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Argentina – Tierra del Fuego and Los Cauquenes Resort and Spa

 

 

Argentina is an amazing country to visit, and even more so is Tierra del Fuego, one of its provinces. Tierra del Fuego is divided into four departments: Rio Grande Department, Ushuaia Department, Antártida Argentina Department and Islas del Atlántico Sur Department. All four are worth a visit, you just have to choose the one you prefer or, if you have time, visit them all if you like!

 

Here’s a list of top 5 things to do in Tierra del Fuego:

  • Harberton, Argentina

Enjoy a walk into Harberton Forest, part of the gorgeous Magellanic subpolar. It’s an adventure you should not miss!

 

  • Parque National Tierra del Fuego

Go hiking in the first coastal national park where the vegetation is florid and the fauna is rich of animals you may have never seen before as condors and cormorants!

In autumn the colours are spectacular: the hillsides and the trees glow red and it is a unique panorama. The public has access to a couple of thousand hectares only, as the rest of the park is a protected area, a reserva natural estricta.

  • Museo Acatushún

 

Created by Natalie Prosser Goodall, a biologist from North America, the museum hosts an impressive number of species. It emphasizes the mammals typical of the region and, among the rarest, you’ll be able to see Hector’s beaked whale. This collection was made up with animals found stranded at Bahía San Sebastián, north of Río Grande: a difference of up to 11km between low and high tide unfortunately leaves animals dead.

  • Glaciar Martial

Reach the Glaciar Martial after a good hike, from which you’ll be able to enjoy views of Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel. The panorama is impressive, even more than the actual glacier. If you don’t feel like having a good walk, catch up a taxi to get to the glacier.

  • The Beagle Channel

Go on a catamaran cruise through the Beagle Channel, visiting the isles and admiring the amazing flora and fauna you’ll find there! Hopefully, you’ll be able to see penguins and sea lions too! Each island is full of history facts and stories to discover while sealing: it’s a great way to spend a memorable day!

 

Each tour mentioned is guided: check the services provided, especially if you’re going to visit the Beagle Channel on a catamaran!

If you are looking for a place to stay and you’re willing to experience a totally relaxing and classy hotel, then head for Los Cauquenes Resort and Spa. Located in Ushuaia Department, this hotel is the perfect place to spend some quality time, enjoying the amazing Tierra del Fuego.

The Resort has a countless number of options to make you feel in a piece of Paradise.

Don’t feel like going out on a hiking day? Enjoy the Spa of the hotel, that offers more than 24 types of treatments and massages made with natural products. Or take a dip in the half indoor, half outdoor swimming pool, from which you can also admire the landscape surrounding you.

If you feel like exercising, there is always the gym, where you can do your workout overlooking the Beagle Channel, surely a unique experience.

Los Cauquenes offers also some great locations and settings for your dinners and the staff will take care of everything while your event is taking place perfectly and charming.

What makes this hotel special is the number of Experiences it organizes. The variety is so huge and you’ll be spoilt for choice: from a Lapataia Expedition to a Dinner Aboard the Akawaia, you’ll be able to choose what suits you better and enjoy a really relaxing and entertaining holiday.

Los Cauquenes has been consecutively appointed by Tripadvisor “Travelers’ choice 2015” and “Travelers’ choice 2016” and Tripadvisor user define it a luxury hotel, where the service is on point and where you can benefit from an amazing view that makes your staying even better. The location of the hotel allows you to enjoy some peace and quiet and to feel connected to nature, anyway the shuttle service to the town is organized by the hotel and it is included in your stay.

Going to The End of the World, as this part of Argentina is called, it’s already worth it: Los Cauquenes Resort and Spa is the perfect cherry on top of your amazing holiday.

Lamborghini’s $6,000 Cellphone – Tonino Smartphone TL 88 TAURI SS

The impressive price tag of Lamborghini Touchscreen DualSIM smartphone comes with a stylish and unique design.

 

Here is a quick rundown of the specs:

  • 5″ Full HD Touchscreen
  • 20MP Back camera, Dual LED-Flash, Face recognition
  • 8MP Front facing camera
  • DualSIM
  • Silver steel body
  • Black leather back
  • Android 4.4 KitKat OS
  • 2.3 GHz Quadcore Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor
  • 3400mAh non swap-able

The new Tonino Lamborghini 88 Tauri smartphone is a unique device: the stainless steel body is available in black, gold and natural silver steel is embellished with leather finishes in different colors, black, blue, brown, red and orange. The special feature that makes the smartphone 88 Tauri a unique experience is the Dual SIM Dual Active functionality, enabled by the Snapdragon processor 801. For the first time in a premium class device, the user can use two SIM cards simultaneously with two different numbers and can also receive notifications from both without changing the settings (both in 3G networks and 4G). The 5” display is full HD, bringing photos and videos to life in crystal clear detail, while the screen is also perfect for working with documents and emails. A 2.3 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 3GB RAM running Android’s 4.4 KitKat OS opens new horizons for smartphone use, giving the 88 Tauri lightning-fast performance.

The 88 Tauri has two cameras – an 8 megapixel front-facing and a 20 megapixel main lens with autofocus, dual LED-flash, face recognition and white balance correction to makes pictures sharper and prevents color distortion. The battery capacity is one of the best on the market at 3400mAh, providing 35 hours of calls over 3G and more than 1,000 hours in standby mode. All panel parts are hand made with of 0,5mm thick leather. The device consists of 19 components, each made separately of stainless steel and colored using the Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) process, ensuring superior resistance to abrasion and wear-and-tear. LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION. Each 88 Tauri smartphone also comes with a special edition of premium Tonino Lamborghini Quantum series ML-01 earphones. The earpieces have an original design and a high-quality 8mm device with TFAT technology, delivering an expressive vocal range, with rich treble and booming bass. 88 Tauri has been manufacture in only 1,947 pieces of each variant. This number was chosen to honor the year of birth of the company’s founder – Mr. Tonino Lamborghini.

Hublot’s New Beijing Store and the Bruce Lee Foundation

Hublot commemorate its terrific opening of its Boutique in SKP Beijing. The Swiss watch brand transcendent coordinated effort with Bruce Lee Foundation. “Be Water, My Friend—the Legend of Bruce Lee Memorial Exhibition”.

The Swiss extravagance watch brand HUBLOT held a stupendous opening function on March 1st, 2016 to commend its new SKP Beijing boutique. Situated inside the top of the line business space in Beijing, SKP, the boutique epitomizes another breakthrough for HUBLOT in the Chinese market. Simultaneously, the watch brand holds hands at the end of the day with the Bruce Lee Foundation to hold the “Be Water, My Friend-Legend of Bruce Lee Memorial Exhibition” from the 1st to 6th of March 2016 in Beijing SKP. The Bruce Lee ideological themed presentation shows valuable items that Bruce Lee himself once owned, and additionally an assortment of HUBLOT limited release timepieces. Loic Biver, General Manager of Hublot Greater China, together with Shannon Lee, organizer and director of the Bruce Lee Foundation and Bruce Lee’s daughter, introduced the new store, and inaugurated the Spirit of Big Bang Bruce Lee Be Water Limited Edition as a tribute to the Kung Fu legend.

HUBLOT SKP Beijing boutique holds fast to the brand-particular recognized dark shading, and its outline idea joins extravagance with development, making an exclusive and elite client experience. Inside the store, the dark rug and the dark calfskin furniture accentuated with the glass and metal counters make a contemporary sensational experience. A touch of unobtrusive logical  modular and mechanical components is included and displayed in the window showroom, telling the great story of the brand that associates its past with the future, with the special projections on a book with light and shadows. Huge explosion, Classic Fusion, King Power, Manufacture Pieces and innovation are all shown together, highlighting the brand’s substance of watchmaking and present day outline.

For the Be Water My Friend- – the legend of Bruce Lee Memorial Exhibition, HUBLOT welcomed the Bruce Lee Foundation to show valuable things from Bruce Lee’s own life, and took an interest in the presentation plan. Supporting “the Art of Fusion,” Loic Biver said, “As a symbol of the twentieth century and the most famous Kung Fu star ever, Bruce Lee encapsulates the genuine ‘craft of combination’ of East-West culture. Taking after the Bruce Lee 75th commemoration Memorial Exhibition held in Hong Kong, HUBLOT is regarded to hold hands with Bruce Lee Foundation again to hold a dedication presentation in China, here in Beijing and discharge the second restricted version timepiece, as a tribute to this unbelievable symbol. ”

Shannon Lee said: as a philanthropic association, the Bruce Lee Foundation moves certainty and spurs activity through the message of Bruce Lee. We are thankful to have the chance to take an interest in this show in a joint effort with Hublot to advance our organization. I anticipate imparting my dad’s soul and spirit to the general population of Beijing. The way to eternity is first carrying on with an existence worth recollecting, and I express gratitude toward Hublot for deifying the soul of my dad inside of this delightful timepiece while additionally supporting the Bruce Lee Foundation!

The presentation shows individual items owned by Bruce Lee. They incorporate a Tang-style Kung Fu coat that conveys the combative technique soul of Bruce Lee, an original duplicate of the “Method for the Dragon” script, a reproduction of the life mask of Kato in “The Green Hornet”, and the business card for the Bruce Lee Martial Arts Studio established by Bruce Lee.

 

Moreover, because of its imaginative methodology, visitors can encounter the ‘Bruce Lee Mirror”, a barrel shaped glass photograph highlighting Bruce Lee’s exemplary kung fu stances. Made of glass parts, it plays on 3D embellishments, coordinating the Hublot Unico In-House chronograph motion development and Bruce Lee in the same time and space. There is likewise a showcase of the most illustrative exemplary photographs of Bruce Lee chosen by the Foundation. Hublot embraces the ultramodern outline to exhibit the watch pictures in six outer showcases, symbolizing the legacy of Bruce Lee’s soul and his famous martial arts ideology.

 

Why Bruce Lee? According to Hublot

As the most compelling legend and genius, Bruce Lee was the epitome of union of East and West. As a pioneer, he was the principal Chinese martial artist that elevated Chinese Kung Fu to the world. He was dynamic his whole life in East-West social perception correspondence. Following the time when its foundation in Nyon,Switzerland 1980, HUBLOT has dependably been pushing ahead as an earth shattering pioneer, getting through customary ideas, intensely joining convention with innovation, interfacing the past with the future and making numerous “Firsts”.

Bruce Lee first softened the conventional groups of the universe of combative arts and techniques, intensely consolidated Taoist rationality from the East with Wing Chun, Western boxing, Karate and Taekwondo to make Jeet Kune Do, which is precisely the “Craft of Fusion” that HUBLOT-epitomizes. With the blend of a characteristically elastic strap and gorgeous metal materials, Hublot introduces a new era of  time keeping technological advancement. From that point forward, every combination of material, East and West, will create shocking achievements and advancements.

Bruce Lee’s legacy is not constrained in hand to hand fighting, but rather additionally theory and ideas. This is one reason why word wide, Bruce Lee is still regarded as a martial arts master-craftsman and innovator. Bruce Lee clarified the Jeet Kune Do theory that he had made as a procedure of investigation, self-revelation and the development of a spirit. Hublot has confidence in the organic powers that originate from the vitality of the universe. The production of Big Bang watches was conceived from absolutely this thought. In investigating the combination idea in the union of minerals and phytochemicals, Hublot concentrated on time, exploring watchmaking theories. The specialty of combination does not just happen in the above two regions, the combination of sky and the earth, the combination of convention and advancement likewise happen constantly.

The Limited Edition SPIRIT OF BIG BANG BRUCE LEE BE WATER 

Motivated by the winged serpent design on Bruce Lee’s work area, this tribute has the soul of the fighting legend and the unadulterated DNA of Hublot. A restricted release of 100 pieces, highlighting a tonneau case taking all things together dark microblasted earthenware. The timepiece is fitted with HUB4700 – a programmed winding mechanism showing its skeleton development with a 50-hour power save. The date show window is at 4:30 and the chronograph shows seconds at 9 o’clock, minutes at 3 o’clock and hours at 6 o’clock. Reviewing Bruce Lee’s theory of water, the strap is made of blue croc cowhide sewn on common elastic.

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