7ojozat Blog

Happy 2009 year to all of you travelers. 2008 has been exciting for us and we look forward to this year with our 2009 resolutions, may God help us achieve them:

1. Better Hotels Search: We want to maxmimize and improve on the existing hotels search features we have. Make it more accurate, easier to use, and more comprehensive.
2. New Search Features:  This is something in the brainstorming phase and we can’t give much details about it yet.
3. Middle-East travelers community: We’re still in the initial phases of 7ojozat Tours, and what we really want is a community site for middle-east travelers. Share their ideas, travel experience, photos, and videos. We also try to keep it up to date with latest travel news and highlights.

What else do you wish to see from 7ojozat.com? Let us have it.

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• iPhone for your travel:  iPhone tips for travelers. How to use it for entertainment, as electrnoic boarding pass, as a map, public transporation finder, radio device and more.
• NASA photos of earth: If you live up till we can travel outside of earth, this is te kind of stuff you will see.
• 500 Best Hotels & Resorts in the World:  Travel + Leisure have published this list. And it’s not the kind of typical hotels you would expect.
• Top 5 Destinations for Adventurers:  Owners Perspective Magazine made this article for where adventurers should go for new experiences.
• Los Angeles Times Best 52 User Travel Photos: Some are real breath taking.
• Snow and Global Economy bring down this Christmas joy and travel: It is said holiday season has seen first decline in 6 years. Others who could afford traveling got stuck into snow storms at airport.
• Snow Welcome for White Pass Ski Resort: White Pass Ski Resort opened with welcoming snow this year. Some people’s trouble are other’s joy ehh?

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Hi All,

Two years have passed since the launch of 7ojozat.com hotel search and comparison  service. We are happy to be serving over 100,000 users per month now as we grew over time.  During my last trip however, I figured we travelers get lots of great experiences during our trip, have lots of tips to share, photos and videos to show to the world. We wanna discuss what we did, and what we can do next time.

This has led to the birth of 7ojozat Tours, the community for middle-east travelers. All subscribed travelers there will get their own blog, be able to share photos, videos, events, join in forum discussions, and more. You can already see there tens of photos, some videos, read some articles, news. Basically, we have prepared it all for you to tell us “What You Did Last Summer”. You really don’t have to confess, but we’d love to know all about it!

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If you’ve been using our hotel search service recently, you may have noticed the new auto-completion feature that would suggest for you famous cities based on your query initials as you start typing. Some reported however that those suggestions are not very helpful as they do not return the most targeted cities. Example is, when you search for Du, as a middle-eastern you would probably expect Dubai to be the first or second result, when it was at the bottom of the list.

We strive to hear such feedback and work hard to imrpove on it. Now, you will start noticing that suggested cities will rank based on their popularity. What defines a city popularity you ask? It’s your very same queries. Cities that are visited most will rank first as the most possible desired destination. So now, you are likely to see cities such as Dubai and Munich on top of others you never heard probably heard of.

We hope you like the new feature, and we would love ot hear back from you any feedback you may have.

Travel Safe! Search Smart, with 7ojozat.com

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The 1 kilometer in length The San Alfonso del Mar resort swimming pool in Chile have been awarded by the Guinness World’s Records the largest swimming pool record in the world. Project cost is estimated to be $1.74 billion, and 2.5 million liters of water needed to fill it from the Pacific Ocean.

From: bornrich

More AMAZING images.

And more in the news here.

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 Inside the forests of the Northern part of Cambodia, resides the historical Khmer Empire buildings from the 9th-15th century, that inclues the Angkor Wat temple, and the Bayon temple.

Angkor Archaeological Park covers 400 sq km, and was declared back in 1992 as a UNESCO World Heritage site, and is als considered in danger as well that UNESCO is safeguarding it these days. Because of the lack of accommodations and facilities there, the Siem Reap town is tourist’s target gathering point to visit those historical places.

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Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel is located northwest of Manaus, Brazil. 288 rooms in 7 towers around 15m from the rain forest ground connected with approximate 5m catwalks. The rooms are categorized into apartments, suits, and tree houses, with the 22m high Tarzan House being the tallest. The 3 star hotel has tours inside the forest, piranha fishing, native house visits and such.

Hotel rates start from $250 and reach up to $650 per night. Not cheap for 3 star hotels, but look at the location! You can compare the hotel rates from different sites here. You can also check other hotels around the same Manaus area

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Shard London Bridge from Renzo Piano was initially hoped to be Europe’s tallest tower. It was said that after 2001 terrorist attacks, the design was reconsidered and made smaller with more fire-escape routes. The genius of the design is where he thought of the surface to be glazed and with different angled panes that would reflect the weather and sky changes, adjusting to the climate around it with different colors. I remember hearing building in Kuwait under construction will have some color changing. Now I know where they got their inspiration from.

Legal and other issues have been keeping this project from even starting. According to Wikipedia, only Nov 2007 saw a Qatari company winning the contract to build the project for fixed 350m euros.

Even though you cannot yet see this building, there are many other reasons why you may want to visit London. If you are planning to do so, we advise you to check and compare the hotel rates here before you make your booking.

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Lavas De Tacotal is the 3 star hotel in Costa Rica where they promise relaxation, therapies, open air swimming pools, computer rooms and more. All that located in the Northern part of Costa Rica at the Arenal Volcano.

Enjoy your stay :).

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Don’t let the look of the Suajana Hotel from the outside fool you, it’s got a lot more from the inside.

This place is perfect for relaxation, having some nice time in the middle of green environment.

The hotel also is equipped with lots of sporting facilities including Golf, tennis, swimming pool, sauna and more…

30 minutes from the city of Kuala Lumpur and 45 from the airport.

A top view of the hotel would explain more what I’m trying to say

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