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Dam Square The real core of the city is Dam square with its beautiful Royal Palace. Most visitors arrive by train and the route they follow from Centraal Station takes them along the Damrak and Dam square. This area focuses much on tourism. All kinds of souvenir shops, street performers and restaurants can be found here. The square is used for events and concerts and is famous because of the many pigeons. The two main shopping streets in Amsterdam, Kalverstraat and Nieuwendijk, are located in this area.

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The Netherlands is well known for its windmills of days past and of course tulips that travel the globe with their bright colors. Traveling the country, you cannot pass a trip to the wonderful gardens that abound especially during spring when they bloom in all shapes and sizes. Take a bike ride around the colorful gardens or take a tour of the gardens as you marvel at their diversity and natural beauty. During the spring time around Mid-April is the best time to go on the Flower Bulb Route trip(which is estimated to be around 30 kilometers long and passes Keukenhof), which can be purchased from the Tourist Information Office in Lisse. Several such routes are setup by the tourism industry to showcase the beauty and diversity of the landscape as well as being environmentally firendly without using cars. Bicycles are also the favored mode of transport of the locals to and from the fields so as they say, “when in Rome, do what the Romans do” or in this case, the Dutch.

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What a crazy, complex and amazing city. Amsterdam has become one of Europe’s hottest destinations. Why? Because it just doesn’t fit the stereotypical European destination. Yes, it has fantastic sites but you can see much of what Amsterdam has to offer during a single trip. Another reason why this city is becoming a favorite is because it has transformed its once seedy Red Light District. True, you may still need to shield your eyes but there are areas that provide fantastic dining. Like we said – Amsterdam is crazy, complex and amazing. See what else Amsterdam has to offer with the HotelsByCity Amsterdam travel guide.

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Mainly of Alaska’s glaciers are retreating or thinning or mutually, a new book by the U.S. Geological Survey news.

About 5 percent of Alaska’s area is enclosed by more than 100,000 glaciers — that’s about 29,000 square miles (75,000 square kilometers), or more than the entire state of West Virginia.

While a few of Alaska’s large glaciers are advancing, 99 percent are receding, the book, “Glaciers in Alaska,” states. The book was written by USGS examine geologist Bruce Molina.

A USGS project to take pictures of the glaciers of Montana’s Glacier National Park also showed significant retreat. Based on these photos and glacier recession rates, scientists envisaged the park could lose its namesakes by 2030.

Greenland, which is covered by more ice than somewhere else in the world outside Antarctica, has also seen significant melt of its glaciers in recent decades.

The new book on Alaska’s glaciers used satellite images, aerial photos, maps and other studies to document the retreat of the glaciers, which began as early as the mid-19th century. Some glaciers have even disappeared since being mapped in the mid-20th century, the report found.

The account also said that glaciers in Alaska saw “important retreat” in the last two decades of the 20th century.