Tag: tourism

Whistling Trees on Mbanika

These trees have two special features; firstly they have small holes running the length of their hollow trunks and the second is they grow in varying sizes. When the wind blows through the forest the trees act as wind instruments, most closely resembling panpipes, and appear to play music all of their own.

‘Tis the Season to Be Jolly

The local bar always has mistletoe at the ready for puckered lips and town mayor Bud Belson has the cutest white beard this side of the North Pole.

Clockwork Tanks and Pitchforks

Tanks would be used as giant sundials strategically placed across the country, angled to cast the best shadow. These immovable hulks of metal would no longer be weapons of moderate destruction and forever be precise timekeepers, at one with nature.

Around the World in a Day

“Europlane International Aerospace Industries, EIAI, are looking for twenty volunteers to board the XL5 for its maiden 15-stop, 24-hour tour of the world”, announced Brian Moore, CEO.

Leprechauns of Old London Town

Sophie too scoffs when challenged about the authenticity of her stories of living leprechauns. “I am usually alone when I see them,” she says.

Haircut on St Portico’s Peak

Travelling to Strelka-Chunya involves 37 different stops and almost every transportation known to womankind; planes, trains, cars, horse and cart, boat, amphibious lander, helicopter, snowmobile and finally walking (the last 20 miles with snow shoes).

Hollywood: Last Animal Wilderness

We used the remote to scare the elephant by sounding the drone’s siren. Nellie turned and disappeared into the hillside. The drone followed, so at first all we could see was elephantine ass.

Corsican Corsets & Cheese

The milk is left in the sun for about a month until it is rancid. Then it is smoked and churned like butter until a fine vaguely green slop is produced. The slop is divided into 10 smaller containers and taken to nearby caves where it will sit for three years ‘maturing’.

Tomb of St. Frigid

Accounts of the story have about 15 to 20 French peasants marching against the might of the Ottoman Empire. The ‘army’ was wiped out by dysentery before even leaving French soil, adding to the list of Martyrs.

Bridge on the River Kwai

Another less successful entrant was the Sidu River Bridge, which at a height of 1,627 feet collapsed in one fell swoop when a passing Sri Lankan white elephant let one rip. Three people were injured that day. Two from card-crush injuries and one from inhalation of poisonous fumes.

Hooking Armadillo in Peru

A large grub is speared on a fishing hook. This is then lowered into El Misti’s thermal waters. When the ‘fisherman’ feels a small tug, he jerks his hand and the armadillo is trapped on the hook.