a much richer population of animals is tucked away underneath the water, hidden in reefs... |
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