Tombs In Lucky Restaurant Ahmedabad India

Sipping a cup of tea and chatting with friends near tombs in a graveyard, this is what attracts visitors to New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad, India. Serving Indian cuisine to over 300 customers daily, the Lucky hotel has 22 tombs nestled between wooden tables and chairs.

A visit to New Lucky restaurant is part of the itinerary for many tourists and artists. The walls have paintings from the well-known Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain, a frequent tea drinker at the bustling restaurant. The restaurant offers about 90 vegetarian food items and is most popular for its tea and white butter maska buns.

Many graveyards in India have been reclaimed for development over the years, according to local officials. But the owners of "Lucky Hotel" decided not to demolish the tombs. Some of Sufi poets and saints from the Mughal rule in India. When the restaurant opened about 40 years ago.

Every morning, owner Krishna Kutty, a Hindu, wipes the graves with a damp cloth and decorates them with roses. "I am not aware who was laid to rest here but I know that they are very lucky for me and the visitors. Many suggest me to destroy the cement tombs making room for more customers but I'm happy with the way it is," said Kutty, sitting near one of the tombs.

"It is a bit eerie to sit beside a grave for a meal but I have got used to it, the green tombs make me realize that every bit of life is precious." said 45-year-old Usman Vora, who has been visiting the restaurant since the age of ten.

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Jordan and her younger brother Brad, 20, who measures 38 inches tall, were also named the “shortest living siblings” by Guinness. The siblings, who live at home with their parents were born with a rare genetic condition called Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II.

2 foot tall Jyoti Amge of India is currently the world’s shortest teenager, but will qualify as the world’s shortest woman when she turns 18 in December, a Guinness spokesman said.

Worlds Smallest Digital Camera By Hammacher Schlemmer

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Amazing Ritual Round Dance In Circle

The White Brotherhood performs its amazing ritual dance in circle near Babreka Lake, in Bulgaria's Rila Mountain. This is a celebration of its New Year. The movement is a synthesis of Christianity and Hinduism, with a heavy emphasis on brotherly love, a healthy diet and living alongside nature.

 

 

The movement's founder is Bulgarian Peter Danov who started the dance ritual in 1929. He laid out his teachings in a series of 7,000 lectures.

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Now China has the world's longest sea bridge, which stretches a massive 26.4 miles. Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is the longest sea bridge in the world which took four years and 10,000 people and cost a cool £5.5 billion to build. Jiaozhou Bay Bridge Opened on 30 June 2011. The bridge opened at the same time as the nearby Qing-Huang Tunnel, both part of the Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project. Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 42.5 kilometres long, making it according to Guinness World Records the world's longest bridge over water as of July 2011. It is almost three miles longer than the previous record holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

 

 

With an overall length of 42.58km, the route between Qingdao and Huangdao will be shortened by 30km, cutting the travel time by about 20 minutes.

 

However, the colossal construction is set to hold the record as the longest sea bridge only for a few years – and it will be bettered by another Chinese bridge in the next decade.