A Miraculous Survival of Tree in the Desert of Bahrain

The Tree of Life or Shajarat-al-Hayat in Bahrain is a astonishing tree. The tree is situated 10 kilometer from Askar and 3.5 kilometer west from Jaww. This 32-feet tall Prosopis cineraria has been making a seemingly not possible living out of dry sand for roughly 400 years. This dry land has no apparent source of water and other vegetation for miles around. The secrecy of the survival of the tree has made it a legend.

Most members of Prosopis genus are native to America and they have common name mesquites. Prosopis cineraria though are native to Asia. These trees are famous to adapt extremely well to dry deserts and thrive in arid conditions, with rainfall as low as 150mm annually. But they have profound root systems sometimes going up to 50 meters down gifted of reaching deep beds of underground water. The secrecy status of the tree life in Bahrain is somewhat overstated. The ground, where the tree grows, is just some 9-12 m above the sea level and groundwater level in this location is higher than the sea level. Not too far from the tree are seen ponds with water.

The conditions are also often is humid and mesquite is well adapted to gain the moisture from the air as well. Closer inspection of the area shows other trees nearby. One smaller tree grows some 850 meters to the north from the Tree of Life. A local story tells that Tree of Life was planted here in 1583. The tree survived up to this day. The Tree looks very healthy and has fresh, green leaves, and it grows on a small sand hill looking magnificent in the harsh desert and is visible from far away. This tree is major local tourist attraction, as it is the only foremost tree growing in the area. The tree place is visited by about 50,000 tourists every year and the tree often is damaged by graffiti carvings. In recent times, an iron fence has been put around to protect the tree from vandals.

Floating Golf Course at Luxury Coeur d'Alene Resort

It began with an impulsive flash of inspiration, when in 1991, the first ball was struck onto the floating green on the 14th, and Duane Hagadone's vision was on its way to becoming one of the best-loved icons in golf. The Coeur d'Alene Resort is a luxury resort hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States situated on the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, the Coeur d Alene Resort is well-known for its amazing 18-hole golf course, a piece of which is perched on a movable artificial island is the middle of a lake. Coeur d’Alene’s celebrated 14th hole is situated on a boat and it well moves around Lake Coeur d’Alene, never to stay in one place for more than a day. The surroundings here are hard to beat, with the sights of Lake Coeur d’Alene, the Famous Floating Green and the gorgeous Resort Golf Course grounds. You can arrive by car, boat or Coeur d’Alene Resort shuttle. It is built on a barge on submerged tracks; the green is moved daily by computer. Hitting the turf is tricky since the distance keeps varying. Water taxis transport golfers to and from the hole. The golf course is simply the best, and nothing is spared to deliver the ultimate golfing experience. It is best known America’s most beautiful Resort Golf Course by Golf Digest. If you’re a golfer, then you can reach its meticulously manicured fairways with a ride in a sleek mahogany boat, and that's just for starters. With the attention of your personal forecaddie, the comfort of your luxury custom cart, gorgeous lake views on every hole, and every item expertly attended to, you're in for the golf game of your life.This luxury golf course and floating green is designed by Scott Miller, and the course opened for play in 1991. It has since been ranked between the best resort golf courses in the USA by Golf Digest, Golf Magazine and others. The award-winning round comprises a wooden boat ride from The Coeur d’Alene Resort, over-the-water driving range, personal forecaddie, custom golf cart and plenty of incredible views.

Amazing: Goats Climbs Argan Tree in Search of Food

This happened in Morocco, Goats climbed Argan tree in search of food. It's hard to believe that animals with hooves could be so adept at climbing but these images are 100% real. Food is fairly sparse in this region, so they have to grab it when they can even if it's high up in a tree! The secret to their ability to climb lies in the shape of their hooves. The keratin reinforced hoof wall adds strength, while the soft textured sole provides traction and grip. It's also capable of deforming inwards to counter irregularities in the terrain. Their toes are capable of operating independently giving them more of a "grip". These hooves evolved to permits the goats to climb rocky, mountainous areas but they have shifted ecosystems to the trees! I'd like to add one more interesting fact: Actually the poo (droppings) of this goats contains grain seeds that locals are used to press and grind into oil. This oil has many uses including culinary and cosmetic, and even if maybe this sounds disturbingly for you and you might want to skip over the versions sold by locals for something more known, i'd like to inform you that quarter-liter of this product costs from 15 to 50 USD.

World's Most Scariest Runways

Arriving at any international air terminal is rarely a memorable occasion. All the more reason to book a flight touching down at one of these hairy or awesome air strips.

11. Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten, Caribbean

Vacationers flock to the Caribbean for a laid-back vacation. But arriving at the region's airports can have the opposite effect the compact, rugged nature of many of the islands forces runways to be built in inventive locations. Maybe everything sense all the more serene after landing. On St. Maarten, Princess Juliana Airport named after Dutch royalty has people gnawing their fingernails in the air and on the ground whenever a plane lands. The runway begins just meters from the edge of the ocean, with aircraft coming in almost low enough over the beach to spike a volleyball set. Princess Juliana airport was started as a military airstrip in 1942, but converted to a civilian airport in 1943. In 1964 the airport was remodeled and relocated, with a new terminal building and control tower. Airport facilities were upgraded in 1985 and 2001. The airport is probably best known for very low-altitude flyover landing approaches due to one end of its runway being extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach.

Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten, Caribbean

10. Courchevel Altiport, France

Not like Caribbean-bound passengers, skiers and snowboarders touching down at Courchevel are typically geared up for an adrenaline fix. They would better be. In winter, the tarmac air strip at the French resort's altiport, over 2,000 meters above sea level, is often the only thing not covered in snow. Aircraft fly in through a channel between mountains, landing on a short, steeply sloping runway, complete with vertical drop off, that could almost double as a ski jump. The sight is so spectacular, and it was special featured as a stunt location in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies."

Courchevel Altiport, France

Courchevel Altiport, France

09. Matekane Air Strip, Lesotho

There's modest chance of extending this runway very far it ends suddenly at the edge of a 600-meter drop. Only light aircraft make use of the airstrip on this isolated tabletop plateau in the tiny southern African kingdom. Planes sometimes fail to ascend at the end of the runway, conjuring images of a Wile E. Coyote hover and fall before, thankfully, achieving flying speed and soaring away.

Matekane Air Strip, Lesotho

08. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba, Caribbean

Rivaling St. Maarten for Caribbean airport excitement, Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, on the island of Saba, has one of the world's shortest landing strips, wedged on a rocky outcrop at the foot of a mountain and with the finish of the tarmac plunging into the sea; touchdown melodramatic experience here.

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba, Caribbean

07. Gibraltar International Airport

You just hope that your pilot has landed at Gibraltar before flying toward an enormous limestone monolith on a landing approach is never easy on the nerves, but in the 6.2-square-kilometer British overseas territory of Gibraltar there's nowhere else to put an airport except in the shadow of the Rock. In adequate apace on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula that the runway bisects the territory's main highway. As aircraft get priority over automobiles in the vehicular pecking order, most amazingly the road is closed every time a plane takes off or arrives.

Gibraltar International Airport

06. Barra International Airport, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Where else in the world can you pick cockles on a runway? Rather than think about where to build a tarmac airstrip when you are limited of space, the Outer Hebridean island of Barra took a different approach it didn't bother with one. Pilots wait until the tide is out and then land on the beach reportedly the only airport in the world where scheduled flights touch down on sand. In between flights to and from Glasgow, the public have open access to the beach-runway.

Barra International Airport, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

05. Paro Airport Bhutan’s

Bhutan's Paro Airport deserves an award for beautiful airport surroundings. If there were awards for remote airways surrounded by remarkable scenery, the Himalayas would be filling a shelf. In pride of place might stand the only international airport in the mountainous kingdom of Bhutan Descending into a slender, high-altitude bowl amid 6,000-meter peaks, pilots who have to be particularly trained to land this difficult airport bank their jets in a sharp right turn before swooping in low over farm houses?

Paro Airport Bhutan’s

Paro Airport Bhutan’s

04. Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan

Landing on an aircraft carrier seems thrilling, but you usually have to link the armed services to do it. You may familiarity a good second best at Japan's Kansai International Airport, where the 2 runways appear to float on the water way out in Osaka Bay. Actually positioned on a purpose-built artificial island, to minimize noise pollution for city residents, the runways are in fact sizeable affairs both over 3 KM long and connected to the mainland by a four-kilometer bridge. But from the air, this is the best way to get that "Top Gun" feeling on a commercial carrier.

Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan

Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan

03. Harstad Airport/Narvik, Norway

On the approach to Harstad/Narvik Airport in the region of Evenes, planes skirt through fjord-land, over frozen lakes and between snow-covered mountains. Arriving at the settlement of Hammerfest, in the country's extreme northeast, feels like touching down on an ice rink at certain times of the year. Atlantic turbulence and a runway extended on stilts make for a touchy touchdown in Madeira.

Harstad Airport/Narvik, Norway

02. Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal

Madeira's international airport seems as if it's been cheating in a tricky-runway competition. Sandwiched among a steep hillside and the sea, its radically short tarmac strip is extended on stilts over the water to make it long enough for a safe touchdown. Throw in incessant Atlantic turbulence and you have got an arrival striking enough to make the calmest passenger reach for the fortified wine.

Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal

Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal

01.   Malé Airport, Maldives

Malé Airport seems a perfect drama, built on its very own atoll, Hulhulé, the runway is a only six feet feet above sea level. After descending over the 26-island Maldives archipelago, undercarriages feel so close to the sea on touchdown it's as if they are skimming along the water.

Malé Airport, Maldives

Opal – World's Most Tremendous Gemstone

Opal is known as one of the most beautiful of gemstones, which can flashes in every color of the spectrum with a intensity that can even exceed that of diamond. The worthless opal stone ranges from clear through white, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, magenta, rose, pink, slate, olive, brown, and black. Of these hues, the reds against black are the rarest, while white and greens are the most frequent. A few rare specimens make dazzling color flashes when turned in the light. For example, a new Opal was unearthed in the Welo district of Ethiopia freshly that took the gem world by storm. Discovered in the Welo Amhara Regional State Highland plateau 2.500 – 3.200 meters above sea level, this novel gemstone looks like a miniature underwater scene from the ocean when held against the light. Opals such as the Welo Opal can command prices per carat that rival the most luxurious diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psychotria Elata or Hooker’s Lips: The Most Kissable Plant

Wow, you might be never seeing this plant in your life, because this is most elegant pair of red, luscious lips belong to a plant well-known as Psychotria elata, a tropical tree found in the rain forests of Central and South American countries like Cost Rica, Colombia, Eucador, and Panama. Lovingly, Psychotria elata is called Hooker’s Lips or the Hot Lips Plants. However; this beautiful plant has apparently evolved into its present shape to be a magnet for pollinators including hummingbirds and butterflies. According to Oddity Central, the bracts are only kissable for a short while, before they spread open to expose the plant’s flowers. So if you wanted to plant this amazing Mother Nature, find yourself a Hot Lips plant and do it while you still can, but make sure the bracts are only kissable for a short time. 

United States Company offering Space Travel of 30 km-high balloon flights

Such a mind-blowing idea of space travel, and you don’t have pocket deep enough, Arizona based space travel company World View Enterprises plans to offer a trip to the edge of space in a luxurious eight-seat capsule for $75,000 per ticket. A balloon trip to space and back might be the somewhat affordable includes three days of training and two and half hour in space. The capsule will be lifted by a high altitude balloon that will go up up to about 98,425 feet or almost 20 miles (30 Kilometers) and stay aloft for two hours before returning back to Earth. That is not as high as Baumgartner's jumping point 128,100 feet or around 39 kilometers last year but much higher than one can usually reach the average altitude for commercial flights is about 9 to 10 KM above ground, or 30,000 to 40,000 feet. So passengers will be in the midst of the few to have seen the curvature of the Earth with their own eyes, can gaze at the astounding views, the blackness of space, the brilliance of stars and the thin veil of atmosphere enveloping our planet. Most interesting the first flight is planned for 2016. Component testing has already begun and sub-scale testing will soon be carried out as well. The space capsule will be build up by Paragon Space Development Corporation, which is developing technology for Inspiration Mars, a 501-day mission around Mars