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Start Planning for your Next Trip at America s Dairyland Wisconsin

Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and divided into 72 counties. It is the 20th most populous and the northerly of the U.S states, it is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southeast, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east and superior to the north.

Madison

Madison is the state capital of Wisconsin and Milwaukee is the largest city of Madison. Wisconsin is one of the largest leading dairy producers, famous for its cheese so it is also known as “America’s Dairyland”. Manufacturing, like paper products, information technology (IT) and tourism are the major contributors to the state economy.

If you are Cheese lovers, then Wisconsin is the next destination for your vacation trip. Start planning now as the State offers many cultural activities and events from the huge Oshkosh Airshow to Milwaukee’s Summerfest. Fishing, boating, hiking, and biking are the outdoor enthusiasts.

Oshkosh 

Oshkosh is a small town on Lake Winnebago, is famous for two things: kids’ clothing and place on the world’s airshow circuit. The world largest meeting of aviators, EAA Air Venture Oshkosh, has been held here every summer since 1970. During the weeklong event, there are 15,000 aircraft of all shapes and sizes descend upon the airport along with an estimated one million visitors. The Harley-Davidson Museum is a home of more than 450 classic motorcycles.

Circus World Museum 

Circus World Museum is an excellent attraction for kids – the museum features fascinating displays including circus artifacts and exhibits, other tourist attractions include House of the Rock near spring green. Water recreation is very popular as there is large number of lakes and rivers in the state. Door County is a destination for boaters because of harbors, bays and Lake Michigan side of the peninsula.

Culture, Art, and Music

Residents of Wisconsin are referred to as Wisconsinites. Every year there are thousands of visitors gets attracted, as numerous ethnic festivals are held throughout Wisconsin to celebrate the heritage of the country. Such as Summerfest, Oktoberfest, Polish Fest, Festa Italiana, and many others. The Milwaukee Art Museum is known for its interesting architecture. Wisconsin's music festivals include Eaux Claires and many more. Drinking has been considered an important part of Wisconsin culture

Sports

Football, baseball, and basketball are the three major league teams of Wisconsin. Lambeau Field is located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is a home to the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers. There are many college sports programs, including the Wisconsin Badgers and Panthers of the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and Milwaukee respectively. So, get ready and do not miss the chance to enjoy your vacations in Wisconsin.

 

Best Places for Vacation in Thailand

Thailand was formerly known as Siam, Officially the “kingdom of Thailand” is the world’s 50th-largest and 20th most populous country in the world with around 66 million people. From the north, it is border by Myanmar and Laos, from the east by Laos and Cambodia, from the south by the Gulf of Thailand and towards the west by the Andaman Sea.

Thailand is often referred to as the “Land of Smiles”, and a jewel of Southeast Asia. It is rightly renowned for its rich cultural heritage, crafted over 700 years. It is a very welcoming country from the friendly earthiness of village life to high arts and performance, the people are very friendly. The Thai culture will charm and captivate you.

Spicy Thai Food

Thai food has a reputation for being spicy, include spicy Thai soup with Prawns (Tom Yum Goong), Green Curry (Kaeng  Kiow Wan), Spicy Papaya Salad. Thai food is a balance between different flavors including spicy, sour, sweet, salty and bitter. One exclusive aspect of Thai food is the use of fresh herbs and spices as well as the inclusion of fermented fish sauce in nearly every fish. For Thais, Rice is their staple food, eaten with most meals; from breakfast to dessert. It is well-known fact that Thailand is the world’s largest exporter of rice and that rice includes more than one strain, each of which has its own characteristic and flavor. The most esteemed Thai rice is a Jasmine rice and sweet smelling long grain rice that is indigenous to Thailand.

The Special Thai Noodles

Thai noodles are quite common in Thailand and most of the dishes are stir-fried or grilled served with rice. Fish, pork, and chicken are all prepared in a variety of ways and cut into bite-sized pieces and stir-fried with various spices like garlic, chili and basil. Thai food also includes Thai curry and soup, Thai salad or Yam, Thai desserts, Thai fruit, Thai beer & beverages among others.

Thai Dance and Music

Thai classical music and dance are highly valued symbols of national heritage. The classical music was originally played at court and based on Khmer models. Thai classical music has three types of orchestral groups: pi phat, which performs at court ceremonies and in the theatre; Kruang sai – typically heard in indoor instrumental settings; and mahori, a mixed ensemble that often accompanies vocalists. There were several specialized schools were established to train classical musicians and dancers as the Thai music became a field of study at the university level.

From Meditation Centers and Retreat

You can benefit immensely from learning about Buddhism with monks. An average day at monastery starts with a wake-up call at around 4 a.m and includes several hours of group meditation and chanting as well as time put aside for chores and personal reflection.

Thailand is a country flooded with opportunity for once in a lifetime travel experience. You start with the world-class beaches in the south or the mountain village in the north, it provides diverse attractions and a rewarding and memorable experience in its own way. 

 

Surf Air Expands Unlimited Private Jet Service from California to Europe

Packed in like human cattle. Or human sardines. Forced to wait in long wait lines. Treated to generalized and impersonal service. Suspiciously investigated and monitored. No, that is not the logline for a horror movie but an apt description of enduring modern 21st-century air travel. Lines are getting longer; travel departure delays are increasing and traveler disapproval with airports and airport service and ever more invasive security checks are reaching record highs. If only private jet travel was more affordable. Well, if you fly weekly or on a frequent basis in the California-centric region of the United States and spend over $2000 a month or every few weeks in business-related travel costs, then a new startup boutique airline may be able to offer you a more luxurious and comfortable way to fly.

World’s First Private Unlimited Air Travel Club

Surf Air is actually the world’s first private unlimited air travel club for business and leisure fliers. It was founded in 2011 in California by CEO Jeff Potter. Surf Air strives to maintain quality service by employing a small-scale staff and only flying to small, private regional airports in and around California. The FAA-certified company employs 200 people. All flights are piloted by two pilots, a captain, and first officer. All Surf Air pilots are active or retired commercial, military, charter and small aircraft pilots and experts at their craft. You can arrive 15 minutes before departure and buy your tickets through the website’s app, but you will still follow scaled down commercial airport security and screening procedures. Surf Air’s fleet of aircraft currently consists of over a dozen Swiss-manufactured 8-seater Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop aircraft. The aircraft has a 1,200-mile traveling distance range and cruising speed of 320 MPH.

Uber of Skyways and Netflix of Airlines

The start-up airline has been referred to as the “Uber of the Skyways,” and the, “Netflix of Airlines,” because of their efforts to embrace technology and to cater air travel to their clients’ needs in the most comfortable way possible. You can set up an inspection appointment wi, Cath Surf Air to visit one of their private airports and to inspect and check out one of their airplanes yourself. The airline has over 80 daily departures from California. Membership costs $1,950 a month with a $1,000 exclusive membership signup fee. First time members can fly one-way for $500 or two-ways for $1,000 in a promotional discount membership drive until July 31, 2016. Surf Air has over 3,000 exclusive members and counting. In fact, the company will be doubling the current size of their dozen-strong air fleet by the end of the year. The company’s business model concept has been so popular that they will begin expanding their operations to Europe beginning October 2016.

Services Available

Surf Air Europe’s private air travel members will be able to fly unlimited throughout Europe on a monthly basis for USD $3,225, or € 2,500, a month. So, it’s all up to you. If you travel by air frequently and cannot take the rigors of corporate, commercial air travel anymore, it may be in your best interest of travel comfort to arrange an aircraft inspection and information visit with Surf Air today. Surf Air operates out of private and small-sized airports in the Greater Los Angeles Metro Area, San Francisco, Truckee, Lake Tahoe, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Napa, and Monterrey. Surf Air also flies to private airports in Las Vegas in collaboration with another regional boutique airline called Advanced Air. In October 2016, Surf Air Europe will begin operations in and out of private and small-sized airports in Cannes, Dublin, Geneva, London, and Zurich. Additional cities will be added later. You can learn more about unlimited, monthly air travel membership at the Surf Air website. 

 

 

 

The 13 Hotel in Macau Will Cost Over $1.4 Billion to Construct

The luxury hotel experiences that Russian billionaires, popular culture celebrities, royalty and heads-of-state dream about are set to become a ridiculously lavish and opulently obscene reality. Stephen Hung, a Chinese billionaire, and businessman founded Louis XIII Holdings, Ltd to re-create the Versailles and French royalty hospitality experience, which he admires, and apply it to the 21st century. Hung’s company is named after King Louis the XIII, the French king who commissioned the construction of a lodge that would ultimately become the Palace at Versailles. This is an insight which should speak volumes about his professional mandate for the luxury hospitality business.

Inspirations for the 13 Hotel

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The 13 Hotel is a Versailles-inspired luxury hospitality experience that Hung’s company is set to open in the Chinese international gambling haven of Macau. The 13 Hotel will feature 200 luxe-caliber hotel suites with a construction cost of over $7 million per room. The final tally for overall construction might hit northwards of $1.4 billion. Each accommodation will have a quaint nickname. The so-called, “entry level,” suite is known as the Villa du Comte. It features; over 2,000 square feet of space, high ceilings, baroque ceiling artwork framed with bas-relief artistic paneling, retractable marble floors, sculptures, artwork and interior work by the trendiest interior designers inspired by Versailles-era creative design.

Features of ‘The 13 Hotel’

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The grandness of the rooms increases as you go up levels. The most expensive accommodations at the 13 will be called the Villa de Stephen, which features almost 30,000-square-feet of space. The rooms will feature king-sized beds that are canopied in the elegant and classical French style. The bathrooms will feature ceiling-length rain showers and an electrically powered toilet with a bidet. There will be plenty of lavish, gourmet restaurants like L’Ambroisie, which will be the first 3-Michelin-star French restaurant expansion to ever open outside of Paris.

On-Site Chauffeuring Service in Rolls Royce Phantoms

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Louis XIII Holdings, Ltd even commissioned British car manufacturer Rolls-Royce to manufacture 30 Rolls-Royce Phantoms at a cost of $20 million to provide on-site chauffeuring services for their guests. It is the largest order ever commissioned for a fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms. Accommodation rates have yet to be announced. Some hospitality industry insiders believe that an asking price of $100,000-a-night would not be unrealistic to expect. When it opened in the summer of 2016, the 13 Hotel in Macau will truly be one of the most elegantly luxurious and expensive hotels to ever open in the world.

 

The $100 Golden Ube Cristal Donut is a Really Real Thing

This sure isn’t Homer Simpson’s doughnut. Though it may sound like a plot device in an avant-garde fairy tale, the golden donut is absolutely real. Bjorn Delacruz, businessman, bakery owner, and haute-donut pioneer has evolved the plain, humble and yet ubiquitously-loved donut into a hyper-surrealist looking but very real Epicurean wonder. Delacruz is the owner of the family-run Manila Social Club restaurant which has flagship restaurants in Manila and New York City. The restaurant specializes in Filipino-centric cuisine and experimental dishes. 

The Royal Golden Ube Cristal Donut

With his culinary ingenuity, he has concocted an aggressively opulent donut that would have the very affluent, scions of royalty and heads of state questioning their own worthiness to consume such an ultra-elitist looking treat. The Golden Ube Cristal Donut is a handmade artisanal pastry dessert that sells for $100 per donut. “Ube,” is a purple yam plant indigenous to the Philippines. The donut is filled with an uber-derived mousse, a champagne-derived jelly, a tequila-derived jelly, or some mix or variation of each filling. The $100-per-donut Golden Ube Cristal Donut is then dressed with icing derived from Cristal champagne. This donut of affluence is then generously dusted with edible, ultra-thin, 24-karat gold foil, flakes and dust.

$150-per-donut Patron Platinum Rose Margarita Donut

Not impressed? Really? Well, you can also purchase the $150-per-donut Patron Platinum Rose Margarita Donut. This donut is topped with edible dust and foil made from sparkling silver. Rose petal ashes are added to the donut mix, creating a dark-colored consistency. The donut is then piped with a rose-flavored mousse that is pink in tone. Jelly made from Gran Patron silver tequila, lime, and hints of jalapeno pepper are also mixed into the donut. The frosting is also made from Patron Platinum tequila. No, there are no donuts topped with ultra-thin, edible platinum foil flakes for sale at Manila Social Club. Yet.  The $150 Patron Platinum Rose Margarita edition donut is only on sale for limited periods of the year. All profits from the $150 donut are donated to cancer research.

Early Reservations

These rarified donuts of privilege can be reserved on Thursdays but can only be purchased on-site and only on Fridays. There is no online ordering and the highly perishable, uber-opulent treats can’t be shipped. You have to walk into a Manila Social Club restaurant to purchase one. Don’t be surprised to find out that the restaurant is sold out for a week or two due to reservations and/or the expensiveness of the crucial ingredients. About a dozen to three dozen of the artisanal luxe-donuts are handmade at the restaurant every Friday. If you are in the market to indulge in a single $100 or $150 donut or want to have a great story about elegant diversions from your latest travel jaunt, then you shouldn’t look anywhere else.

 

 

Karaoke Travel Guide

Karaoke, like Halloween, has a Jekyll and Hyde effect on its participants: fueled by booze and pseudo-anonymity, we can all be stars for a night. But at the Blind Dragon, local impresario John Terzian’s latest opening, the onlookers probably are stars. That’s because this karaoke lounge, unlike the laser-lit strip-mall dives and gimmicky Koreatown palaces of yore, is as hard to crack as any high-end WeHo boite. Cocktails are served with pizza and dim sum in a space that blends old-school glam (leopard-print carpeting, mod chandeliers) with Brooklyn-style grit (walls and doors resemble dismantled shipping containers). Miley Cyrus and Cara Delevingne are regulars. A waitress clad in a chinoiserie robe assures me that “Gigi and Cody”—that’s model Gigi Hadid and her then-boyfriend Cody Simpson—may show up tonight. (Wait, aren’t they underage?)

At Home Karaoke Party by DJ Wade Crescent

Terzian’s partner in the project, DJ Wade Crescent, hosts at-home karaoke parties for famous friends like Adam Levine, and the duo conceived the Blind Dragon as the same sort of secret late-night hideout (complete with a hidden entrance in an unmarked parking garage) for scenesters who’d rather not face down a phalanx of TMZ stringers. The main room is list-only (if you have to ask, you’re not getting in), but mere mortals can reserve one of four private rooms with state-of-the-art touch-screen systems. In the words of Warren G: Step to this, I dare ya. From $200 for a private room.

More kitsch-free karaoke:

Rock Box, Seattle

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This minimalist, wood-accented lounge has translucent-walled rooms and even one tiny chamber where you can sing solo. On the menu: fine sakes plus charcuterie and cheeses from neighboring restaurant Cure.

Sing Sing Karaoke, Miami Beach

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The décor isn’t much to rave about, but locals swear by this high-tech party palace, which is open seven nights a week.

Amour, Tokyo

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An annex of the brutally hip nightclub Le Baron, this luxe den draws an international fashion crowd to its four private rooms, two of which were designed by Marc Newson.

Break Room 86, Los Angeles

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Housed in the hipster-pedigreed Line Hotel in Koreatown, this 1980s-theme hangout has high school lockers, a Pac-Man machine, and throwback cocktails.

Bam Karaoke Box, Paris

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The airy lounge and four private rooms have a deco vibe with graphic wallpaper, mood lighting, and contemporary furniture.