South Africa has long been a popular tourist destination, alluring visitors with an exotic blend of thundering African drums, wild animals roaming natural reserves, small tranquil towns and big modern cities.
The hot interior of South Africa offers thermals on which many paragliders have made record-breaking distance flights, particularly in the northern Cape.
LONDON: Every vitamin devotee everywhere will be outraged. Anyone who has ever pondered the life-enhancing claims on the seductive tubs of supplements lining the shelves of the pharmacists must be doing a double take. According to a group of scientists, some should come with a health warning: These supplements could shorten your life.
On my first afternoon in China, I sat in a small shack around the Fourth East Ring Road of Beijing and devoured my first plate of jiaozi dumplings, smacking my lips from the combination of salty soy sauce and tangy vinegar as it mingled with the fragrant pork filling. Anyway, I've pretty much been sold on Chinese vinegar ever since.
HAMBURG, Germany: Just like busy executives who work 14-hour days, birds take "power naps" to keep their senses alert for predators, according to German researchers.
More than 160 performers, a three-level traditional Chinese block-bracket structure, Peking Opera, acrobatics, martial arts, ballet, choir and videos are all packed into the National Theater of China's latest production, Heavenly Dynasty 1900.
When Jacques-Louis David's oil painting, Premiere Consul Bonaparte at Mont Saint-Bernard, Alpes, on May 20, 1800, was first included in the masterpieces from Versailles at the National Art Museum of China in 2005, it generated great interest among ordinary Chinese about Napoleon Bonaparte. Before that, the French hero was just a name that embodied power and majesty and a chapter in the history textbooks.
Napoleon et le Louvre also inaugurated the third Croisements/Jiaoliu, an art festival which includes more than 100 visual and stage works in 18 Chinese cities. The other exhibitions are:
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