Top 10 Bizarre Points of interest

Top 10 Bizarre Points of interest

Journey Picks: High 10 bizarre sights
left
right
Guests toast with their glass full of Beaujolais Nouveau as they soak inside a 'Beaujolais Nouveau bathtub' at a sizzling springs spa resort in Hakone, west of Tokyo, November 15, 2007, to rejoice its launch. REUTERS/Toshi Maeda
1/4
left
right
Customers dine on the Modern Toilet diner in the Shilin district in Taipei November 9, 2007. REUTERS/Nicky Loh
2/four
left
right
A competitor takes half in an annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race close to the Tower of London in a file picture. REUTERS/David Bebber
three/four
left
proper
A decide releases a jarful of cockroaches on the annual cockroach races in Brisbane in a file picture. REUTERS/Handout
four/four
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - For vacationers seeking the outlandish, journey overview website has give you a list of its prime 10 bizarre actions starting from cream fights to cockroach races.
This checklist was compiled by editors at on suggestions from its readers and is not endorsed by Reuters:
1. The Nice Whipped Cream Battle - Olomouc, Czech Republic
Fluff flies during this spotlight of Olomouc's week-long city festival.
"Volunteers are divided into opposing teams and asked to arm themselves with trays of cream. There is a countdown and then the teams rush in the direction of each other. When the teams meet each other in the centre, the cream starts to fly."
2. The Trendy Rest room Restaurant - Taipei, Taiwan
Discover good food for lower than $10 at this Taipei eatery - provided you don't thoughts consuming out of a (duplicate) bathroom bowl.
"Consuming here was a really distinctive dining experience to say the least. You're seated at a bath (your table) surrounded by toilets (your seats). Your food is available in your individual sizzling rest room bowl."
three. Eeyore's Birthday - Austin, Texas
In Austin, adults and youngsters alike use Winnie the Pooh's fictional pal as an excuse to get together.
"Eeyore's Birthday has been celebrated for greater than 40 years right here in Austin. Admission is free and cash raised from the sale of meals, drinks, face-painting, etc. is donated to native non-profits. The celebration is held in Pease Park, close to downtown and accessible from the Shoal Creek hike and bike path."
4. Sourtoe Cocktail - Dawson City, Alaska
Anybody with a powerful stomach can gain entry into the Downtown Lodge's Sourtoe Cocktail Club by sipping a drink containing one of the lodge's preserved human toes. Make it an enormous sip; rules say your lips must touch the salted toe.
"So now I'm a member of an exclusive membership,/Of those who drank a toe that was just a shriveled stub,/And then I promptly left the bar,/To get my toothbrush and mouthwash and proceed to wash!"
5. Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant - Bangkok, Thailand
The restaurant's identify raises eyebrows, but it's all for a good trigger.
"Do not be misled by the restaurant's odd name or delay by the array of contraceptive units on the market. This very popular place raises funds for the Population & Community Development Association, the nation's household-planning program. The complicated is a restaurant, bar, Web cafe, massage store, and gift shop all rolled into one. All diners get a condom with coffee, as a substitute of an after-dinner mint."
6. Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races - London, England
Pancake races have characterized Shrove Tuesday within the UK for hundreds of years; at this one, all you need is a staff and a loopy costume, and you have a shot at stardom.
"As far as I know, the Shoreditch Shrove Tuesday pancake races are as close as London gets to the much-hyped extravaganzas of Rio or New Orleans. In addition, unlike their over-the-prime cousins, you possibly can enjoy a ringside view of the entire event and it's all over in less than half an hour. And you're unlikely to get sunstroke or a hangover."
7. Shot Cafe - Riga, Latvia
Drink a toast to modern Latvia on the lounge where a toilet break brings joy to vacationers.
"Shot Cafe has the very best toilet EVER. It seems an enormous boast to make, but the lavatory here must be seen to be believed. Mood lighting turned the bathroom from a deep blood-crimson to a vibrant inexperienced to a shadowy blue to a piercing white. The bathroom seat was clear perspex inset with gilded barbed wire and razor blades. We fell in love with that rest room."
8. Hakone Kowakien Yunessun Wine Spa - Hakone, Japan
Nurse your self - and your favorite beverage - in a crimson wine pool in the shadow of Mt. Fuji.
"I imagine one would either love or hate the Yunessun Spa with depth. Some might admire the ingenuity of the Japanese in developing such charismatic, uniquely themed spas within the arms of magnificent Hakone surroundings. Others would possibly discover these creations cheesy and contrived."
9. Cafe Gratitude - San Francisco, California
Order a plate of "we're bountiful" (aka crackers and spreads) at the San Francisco eatery that aims to fill your being as much as your abdomen.
"This can be a very, very weird place. I simply cannot get beyond the names of the food. All of them have fake "affirmations" so whenever you get one thing like their large salad you need to say, "I might like the I AM PLENTIFUL." It is perhaps gradual because they should ask you between programs things like, "And what are YOU grateful for in the present day?" You HAVE to answer, depending on the rigidity of the server, before you can get your meals."
10. Cockroach Races - Brisbane, Australia Every Australia Day, Brisbane's Story Bridge Lodge encourages guests to "BYO Roach" for its creepy-crawly cockroach races.
"The bagpipers led the sponsor women onto the racing surface (a bit like a boxing bout) together with the cockroaches, where the MC learn the contestants' names to the group. The names have been very inventive and can't be repeated here."
(Enhancing by Belinda Goldsmith)
SAN FRANCISCO Lottery players checked their Powerball tickets after numbers have been drawn on Wednesday for one of many biggest jackpots - $359 million - in U.S. historical past that grew over the previous couple of weeks as nobody took house the prize.
Vienna Zoo twin panda cubs named Fu Feng and Fu Ban at ceremony
VIENNA Twin panda cubs born at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo final summer season were formally named Fu Feng and Fu Ban at a ceremony on Wednesday - though they were still too small to be there themselves.
MORE FROM REUTERS
Trending Stories
Sponsored Matters