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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Holidays in Antalya - a brief guide

Turkey - a country of four seas. It is not enough simply to choose Turkey as a place to rest, you must still choose the sea, on which you would like to spend your vacation - the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea. But this is not your choice of finishes, for holidays in Turkey - is not only beautiful beaches and luxury hotels. First of all, this country is rich in its culture and history, about which the easiest way to stay in hotels most popular resort in Turkey - Antalya. But what to choose, what to look there first? We offer you a brief guide for vacationers.

So, as we have already said, the most popular resort city of Antalya in Turkey is located on the Mediterranean coast. This is one of the largest cities in the country, which has a modern airport, seaport and one of the largest yacht berths coast.
For travelers who prefer not to sit on the ground, local travel agencies offer a wide selection of city tours, during which you can explore the sights and shopping. There are no obstacles for independent forays through the city, during which the fluted minaret sure to visit the 12th century, decorated with turquoise and dark blue tiles. The mosque stands above the port, attracting the attention of many visitors, so do not notice this architectural monument will be difficult.
Walking in Antalya will not leave anyone indifferent - unique architecture, representing a mixture of east and west with shades of history of Ancient Greece produced the most positive impression. We must not forget bazaar, which for ridiculous money you can get pretty high quality knitwear, leather goods and shoes. No, it's not online shoe store, where, from the comfort of home to buy all new items most promoted brands, here you have pretty walk, choosing a product and a lot of bargain - that's the beauty bazaar, a unique atmosphere that attracts people of all ages and nationalities for hundreds of years.
Located in Antalya, we should not forget that it was originally a Greek city. Unfortunately, little in the modern city that remains from those times. Instead, a unique collection of antiques you can see in the local archaeological museum.
If you and this is not enough, you can go to one of the country excursions, including Pamukkale and Ephesus, which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. There you can swim in the unique hot springs or visit one of the seven wonders of the world - the Temple of Artemis. For fans of the same leisure Antalya offers a great selection - white water rafting, quad bikes, scuba diving lessons and much more.
Holidays in Turkey - is not only beaches, cheap hotels and drunken Russian tourists, it is also immersed in the world an amazing country with a rich history, the main thing to go on holiday in the right frame of mind and a lot of impressions you provided!

How to improve the health of the fall

Soon will come not the most pleasant time of year, summer is coming and when it rains, cold winds and snow - how to preserve their health in the fall? In addition, the autumn is often sad and depressed. What to do and how to deal with it? The first rule - to live for yourself!

Gym can wait
October and November - not the most cheerful month for the residents of our latitude. We become less active, because the body is under stress, and spends more calories to heat the body, than in warmer seasons. And we, in spite of everything, we continue to go hard in the gym, just under the lash of forcing yourself to do, even if a cold or get sick. Doctors insist: the immune system to deal effectively with the disease if not exposed to stress. While you are not completely recovered, go to the more leisurely activities. For example, try Pilates - these exercises you can do in bed. In the very early morning moments when you do not want to get up so come out and the gray street, you can wake up your body and set it on the working mode with a total of 6 exercises. After all, Pilates based exercises - fluidity of movement and muscle control.

    
Swimming - Lying on your stomach, stretch your arms forward, feet shoulder-width position. On the exhale, raise your left arm and right leg 30 cm and Freeze for 10 seconds. Then return to starting position.
    
Kick on your side - Lie on your right side and pull your right hand along the bed. Lean left hand in front of him. Keep your head straight, without tilting it. Raise both legs simultaneously and in a few seconds to return to starting position.
    
Shoulder Bridge - Lie on your back, bend your knees and your feet are set to the width of your hips. Extend hands along the body. On the exhale, pull your belly and slowly raise your pelvis, leaning on his feet. Within seconds, slowly lower.
    
Posture slats - Lie on your stomach, rest your elbows and toes on the floor. Feet shoulder width apart. On the inhale and pull your belly gently lift your pelvis off the floor so that your body was a straight line. Hold for several seconds.
    
Pulling down - Lie on your back, stretch your arms along the body, and lift legs, bending at the knees. On the exhale, straighten your leg and pull it forward. Hold for a few seconds and return to starting position.
    
Stretching - Bending legs, sit on your heels. Hold your head to the knees, and hands forward. Hold this position for several seconds.
Japanese massage for face color
Of course, the beauty of Japanese women - a moot point, but that's part of the health of the Japanese have much to learn. Why not try a massage?

    
The tips of your index and middle fingers of both hands slowly "paint" a straight line from the center of the forehead to the temples.
    
Make the eyebrows along the same lines ten spiral movements.
    
Perform 15 times on the bridge of the nose to the tip of the nose and the same - along with each side of the nose of the wing to the nose.
    
Complete with 10 strokes from the century - from the inner corner of eyes to the outside, from the wings of the nose and chin - to the temples.
Laughter a cure for diseases
Laughter strengthens the heart muscle, stabilizes the activity of the brain, improves blood circulation, reduces pain. In the U.S., "smeholechenie" is generally accepted by science and is gelotologiey ("gelo" - smile). Scientists smehoterapii department of the University of Los Angeles estimated that 27 seconds of laughter normalizes blood pressure as well as ten-minute meditation. A 15 minutes of laughter can help the body cope with the load and improve the condition of your blood vessels.Peeling
At least the sun - it's time for chemical peels and other procedures for exfoliation and anti-pigmentation. Be sure to treat not only face but also the body.Scrub coffee for home SPA
Mix 2 cups of ground coffee, 1 / 2 cup brown sugar or sea salt and 2-3 tablespoons of massage oil. After a hot shower in a circular motion rub the broad scrub. Then rinse with water and apply a body lotion.Take a bath
In order to improve mood and reduce fatigue, take a bath before going to bed with a drop of essential oil. Tonic known for jasmine, nutmeg, orange and rosemary. Soothing - bergamot, lavender, ginger and sandalwood.Visit the procedure "Antistress" in the SPA salon
There are many SPA relaxation and stress relieving programs that include elements of aroma, light, and sometimes steam therapy and relaxation massage, and moisturizing bath. Once a month, it is necessary.A glass of wine at dinner
Red wine - a storehouse of useful elements. It contains tannins, which purify the blood vessels, amino acids necessary for normal growth and protect cells, iron deficiency anemia on the healing, magnesium, healthy heart. Louis Pasteur called the healthiest drink of wine, if they are not abused. Recall that the French, who do not indulge in a glass of wine, even during working hours, almost never suffer from cardiovascular diseases.One stop - on foot
Walking in the autumn - a great way to recovery. Warm up, lift your mood, razomnete muscle. And if every day to overcome the 2,000 steps - and a 15 minute walk - it does not allow overweight, experts say.

Fitness for faces: what is it?

It is difficult to imagine, but fitness has long gone beyond the purely physical exercise. No one remembers when there was this little "break." Over the past ten years have been developed and the whole technique of exercises for the face. This kind of fitness is very popular among the citizens of Europe and America. Facial Fitness has many great advantages: security (as opposed to surgery), the action is not in effect, and the cause of the problem, long-term exposure (years) free of charge.

Strong evidence, is not it? At the heart of personal fitness is the simple idea of ​​unity of thought and body. The causes rapid aging of the face - are factors that we encounter every day, resentment, frustration, stress, nervous, sad, sea and other negative emotions that leave a lot of unpleasant residue. And how to deal with it? There are many exercises for the facial muscles that help you get an even skin texture and blood supply to the capillaries, which in turn contributes to its restoration. In the face of a man is 57 muscles, each of them requires special attention.
The main thing in these exercises - it's subconscious. You need to relax, not just the face and entire body as well. You can find a picture with you, where you went well and you have a good mood, and make a "race for the youth." You have to imagine that you have wrinkles disappear, the skin becomes smooth and silky. This method is very well to adjust itself to the desired fashion.Here are a few exercises
Practising the forehead muscles: put index fingers above the eyebrows and straining them (pull down) and at the same time trying to bend and pull his forehead as if the "up". At the same time try not to wince. Doing this exercise is worth 5 -10 seconds for 10 sets, for full effect.
Strengthen the muscles around the eyes: it is very hard prischurtes while try not to wince. This exercise is very well to remove bags under the eyes. Do this exercise 10 times for 5-8 seconds.
Finally, an exercise for the lower face. You have to pull the lips with the letter "o" as far as possible and try to smile. But you need to strain the muscles of cheeks. Exercise is 8-10. Good luck!

How to care for the baby's hair

Usually around 20 weeks of intrauterine life the fetus (human, of course) start to grow hair. As a rule, children are born with only a little fuzz on his head (usually this sweet baby down only lasts 2-3 months and then gradually falls.) He was being replaced hairs thicker and stronger. The color of the hair may be different from that which was in the child immediately after birth.

Rarely happens that a child is born with hair thick and long. In general, developing and emerging hair is closer to adolescence, when the process begins puberty and hormones of the body is quite certain. However, in this matter, not all determined by genetic predisposition.
The hair of the child requires care and careful. The first time they are frail and thin. Hair exposed to many external factors, such as dryness of the air, water hardness, UV rays, improper shampoo and others.
In the future your child to have healthy and beautiful hair, followed by care properly.
There is nothing complicated in the manipulations to be carried out with the hair of the child. The whole of science - wash gently and carefully comb - that's all. The main thing with this - not to hurry up and be careful. All movements should be smooth and measured. In no case can not be too much press on the child's head, especially in the fontanelle - the most vulnerable spot. Some children do not like when they wash their head and if your child is such, then your task - to distract him from experiencing the event shampooing.
With all the responsibility is to approach the selection of shampoo. Shampoo must be special for children who are not causing tears and preferably do not contain harmful substances. In the children's shampoo must be balanced with the pH-balance (from 4.5 to 6), another important thing: baby shampoo should foam greatly.
In general, wash the baby's head (and bathe with soap and water as well) should be no more than a maximum of two times per week (depending on the secretion of the skin and its type). Of course, the water should not be too hot, the optimum temperature of - 37-33 ° C. After shampooing hair, rinse with clean water (warm, of course). Using all sorts of balms and masks for children's hair too.
You can use herbs - for example, faster hair growth and help strengthen their rubbing into the scalp of aloe juice or nettle.
You should not dry your hair the child as excessively hot air acts on the hair negatively. For drying the hair is better to use ordinary towel. Long hair should start combing from the ends, gradually approaching the roots. We should not hurry, be very careful not to pull or tear matted hair (it's bad for the hair and the child's mind). Long (especially fine) hair are most prone to tangling and requires some caution. Comb should be made of natural material to prevent static electricity and not to injure the child's hair. Naturally teeth comb or brush should not be sharp to avoid damaging the scalp.
Positive for blood circulation and, consequently, the growth of hair, has a head massage (including combing and brushing hair).
Pick the right hair clips and rubber bands - they should not be too tight and tightening. In the clip as they may be no sharp parts that could injure the child and cause him pain.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Tunisia tour "trip to the Sahara"

Tunisia - Arab country in North Africa, which is on the eastern and northern sides of the Mediterranean Sea to the west is bordered by Algeria and Libya to the south. It is the smallest country in the Maghreb, as it is called North African Arab region.

Tourists like to Tunisia for its ancient culture, a clean sea and varied landscape of rolling "southern European" with fertile olive groves in the north of this "African" desert in the south of the Sahara.Tunisia. Excursion to the Sahara Desert
Excursion to the Sahara Desert - one of the most exciting, dynamic and sought-after tours of Tunisia. It certainly makes a strong impression on tourists and one rarely leaves me cold. Excursion "Trip to the Sahara," a single scenario offered by representatives of most local tour operators. As a rule, its duration is two days, and the price ranges from 150 to 200 dollars.Itinerary tour "Journey to the Sahara"
Gathering of participants and travel on the bus going in the morning, the first stop - the city of El Jem, with its main attraction Roman amphitheater built three centuries. Second stop - one of the Berber villages (Matmata, or other less-known), where visitors are introduced to the culture of the Berbers - native Tunisia. The next destination and a place to sleep - the city of Douz, the so-called "Gateway to the Sahara." On the second day of the scheduled trip to the city of Tozeur, which must pass with a stop at the salt lake Chott el Jerid. The trip is a camel safari in the national dress. Then follow the tourists to Kairouan, the fourth largest city of the Muslim world, and from there sent home, or rather to his hotel.
"Journey to the Sahara" allows visitors not only get acquainted with historical, architectural and religious monuments of Tunisia, but in such a short time to see the diversity of the landscape of this country, because on their way to replace olive groves and mountain steppe landscape, which fades into the desert with oases and unique "lunar" canyons.Stop tour "trip to the Sahara"
So, as mentioned above, the first stop of the route - a town of El Jem, which, in essence, is a city of a monument - the Colosseum, built by Emperor Gordian approximately between 230 and 238 AD. There were a variety of views, including fights between animals, and animals with humans. This is evidenced by the picture of a mosaic, preserved in the amphitheater, and now presented in the local museum. The Colosseum was able to accommodate up to 30 thousand spectators, and its size it is similar to the Colosseum, situated in Rome. However, residents of El Jem felt that their coliseum better preserved to this day, and only here can you fully experience all the greatness of this building. The amphitheater is especially beautiful at sunrise and many guides try to make the tourists come here at this time.
Berber villages, the most popular of which Matmata, located on the sandy plateaus Mapshaty resembling lunar landscapes. Here in the land and inhabited by indigenous people of Tunisia - Berbers, sometimes called troglodytes. Their house are built on the following principle: on the hill dug a huge crater multimeter (about 10 meters in diameter and 6 meters in depth) form an inner courtyard. And he hollowed out the required number of residential and business rooms. In addition, prodalblivaetsya tunnel leading to the hill - the main entrance to the housing. Such structures have several advantages: they are well protected from the scorching sun, outside unobtrusive and easy to expand as and when required. Of course, in our time, the Berbers did not live in these homes, they use them as a summer residence and at the same time earn money on it, allowing tourists to view them from within. It is also interesting the fact that here were filmed several episodes of "Star Wars" and the place was called Tataouine even one of the worlds of the film. In one of the Berber villages in the underground restaurant or hotel visitors invited to dinner, a short vacation and tour continues.
The city of Douz and called "Gateway to Africa" ​​and "Key to the Sahara Desert," as it begins the familiar to our understanding of the desert with sand dunes, camel caravans and picturesque oases. The road to it will also pass through the desert, only rocky and mountainous. In Duse tourists stop for the night, so the next day with renewed energy to continue the tour of "Journey into the Sahara."
Early in the morning to put on a special tour offers a stylized clothes (for a fee), then they are seated on camels and caravan to be salt lake Chott el Jerid. It is the largest saltwater lake in North Africa, covering about 5000 square meters. km and a length of 200 km, which in summer is almost completely dried up and turns into a white salt layer, on its strength similar to asphalt. At a depth of more than 1 meter can be found here, "Rose of the desert" - a unique crystal, formed from sand and salt, which can be purchased immediately erected the souvenir shops. Chott el Jerid is also famous for its mirages, which gives visitors admiring a lot of fun. Strangely enough, but the salty lake shores are rich in numerous springs, through which here in large numbers grow date palms, forming oases. At one of the shores of the lake and is the town of Tozeur - an oasis, with more than 300 000 fruit-bearing palm trees.
The city of Kairouan,
as mentioned above, this is the fourth holy city of the Muslim world (the first three - it's Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem). It is believed that a sevenfold pilgrimage here can replace one pilgrimage to Mecca. Kairouan is famous for its numerous mosques open to the public, the sacred source of Bir Barruta and carpet manufacturing. Carpet - is a sort of local souvenirs for a lot of money. But they certainly are beautiful, all handmade and completely out of natural materials. As they say, local artisans, a guarantee on their carpets for 300 years!
Depending on the tour organizer "Journey to the Sahara" can be slightly modified. It may include a trip on date plantations in the horse-drawn carts, visiting a few oases, jeep safari to the border with Algeria, Tunisia, on the mountain canyons and some other activities. But in any case, this tour will be long in the memory of every tourist as one of the most vivid impressions of Tunisia.