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Paris Las Vegas 1

Paris Las Vegas

It’s Vegas week here at Tripandom and we thought we’d start with one of our favorites the Paris casino situated on the Las Vegas Strip. The casino features a 5/8ths scale replica of the Eiffel Tower (they...

The Southern Star wheel 0

The Southern Star wheel

[youtube bsIU2HmOztk] The Southern Star is a new observation wheel that has recently opened in Melbourne’s Docklands. The 120-metre high revolving structure rotates at 11 metres per minute and is the only observation wheel in...

The Golden Gumboot 1

The Golden Gumboot

The Golden Gumboot is a large boot shaped tourist attraction in the town of Tully in Queensland. Tully sits between Cairns and Townsville, so its right in the Australia’s tropics, hence the reason for the gumboot as...

Great balls of fire! 0

Great balls of fire!

  Crown Casino in Melbourne is Australia’s largest entertainment precinct being home to the one of the world’s biggest gaming facilities, the city’s best restaurants, clubs, bars and exclusive shopping. Another huge attraction is...

The Air Bar 0

The Air Bar

[youtube NifEyqJ8QLg] Some of our regular readers may remember the floating dining table we featured a few months back, well its coming to down under thanks to Mc Kenna Bourbon. Now known as the McKenna...

Airlie Beach on the magnificent Whitsundays 0

Airlie Beach on the magnificent Whitsundays

Airlie Beach in Far North Queensland is the gateway to the magnificent Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef. Airley Beach is a town of about 3000 and growing rapidly with some of the...

A Titanic of a museum 0

A Titanic of a museum

[youtube VrJ0Jmn56qE] There is no shipwreck more popular than the Titanic so its only fitting there are a few museums that are devoted to the ship that would be nearly 100 years old today....

Tasmania, it is part of Australia 0

Tasmania, it is part of Australia

[youtube _DbW9PmpCH4] Tasmania is a pretty cool place that the rest of Australia often forget about especially when drawing a map of the country, often annoying the Tasmanians, Recently Tasmania has fought back with...

Carp Castle- Hiroshima 0

Carp Castle- Hiroshima

The Hiroshima Castle which is now sometimes fondly called the Carp Castle dates back to the 1590’s but was rebuilt after the atomic attack of 1945 in 1958 and today serves mainly as a...

Ueno Park 0

Ueno Park

Ueno Park is one of the larger parks in Tokyo and home to many of Tokyo’s cultural attractions including the Ueno zoo, Tokyo National Museum, National Science Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The centre...