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Snapshot: Stepping into Middle-Earth
Any Lord of the Rings fan would be ecstatic to know that a Hobbit-style bar called the Green Dragon Pub has opened in Hobbiton, near Matamata, where the LOTR films were shot.
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Snapshot: The view from the Top
Bright lights, bustling traffic and faint sirens of police cars. These are the sights and sounds that greet you at the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building. At midnight.
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Snapshot: Along the Great Ocean Road
The thrill of The Great Ocean Road is not just about the 12 Apostles and its nearby attractions. It’s about being alongside the ocean, to ride along the waves that crash in from an endless blanket of glittering blue-green sea that blends into baby blue skies.
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Snapshot: A Goliath of a Drop
It’s definitely not for the faint-hearted. At a 255-foot (78m) drop, The Goliath held briefly the world record for the longest and fastest (85 mph) opening drop on a closed-circuit roller coaster in 2000.
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Snapshot: World of Color
It’s a spellbinding symphony of light, color, sound and water. Scenes from Disney favourites like The Little Mermaid, Bambi, Finding Nemo, The Lion King, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and even Pirates of the Caribbean spring into life amidst jets of water, rays of light and audio/ visual effects.
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Snapshot: The East Side Gallery
Any visit to Berlin would not be completed without a pilgrimage to the Berlin Wall. The East Side Gallery, a 1.3km stretch of the wall located near the centre of Berlin, at Mühlenstraß, now stands as an international memorial of freedom.
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Snapshot: The Mozartsteg
This is the Mozartsteg, an Art Nouveau Bridge in the heart of Salzburg city in Austria, above the Salzach River, closing the gap between the Imbergstraße/ Steingasse and Rodolfskai/ Mozartplatz Square.
