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I have already shown you ”the world” in Dubaï. Hera are two other strange future man-made islands.

First of all, Zoran Island. Mr Gulu Lalvani, developer of the Royal Phuket Marina in Phuket, Thailand, has his eye set on a new project - Zoran, a man-made island located off the Phuket shoreline. Lalvani told local press that Bill Gates and his 54-meter yacht.provided the inspiration for this island. Phuket lacks a marina that can handle superyachts, a significant failing in light of the increasing number of super-rich tourists such as Bill Gates coming to this area. An Australian consulting firm has been hired to survey the proposed project site, which Lalvani named after his youngest son. Plans are developing for a hotel, luxury villas and berths for superyachts. So, if you have a hankering for such a place, then keep an eye on this future project.

Reef Island. You don’t need to wait until 2010 to invest in Reef Island. This man-made island paradise is gathering momentum as a flux of Bahraini and European investors have rushed to book up to over half the proposed housing units to date. Previously known as Lulu Island, this reclamation project is being built as a joint venture between the Bahrain government and the Bahrain-based Mouawad Group Real Estate Development Company off the coast of Al Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The development was designed by Australian-based Spowers and Pentago, and it is designed in the shape of the number nine. This freehold development project’s land reclamation is complete, and it covers an area of 6.23 million square feet. Construction has begun on approximately 1,200 condominiums, 65 villas and 49 beach fronted homes. Future plans include a 250-room five-star hotel, marina and yacht club, an aquarium, a well care center, a shopping mall, and a multi-function exhibition center.

thanks to Brian

The Road of the mimosa, the olive-tree in Provence, the Da Vinci Code circuit in Paris, … all the sets of themes are welcomed to make discover the most remarkable sites of the cities. And this week, a plan of Naples, indexing the murders made by the local Mafia, are distributed in the streets of the Italian city. Are you ready to follow the guide?

The tourist resources are sometimes infinite… Naples, the city which was illustrated with the beginning of the year for its crisis of the refuse, is again pointed out. With a plan indexing the murders made in the city by Camorra, local the Maffia. The gutter is not left. The objective of the students in art who worked out is “to denounce the influence of the Maffia on the city”.

Of course…. They could have imagined a road of the godfather’s houses or a walk on the spot financed by the underworld…, but it will be a circuit of the impacts of balls and other pools of blood. “The goal is to draw the attention of the tourists to the fact that Naples is not only one town of beautiful monuments but also a capital of criminality”. Oh yeah? they didn’t know? From there to follow the guide, there is a true margin. Would you cross it?

posted by nicolas nys for tourismtobe