Introduction

Assalamualaikum, Greetings, Konnichiwa and Ni Hao.

My name is Ale Imran bin Yunus. I am officially a university student. I am major in Business or specifically ``Health Entrepreneurship"( I'll explain that later). This is a blog that I created for my elective subject Travel and Tours assignment. You people may wonder why I decided to choose this subject. Actually, I also didn't know it myself. It sounds more interesting I guess. Or maybe I'm just following friends.

For my assignment, I was ordered to list 15 tourism spot all across the world. It may sounds easy but its not. If it is easy, I should have done it last minute.

If you realize this blog has the title of ``15 places you must visit before you die'' isn't it?. Well, I purposely put that title in order to attract people to read the blog actually. Some may think and disagree with my selection.After all, this is my personal opinion.

Down below are the brief introduction about my profile. Usually, I am not the kind of person who likes to display my personal information (especially my picture) in public views. I am the kind of person who prefer to maintain low profile and mysterious ( or you can say I am a shy person). Anyway., you are please to read my profile since I`m showing it in public. 

Name: Ale Imran bin Yunus
Date of Birth: 26 June 1989
Origin of place: Tanjong Karang, Selangor
University: Universiti Malaysia Kelantan
Year: 3
Matric No: A09A013
I/C: 890626-14-5349
Faculty: Entrepreneurship and Business
Programme: SAW (Entrepreneurship of Health)

1. Komodo Island, Indonesia

Many people dislike lizards. They look pretty scary and the bigger they are, the scarier they will be. There are also people who are also phobia about lizard. However, not all people dislike lizards. There are people that really adores and have a keen interest on lizards. Some even live with these lizards.

Imagine if you live in a place where there are lizards surrounding the area. Much more, these lizards are tremendously huge, as big as a size of a lion and they are crawling around the area. You can have all that if you live in Komodo Island.

Komodo Island is one of 17,508 island that form the Republic of Indonesia. The island is particularly notable as being the natural habitat of the komodo dragon, the largest lizards on earth, which was named after the island itself. The island is the location of the only of the Komodo National Park in the world.

The Komodo National Park was founded in 1980 in order to protect the komodo dragons. It was declared as the World Heritage Site by UNESCO and the New Seven Wonders of Nature. The park was establish as a to conserve the habitat of komodo dragons and at the same time provide a safe environment for these creatures.

Besides being popular as the habitat of komodo dragon, the komodo island is also popular destination for diving. The island also had a unique beach that has pink coloured sands, where there are only seven in the world. The sand appears pink because it it’s a mixture of red sands and white sands.

The Komodo Island had been a tourist attraction especially for researchers who attempts to study about the komodo dragon. The Komodo Island has the same attraction like other tourism destination in Indonesia but what differ the island from the others is the existence of the komodo dragon that inhabit the island. Maybe for some people, it is not a good place to go but Komodo Island have its own uniqueness that cannot be found anywhere else.

2. Gundam Front Tokyo, Japan

If you ask every kid around the age of nine and above about whether they know Gundam or not, probably around ninety percent will say yes. Gundam is a popular cartoon character from the country where the sun rises which is Japan.

Gundam or the full name which is Mobile Suit Gundam tells a story about giant robots battle and destroying everything around them. Created in 1979, it had spawned its own legacy since then and collecting fans from all around the globe. Besides being popular because of the cartoon, it also popular through the sales of action figures and merchandise by the company who distribute them which is Bandai Corporation.

The popularity of the Gundam franchise had made the Bandai Corporation to open a theme park that based on the Gundam character. The theme park was called Gundam Front Tokyo.The  theme park look more like a Gundam museum or a miniature theme park than a usual theme park.

The Gundam Front Tokyo was officially opened to public on April 19 2010. It is located at the seventh floor of the Diver City Tokyo Plaza that is situated at Tokyo’s Odaiba district. To enter the miniature theme park, admission will be charge about 1000 yen or US$ 13 for adults and there are some area in the miniature theme park that are free of charge.

The Gundam Front Tokyo consist of variety Gundam related attraction such as the huge size GUndam RX-78 Models, The Dome-G theatre, a huge dome shaped screen that briefly shows the history of Gundam, a life statue of ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam bust and Core fighter, rare documents related to the series production and more than a thousands of ``Gunpla’’ plastic models in the admission free section. There are also official shop that sells the characters goods and merchandise and a Gundam theme restaurant located on the second floor of the Diver City Tokyo.

For Gundam fan, this is like a dream come true and heaven of Gundam for them. The fans can have many things that they wants over here. Besides being a place for fans, this place is also perfect for a family visit or holiday where they can take their children here to watch the giant robot.

3, Salem, USA

Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, which is in the United States. The word Salem comes from Arabic and Jewish words which is Salam in Arabic and Shalom in Jewish. The city of Salem is a destination that filled with many historical account and being respected as one of historical places.

However, the main reason for Salem to be known was because of the famous Salem witch trials that happened between 1692 until 1693. The Salem witch trial is a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in the colonial community. Many people are being convicted and sentenced to death for the allegations of witchcraft. It was being recorded as the largest witchcraft execution in history.

Nowadays, has become one of the famous tourist attractions, especially after the incident happened centuries ago. Many filmmakers are using Salem as a set for their movies especially in horror flick. The incident somehow gave business opportunity to the local people of Salem. Salem is also known as the witch city.

The people of Salem then introduced the witch related tourism, where the locals will sell merchandise regarding to witchcraft such as broom, wands etc. It becomes much more popular after the famous 70s television comedy series Bewitched were being filmed here. Many tourist came to Salem especially when the times of Halloween. The city also added an official ``Haunted Happenings’’ celebration during the October tourist season.

There are popular spots such as The Gallows Hill Park where this place had become the location of the convicted witches that being executed. There are also Salem Witch Village which is actually is not a village but an indoor guided tour through a maze containing sets covering the history of witchcraft from its paleolithic roots up until modern times.

The Salem Witch Village starts from discussing times throughout the history wrongly associated with witchcraft before moving on to the real stuff. It then concentrated on the stereotypical of dark ages and myths.

\Salem had become a famous tourist attraction mainly because of the bloody and its gore history. Many people refuse to come here as they are frightened by the story. However, for people who really put their interest on witchcraft legends and history, that is not a problem to them and they must come here.

4. Roswell, USA

Ever heard of the Roswell UFO incident? It was an incident of UFO crash landing in the town of Roswell, New Mexico in the year of 1947. The case became so popular at that time that it has become a subject of controversy and conspiracy theory. The incident had became a national sensation until the government of USA had to make a investigation commission.

Roswell is a city in, and the county seat of, Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States. The economic activity in this city are focus on irrigation farming, dairying, ranching, manufacturing, distribution, and petroleum production. But the city are famous mainly because of the UFO incidents.

The Roswell UFO incidents had turned to be a pop culture phenomenon where it had inspired the entertainment world of movies, television series, cartoons and comic books. Besides that, the UFO incident also had made the city became a popular spot for UFO fans and researchers where it generates the tourism industry for the city of Roswell.

This had become an opportunity especially to business community of Roswell. The UFO Museum and Research Centre had been opened by the Walter Haut who was famous because of the incident. The museum provides info on everything about UFO and the infamous Roswell incidents. Besides that, there are also gift shops that sells merchandise and goodies that are concerning with UFO and Aliens.

Besides that, there are also the annual Roswell Festival that started from the year 1996. Locals and UFO enthusiast from all over the globe gather here for the celebration and it has become one of the tourist attraction of Roswell.

The story of the UFO existence might be true or might be just a hoax but the main subject here is not about the incident but it is about the destination. Roswell has become paranormal tourist attraction and for people who are enthusiast about UFO, this is one of your favourite destination.