5 Remarkable Destinations For Your Next Holiday

[Music] have you booked a summer holiday yet need some inspiration to kick off the summer we're revisiting the relaxing treacherous mysterious adorable freezing and just downright remarkable here are some of our great big stories to help you pick your next summer [Music] destination okinoshima island is a short 12-minute fery ride from Hiroshima region of Japan while the Sandy and palm line beaches are perfect for Holiday makers the draws crowds for a different reason rabbits lots of them and how they got there is a [Music] mystery between 1929 and 1945 the Japanese Army secretly produced over 6,000 tons of poison gas on okinoshima island some believe the current rabbits are descendants of those brought to the island to test the gas but the current director of the poison gas Museum insists these bunnies have nothing to do with those from the World War II era so where do they come [Music] from one [Music] Theory so those rabbits were released and with no real Predators they bred like well like rabbits and yet another theory either way this new generation of feral rabbits has the run of the land and they're creating a new story separate from the sorted past of okinoshima Island an island once known for death is now known for possibly the cutest thing ever bunnies every second day I go to sa I go to sauna once or twice a week I try to do sauna baiting every day I have four saas I am going to Sal three sometimes four times a week in most parts of the world saunas are considered a luxury but in some parts of lap land a region that stretches across northern Europe saunas are as common as street signs you can pretty much find a sauna anywhere like in this small town or in this person's backyard or in the middle of the woods or even near a [Music] river we have a cold climate so it's nice to have something warm to get into and get warm to the bones the Sona culture here is really quite unique if you build a new house you start with a sauna and you build the house around the SAS people in Finland own more saunas per capita than anywhere else in the world there are 2 million saas here or about one per household but some homes have even more than that and in this region people aren't just building houses around saunas there's even a sauna Academy and a sauna Museum here in our culture sauna was a clean room it's a good place to get birth to Children the first SAS that we have is from the 1200 century when we had FLW and you felt not so good they always said go to the SAA people said that saai is the poor man's Pharmacy the old saai is where you heat the stones and when the stones get hot you can put water on the stones and then comes the nice Steam for me the SAA process like a small ritual it should be like ice hocky game at least to three periods so you start going to the sauna have some heat and they go outside take some fresh air maybe roll in the snow then you go into the relax room you eat something and sit and talk there time for the second period in again eat drink and so on you should take your time in the SAA but that's not all in lap land sonas are used as a sign of hospitality and to discuss political matters there's a thing called Sona diplomacy because we have a lot of sonas we used SAA for speaking and discuss problems and decided how to go forwards Finland used SAA diplomacy the president saved Finland from Russia you know he took off the clothes of the Russian generals and took them into the sonas it was two men talking to each other there were no medals or anything they were just sitting there and talk and it's Sona diplomacy you know the Sona is like event is the place where you have the discussions about family matters if something's going on we talk about it in the Sona anything goes in the SAA if you don't have a SAA what should you do if I didn't have a SAA it's Unthinkable uh I don't know was I don't [Music] know I feel hotter already what's next perhaps a village in China might tickle your fancy [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for for [Music] [Music] fancy Cruise next well how about somewh with no roads at [Music] all today's Journey takes us to the Dutch town of Geor Geor is just like any normal town with one exception roads they don't have them [Music] [Music] local now here Ander [Music] and boats lots of [Music] boats that's Yan one of the town's resident boat Builders he's known for punters a flat bottom boat that originated in and where there are boats there are bridges 167 to be exact and just like any Town people need their groceries their furniture their beer you name it but in Gorn they must pass through Anton he's the town's Bridge [Music] guard one of those boats is the fireboat this is Bart and Eric [Music] for and this is Yan he's in charge of maintaining the natural lands around Geor [Music] noal so there you have it the residents of gor Pro that a life without asphalt traffic and trips to the DMV can be pretty damn great roads who needs them bye gor lastly how about some danger to spice up your holiday okay just watch 3 2 1 this is Thailand's Mong Market about an hour south of Bangkok every day beginning at 6:20 in the morning a train runs through melong Railway Market one of the largest produce and seafood markets in Thailand through the Stalls selling fruit ice cream fish through everything and if you're wondering which came first the market of the train the answer is the market the Mong Railway built a commuter train to Bangkok back in 1905 the track they laid ran right through the middle of this Market which had been around for decades rather than moving the vendor stayed put adjusting their business to the train times eight times a day 7 days a [Music] week for this system has been perfected over the years with produce just inches from the Train's Wheels toward and vendors wait as a train passes through then everything goes back to normal or at least as normal as an active train line Market can be

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Fri May 24 2024